Bird Watching (album)

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".

Track listing

Side one

1. "Bird Watching" (Sascha Burland) – 2:41
2. "Flamingo" (Edmund Anderson, Ted Grouya) – 2:22
3. "Cool Canary" (Ray Gilbert, Paul Nero) – 2:34
4. "Sparrow in the Treetop" – (Bob Merrill) 2:09
5. "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)" (Harry Woods) – 2:10
6. "Yardbird Suite" (Charlie Parker) – 3:05

Side two

1. "Didee Bird" (Don Elliott) – 2:39
2. "Skylark" (Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael) – 2:02
3. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) – 3:11
4. "Blue Feather" (Sascha Burland) – 2:53
5. "Bob White" (Johnny Mercer, Bernie Hanighen) – 2:13
6. "That's Owl, Brother" (Don Elliott) – 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

References