Words & Music (Swingle II album)

Words & Music
Studio album by Swingle II
Released	1974
Genre	Adult Contemporary
Label	CBS
Producer	Ward Swingle & Terry Edwards
Swingle II chronology
Madrigals / Love Songs for Madrigals and Madriguys (1974) Words & Music (1974) Rags and All that Jazz (1975)

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.

Track listing

Side 1

1. "The Windmills of Your Mind" (Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) - 2:22
2. "The Way We Were" (A. Bergman, M. Bergman, Marvin Hamlisch) – 2:21
3. "Maple Leaf Rag ('Satchmo')" (Scott Joplin; arr. Tony Vincent Issacs) - 2:35
4. "Amazing Grace" (Traditional; arranged by Ward Swingle) - 4:17
5. ”Killing Me Softly with His Song" (Norman Gimbel, Charles Fox) – 3:35

Side 2

1. "The Entertainer" (Joplin; arr. Isaacs) - 3:36
2. "Try to Remember" (Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt) - 2:40
3. "The Fool on the Hill" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:29
4. "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (Pete Seeger) – 2:53
5. "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]

Musicians

• Ward Swingle – keyboards
• Daryl Runswick – bass guitar
• Chris Karan - drums ^[1]

Production

• Arrangements and adaptions: Ward Swingle
• Producers: Ward Swingle & Terry Edwards
• Recorded at: CBS Studios, London
• Engineer: Bernie O’Gorman
• Album art direction: Roslav Szaybo (CBS Records)
• Album photography: Colin Gibbs & Alan Jones

References

1. Words and Music at discogs.com

• CBS S 80554 original album sleeve notes