| Robbie
Williams - Swing when you're winning (CD) |
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Recorded with an 18-piece band in Frank Sinatra's old
stomping ground, the Capitol Records Studio in LA, this
collection of finger-clickin', Rat Pack standards and
new material features plenty of guest collaborations,
such as the much-hyped Nicole Kidman effort on Sinatra's
"Something Stupid". |
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Track Listings
1. I Will Talk And Hollywood Will Listen
2. Mack The Knife
3. Somethin' Stupid (with Nicole Kidman)
4. Do Nothing 'Till You Hear From Me
5. It Was A Very Good Year (with Frank Sinatra)
6. Straighten Up And Fly Right
7. Well Did You Evah? (with Jon Lovitz)
8. Mr. Bojangles
9. One For My Baby
10. Things (with Jane Horrocks)
11. Ain't That A Kick In The Head?
12. They Can't Take That Away From Me (with Rupert Everett)
13. Have You Met Miss Jones?
14. Me And My Shadow (with Jonathan Wilkes)
15. Beyond The Sea
Amazon.co.uk Review
Apparently, Swing When You're Winning was inspired by the
praise Robbie Williams received for his contribution to the
soundtrack on Bridget Jones's Diary. Recorded with an 18-piece
band in Frank Sinatra's old stomping ground, the Capitol Records
Studio in LA, this collection of finger-clickin', Rat Pack
standards and new material features plenty of guest collaborations,
such as the much-hyped Nicole Kidman effort on Sinatra's "Something
Stupid". Swing... is billed by Williams as a tribute
to "The Rat Pack", a gang of entertainers including
Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr, as well as Ol' Blue-Eyes
himself, that dominated the Las Vegas dinner-club scene of
the early 1960s. The selection of tracks reflect the karaoke
sessions of Robbie's childhood in Stoke, and have been given
the full "tribute" treatment, with no funny business
going on in the production to take away from their classic
appeal. There's never been any doubt that Williams sees himself
as an entertainer in the most traditional sense of the word
(not to mention a bit of a swinger), and his old-time-crooner
fantasies are certainly given free rein to charm the pants
off us all on this classy album. --Ruby Tuesday
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