Tracklist

A1	Blue Shoes [Tune]; Lithe Girl, Brown Girl [Poem]
A2	Moon Clouds [Tune]; Steep Gloom Among Pine;Trees [Poem]
A3	Bass Time [Tune]; Sometime It's Like You're Dead [Poem]
A4	Pandora [Tune]; Drunk As Drunk On Turpentine [Poem]
B1	Stew Pot [Tune]; Wings Whirr By Moon And Midnight [Poem]
B2	J's Blues [Tune]; Can You Trap Shadows Like This? [Poem]
B3	Blue Lament [Tune]; Tonight, I Write Sadly [Poem]

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – The Parlophone Co. Ltd.

Credits

• Bass – Kenny Napper
• Drums – Tony Kinsey
• Music By – Bill Le Sage (tracks: A1, A2), Tony Kinsey (tracks: A3 to B3)
• Piano, Vibraphone [Vibes] – Bill Le Sage
• Sleeve Notes [Sleevenotes] – Charles Fox
• Trombone – Ken Wray
• Trumpet – Les Condon
• Words By [Poems], Vocals – Christopher Logue

Notes

All tracks originally broadcast on BBC's Third Programme "Red Bird Dancing On Ivory" during the spring of 1959, Recorded In London 29 May,1959.

Poetry by Christopher Logue, based on Pablo Neruda’s “Veinte poemas de Amor”
Jazz by the Tony Kinsey Quintet.

Christopher Logue's "Songs" book of poetry published by Hutchinson

Green labels with silver writing.
On labels: The Parlophone Co. Ltd. Made in England.
Matrix # suffix on side A side B (presumably a misprint)
UK purchase tax code ET applicable from Apr 8, 1959 to Aug 1, 1960.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Rights Society: Mecolico
• Matrix / Runout (Matrix label side A): (7TCE533) 45
• Matrix / Runout (Matrix label side B): (7TCE534) 4
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A stamped): 7TCE 533-2N G
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B stamped): 7TCE 534-2N G
• Other (UK Purchase Tax Code, runout both sides stamped): ET

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
GEP 8765	Christopher Logue & Tony Kinsey	Christopher Logue & Tony Kinsey - Red Bird Jazz & Poetry ‎(7", EP, RE, Mono)	Parlophone	GEP 8765	UK	Unknown
EV 1	Christopher Logue And Tony Kinsey	Red Bird ‎(12", EP, RE, S/Edition)	Evergreen Records	EV 1	UK	1983