Pirates and Poets

Pirates and Poets
Studio album by
Bertie Higgins
Released1983
RecordedOctober 1982 – January 1983
Studio
GenreSoft rock
Length42:25
LabelSony
Producer
Bertie Higgins chronology
Just Another Day in Paradise
(1982) 		Pirates and Poets
(1983)

Pirates and Poets is an album by the American singer-songwriter Bertie Higgins, released in 1983.[1][2] The first single was ""When You Fall in Love (Like I Fell in Love with You)".[3]

Roy Orbison sang on "Leah". The CD version of the album includes Higgins's hit single Key Largo as a bonus track.

Critical reception

The Philadelphia Inquirer called Higgins "just about the most weepy, sentimental, insufferable singer-songwriter in existence," and ironically deemed the album, "in its own way, a demented masterpiece."[4]

Track listing

  1. "As Time Goes By" (Herman Hupfeld) - 0:45
  2. "Pirates and Poets" (Bertie Higgins, Sonny Limbo) - 3:11
  3. "When You Fall in Love (Like I Fell in Love with You)" (Higgins, Limbo, Jeff Pinkham) - 3:36
  4. "Leah" (Roy Orbison) - 3:28
  5. "Under a Blue Moon" (Gary Baker, Quentin Powers) - 3:55
  6. "Tokyo Joe" (Higgins, Limbo) - 3:25
  7. "Beneath the Island Light" (Higgins, Limbo) - 4:04
  8. "Only Yesterday" (Higgins) - 3:50
  9. "Marianna" (Higgins) - 4:09
  10. "Pleasure Pier" (Higgins) - 3:28
  11. "Never Looking Back" (Higgins, Deniece Dupey) - 7:18
  12. "As Time Goes By (Reprise)" (Hupfeld) - 1:15

Personnel

Musicians

  • Bertie Higgins – vocals, acoustic guitars
  • John Healy – acoustic piano, organ, synthesizers
  • Steve Nathan – acoustic piano, organ, synthesizers
  • Ken Bell – acoustic guitars, electric guitars
  • Shelton Irwin – acoustic guitars, electric guitars
  • Kenny Mims – acoustic guitars, electric guitars
  • Jeffrey Dale Pinkham – bouzouki, mandolin
  • Gary Baker – bass guitar
  • Owen Hale – drums
  • Mickey Buckins – percussion
  • Edward Higgins – percussion
  • Doug Johnson – percussion
  • Mark O'Connor – fiddle
  • Ed Leamon – saxophones
  • Scott MacLellan – flute
  • Linda Penny Baker – oboe
  • Albert Coleman's Atlanta Pops – orchestra (1)
  • The Atlanta Strings – strings
  • Wayne Mosley – string arrangements and conductor
  • Karen Norwood – copyist
  • Roy Orbison – vocals (4)

The "Doo-Bobs" (backing vocals)

  • Gary Baker – BGV arrangements and conductor
  • Cathy Dover, Bertie Higgins, Beverly Higgins, Edward Higgins, Gloria Higgins-Burke, Mike Jones, Phyllis & Manny Loiacono, Scott MacLellan, David Powell, Mike Sullivan and Cheryl Wilson – singers

Production

  • Sonny Limbo – producer, additional engineer
  • Scott MacLellan – producer, additional engineer
  • Doug Johnson – engineer
  • Brent Maher – additional engineer
  • Jim Stablie – additional engineer
  • Glenn Meadows – digital consultant at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee)
  • Bertie Higgins – cover concept
  • Mike McCarty – cover concept, cover artwork, design
  • Joe Kahl – cover photography
  • Tom Corcoran – additional photography
  • Joel Cherry – direction

References

  1. ^ Miller, Zell. They Heard Georgia Singing. Mercer University Press. p. 140.
  2. ^ Defendorf, Richard (June 9, 1985). "Bertie Higgins". Calendar. Orlando Sentinel. p. 11.
  3. ^ "Higgins Is Coming". Omaha World-Herald. October 27, 1983.
  4. ^ Tucker, Ken (April 10, 1983). "Bertie Higgins Pirates and Poets". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. R9.
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