Bird Watching (album)

Bird Watching
Studio album by The Nutty Squirrels
Released	1961
Recorded	26 July 1960
Genre	Children's jazz
Length	31:07
Label	Columbia
Producer	Don Elliott and Granville Alexander "Sascha" Burland
The Nutty Squirrels chronology
The Nutty Squirrels (1959) ''Bird Watching'' (1961) Sing a Hard Day's Night and Other Smashes (1964)

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.

— from the album notes

Cannonball Adderley plays alto sax on the song "Yardbird Suite".

Track listing

Side one

1. "Bird Watching" – 2:41
2. "Flamingo" – 2:22
3. "Cool Canary" – 2:34
4. "Sparrow in the Treetop" – 2:09
5. "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)" – 2:10
6. "Yardbird Suite" – 3:05

Side two

1. "Didee Bird" – 2:39
2. "Skylark" – 2:02
3. "Bye Bye Blackbird" – 3:11
4. "Blue Feather" – 2:53
5. "Bob White" – 2:13
6. "That's Owl, Brother" – 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