Bird Watching (album)

Bird Watching is a novelty jazz album by Don Elliott and Granville Alexander "Sascha" Burland, recording as The Nutty Squirrels.

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)

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