Bird Watching is a novelty jazz album by Don Elliott and Granville Alexander "Sascha" Burland, recording as The Nutty Squirrels.
Cannonball Adderley plays alto sax on the song "Yardbird Suite".
Track listing Side one "Bird Watching" (Sascha Burland) – 2:41 "Flamingo" (Edmund Anderson, Ted Grouya) – 2:22 "Cool Canary" (Ray Gilbert, Paul Nero) – 2:34 "Sparrow in the Treetop" – (Bob Merrill) 2:09 "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)" (Harry Woods) – 2:10 "Yardbird Suite" (Charlie Parker) – 3:05
Side two "Didee Bird" (Don Elliott) – 2:39 "Skylark" (Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael) – 2:02 "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) – 3:11 "Blue Feather" (Sascha Burland) – 2:53 "Bob White" (Johnny Mercer, Bernie Hanighen) – 2:13 "That's Owl, Brother" (Don Elliott) – 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
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