Released 1958 Length 36:11 Artists Carmen McRae, Yellow Bird Label Universal Music LLC | Recorded August 1958 Birds of a Feather
(1958) Book of Ballads
(1958) Release date 1958 Genre Jazz | |
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Similar Carmen for Cool Ones, By Special Request, After Glow, Torchy, Something to Swing About | ||
Birds of a Feather is a 1958 album by Carmen McRae. The album was arranged by Ralph Burns, and features the saxophonist Ben Webster. All the songs on the album reference birds in some way.
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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
- "Skylark" (Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael)
- "Bob White (Watcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)"
- "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin)
- "Mister Meadowlark"
- "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Ray Henderson, Mort Dixon, Gene Austin)
- "Flamingo" (Ted Grouya, Edmund Anderson)
- "Eagle and Me"
- "Baltimore Oriole"
- "When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along"
- "Chicken Today and Feathers Tomorrow"
- "When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano" (Leon René)
- "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" (Civilla D. Martin, Charles H. Gabriel)
Personnel
Songs
1SkylarkBen Webster3:00
2Bob White2:58
3A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley SquareBen Webster4:57
References
Birds of a Feather (album) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA