Caravan / Wausi Strut

First Cuckoo

Deodato

Arranged and Conducted by Eumir Deodato

Produced by Eumir Deodato for Kenya Music, Inc.

Production Coordinator: Danny Gershon

Recorded at House Of Music (W Orange. New Jersey)

Recording Engineers: Jeffery Kawalek and Charlie Cacciola

Mixing Engineer: Jeffery Kawalek

Assistant: Jim Bonnefond

Special collaboration on production by Alberto Carriola courtesy of Marka (Brazil)

Cover Photograph by Carmine Macedona - Courtesy of Ehrenreich Photo Optical Industries, Inc.

MCA Records MCA-491

1975

Side One

Funk Yourself
(Eumir Deodato)
Kenya Music, Inc.--ASCAP 4:13

Electric Piano and Clavinet: EUMIR DEODATO
Guitars: HUGH MCCRACKEN AND JOHN TROPEA (Also Solo) 

Drums: NICK REMO
Bass: WILL LEE
Congas: RUBENS BASSINI
Horns and Alto Flutes: (See Below)

Black Dog
(Gene Paige-Robert Plant-John Paul Jones) Superhype Music Inc.-ASCAP 4:19

Electric Piano and Tambourine: EUMIR DEODATO 

Guitars: ELLIOT RANDALL and JOHN TROPEA

Bass: WILL LEE
Congas: RUBENS BASSINI
Drums: STEVE GADD
Soprano Sax: LOU MARINI

Crabwalk
(Eumir Deodato)
Kenya Music, Inc.-ASCAP 7:45

Electric Piano: EUMIR DEODATO 

Bass: WILL LEE
Drums: STEVE GADD
Cow Bells: RUBENS BASSINI
Trumpet Solo: JOHN GATCHELL
Horns, Flutes, Strings: (See Below)

Adam's Hotel
(Marcos Valle)
Kenya Music, Inc.-ASCAP 3:38

Electric Piano, Whistle, Arp Synthesizer: EUMIR DEODATO 

Bongos: Maracas: RUBENS BASSINI
Strings: (See Below)

Side Two

Caravan/Watusi Strut**
(Duke Ellington-Juan Tizol-Irving Mills)
American Academy of Music Inc.-ASCAP 2:00
(Eumir Deodato)**
Kenya Music, Inc.-ASCAP 9:36

Electric Piano and Clavinet: EUMIR DEODATO
Guitars: ELLIOT RANDALL and JOHN TROPEA (Also Solo)
Bass: WILL LEE
Drums: STEVE GADD
Congas: RUBENS BASSINI
Clarinet: LOU MARINI
Strings, Horns, Flutes: (See Below)

Speak Low
(Ogden Nash-Kurt Weil)
Chappell & Co., Inc.-ASCAP 4:32

Electric Piano: EUMIR DEODATO
Guitar: JOHN TROPEA
Bass: WILL LEE
Drums: NICK REMO
Congas, Cabassa: RUBENS BASSINI
Flute: LOU MARINI

First Cuckoo (On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring)
(Frederick Delius)
(Arranged And Adapted By Eumir Deodato)
Kenya Music, Inc.-ASCAP 4:00
Flute: HUBERT LAWS
Alto Flutes: ROMEO PENQUE and LOU MARINI
Clarinet: GEORGE MARGE
Strings: (See Below)

Strings / Violins: GENE ORLOFF, ELLIOT ROSOFF, DAVID NADIEN, HARRY CYKMAN, MAX POLLIKOFF, MAX ELLEN, HARRY LOOKOFSKY, IRVING SPICE, SELWART CLARKE

Violas: ALFRED BROWN, JULIAN BARBER

Cellos: KERMIT MOORE, ALAN SHULMAN, CHARLES MCCRACKEN Bass: RUSSELL SAVAKUS

Horns / Trumpets, flugelhoms: JOHN GATCHELL, ALAN RUBIN Trombones: URBAN GREEN, SAM BURTIS

French Horns: BROOKS TILLETSON, JIMMY BUFFINGTON Tuba: TONY PRICE

Flutes: GEORGE MARGE, ROMEO PENQUE, LOU MARINE, HUBERT LAWS