Sweet Bird Explained

Sweet Bird
Type:	studio
Artist:	Lani Hall
Cover:	sweetbirdlanihallalbum.jpg
Released:	1977
Recorded:	1976
Studio:	A&M (Hollywood)
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	A&M
Producer:	Herb Alpert^[1]
Prev Title:	Hello It's Me
Prev Year:	1972
Next Title:	Double or Nothing
Next Year:	1979

Sweet Bird is an album by the American singer Lani Hall.^{[2] [3]} Like many of Hall's albums, Sweet Bird is made up of cover versions of songs.^[4]

Track listing

1. "Send in the Clowns" (Stephen Sondheim) 2:21
2. "That’s When Miracles Occur" (Andy Pratt) 3:07
3. "Early Mornin’ Strangers" (Barry Manilow, Hal David) 3:40
4. "Mr. Blue (Misty Blue)" (Michael Franks) 3:29
5. "Too Many Mornings" (Bill Quateman) 4:40
6. "At the Ballet" (Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban) 6:27
7. "The Moon Is All Alone (Like Me)" (Michel Colombier, Lani Hall, E. Colombier) 3:22
8. "Dolphins Lullaby" (Rick Roberts) 4:17
9. "Sweet Bird" (Joni Mitchell) 2:53

Album credits

Performance credits

• Lani Hall - all vocals
• Michel Colombier - all keyboards
• Larry Carlton - guitar
• Lee Ritenour - guitar
• Dennis Budimir - guitar
• Chuck Domanico, Arnie Egilsson, Buell Neidlinger - bass
• Stanley Clarke - bass on "Send in the Clowns"
• Jim Keltner - drums, percussion
• Milt Holland - percussion
• Herb Alpert - trumpet solo on "Mr. Blue"
• John Audino, Bobby Shew, Anthony Terran - trumpet
• Vincent De Rosa, David Duke, Robert Henderson - french horn
• Charles Loper, Lew McCreary - trombone
• Israel Baker, Samuel Boghossian, David Frisina, Irving Geller, George Kast, Jacob Krachmalnick, Marvin Limonick, Alfred Lustgarten - violin
• Erno Neufeld, Wilbert Nuttycombe, Stanley Plummer, Jerome Reisler, Nathan Ross, Sheldon Sanov, Mari Tsumura, Gerald Vinci, Shari Zippert - violin
• Marilyn Baker, Pamela Goldsmith, Allan Harshman, Virginia Majewski, Gareth Nuttycombe, Robert Ostrowsky - viola
• Larry Morgan - woodwind
• Jerome Richardson, Clifford Shank - flute
• Earl Dumler - oboe
• Gayle Levant - harp
• Edgar Lustgarten, Jacqueline Lustgarten, Kathleen Lustgarten, Frederick Seykora - cello

Technical credits

• Michael Boddicker - synthesizer programmer
• Bruce Swedien - microphone

Notes and References

1. Book: Strodder . Chris . The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool: A Celebration of the Grooviest People, Events, and Artifacts of the 1960s . 2007 . Santa Monica Press . 20.
2. Harrison . Ed . Lani Hall Coming Out of Retirement . Billboard . Nov 20, 1976 . 88 . 47 . 34.
3. Web site: Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny . AllMusic . 31 August 2021.
4. Plasketes . George . Like A Version: Cover Songs and the Tribute Trend in Popular Music . Studies in Popular Culture . 1992 . 15 . 1 . 15.