29/11/2023

Bertie Higgins "Pirates And Poets - Plus 9 Bonus Tracks" (2023) -Westcoast Rock-



Label : CBS / Sony Records


États-Unis 01 - As Time Goes By (Herman Hupfeld)
02 - Pirates And Poets (Bertie Higgins & Sonny Limbo)
03 - When You Fall In Love (Like I Fell In Love With You) (Bertie Higgins, John Healy, Sonny Limbo & Jeff Pinkham)
04 - Leah (Roy Orbison)
05 - Under A Blue Moon (Gary Baker & Quentin Powers)
06 - Tokyo Joe (Bertie Higgins & Sonny Limbo)
07 - Beneath The Island Light (Bertie Higgins, Jeff Pinkham & Sonny Limbo)
08 - Only Yesterday (Bertie Higgins)
09 - Marianna (Bertie Higgins)
10 - Pleasure Pier (Bertie Higgins)
11 - Never Looking Back (Bertie Higgins, John Healy & Donna Dupuy)
12 - As Time Goes By (Herman Hupfield)

Bonus Tracks

13 - Miami Moon (Bertie Higgins, John Healy & Sonny Limbo)
14 - The Breath Of God (John Healy & Bertie Higgins)
15 - Palm Beach (Bertie Higgins, Sonny Limbo & B. Reynolds)
16 - A Wonderful Taste Of Time (John Healy & Bertie Higgins)
17 - Brazilia (G. Higgins)
18 - Blue Never Looked Good On You (John Healy & Bertie Higgins)
19 - Back To The Island (Bertie & Beverly Higgins)
20 - The Girl (Bertie Higgins)
21 - Those Days Of Summer (Bertie Higgins)


Produced by Sonny Lumbo & Scott MacClellan A Bill Lowery Production
Recorded at Pyramid "Eye" Recording Studio (Atop Lookout Mountain, CA) ; Southern Tracks Recording Studio (Atlanta, GA& The Creative Workshop (Nashville, TNbetween Oct. 1982 & Jan. 1983
Engineered by Doug Johnson (Additional Enginnering by Jim Stabile, Sonny Limbo, Scott McClellan & Brent Maher)
Digitally Mastered by Glenn Meadows at Masterfonics (Nashville, TN)

The Players :
Acoustic Guitar & Vocals : Bertie Higgins
Electric & Acoustic Guitars Ken Bell, Shelton Irwin & Kenny Mims
Piano, Organ & Synthesizer Steve Nathan & John Healy
Bass Guitar Gary Baker
Drums : Owen Hale
Percussion : Mickey Buckins, Edward Higgins & Doug Johnson
Mandolin & Bouzouka : Jeffrey Dale Pinkham
Fiddle : Mark O'Connor
Flute & Flutephone : Scott MacClellan
Oboe : Linda Penny Baker
Saxophone : Ed Leaman
Albert Coleman & The Atlanta Pops Appear on "As Time Goes By"
Wayne Mosley : Arranged & Conducted The Atlanta Strings (Benjamin Piccone, Lonni Ottzen, Jacqueline Anderson, Richard Robinson, Frank Walton, Bradley Stewart, Karl Schab, Jere Flint, Dona Vellek & Chris Rex)
Copiest : Karen Norwood
Sings on "Leah" : Roy Orbison
Gary Baker : Arranged & Conducted Back Ground Vocals
The "Doo-Bobs" are Phyllis & Manny Loiacono (Unipop), Cheryl Wilson, Cathy Dover, Bertie Higgins, Mike Jones, Gloria Higgins Burke, Scott McClellan, David Powell, Beverly Higgins, Mike Sullivan & Eduardo Higgins