Birds of a Feather (album)

Reception

John Bush reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote that "Fortunately, there are plenty of good songs on the subject, and it's not so narrow that all the focus hinges on birds themselves." Bush praised Ben Webster's solo on "Bob White (Watcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)". Webster's biographer, Frank Buchmann-Moller, wrote that his performances on the album alternate between "routine and inspired", and likened his work on "Flamingo" to the "beating wings of a landing bird".

Track listing

1. "Skylark" (Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael)
2. "Bob White (Watcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)"
3. "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin)
4. "Mister Meadowlark"
5. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Ray Henderson, Mort Dixon, Gene Austin)
6. "Flamingo" (Ted Grouya, Edmund Anderson)
7. "Eagle and Me"
8. "Baltimore Oriole"
9. "When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along"
10. "Chicken Today and Feathers Tomorrow"
11. "When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano" (Leon René)
12. "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" (Civilla D. Martin, Charles H. Gabriel)

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