Words & Music (Swingle II album)
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| Released | 1974 | |||
| Genre | Adult Contemporary | |||
| Label | CBS | |||
| Producer | Ward Swingle & Terry Edwards | |||
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Words & Music is the second album by the London-based Swingle II singers released in 1974 on the CBS label. The original Paris-based The Swingle Singers recorded regularly for Philips in the 1960s and early 1970s and the successor London-based group (Swingle II) continued to record, for Columbia/CBS, Virgin Classics and other record labels from 1974 to the present.
- Side 1
- "The Windmills of Your Mind" (Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) - 2:22
- "The Way We Were" (A. Bergman, M. Bergman, Marvin Hamlisch) – 2:21
- "Maple Leaf Rag ('Satchmo')" (Scott Joplin; arr. Tony Vincent Issacs) - 2:35
- "Amazing Grace" (Traditional; arranged by Ward Swingle) - 4:17
- ”Killing Me Softly with His Song" (Norman Gimbel, Charles Fox) – 3:35
- Side 2
- "The Entertainer" (Joplin; arr. Isaacs) - 3:36
- "Try to Remember" (Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt) - 2:40
- "The Fool on the Hill" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:29
- "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (Pete Seeger) – 2:53
- "Bridge over Troubled Water" (Paul Simon) – 4:23[1]
Singers
- Mary Beverley & Olive Simpson – sopranos
- Carol Hall & Linda Hirst – contraltos
- John Potter & Ward Swingle – tenors
- John Lubbock & David Beavan - basses[1]
