Released 1964 Length 36:12 Label Universal Music LLC | Recorded 1964New York City Release date 1964 | |
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Byrd Song (subtitled Charlie Byrd with Voices) is an album by American jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd featuring tracks recorded in 1964 and released on the Riverside label.
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Reception
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "the vocal component of the record feel[s] like an afterthought. And not an especially inspired one, either; the white-bread soothing choruses sound like refugees from straight easy listening records. The album's actually for the most part a typical, if low-key, Byrd session... When played just by the trio, it's fine, with sterling Byrd guitar, though the less sappy and more forceful material (like "Wildcat") overshadows the more conventional romantic standards. When those voices enter, though, it treads on the annoyingly saccharine.
Track listing
All compositions by Charlie Byrd except as indicated
- "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" (George Cory, Douglass Cross) - 3:32
- "Who Will Buy?" (Lionel Bart) - 3:16
- "The Night We Called It a Day" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) - 2:23
- "Wildcat" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 2:30
- "Felicidade" (Antônio Carlos Jobim) - 2:42
- "Action Painting" - 3:06
- "This Can't Be Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 2:38
- "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" (Cole Porter) - 3:26
- "God Bless the Child" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr.) - 2:47
- "My Favorite Things" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 4:15
- "Swing '59" - 3:21
- "Born to Be Blue" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) - 2:16
Personnel
Songs
1I Left My Heart in San Francisco
2Who Will Buy?
3The Night We Called It Day