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 "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) – 4:23Words and Music at discogs.com
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
References
CBS S 80554 original album sleeve notes