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Play Me (album)

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Released
  
1973

Release date
  
1973

Label
  
RCA Records

Artist
  
Harry Belafonte

Producer
  
Jack Pleis

Genre
  
Pop music

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Recorded
  
RCA Studios B and C, New York City

Play Me (1973)
  
Belafonte Concert in Japan (1974)

Similar
  
Belafonte Sings of Love, Loving You Is Where I Belong, Calypso in Brass, Homeward Bound, Belafonte on Campus

Play me harry belafonte


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.

Contents

Track listing

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

Personnel

  • Harry Belafonte – vocals
  • Eloise Laws – vocals on "So Close" and "Long Long Time" (Photo featured on back of LP sleeve)
  • Jay Berliner – guitar
  • David Spinozza – guitar
  • The Meri Mini Players Children's Chorus – vocals

    • Production notes:

  • Jack Pleis – producer
  • John Cartwright – associate producer, musical director
  • Robert Freedman – arrangements
  • Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson – arrangements
  • Ed Begley – engineer
  • Jim Crotty – engineer
  • Mae Cann – cover art

    • Songs

    1Play Me4:11
    2And I Love You So4:36
    3Mr Wiffen3:29

    References

    Play Me (album) Wikipedia
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