''Love Byrd'' is a 1981 album by

Donald Byrd Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932 – February 4, 2013) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was one of the few hard bop m ...

and 125th Street, N.Y.C., produced by

Isaac Hayes Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer, actor, songwriter, and composer. He was one of the creative forces behind the Southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwri ...

and released on the Elektra label.Donald Byrd Catalog
Retrieved December 11, 2017

Track listing

Side one

# "

Love Has Come Around "Love Has Come Around" is a 1981 soul single by Donald Byrd and 125th Street Band, taken from the album ''Love Byrd ''Love Byrd'' is a 1981 album by Donald Byrd and 125th Street, N.Y.C., produced by Isaac Hayes and released on the Elektra la ...

" (William Duckett) – 7:52 # "Butterfly" (

Andrew Stevens Herman Andrew Stevens (born June 10, 1955) is an American executive, film producer, director and actor. Early life Stevens was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the only child of actress Stella Stevens and her former husband Noble Herman Stephens. Ca ...

) – 6:05 # "I Feel Like Loving You Today" (

) – 6:57

Side two

# "I Love Your Love" (Isaac Hayes,

Aaron Mills Aaron Scott Mills (born July 8, 1972) is an American former Arena Football League (AFL) kicker who, in a career lasting two years, played for the San Jose SaberCats (1995–1996). He holds the AFL league record for the longest field goal, with a 6 ...

, William Duckett, Andrew Stevens) – 6:59 # "I'll Always Love You" (

) – 5:13 # " Love for Sale" (

Cole Porter Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in film. Born to ...

) – 6:06 # "Falling" (Isaac Hayes) – 3:01

Personnel

– trumpet *

– 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 ...

vibraphone The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist,' ...

, percussion, synthesizer * Ronnie Garrett – bass guitar * William Duckett – electric guitar * Albert Crawford Jr. – piano, Fender Rhodes,

clavinet The Clavinet is an electrically amplified clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds by a rubber pad striking a point on a tension ...

Eric Hines The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ain ...

– drum kit *

Myra Walker Myra ( grc, Μύρα, ''Mýra'') was a Lycian, then ancient Greek, then Greco-Roman, then Byzantine Greek, then Ottoman town in Lycia, which became the small Turkish town of Kale, renamed Demre in 2005, in the present-day Antalya Province ...

– piano * Rose Williams – vocalist * Diane Williams – vocalist *

Pat Lewis Pat Lewis is an American soul singer and backing vocalist since the 1960s. Biography Patsy Lewis was born October 23, 1947 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States, and moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1951. In the early 1960s, Pat, her sister Dia ...

– vocalist * Diane Evans – vocalist

Production

* Joe Neil – engineer * Bret Richardson – assistant engineer

References

1981 albums Donald Byrd albums Elektra Records albums Albums produced by Isaac Hayes {{1980s-jazz-album-stub