Play Me (album)

Play Me
Studio album by Harry Belafonte
Released	1973
Recorded	RCA Studios B and C, New York City
Genre	Pop
Label	RCA Records
Producer	Jack Pleis
Harry Belafonte chronology
Belafonte...Live! (1972) Play Me (1973) Belafonte Concert in Japan (1974)

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Play Me is an album by Harry Belafonte, released in 1973. It would be his final studio album for RCA Records and his last studio album until 1977's Turn the World Around released by Columbia Records.^[2]

Track listing[]

1. "Play Me" (Neil Diamond) – 4:07
2. "And I Love You So" (Don McLean) – 4:37
   • Guitar solo by David Spinozza
3. "Mr. Wiffen" (D. Wiffen) – 3:30
4. "If Only It Were Yesterday" (G. Sklerov) – 4:38
   • Guitar solo by David Spinozza
5. "So Close" (Jake Holmes) – 4:09
   • Duet with Eloise Laws
6. "Empty Chairs" (Don McLean) – 5:17
   • Guitar solo by Jay Berliner
7. "Morningside (For the Children)" (Neil Diamond) – 4:11
   • Children's Chorus: The Meri Mini Players
8. "My Old Man" (Jerry Jeff Walker) – 4:31
9. "One Step" (K. Dunman) – 3:40
10. "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

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