''Play Me'' is an album by

Harry Belafonte Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927) is an American singer, activist, and actor. As arguably the most successful Jamaican-American pop star, he popularized the Trinbagonian Caribbean musical style with an interna ...

, released in 1973. It would be his final studio album for

RCA Records RCA Records is an American record label currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside RCA's former long-time rival Columbia Records; also A ...

and his last studio album until 1977's ''

Turn the World Around ''Turn the World Around'' is an album by Harry Belafonte, released in 1977. After recording exclusively for the RCA Victor label since 1953, Belafonte signed with Columbia Records in the mid 1970s. After a series of pop-oriented albums, ''Tu ...

'' released by

Columbia Records Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on Janua ...

. Allmusic entry for ''Play Me''Retrieved November 2009.

Track listing

# "Play Me" (

Neil Diamond Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time. He has had ten No. 1 singles on the Hot 100 and Adul ...

) – 4:07 # " And I Love You So" (

Don McLean Donald McLean III (born October 2, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his 1971 hit song " American Pie", an eight-and-a-half-minute folk rock "cultural touchstone" about the loss of innocence of the early ...

) – 4:37 #*Guitar solo by David Spinozza # "Mr. Wiffen" (D. Wiffen) – 3:30 # "If Only It Were Yesterday" (G. Sklerov) – 4:38 #*Guitar solo by David Spinozza # "So Close" (

Jake Holmes Jake Holmes (born December 28, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter and jingle writer who began a recording career in the 1960s. Holmes is the author of the song " Dazed and Confused", later reworked by Led Zeppelin. Holmes also composed the ...

) – 4:09 #*Duet with Eloise Laws # "Empty Chairs" (Don McLean) – 5:17 #*Guitar solo by Jay Berliner # "Morningside (For the Children)" (Neil Diamond) – 4:11 #*Children's Chorus: The Meri Mini Players # "My Old Man" (

Jerry Jeff Walker Jerry Jeff Walker (born Ronald Clyde Crosby; March 16, 1942 – October 23, 2020) was an American country music and folk singer-songwriter. He was a leading figure in the progressive country and outlaw country music movement. He was best ...

) – 4:31 # "One Step" (K. Dunman) – 3:40 # " Long Long Time" (G. White) – 5:13 #*Duet with Eloise Laws

Personnel

– vocals *

Eloise Laws Eloise Laws (born November 6, 1943) is an American singer and a member of the prominent Laws family of musicians from Houston, Texas. Biography Lavern Eloise Laws was born in Houston, Texas, as the fourth of eight children of Miola Luverta Donah ...

– vocals on "So Close" and "Long Long Time" (Photo featured on back of LP sleeve) *

Jay Berliner Jay Berliner (born May 24, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American guitarist who has worked with Harry Belafonte, Ron Carter, Charles Mingus, and Van Morrison, among others. Career Berliner had his first television experience at age seven w ...

– guitar *

David Spinozza David Spinozza is an American guitarist and producer. He worked with former Beatles Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon during the 1970s, and had a long collaboration with singer-songwriter James Taylor, producing Taylor's album ''Walking ...

– guitar *The Meri Mini Players Children's Chorus – vocals Production notes: *

Jack Pleis Jack K. Pleis (May 11, 1917 – December 5, 1990) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, conductor, composer and producer. He recorded on London and Decca Records in the 1950s, and Columbia Records in the 1960s. During the course of his career, ...

– producer *John Cartwright – associate producer, musical director *Robert Freedman – arrangements *Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson – arrangements *Ed Begley – engineer *Jim Crotty – engineer *Mae Cann – cover art

References

{{Authority control 1973 albums Harry Belafonte albums RCA Records albums Albums produced by Jack Pleis