Musical Bacon: Bobby McFerrin

Artist name

Roles

Recordings

All I Want, Beverly Hills Blues, Cara Mia, Circlesong Eight, Circlesong Five, Circlesong Four, Circlesong One, Circlesong Seven, Circlesong Six, Circlesong Three, Circlesong Two, Come to Me, Don’t Worry, Be Happy, Drive, Drive My Car, From Me to You, Good Lovin’, I Hear Music, Mañana Iguana, Opportunity, Simple Pleasures, Sunshine of Your Love, Susie-Q, Them Changes, There Ya Go, Thinkin’ About Your Body, Turtle Shoes, Walkin’, You've Really Got a Hold on Me

Chris Tergesen

engineer, mix

All I Want, Angry, Baby, Circlesong Eight, Circlesong Five, Circlesong Four, Circlesong One, Circlesong Seven, Circlesong Six, Circlesong Three, Circlesong Two, Come to Me, Common Threads, Don’t Worry, Be Happy, Drive, Drive My Car, Good Lovin’, He Ran All the Way, Medicine Man, Simple Pleasures, Soma So De La De Sase, Sunshine of Your Love, Susie-Q, Sweet in the Mornin' (feat. Voicestra), The 23rd Psalm, The Garden, The Train, Them Changes, Yes, You

Neil Dorfsman

engineer

A Piece, a Chord, A Silken Road, Chanson, Circlings, Dervishes, Fertile Field, Invocation, Kalimba Suite, Marlowe, Mass, Monks / The Shepherd, Pat & Joe, Sisters, Taylor Made, Windows, Ziggurat

Christy Bley

Leslie Ann Jones

engineer, mix

All Feets Can Dance (Anybody 'thout Feet Can Dance on Their Hands), Chicken, Dance With Me, Feline, Hallucinations, Jubilee, Moondance, Peace, Sightless Bird, There Ya Go, You've Really Got a Hold on Me

Artist name	Roles	Recordings
Linda Goldstein	producer	All I Want, Beverly Hills Blues, Cara Mia, Circlesong Eight, Circlesong Five, Circlesong Four, Circlesong One, Circlesong Seven, Circlesong Six, Circlesong Three, Circlesong Two, Come to Me, Don’t Worry, Be Happy, Drive, Drive My Car, From Me to You, Good Lovin’, I Hear Music, Mañana Iguana, Opportunity, Simple Pleasures, Sunshine of Your Love, Susie-Q, Them Changes, There Ya Go, Thinkin’ About Your Body, Turtle Shoes, Walkin’, You've Really Got a Hold on Me
Chris Tergesen	engineer, mix	All I Want, Angry, Baby, Circlesong Eight, Circlesong Five, Circlesong Four, Circlesong One, Circlesong Seven, Circlesong Six, Circlesong Three, Circlesong Two, Come to Me, Common Threads, Don’t Worry, Be Happy, Drive, Drive My Car, Good Lovin’, He Ran All the Way, Medicine Man, Simple Pleasures, Soma So De La De Sase, Sunshine of Your Love, Susie-Q, Sweet in the Mornin' (feat. Voicestra), The 23rd Psalm, The Garden, The Train, Them Changes, Yes, You
Neil Dorfsman	engineer	A Piece, a Chord, A Silken Road, Chanson, Circlings, Dervishes, Fertile Field, Invocation, Kalimba Suite, Marlowe, Mass, Monks / The Shepherd, Pat & Joe, Sisters, Taylor Made, Windows, Ziggurat
Leslie Ann Jones	engineer, mix	All Feets Can Dance (Anybody 'thout Feet Can Dance on Their Hands), Chicken, Dance With Me, Feline, Hallucinations, Jubilee, Moondance, Peace, Sightless Bird, There Ya Go, You've Really Got a Hold on Me
Bert De Coteaux	producer	All Feets Can Dance (Anybody 'thout Feet Can Dance on Their Hands), Chicken, Dance With Me, Feline, Hallucinations, Jubilee, Moondance, Peace, Sightless Bird, You've Really Got a Hold on Me
Allen Sides	mix	Beverly Hills Blues, Cara Mia, From Me to You, I Hear Music, Mañana Iguana, Opportunity, There Ya Go, Thinkin’ About Your Body, Turtle Shoes, Walkin’
Bruce Botnick	engineer	Beverly Hills Blues, Cara Mia, From Me to You, I Hear Music, Mañana Iguana, Opportunity, Thinkin’ About Your Body, Walkin’
Jerry Hudgins	engineer	Chicken, Dance With Me, Jubilee, Moondance, Peace
Larry Klein	bass	Chicken, Dance With Me, Jubilee, Moondance, Peace
Victor Feldman (jazz musician)	Rhodes piano, piano	Chicken, Dance With Me, Jubilee, Moondance, Peace
John Guerin	drums	Chicken, Dance With Me, Jubilee, Moondance, Peace
Nicolaas tenBroek	arranger	Dance With Me, Jubilee, You've Really Got a Hold on Me
Peter Maunu	guitar	Dance With Me, Sightless Bird, You've Really Got a Hold on Me
Herbie Hancock (US jazz pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer)	piano	Turtle Shoes
Fred Miller	engineer	All Feets Can Dance (Anybody 'thout Feet Can Dance on Their Hands), Feline, Hallucinations
James Preston (drums)	drums	Feline, Sightless Bird
Ken Kessie	engineer	Feline, Sightless Bird
Russell Schmitt	engineer	Dance With Me, Moondance
Steve Erquiaga	guitar	Feline, Sightless Bird
Beth Quist	performer	Circlesong One
Brenda McFerrin	vocal	Jubilee
DJ Smash (acid/nu-jazz DJ Wayne Hunter)	remixer	Pat & Joe (DJ Smash remix)
Debbie McFerrin	vocal	Jubilee
Elliot Scheiner	engineer, producer	You've Really Got a Hold on Me
Frank Vilardi	drums	You've Really Got a Hold on Me
H.B. Bennett	drums	All Feets Can Dance (Anybody 'thout Feet Can Dance on Their Hands)
Henry the DJ	remixer	From Me to You (Henry Remix)
Joe Caro	guitar	You've Really Got a Hold on Me
John Siegler	bass	You've Really Got a Hold on Me
Judy Clapp	engineer	Turtle Shoes
Ken Karsh	acoustic guitar	Feline
Kenneth Nash	percussion	Dance With Me
Minnesota Orchestra	performer	Pavane, op. 50
Phoebe Snow	vocal	You've Really Got a Hold on Me
Randy Jackson (former bassist with Journey and American Idol judge)	bass	Sightless Bird
Robin Williams (US actor & comedian)	vocal	Beverly Hills Blues
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra	performer	Pavane, op. 50
Stu Feldman	bass	Feline
Taylor McFerrin	vocal	Jubilee
Wayne Shorter (US jazz saxophonist and composer)	soprano saxophone	Walkin’

Artist name	Roles	Recordings
Christy Bley	arranger, vocal	Ave Maria, Concerto for 2 Mandolins in G Major: Andante, Coyote, Flight of the Bumblebee, Good-Bye, Grace, Hoedown!, Hush Little Baby, Musette, Orchestral Suite no. 3: Air, Sonata for 2 Cellos: Allegro Prestissimo, Stars, Vocalise
Jack DeJohnette	vocal	Elmer Wudd?, Ha Chik Kah, Inside The Kaleidoscope, Numoessence, Seventh D, Speaking In Tongues, Then There Was Light, You Can Get There
Paul Ressel	arranger, conductor, vocal	Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 (Prelude: I. Allegro), Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 (Prelude: II. Romance), Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 (Prelude: III. Rondo [Allegro assai]), Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 23 in A Major, K.488 (Prelude: I .Allegro), Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 23 in A Major, K.488 (Prelude: II. Adagio), Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 23 in A Major, K.488 (Prelude: III. Allegro assai), Song for Amadeus (Improvisation of Sonata No. 2 in F Major, K.280/189e: II. Adagio)
Dizzy Gillespie	vocal	Oo Pa Pa Da, Ornithology, The Diamond Jubilee Blues, The Theme
Weather Report	vocal	Corner Pocket, Hot Cargo, Ice‐Pick Willy, Pearl on the Half‐Shell
Sierra Noble	conductor	Boléro, Die Moldau, aus 'Má vlast', Le nozze di Figaro: Ouvertüre, Valse triste, aus 'Kuolema'
Andreas Vollenweider	vocal	Capriccio, Elle Chelle, The Fishbirdtree - Little Snap
Antonio Vivaldi	vocal	Concerto in G Minor for 2 Cellos, Strings, and Continuo: I. Allegro, Concerto in G minor for 2 Cellos, Strings, and Continuo: II. Largo, Concerto in G minor for 2 Cellos, Strings, and Continuo: III. Allegro
Herbie Hancock	arranger, performer, vocal	Chan’s Song (Never Said), Round Midnight
Laurie Anderson	vocal	Monkey's Paw, Ramon, The Dream Before
Pharoah Sanders	vocal	Think About the One, You've Got to Have Freedom
Johannes Brahms	conductor	Ungarischer Tanz Nr. 5, Ungarischer Tanz Nr. 7
Teemu Hämäläinen	vocal	Sleeper, The Ballad of Jed Clampett
Johann Strauss	conductor	Furioso-Polka, Wiener Blut, Walzer
Henry Mancini	performer	The Pink Panther Theme, The Pink Panther Theme (feat. Bobby McFerrin)
Chick Corea	vocal	Even From Me, O Solo Mio on the Lone Prarie
Пётр Ильич Чайковский	vocal	Andante cantabile for Cello and String Orchestra, Op. Posth.
Сергей Рахманинов	vocal	Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14
Mixa	conductor	Polonaise, aus der 'Chopiniana-Suite'
Michael Hedges	vocal	The Streamlined Man
Luke Rockets	vocal	The Leaning Tower
Luigi Boccherini	arranger, performer	Menuet From String Quintet No. 1 in E major
The Herbie Hancock Quartet	vocal	Jammin'
The Manhattan Transfer	vocal, vocal arranger, percussion	Another Night in Tunisia
The Pieces of Shit	performer	Come Together
Johann Sebastian Bach	vocal	First Movement From Concerto for Violin, Strings, and Continuo in A major
W.A. Mathieu	vocal	To the Well
Jean-Louis Milford	vocal	Brothers
Pietro Mascagni	conductor	Intermezzo aus 'Cavalleria rusticana'
En Vogue	vocal	Those Dogs
Eduard Strauss	conductor	Bahn frei! Polka schnell
Dexter Gordon	vocal	What Is This Thing Called Love
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	conductor	Klavierkonzert in d-Moll: Rondo, Allegro assai
Wynton Marsalis Quartet	vocal	Baby, I Love You
Yellowjackets	vocal, percussion	Summer Song
Bill Cosby	vocal	The Cosby Show

Artist name

Roles

Recordings

Christy Bley

arranger, vocal

Ave Maria, Concerto for 2 Mandolins in G Major: Andante, Coyote, Flight of the Bumblebee, Good-Bye, Grace, Hoedown!, Hush Little Baby, Musette, Orchestral Suite no. 3: Air, Sonata for 2 Cellos: Allegro Prestissimo, Stars, Vocalise

Jack DeJohnette

vocal

Elmer Wudd?, Ha Chik Kah, Inside The Kaleidoscope, Numoessence, Seventh D, Speaking In Tongues, Then There Was Light, You Can Get There

Paul Ressel

arranger, conductor, vocal

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 (Prelude: I. Allegro), Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 (Prelude: II. Romance), Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 (Prelude: III. Rondo [Allegro assai]), Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 23 in A Major, K.488 (Prelude: I .Allegro), Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 23 in A Major, K.488 (Prelude: II. Adagio), Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 23 in A Major, K.488 (Prelude: III. Allegro assai), Song for Amadeus (Improvisation of Sonata No. 2 in F Major, K.280/189e: II. Adagio)