Spontaneous Inventions

Spontaneous Inventions
Live album by
Released1986
GenreVocal jazz
Length39:16
LabelBlue Note Records
ProducerLinda Goldstein, Bobby McFerrin
Bobby McFerrin chronology
The Voice
(1984)
Spontaneous Inventions
(1986)
Simple Pleasures
(1988)
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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.

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.