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| 1. | September Song [From Knickerbocker Holiday]
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| 2. | Alabama Song [From The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny]
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| 3. | Mack the Knife [From The Threepenny Opera]
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| 4. | Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat
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| 5. | Largo (Harpsichord Concerto in F Minor BWV 1056)
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| 6. | Badinerie (Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor BWV 1067)
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| 7. | Air on the G String (Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D BMV 1068)
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| 8. | Ticket to Ride
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| 9. | A Whiter Shade of Pale
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| 10. | Ave Maria
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| 11. | The Fool on the Hill
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| 12. | Bohemian Rhapsody
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| 13. | The Little Drummer Boy
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| 14. | Away in a Manger
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| 15. | Christmas Medley: Winter Wonderland/Santa Claus Is Coming to Town/Have
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| 16. | Amazing Grace
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| 17. | White Christmas
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| 18. | Intro. to 1812 Overture
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| 19. | 1812 Overture
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| 20. | Thank You
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| 21. | Theme From Mission Impossible
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Jazz
Harmony Vocal Group
Vocal Jazz
Recorded: Dec 19 & 22, 2000
The eight-voice a cappella Swingle Singers put on a very diverse and intriguing show during their tour of December 2000. Their repertoire ranges from a few Kurt Weill tunes and "Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat" to music by Bach and the Beatles, Christmas songs, and their exciting rendition of the "1812 Overture." The arrangements are quite inventive and colorful, and the eight singers (two sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses) blend together magnificently. This is an excellent introduction to this veteran group's unique music
---Scott Yanow, AMG
The Swingle Singers, Ann De Renais, soprano 1, Joanna Forbes, soprano 2, Sarah Simmonds, Alto 1, Wendy Nieper, alto 2, Andrew Gray, Tenor 1, Richard Eteson, Tenor 2, Jeremy Sadler, Bass 1 and Patrick Ardagh-Walter, Bass 2, and this is another of their very popular live albums. We can feel ourselves in the audience in December 2000, the elusive "tingle factor" in the air, as the group takes 21 classic tunes and proceeds to nail them, as only the Swingles can, one by one: "September Song," "Alabama Song," "Mack The Knife," "Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat," "Largo," "Badinerie," "Air on the G String," "Ticket to Ride," Procul Harum's "Whiter Shade Of Pale," "Ave Maria," "The Fool on the Hill," Queen's amazing "Bohemian Rhapsody," "Little Drummer Boy," "Away in a Manger," "Christmas Medley," "Amazing Grace," "White Christmas," "Intro to 1812 Overture," "1812 Overture," "September Song," "Thank You" and "Theme from Mission Impossible." Great music, incomparable singing!
The Swingle Singers
Active Decades: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: 1962
Died: 1973
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Pop, Vocal Pop, Acappella, Vocal Jazz, Classical Pop, Harmony Vocal Group
A French vocal group famed for tackling all manner of classical material (baroque, fugues, madrigals, orchestral overtures) and switching them to an a cappella swing setting, the Swingle Singers was formed in Paris during the early '60s by American expatriate Ward Swingle. By the time of their 1963 album debut, the group comprised eight voices -- Swingle, Christiane Legrand (sister of Michel), Jean-Claude Briodin, Anne Germain, Claude Germaine, Jean Cussac, Claudine Meunier and Jeanette Baucomont. That album, Jazz Sebastian Bach (titled Bach's Greatest Hits in America), earned the group a Grammy award and almost made the Top Ten.
The novelty inherent in an eight-voice scatting choir resulted in dozens of television and radio appearances around the world during the mid-'60s. Somehow the group also managed to record follow-up LPs Going Baroque in 1964 and Anyone for Mozart? one year later. Both were Grammy winners as well -- though Best Performance by a Chorus definitely wasn't the most competitive category at the awards ceremony. In an era when vocal choruses increasingly slipped down the easy-listening slope however, the Swingle Singers moved in precisely the opposite direction. In 1969, a subsidiary group called Swingles II premiered Sinfonia, a composition by the avant-garde composer Lucianio Berio that also utilized the New York Philharmonic.
After a move to England in 1973, Ward Swingle recruited a new Swingle Singers and changed musical direction, incorporating material from the avant-garde as well as the Renaissance era and jazz. Swingle himself retired from active performance in 1984, but continued on as music director. The group continued to tour the world into the '90s, performing operas by Azio Corghi and Berio, appearing in compositions with ballet companies, and holding various classes and workshops as well.
---John Bush, All Music Guide |
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