Bird Watching is a novelty jazz album by Don Elliott and Granville Alexander "Sascha" Burland, recording as The Nutty Squirrels.
Note: For stereo listeners, Sascha is the voice on the left speaker, Don on the right.
Cannonball Adderley plays alto sax on the song "Yardbird Suite".
Contents
Track listing
Side one
"Bird Watching" (Sascha Burland) – 2:41
"Flamingo" (Edmund Anderson, Ted Grouya) – 2:22
"Cool Canary" (Ray Gilbert, Paul Nero) – 2:34
"Sparrow in the Treetop" – (Bob Merrill) 2:09
"When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)" (Harry Woods) – 2:10
"Yardbird Suite" (Charlie Parker) – 3:05
Side two
"Didee Bird" (Don Elliott) – 2:39
"Skylark" (Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael) – 2:02
"Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) – 3:11
"Blue Feather" (Sascha Burland) – 2:53
"Bob White" (Johnny Mercer, Bernie Hanighen) – 2:13
"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