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Swing: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 
| Artist: Ian Devaney
Creator: Lisa Stansfield
Label: RCA
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
Buy Used: $3.01
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 42507
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 090266354122
EAN: 0090266354122
ASIN: B00000JJJ3
Release Date: July 13, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Baby I Need Your Loving | | • | Best Is Yet to Come | | • | I Thought That's What You Like About Me - Georgie Fame | | • | Two Years Too Blue | | • | Why Do We Call It Love | | • | Ain't What You Do | | • | Gotta Get on This Train - Georgie Fame | | • | Martin's Theme | | • | Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens | | • | Love Is Here to Stay | | • | Love Theme | | • | Watch the Birdie | | • | Martin's Theme (Reprise) | | • | Blitzkrieg Baby (You Can't Bomb Me) | | • | Mack the Knife |
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Album Description
2003 remastered reissue of 1999 soundtrack (unavailable domestically) packaged in a limited edition digipak. Arista.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
Don't forget Clarence Clemons! March 22, 2000
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I'm the director of the film that this soundtrack is taken from. I'm biased about the music of course, Lisa and Ian did amazing work on it. What no one has mentioned is the phenomenal contribution from the very great Clarence Clemons, his sax stuff on this album is truly wonderful and quite unexpected. Enjoy.
The British can really swing with the best January 9, 2000
Jules (Hertforshire, England)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Lisa Stansfield proves that she can move from one musical genre to another with ease. It's good to see that a British artist in the 1990's can produce an album of swing that will be enjoyed by many in the next millennium. Her version of 'Mack the Knife' is the best by a woman that I have heard
 Fun and very well done! August 2, 1999
John M. Abramson (Panama City, FL, USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Lisa Stansfield's name is listed above the title and there's a reason why: she sings about 10 of the 15 songs, and she really does quite a good job, considering her singing style is better suited to R&B/Pop than swing (which is why this doesn't get 5 stars); still, she shines on such numbers as "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens" and "Ain't What You Do". (She has a hand in writing several of this CD's selections.)As a whole, this is pretty much a fully-realized production -- not a bad choice in the bunch! The band's pretty tight, the singing's fine and a great amount of fun and care obviously went into it -- it shows!DEFNITELY RECOMMENDED!
A Gem of a Sountrack January 5, 2000
Ralph Giordano (Staten Island, New York USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If for no other reason Ms. Stansfield's version of Mack The Knife is worth the price it breathes new life into a timeless classic. I have played this version numerous times in the past six months to mixed audiences with the same result - that song is great or who does it? When I tell them it is brand new from the former or still dance diva they are further amazed. The rest of the CD well I think it is wonderful and one of those nice pleasant finds that you can enjoy both as listening and dancing.
Lisa always soars when she's "on the fly" November 22, 2004
T. Norton (key west)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I really don't think Lisa or Ian (her hubby) had much time to get this done, as the songs needed to be IN the film that she was (probably simultaneously) making. If you know your Lisa, you know that her best stuff always comes when she's not thinking about it, and this baby is the ultimate proof! Maybe it was growing up singing in pubs, maybe it's Ian's influence, maybe it was her parents, who knows?? The point is that Lisa can sing ANYTHING in her sleep! If you like the standards, if you love the incidental whimsy that music takes on when it's geared up for a film (especially a small one....), if you're a fan of the soul divas but have no clue why anyone would listen to swing music-this is your c.d.!!
My only disappointment was the valiant effort to rework "Baby I Need Your Lovin' " ; it just won't work for anyone who's got Levi Stubbs ingrained in their noggin', but Lisa and Ian get points for trying.
The original song "Why Do We Call It Love?" will knock your socks off, and you'll SWEAR it's vintage 50*s London swing, but it ain't!
I can never do a Lisa review without somehow mentioning Dusty (that's a good thing, Dusty fans don't take such comparisons lightly, believe you me) and here is proof posiitive that Lisa is gearing up to be the heir apparent (if any ONE singer can do it, that is....). Those of us who have followed Lisa closely knew back when she did "Down in the Depths" (and made every big name of 1990 look like an amateur!) that a universal songstress was blooming before our very ears. Wish I could still go down a pub somewhere and see her live....
GET IT NOW!!!
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