Swing when you're winning (Swing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams - Soundtrack)

Member Name: Whizz11

Product:	Swing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams - Soundtrack
Date:	01/09/09 (49 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good songs

Disadvantages: I like the originals

The King of Swing?

Robbie takes a step away from his Take That/Angels type music and moves into the relm of old school Hollywood, smooth, lounge singer type songs and does it work?

Robbie Williams was one fifth of the successful boy band group Take That. Robbie as actually only 15 years old when he started with Take That in 1989. He left in 1995 to launch his solo career. He was extremely successful as a solo artist and you could say it was the best career move he made. According to an article I read, as a solo artist, he has sold more albums in the U.K than any other British solo artist in history and has won more BRIT Awards than any other artist to date. His album sales stands at over 55 million worldwide. Williams entered in The Guinness Book of World Records when he announced his World Tour for 2006, selling 1.6 million tickets in one single day.

With the reformational of Take That it must seem to Robbie like he is missing out as his career has kind of stalled as of late. The boys are so successful now and don't really need Robbie anymore although he is said to be on speaking terms with the rest of the boys now. He has had his problems with alcohol and depression among other things but hopefully these are things of the past.

Swing when you're winning is classified as a jazz album. It was released in 2001. Apparently Robbie has been a life long Sinatra fan so I can see why recording an album like this would definitely be something he would be interested in. The song "It Was a Very Good Year", is actually a duet with Frank Sinatra himself which was achieved by Williams singing the first two verses, and a recording of Sinatra's vocals on the third and fourth verses. There is also a duet he performs with Nicole Kidman, Somethin' Stupid.

I did like this album and you can definitely hear the uniqueness of Robbie's voice on all the tracks as I think he has quite a distinctive voice however if I wanted to listen to these classic songs such as Mack the Knife etc I think I probably prefer the originals. HAving said that though it does have a nice mix of songs and is well done.

The album was certified as 7x Platinum in the UK. The rest of the track listings are as follows:

1. "I Will Talk and Hollywood Will Listen"

2. "Mack the Knife"

3. "Somethin' Stupid" (with Nicole Kidman)

4. "Do Nothin' 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"

Summary: Swing when you're winning - Robbie Williams