Bird Watching (album) explained

Bird Watching
Type:	studio
Artist:	The Nutty Squirrels
Cover:	Nutty Squirrels-Bird Watching.jpg
Released:	1961
Recorded:	26 July 1960
Genre:	Children's jazz
Length:	31:07
Label:	Columbia
Producer:	Don Elliott and Granville Alexander "Sascha" Burland
Prev Title:	The Nutty Squirrels
Prev Year:	1959
Next Title:	Sing a Hard Day's Night and Other Smashes
Next Year:	1964

Bird Watching is a novelty jazz album by Don Elliott and Granville Alexander "Sascha" Burland, recording as The Nutty Squirrels.

Cannonball Adderley plays alto sax on the song "Yardbird Suite".^[1]

Track listing

Side one

1. "Bird Watching" – 2:41
2. "Flamingo" – 2:22
3. "Cool Canary" – 2:34
4. "Sparrow in the Treetop" – 2:09
5. "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)" – 2:10
6. "Yardbird Suite" – 3:05

Side two

1. "Didee Bird" – 2:39
2. "Skylark" – 2:02
3. "Bye Bye Blackbird" – 3:11
4. "Blue Feather" – 2:53
5. "Bob White" – 2:13
6. "That's Owl, Brother" – 2:18

Personnel

• Don Elliott, Granville Alexander "Sascha" Burland - vocalist
• Hal McKusick - alto saxophone
• Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone on "Yardbird Suite"
• Bobby Jaspar - flute
• Sam Most - flute, tenor saxophone
• Romeo Penque - flute, woodwinds
• Sol Schlinger - baritone saxophone
• Al Casamenti, Mundell Lowe - guitar
• Trigger Alpert - double bass
• James Campbell - drums, strings

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bird Watching – The Nutty Squirrels. cannonball-adderley.com. 2012-08-12.