Pirates and Poets

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Pirates and Poets
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Studio album by
Bertie Higgins
Released1983
RecordedOctober 1982 – January 1983
Studio
Genre Soft rock
Length42:25
Label Sony
Producer
Bertie Higgins chronology
Just Another Day in Paradise
(1982)		Pirates and Poets
(1983)

Pirates and Poets is an album by the American singer-songwriter Bertie Higgins, released in 1983. [1] [2] The first single was ""When You Fall in Love (Like I Fell in Love with You)". [3]

Contents

Roy Orbison sang on "Leah". The CD version of the album includes Higgins's hit single Key Largo as a bonus track.

Critical reception

The Philadelphia Inquirer called Higgins "just about the most weepy, sentimental, insufferable singer-songwriter in existence," and ironically deemed the album, "in its own way, a demented masterpiece." [4]

Track listing

  1. "As Time Goes By" (Herman Hupfeld) - 0:45
  2. "Pirates and Poets" (Bertie Higgins, Sonny Limbo) - 3:11
  3. "When You Fall in Love (Like I Fell in Love with You)" (Higgins, Limbo, Jeff Pinkham) - 3:36
  4. "Leah" (Roy Orbison) - 3:28
  5. "Under a Blue Moon" (Gary Baker, Quentin Powers) - 3:55
  6. "Tokyo Joe" (Higgins, Limbo) - 3:25
  7. "Beneath the Island Light" (Higgins, Limbo) - 4:04
  8. "Only Yesterday" (Higgins) - 3:50
  9. "Marianna" (Higgins) - 4:09
  10. "Pleasure Pier" (Higgins) - 3:28
  11. "Never Looking Back" (Higgins, Deniece Dupey) - 7:18
  12. "As Time Goes By (Reprise)" (Hupfeld) - 1:15

Personnel

Musicians

The "Doo-Bobs" (backing vocals)

Production

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References

  1. ↑ Miller, Zell. They Heard Georgia Singing. Mercer University Press. p. 140.
  2. ↑ Defendorf, Richard (9 June 1985). "Bertie Higgins". Calendar. Orlando Sentinel. p. 11.
  3. ↑ "Higgins Is Coming". Omaha World-Herald. October 27, 1983.
  4. ↑ Tucker, Ken (10 Apr 1983). "Bertie Higgins Pirates and Poets". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. R9.
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