Spontaneous Inventions

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Spontaneous Inventions

Live album by

Bobby McFerrin

Released

1986

Genre

Vocal jazz

Length

39:16

Label

Blue Note Records

Producer

Linda Goldstein, Bobby McFerrin

Bobby McFerrin chronology

The Voice
(1984)

Spontaneous Inventions
(1986)

Simple Pleasures
(1988)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Record Mirror	2/5^[2]

Spontaneous Inventions is a 1986 live album by American vocalist Bobby McFerrin, released by Blue Note Records.

The album reached number 103 on the Billboard 200, number 62 on Billboard's R&B Albums chart, number 6 on the Top Jazz Albums chart, and number 2 on the Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart.^[3]

The album features special guests, amongst them Robin Williams (vocals on "Beverly Hills Blues") and Herbie Hancock (piano on "Turtle Shoes").

McFerrin later performed a modified version of the song Thinkin' About Your Body in a series of UK Cadbury's chocolate adverts in 1989/1990.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Thinkin' About Your Body" (for Debs)	Robert McFerrin Jr.	3:15
2.	"Turtle Shoes"	McFerrin, Herbert Hancock	3:34
3.	"From Me to You"	Lennon–McCartney	2:19
4.	"There Ya Go"	McFerrin	3:40
5.	"Cara Mia"	McFerrin	4:54
6.	"Another Night in Tunisia"	John Gillespie, Jon Hendricks, Frank Paparelli	4:14
7.	"Opportunity"	Joan Armatrading	3:53
8.	"Walkin'"	Richard Carpenter	5:39
9.	"I Hear Music"	Burton Lane, Frank Loesser	3:54
10.	"Beverly Hills Blues"	McFerrin, Robin Williams	3:52
11.	"Mañana Iguana"	McFerrin	2:20

Personnel

Cheryl Bentyne – Vocal Arrangement, Vocals
Bruce Botnick, Judy Clapp, Leslie Ann Jones, Elliot Scheiner – Engineer
Linda Goldstein, Tim Hauser – Producer
Herbie Hancock – Piano
Tim Hauser, Jon Hendricks, Janis Siegel, Robin Williams – Vocals
Mary Mack – Photography
The Manhattan Transfer – Group, Vocals
Bobby McFerrin – Bass, Percussion, Producer, Vocal Arrangement, Vocals
Paula Scher – Design
Rhonda Schoen – Digital Editing
Wayne Shorter – Sax (Soprano)
Jack Skinner – Mastering

References

^ Yanow, Scott. "Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
^ Goffe, Leslie (13 September 1986). "Albums: Bobby McFerrin – Spontaneous Inventions (Blue Note)" (PDF). Record Mirror. London: Spotlight Publications Ltd. p. 18. ISSN 0144-5804. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 June 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2024 – via World Radio History.
^ "Bobby McFerrin: Charts & Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved May 13, 2011.
^ "Compilation of UK adverts in 1989". Retrieved July 1, 2015.
^ "Cadburys Fruit&Nut (chocolate) 'steam train' advert 1990". Retrieved July 1, 2015.
^ "Cadbury's - Dairy Milk - Architect In Desert - UK Advert". Retrieved July 1, 2015.

v t e Bobby McFerrin
Studio albums	Bobby McFerrin (1982) Simple Pleasures (1988) Medicine Music (1990) Hush (1992) Bang!Zoom (1995) Circlesongs (1997) Beyond Words (2002) Vocabularies (2010)
Live albums	The Voice (1984) Spontaneous Inventions (1986) Play (1992)
Compilation albums	Don't Worry, Be Happy (1988)
Singles	"Don't Worry, Be Happy"

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