Play Me is an album by Harry Belafonte, released in 1973. It was his final studio album for RCA Records and his last studio album until 1977's Turn the World Around released by Columbia Records.[ Allmusic entry for Play Me] Retrieved November 2009.
Track listing "Play Me" (Neil Diamond) – 4:07 "And I Love You So" (Don McLean) – 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) – 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) – 4:31 "One Step" (K. Dunman) – 3:40 "Long Long Time" (G. White) – 5:13 Duet with Eloise Laws
Personnel Harry Belafonte – vocals Eloise Laws – vocals on "So Close" and "Long Long Time" (Photo featured on back of LP sleeve) Jay Berliner – guitar David Spinozza – guitar The Meri Mini Players Children's Chorus – vocals Production notes: Jack Pleis – producer John Cartwright – associate producer, musical director Robert Freedman – arrangements Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson – arrangements Ed Begley – engineer Jim Crotty – engineer Mae Cann – cover art
The album was mixed and prepared to be released in Quadraphonic, 4-channel formats but for unknown reasons remains unreleased.
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