Elbert Joseph "Bertie"
Higgins, *08-12-1944, Tarpon Springs, FL
2nd version
by Praguefrank
SESSIONS also member of The Romans in mid 1960s
1977
Gettings-In-The-Woods, FL - Elbert Higgins (Producer: Charles Klimp)
001 DOESN'T ANYBODY WANT TO HEAR A LOVE SONG Rio RR 1001
002 ONLY YESTERDAY Rio RR 1001
1979 unknown
- Elbert Higgins (Producer:
Elbert Higgins)
004 SANCTUARY Sanctuary SR 10001
005 PELICAN PELICAN Sanctuary SR 10001
January/November 1981
Pyramid "Eye" Recording Studio, Lookout Mountain, GA/Southern Tracks
Recording Studios, Atlanta, GA – Bertie Higgins (Bertie Higgins [vcl/gt/cymbals/bck
vcl], Shelton Irwin [gt], Ken Bell [gt], Jeff Pinkham [gt/mandolin], Barry
Richmond [el gt], Norman Blake [mandolin], Gary Baker/Arch Pearson [bass gt],
Bill Marshall, Owen Hale [drums], Edward Higgins/Mickey Buckins [congas/percussion],
Steve Nathan [piano/organ/keyboards], John Healy [piano/keyboards/bck
vcl], Scott Maclellan [flute/bck
vcl], Linda Pennebaker [oboe], Ed Leamon
[sax], Cheryl Wilson, Doug Johnson, Lu Moss, Mike Jones, Mike Sullivan, Mann
Loiacono, Suzi Smith, Gloria Higgins Burke, Phyllis Loiacono, Dave Powell [bck
vcl])
006 JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE Kat
Family ZS5-02839/KZ-37901 COL-CD-5814
EQ Music 7070
007
CASABLANCA Kat Family ZS5-03256/KZ-37901 COL-CD-5814 EQ Music 7070
008
THE CANDLE DANCER Kat Family KZ-37901 COL-CD-5814
EQ Music 7070
009
KEY LARGO Kat Family ZS5-02524/KZ-37901 COL-CD-5814
EQ Music 7070
010
PORT O CALL (SAVANNAH 55) Kat Family ZS5-03066/KZ-37901 COL-CD-5814 EQ Music 7070
011
WHITE LINE FEVER Kat Family ZS5-02524/KZ-37901
COL-CD-5814 EQ Music 7070
012
THE HEART IS THE HUNTER Kat Family ZS5-03066/KZ-37901 COL-CD-5814 EQ Music 7070
013
SHE'S GONE TO LIVE ON THE MOUNTAIN Kat Family ZS5-02839 ZS5-03256/KZ-37901 COL-CD-5814
EQ Music 7070
014
DOWN AT THE BLUE MOON Kat Family KZ-37901
COL-CD-5814
015
THE TROPICS Kat Family KZ-37901 COL-CD-5814
October 1982/January 1983
Pyramid "Eye" Recording Studio, Lookout Mountain, GA/Nashville, TN –
Bertie Higgin
016 AS TIME GOES BY Kat
Family KZ-38587 EQ Music 7070
017 PIRATES AND POETS Kat
Family ZS4-03869 /KZ-38587 EQ Music 7070
018 WHEN YOU FALL IN LOVE
(LIKE I FELL IN LOVE WITH YOU) Kat Family ZS4-04164 /KZ-38587
019 LEAH Kat Family
KZ-38587 EQ Music 7070
020 UNDER A BLUE MOON Kat
Family KZ-38587
021 TOKYO JOE Kat Family
JS4-03782 /KZ-38587 COL-CD-5814
022 BENEATH THE ISLAND
LIGHT Kat Family ZS4-037 ZS4-04164 /KZ-38587 COL-CD-5814 EQ Music 7070
023 ONLY YESTERDAY Kat
Family ZS4-03289/ KZ-38587
024 MARIANNA Kat Family
KZ-38587
025 PLEASURE PIER Kat
Family KZ-38587
026 NEVER LOOKING BACK Kat
Family KZ-38587
027 AS TIME GOES BY
(REPRISE) Kat Family KZ-38587
1985 unknown – Bertie
Higgins
028 THE WALL CBS ZS4-05465
029 THE WALL –instr.-
ZS4-05465
1986 Southern Tracks
Studios, Atlanta, GA – Bertie Higgins
030 U 15721 GONE WITH THE
WIND Southern Tracks ST-1056/ EQ Music
7070
031 U 15721/U 23309
CANNONBALL Southern Tracks ST-1056 ST-2005
1987 Southern Tracks
Studios, Atlanta, GA – Bertie Higgins
032 DON’T SHOW ME NO MEMORIES ST 1084
033 FLORIDA ST 1084
ST 2000
1988 Southern Tracks
Studios, Atlanta, GA – Bertie Higgins (Producer: Buddy Buie)
034 U 22199 YOU BLOSSOM ME
ST-2000
035 U 23309 HOMELESS
PEOPLE ST-2005
1989 Southern Tracks
Studios, Atlanta, GA – Bertie Higgins (Producer: Buddy Buie)
036 KEY LARGO Southern
tracks ST-2010 ST 0016/ STCD-0046 Sony
54667 COL-CD-9360
037 LEAH ST-2010/Sony
54667
038 MIAMI MOON Southern
tracks ST-2015/STCD-0046
039 BACK TO THE ISLAND ST
2015
1986/1994 Southern Tracks
Studios, Atlanta, GA – Bertie Higgins
040 BACK TO THE ISLAND
Southern tracks STCD-0046
041 JAMAICA ME CRAZY
Southern tracks STCD-0046 COL-CD-9360
042 PALM BEACH Southern
tracks STCD-0046 EQ Music 7070
043 BRAZILIA Southern
tracks STCD-0046
044 CASABLANCA Southern
tracks STCD-0046 COL-CD-9360
045 BLUE NEVER LOOKED GOOD
ON YOU Southern tracks STCD-0046
046 ALL NIGHT RAIN
Southern tracks STCD-0046
047 JUST ANOTHER DAY IN
PARADISE Southern tracks STCD-0046 Sony 54667 COL-CD-9360
Bertie Higgins is still
active – some info in albums list
ALBUMS
Kat Family KZ-37901 Just Another Day in
Paradise: Just Another Day In Paradise; Casablanca;
Candleancer; Key Largo; Port O Call (Savannah 55); White Line Fever; The Heart
Is The Hunter; She's Gone To Live On The Mountain; Down At The Blue Moon; The
Tropics – 29-01-82
Kat Family KZ-38587 Pirates and Poets: As Time Goes By; Pirates And Poets; When You Fall In
Love (Like I Fell In Love With You); Leah; Under A Blue Moon; Tokyo Joe; Beneath
The Island Light; Only Yesterday; Marianna; Pleasure Pier; Never Looking Back; As
Time Goes By (Reprise) – 25-03-83
Southern Tracks STCD-0046 Back to the Island: Back To The Island; Jamaica Me Crazy; Palm Beach; Brazilia;
Miami Moon; Casablanca; Blue Never Looked Good On You; All Night Rain; Key
Largo; Just Another Day In Paradise – 94 (also on Epic EK 66780 The Best Of Bertie Higgins / Then And Now)
Key Largo CD 002 Trop Rock: Key Largo; Montego Bay; The Gulf of Mexico; Kokomo;
Sand and Foam; Jamaica Me Carzy; Margaritaville; The Breath of God; The Redneck
Riviera; Jamaica Farewell; Key West; In Christiansted; Day Off; Leah; Volcano;
The Devil's Triangle; Two Pina Coladas; Gone with the Wind; Just Another Day in
Paradise; Casablanca - 00
Sony Music 54667 Island Bound: Key Largo; My Tropical Vacation; Kokomo; Montego
Bay; The Gulf of Mexico; The Redneck Riveria; In Christiansted; Day
Off; Bojanglin' on the Bayou; Jamaica Farewell; Just Another Day in Paradise; Leah –
16-04-02
Key Largo no # Brazilia: Back to the Island; Palm Beach; Brazilia; Berlin;
Angelina; Miami Moon; A Wonderful Waste of Time; As Time Goes By; It's Now or
Never; Blue Never Looked Good on You; All Night Rain; Those Days of Summer - 03
Collectables COL-CD-9360 Key Largo: Key Largo; Kokomo; Montego Bay; Jamaica Farewell;
Just Another Day in Paradise; Margaritaville; Two Pina Coladas; Casablanca;
Jamaica Me Crazy; Devil's triangle – 16-09-03
Key Large no # (UPC 828999016020) A Buccaneer’s
Diary: Florida; Carolina Blue; The King of Thule; The Girl; No Snake-A in
Jamaica; Going to Alicetown; If You Wanna Be Happy; The Pyrates of Port Royale;
The F Word; Islands; The Runner; My Great Grandfather; Tin Roof Shanties;
Papillon; I Never Saw It Coming; I Miss You Already; Senorita Tonight; Key
Largo [Video File] – 19-07-04
Key Large no # I Saw Three Ships: I Saw Three Ships; Oh Holy Night; Christmas Song; Joy
To The World; Winter Wonderland; Little Drummer Boy; I'll Be Home For
Christmas; Away In a Manger; What Child Is This (Greensleeves); Oh Come All Ye
Faithful; Deck the Halls; White Christmas; First Noel; We Wish You a Merry
Christmas – 09-11-10 (reissued on EQ Music 166637 in 2010) R
Madacy MLG2- 51469 /EQ Music 7070 The Ultimate
Collection: Casablanca; Key
Largo; Just Another Day in Paradise; Leah; Carolina Blue; Florida;
Kokomo; All Night Rain; Gone with the Wind; It's Now or Never; In
Christiansted; Day Off; As Time Goes By; Down at the Blue Moon; Bojanglin' on
the Bayou; The Candle Dancer; The Pyrates of Port Royale; Jamaica
Farewell; The Girl; The Breath of God; Pirates and Poets; Palm Beach;
Brazilia; Berlin; Angelina; Miami Moon; A Wonderful Waste of
Time; The Gulf of Mexico; Port O Call; Blue Never Looked Good
on You; Montego Bay; My Tropical Vacation; She's Gone to Live Upon the
Mountain; The Redneck Riviera; Beneath the Island Light; White
Line Fever; The Heart Is the Hunter; Back to the Island; If You
Wanna Be Happy; Those Days of Summer – 07-03-05 (double)
Collectables COL-CD-5814 Golden Classics: Just Another Day in Paradise; Casablanca; Candle
Dancer; Key Largo; Port O' Call; White Line Fever; The Heart Is the
Hunter; She's Gone to Live on the Mountain; Down at the Blue Moon;
The Tropics; Tokyo Joe; Beneath the Island Light – 14-03-06 (enhanced
reissue of KZ-37901)
Toucan Cove ? Deep Cuts: No Snake'a In
Jamaica; Brazilia; The Heart Is The Hunter; . The Runner; White Line Fever; The Devil's Triangle; The Breath Of God; In Christiansted; The Girl; Going To Alice Town; Blue Never Looked Good On You; Carolina Blue; Bojanglin' On The Bayou; Beneath The Island Light; Palm Beach; Casablanca (Dance Remix) - 08
Toucan Cove ?
The Essential Playlist: Key
Largo; Casablanca; Just Another Day In Paradise; Jamaica Me Crazy; Pirates and
Poets; Candle Dancer; Back to the Island ; Gone With the Wind; Florida; Port O'
Call; The Redneck Riviera; The Pyrates of Port Royale; Down At the Blue Moon; She's
Gone to Live Upon the Mountain; The Tropics; The Flag's On Fire - 30-09-08
(sampler)
Toucan Cove 1100 Captiva: Cowboys Of The Caribbean; The First Time Ever I
Saw Your Face; Stir It Up; Blue Bayou; Brown Eyed Girl; Sloop John
B.; If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body; Key Largo - (w. Cheryl Wilson); Brandy;
Gettin' The Wrinkles Out; Somewhere Over The Rainbow (What A Wonderful
World); The Flag's On Fire; Day-O (The Banana Boat Song); The Sea Of
Cortez; Fireworks; Who Are You Pretty For? – 11-11-08 (Cayo Largo Studios,
Burbank, CA/ Conway Recording, Tampa, FL/ County Q Strudios, Franklin, TN/
Native Sound, Van Nuys, CA/ OMNI Studios, Nashville, TN/ Rockabilly Recording
Company, Branson, MO/ Southern Tracks Recording, Atlanta, GA – Bertie Higgins,
* and Cheryl Wilson (Bertie Higgins [vcl/gt/drums/bck vcl], J.R. Cobb [gt/bck vcl], Ronnie Hammond [gt/bck
vcl], George Marinelli [gt], Barry
Bailey [gt], Danny Parks [gt], Jim Hoke [mandolin/steel/ ukulele/ flute/
recorder/sax], Jeff Pinkham [banjo], Josh Pinkham [mandolin], Daniel T. One/
Paul Scholten [drums], David Lapio [steel drum], Wade Benson Landry [fiddle],
Richard Ricardi [accordion/ concertina], Dean Daughtry [piano/ keyboards/bck
vcl], Gary E. Smith/ John Jeffrey Healey/ Maurice Crutcher [piano/ keyboards],
Cheryl Wilson, Tarpon Fishin Tackle Choir, Billy Aerts, Julian Higgins, Eddie
Hedges [bck vcl])
EQ Music ? Christmas
Album: I Saw Three Ships; O Holy
Night; The Christmas Song; Joy To The World; Winter Wonderland; The Little
Drummer Boy; I'll Be Home For Christmas; Away In A Manger; What Child Is This?;
O Come All Ye Faithful; Deck The Halls; White Christmas; The First Noel; We
Wish You A Merry Christmas – 11-08
EQ Music 5272168 The Very Best Of Bertie Higgins: Casablanca; Key Largo; Just Another Day in Paradise; Kokomo;
Carolina Blue; Florida; It's Now or Never; Leah (feat. Roy Oribson); All Night
Rain; Gone With the Wind; In Christiansted; Day
Off; As Time Goes By; Down At the Blue Moon; Bojanglin' On the Bayou; The
Candle Dancer; The Girl; Jamaica Farewell; Angelina; Pirates and Poets; Palm
Beach; Brazilia; Berlin; Miami Moon; A Wonderful Waste of Time; The Gulf of
Mexico; Port O Call; Blue Never Looked Good On You; Montego Bay; My Tropical
Vacation; She's Gone to Live
Upon the Mountain; If You Wanna Be Happy; Beneath the Island Light; White Line
Fever; The Heart Is the Hunter; Back to the Island – 10-08-10 (double)
Toucan Cove ? Year Of The Dragon: California Promises; Casablanca (feat. Jiang Zi Long);
Green River; If You Could Read My Mind; La
Vie En Rose (feat. Sally Kellerman from the Film ''A Black Forest Christmas'');
Mexico; Money for Nothing; Moonshadow; My Heart Will Go On; Oh. Come to Me; Save
the Bales (From the Film ''the Colombian Connection''); Save the Last Dance for
Me; Scarborough Fair; Since I Fell for You; Tanqueray; The Old Man and the Sea;
Time In a Bottle; Toes; Water On the Moon; When I Fall in Love; When Will I See
You Again - 26-06-12
Toucan Cove ? Bertie Higgins, Live: Key Largo (Show Opening Live); Just Another Day in
Paradise; Back to the Island; Palm Beach; Key West; Margaritaville; Casablanca;
Down At the Blue Moon; The F Word; Calypso Medley; Port O’ Call; Montego Bay; Berlin; Day Off; Gone With the Wind; As Time
Goes By; The Runaway; The Flag’s On Fire; Speeches – 08-04-14
Toucan Cove ? The Very Best Of Trop Rock: Key Largo; Casablanca; Just Another Day in Paradise; Montego
Bay; The Gulf of Mexico; Leah; Fireworks; Kokomo; Margaritaville; Cowboys of
the Caribbean; Sand and Foam; The Runner; Tanqueray; The Candledancer; In
Christiansted; Pirates and Poets; Back to the Island; The Girl; Jamaica Me
Crazy; The Pirates of Port Royale; Just Another Day in Paradise – 14 (sampler)
Toucan Cove ? Cowboys Of The Caribbean: Cowboys of the Caribbean; Just Another Day In
Paradise (Country Radio Mix); Key Largo (Country Radio Mix); Bojanglin' on the
Bayou; Carolina Blue; Trouble Creek Road; Leah (feat. Roy Orbison); Early
Morning Love; Angelina; Tanqueray; The Gulf of Mexico; The Girl; The F Word; Fireworks;
I Never Saw It Coming; My Tropical Vacation; The Redneck Riviera; Toes; Put
Another Log On the Fire - 19-08-14
Toucan Cove ? Dancing
In The Tradewinds: Crossing the Bar; The
Pyrates of Port Royale; The Old Man and the Sea; The Runner; Tin Roof Shanties;
No Snake-A In Jamaica; Islands; The King of Thule; The Girl; In Christiansted; Alice
Town; Port O' Call; The Devil's Triangle; The Tropics - 04-09-15
Toucan Cove ? The World’s
Greatest Lover: The World's Greatest
Lover; The Silk Road; Carolina Blue; Oh, Come to Me; Fireworks; Papillon; The
Girl; The Breath of God; Come Home to China; Islands – 16
Bertie Higgins ? Gold
From My Treasure Chest: (31 tracks) 25-03-16 (double, sampler)
Toucan Cove ? Scrap
Book: Chasing Rainbows In the Rain; Running
Away With My Heart; Going Home Alone; Mr. Kelly; Dreamer On Horseback; Sugarman;
All the Roads Lead Back to You; Only Yesterday; Winkin', Blinkin', And Nod; I
Believed In You; I've Got a Song In My Heart; Love Bnadit; Too Long At the Fair;
Crossing the Bar (Featuring the Bellamy Brothers); Waiting for the Rain; Sanctuary;
Cheyenne; Doesn't Anybody Want to Hear a Love Song? 22-07-16
Toucan Cove ? Wanted: Son of a Beach; Ricon; Dreamin' Again; Blood In the
Water; A Pirate Looks At Forty; Save the Bates; Jasmine Flower; Cannonball; The
World's Greatest Lover; Song of Joy; The Girl; Killerfornia; Casablance (with
Josie Ho); Let's Sail Back to Key Largo; The Golden Fleece; Somewhere In My
Broken Heart - 01-11-19
Bertie Higgins no # Greatest Hits: Key Largo; Just Another Day In Paradise; Casablanca; Oh, Come To Me; Son Of A Beach; Crossing The Bar (w. Bellamy Brothers); Pirates And Poets; Blue Never Looked Good On You; The Redneck Riviera; The Girl; Brazilia; Papillon; Fireworks; Jamaica Me Crazy; The Flag's On Fire; Dreamer On Horseback – 06-09-21 (sampler)
Time-Life ? Rock the Docks: Cowboys of the Caribbean; Son of a Beach; Fireworks; Bojanglin' on the Bayou; The Redneck Riviera; In Christiansted; Angelina; The Pyrates of Port Royale; My Tropical Vacation; The F Word; Early Morning Love; Save the Bales; Key West; Pleasure Pier; Trouble Creek Road; Rincon – 21-07-22 (sampler)
Bertie Higgins ? Let's Sail Away to Key Largo: Key Largo; Just Another Day in Paradise; The Candle Dancer; When You Fall in Love; Port O' Call; The Tropics; Pirates and Poets; The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face; Down at the Blue Moon; All Night Rain; Miami Moon; Jamaica Me Crazy; Palm Beach; She's Gone to Live Upon the Mountain; Back to the Island; Brazilia; Florida – 22-07-22 (sampler)
Bertie Higgins ? A Christmas Card: A Christmas Card; Winter Wonderland; Away in a Manger; Deck the Halls; Saw Three Ships; I'll be Home for Christmas; Joy to the World; Oh Come All Ye Faithful; Oh Holy Night; The Christmas Song; The First Noel; The Little Drummer Boy; We Wish You a Merry Christmas; What Child is This; White Christmas – 22-11-22 (sampler)
EPs
Good Time ? Church Street Station Presents: Bertie Higgins (Live In Concert): Gone With The Wind; Casablanca; Key Largo; Just Another Day In Paradise – 03-03-88
SINGLES
Rio
(1977) Elbert Higgins
RR 1001 Doesn't
Anybody Want To Hear A Love Song / Only Yesterday – 77
Sanctuary
(1979) Elbert Higgins
SR
10001/7913 Sanctuary / Pelican Pelican - 79
Kat Family (1981-83)
WS9-02524 Key Largo / White Line Fever – 11-09-81
ZS5-02839 Just Another Day In Paradise / She's Gone To Live
On The Mountain – 04-82
ZS5-03066 Port
O Call / The Heart Is The Hunter – 07-82
ZS5-03256 Casablanca / She's
Gone To Live On The Mountai – 09-82
ZS4-03782 Tokyo Joe / Beneath The Islands Light – 22-02-83
ZS4-03869 Pirates And Poets / Only Yesterday – 04-83
ZS4-04164 When You Fall In Love / Beneath The Island Light –
10-83
ZS8-05495 Key Largo / Just Another Day In Paradise – 08-85
(Kat Family Golden Oldies)
CBS Associated (1985)
ZS4-05465 The Wall / The Wall (instrumental) – 07-85
Southern Tracks
ST-1056 Gone With The Wind / Cannonball – 04-86
ST 1084 Don’t Show Me
No Memories / Florida - 87
ST-2000 You Blossom Me / Florida – 08-88
ST-2005 Homeless People / Cannonball– 12-88
ST-2010 Leah / Key Largo – 89
ST-2015 Miami Moon / Back To The Island – 89
ST-0016 The Flag’s On Fire / Key Largo - 90
