''Byrd Song'' (subtitled ''Charlie Byrd with Voices'') is an album by American jazz guitarist

Charlie Byrd Charlie Lee Byrd (September 16, 1925 – December 2, 1999) was an American jazz guitarist. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova. In 1962, he collaborated with Stan Getz on the album '' Jazz Samba' ...

featuring tracks recorded in 1964 and released on the Riverside label.Riverside Records discography
accessed November 1, 2012

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
Allmusic Review
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Track listing

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

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

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

Tom Adair Thomas Montgomery Adair (June 15, 1913 – May 24, 1988) was an American songwriter, composer, and screenwriter. Biography Adair was born on 15 June 1913, in Newton, Kansas, where his father owned a clothing store; he was the only child of Willia ...

Matt Dennis Matthew Loveland Dennis (February 11, 1914 – June 21, 2002) was an American singer, pianist, band leader, arranger, and writer of music for popular songs. Biography Dennis was born in Seattle, Washington, United States. His mother was a viol ...

) – 2:23 # "Wildcat" (

Cy Coleman Cy Coleman (born Seymour Kaufman; June 14, 1929 – November 18, 2004) was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist. Life and career Coleman was born Seymour Kaufman in New York City, to Ashkenazi, Eastern European Jewish parents, an ...

Carolyn Leigh Carolyn Leigh (August 21, 1926 – November 19, 1983) was an American lyricist for Broadway, film, and popular songs. She is best known as the writer with partner Cy Coleman of the pop standards "Witchcraft" and " The Best Is Yet to Come". W ...

) – 2:30 # "

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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 as one of the great exponents of Brazilian ...

) – 2:42 # "Action Painting" – 3:06 # " This Can't Be Love" (

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) – 2:38 # " Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" (

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) – 3:26 # " God Bless the Child" (

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) – 2:47 # " My Favorite Things" (

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) – 4:15 # "Swing '59" – 3:21 # "Born to Be Blue" (

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, Robert Wells) – 2:16

Personnel

– guitar *

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 C ...

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* Bill Reichenbach – drums *Unidentified chorus – vocals

References

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