''Bobby McFerrin'' is the debut album by
Bobby McFerrin, released in 1982.
Track listing
All songs written by Bobby McFerrin except where noted
# "
Dance with Me" (Johanna Hall,
John Hall) – 4:08
# "Feline" – 5:08
# "
You've Really Got a Hold on Me" (
Smokey Robinson
William "Smokey" Robinson Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former record executive director. He was the founder and front man of the Motown vocal group the Miracles, for which he was also chief ...
) – 3:53
# "
Moondance" (
Van Morrison) – 5:20
# "All Feets Can Dance" – 2:15
# "Sightless Bird" – 6:26
# "
Peace" (
Horace Silver) – 4:38
# "Jubilee" – 4:49
# "Hallucinations" (
Bud Powell
Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Along with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke and Dizzy Gillespie, Powell was a leading figure in the development of modern ...
) – 2:21
# "Chicken" – 3:14
Personnel
*Bobby McFerrin - vocals, backing vocals, Fender Rhodes, arrangements, liner notes
*H. B. Bennett – drums
*Joe Caro – guitar
*Steve Erquiaga – guitar
*Stu Feldman – bass
*
Victor Feldman – piano,
Fender Rhodes
The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...
*
John Guerin – drums
*
Randy Jackson
Randall Darius Jackson (born June 23, 1956) is an American record executive and television presenter, perhaps best known as a judge on ''American Idol'' from 2002 to 2013.
Jackson began his career in the 1980s as a session musician playing bas ...
– bass
*Kenny Karsh – guitar
*
Larry Klein – bass
*Peter Maunu – guitar
*
Kenneth Nash – percussion
*James Preston – drums
*John Siegler – bass
*
Phoebe Snow – vocals
*Frank Vilardi – drums
Production
*Nicholas Ten Broeck – Arranger
*Ron Coro – Art Direction
*Bert de Coteaux – Executive Producer
*Maureen Droney – Assistant Engineer
*David Frazer – Assistant Engineer
*Linda Goldstein – Producer
*Jerry Hudgins – Engineer
*Leslie Ann Jones – Engineer, Mixing
*Ken Kessie – Engineer
*Kosh – Design
*Fred Miller – Engineer
*Roger Ressmeyer – Photography
*Elliot Scheiner – Engineer
*Paul Stubblebine – Mastering
Chart performance
References
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Bobby McFerrin albums
1982 albums
Elektra/Musician albums