Words & Music (Swingle II album)

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

Singers

 * Mary Beverley & Olive Simpson – sopranos
 * Carol Hall & Linda Hirst – contraltos
 * John Potter & Ward Swingle – tenors
 * John Lubbock & David Beavan - basses

Musicians

 * Ward Swingle – keyboards
 * Daryl Runswick – bass guitar
 * Chris Karan - drums

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