''Byrd Song'' (subtitled ''Charlie Byrd with Voices'') is an album by American jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd featuring tracks recorded in 1964 and released on the Riverside label.Riverside Records discography
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Reception

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awarded the album 3 stars stating "the vocal component of the record feel like an afterthought. And not an especially inspired one, either; the white-bread soothing choruses sound like refugees from straight easy listening records. The album's actually for the most part a typical, if low-key, Byrd session... When played just by the trio, it's fine, with sterling Byrd guitar, though the less sappy and more forceful material (like "Wildcat") overshadows the more conventional romantic standards. When those voices enter, though, it treads on the annoyingly saccharine.Unterberger, R
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Track listing

''All compositions by Charlie Byrd except as indicated'' # "

I Left My Heart in San Francisco "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" is a popular song, written in the fall of 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, with music by George Cory (1920–1978) and lyrics by Douglass Cross and best known as the signature song of Tony Bennett. In 1962, the ...

" (George Cory, Douglass Cross) - 3:32 # "Who Will Buy?" (

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) - 3:16 # " The Night We Called It a Day" (

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, Matt Dennis) - 2:23 # "Wildcat" ( Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 2:30 # " Felicidade" (

Antônio Carlos Jobim Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (25 January 1927 – 8 December 1994), also known as Tom Jobim (), was a Brazilian composer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and singer. Considered one of the great exponents of Brazilian mu ...

) - 2:42 # "Action Painting" - 3:06 # " This Can't Be Love" ( Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 2:38 # "

Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" (also known as "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" or simply "Let's Do It") is a popular song written in 1928 by Cole Porter. It was introduced in Porter's first Broadway success, the musical ''Paris'' (1928) by Fre ...

" ( Cole Porter) - 3:26 # " God Bless the Child" (

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, Arthur Herzog, Jr.) - 2:47 # " My Favorite Things" ( Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 4:15 # "Swing '59" - 3:21 # "Born to Be Blue" ( Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) - 2:16

Personnel

* Charlie Byrd -

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

Keter Betts William Thomas "Keter" Betts (July 22, 1928 – August 6, 2005) was an American jazz double bassist. Early life and education Born in Port Chester, New York, he was nicknamed "Keter", a short form of the word mosquito. He graduated from Port ...

- bass * Bill Reichenbach - drums *Unidentified chorus -

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

References

{{Authority control 1964 albums Charlie Byrd albums Riverside Records albums