[1] The album was produced by William Wittman, who Parker's record company, Elektra, initially opposed.

Parker had originally proposed Squeezing Out Sparks producer Jack Nitzsche, but this had been rejected by Elektra.

[2] Parker recalled, I mentioned that Wittman, who had somehow or other come across my transom, had just engineered C. Lauper's rather brill She's So Unusual LP.

Well, truth be told, Bill W. is quite a forceful little fella and I really had no input in the production at all and just gave up and let him get on with it.

I was really hoping for a much more unusual sounding collection but didn't have the brains and moxie to accomplish such a feat.