Bird Watching (album)

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Bird Watching
Nutty Squirrels-Bird Watching.jpg
Studio album by
Released1961
Recorded26 July 1960
Genre Children's jazz
Length31:07
Label Columbia
Producer Don Elliott and Granville Alexander "Sascha" Burland
The Nutty Squirrels chronology
The Nutty Squirrels
(1959)
''Bird Watching''
(1961)
Sing a Hard Day's Night and Other Smashes
(1964)

Bird Watching is a novelty jazz album by Don Elliott and Granville Alexander "Sascha" Burland, recording as The Nutty Squirrels.

Contents

Note: For stereo listeners, Sascha is the voice on the left speaker, Don on the right.

from the album notes

Cannonball Adderley plays alto sax on the song "Yardbird Suite". [1]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Bird Watching" (Sascha Burland) – 2:41
  2. "Flamingo" (Edmund Anderson, Ted Grouya) – 2:22
  3. "Cool Canary" (Ray Gilbert, Paul Nero) – 2:34
  4. "Sparrow in the Treetop" – (Bob Merrill) 2:09
  5. "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)" (Harry Woods) – 2:10
  6. "Yardbird Suite" (Charlie Parker) – 3:05

Side two

  1. "Didee Bird" (Don Elliott) – 2:39
  2. "Skylark" (Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael) – 2:02
  3. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) – 3:11
  4. "Blue Feather" (Sascha Burland) – 2:53
  5. "Bob White" (Johnny Mercer, Bernie Hanighen) – 2:13
  6. "That's Owl, Brother" (Don Elliott) – 2:18

Personnel

References

  1. "Bird Watching – The Nutty Squirrels". cannonball-adderley.com. Retrieved 2012-08-12.