Play Me (album)

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Play Me
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Studio album by
Released1973
RecordedRCA Studios B and C, New York City
Genre Pop
Label RCA Records
Producer Jack Pleis
Harry Belafonte chronology
Belafonte...Live!
(1972)
Play Me
(1973)
Belafonte Concert in Japan
(1974)
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Play Me is an album by Harry Belafonte, released in 1973. It would be his final studio album for RCA Records and his last studio album until 1977's Turn the World Around released by Columbia Records. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Play Me" (Neil Diamond) – 4:07
  2. "And I Love You So" (Don McLean) – 4:37
    • Guitar solo by David Spinozza
  3. "Mr. Wiffen" (D. Wiffen) – 3:30
  4. "If Only It Were Yesterday" (G. Sklerov) – 4:38
    • Guitar solo by David Spinozza
  5. "So Close" (Jake Holmes) – 4:09
    • Duet with Eloise Laws
  6. "Empty Chairs" (Don McLean) – 5:17
    • Guitar solo by Jay Berliner
  7. "Morningside (For the Children)" (Neil Diamond) – 4:11
    • Children's Chorus: The Meri Mini Players
  8. "My Old Man" (Jerry Jeff Walker) – 4:31
  9. "One Step" (K. Dunman) – 3:40
  10. "Long Long Time" (G. White) – 5:13
    • Duet with Eloise Laws

Personnel

Production notes:

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