Swings Both Ways

Swings Both Ways
Robbie Williams studio album
Publication (s)	15th November 2013
Label (s)	Island Records
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Swing ; pop music
Title (number)	13 or 16 + 1
running time	45:09 or 56:32 + 10:37 min.
Studio (s)	Capitol Studios (Los Angeles), Starstruck Studio (Nashville), Abbey Road Studios (London), British Grove Studio, Sleeper Sounds, RAK Studio, Sarm Studio, Konk Studios, Angel Studio, Tower of Power
chronology Take the Crown 2012 Swings Both Ways The Heavy Entertainment Show 2016

Swings Both Ways is the tenth studio album by English pop musician Robbie Williams .

The album was released on November 15, 2013. It ties in with Williams' most successful album to date, Swing When You're Winning (2001).

background

As a producer came the first time since Williams' album Escapology again Guy Chambers in appearance, who also serves as co- songwriter of the title Shine My Shoes, Go Gentle, Swing Supreme, swings both ways, Snowblind, No One Likes a Fat Pop Star, and Where There's Muck acted. Gary Barlow contributed to the title Wedding Bells .

In addition to these new tracks ( marked with an asterisk (*) in the track list ), Swings Both Ways, like Swing When You're Winning, contains numerous cover versions : I Wan'na Be Like You comes from the soundtrack to the Disney film The Jungle Book . Williams recorded the title in a duet with Olly Murs . If I Only Had a Brain comes from the pen of Harold Arlen and EY Harburg and was used in the 1939 musical film The Wizard of Oz . There it is sung by the scarecrow. The title Minnie the Moocher by Cab Calloway and Irving Mills , which was used in the film Blues Brothers in 1980, found its way onto the album, as did the jazz standard Puttin 'on the Ritz written by Irving Berlin in 1929 and first published in 1946 and made famous by Tennessee Ernie Ford , among others now socially critical R'n'B classics 16 notes . Dream a Little Dream of Me , a 1968 hit for The Mamas and the Papas and, according to National Public Radio, one of the hundred most important American musical works of the 20th century, Williams sang for the album with Lily Allen . In addition, Williams recorded his hit Supreme from the album Sing When You're Winning in a swing version ( Swing Supreme ).

The first single was the song Go Gentle , which Williams wrote and recorded as a "protection promise" for his daughter:

“[…] It's about my daughter, Teddy. Go Gentle is a promise of protection. It's a song that I want to live up to, because it's actually the most important thing I will do on the planet while I'm here - either be a good or a bad dad. Way more important than four nights at Wembley, three nights at Knebworth. "

"[...] It's about my daughter, Teddy. Go Gentle is a promise of protection. It's a song I want to live up to in life because it really is the most important thing I will do on this planet while I'm here: be either a good or a bad father. Much more important than four evenings at Wembley , three at Knebworth . "

- Robbie Williams : CD booklet for Swings Both Ways (2013)

In addition to Olly Murs and Lily Allen, Kelly Clarkson ( Little Green Apples ), Michael Bublé ( Soda Pop ), and Rufus Wainwright , who had written Both Ways with Williams and Chambers Swings, also starred on the album .

Track list

No.	title	Performers	Composers & lyricists	length
1.	Shine My Shoes *	Robbie Williams	Robbie Williams, Guy Chambers , Chris Heath	3:23
2.	Go Gentle *	Robbie Williams	Robbie Williams, Guy Chambers, Chris Heath	4:31
3.	I wan'na be like you	Robbie Williams, Olly Murs	Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman (1967)	3:31
4th	Swing Supreme	Robbie Williams	Robbie Williams, Guy Chambers, Dino Fekaris, Frederick Perren	3:17
5.	Swings Both Ways *	Robbie Williams, Rufus Wainwright	Robbie Williams, Guy Chambers, Rufus Wainwright	3:58
6th	Dream a Little Dream	Robbie Williams, Lily Allen	Gus Kahn , Fabian Andre, Wilbur Schwandt (1931)	3:33
7th	Soda Pop *	Robbie Williams, Michael Bublé	Robbie Williams, Kelvin Andrews, Scott Ralph, Rich Scott, Danny Spencer	3:19
8th.	Snowblind *	Robbie Williams	Robbie Williams, Guy Chambers	3:19
9.	Puttin 'on the Ritz	Robbie Williams	Irving Berlin (1929)	2:32
10.	Little Green Apples	Robbie Williams, Kelly Clarkson	Bobby Russell (1968)	3:16
11.	Minnie the Moocher	Robbie Williams	Cab Calloway , Irving Mills , Clarence Gaskill (1929)	3:41
12.	If I only had a brain	Robbie Williams	Harold Arlen , EY Harburg (1937/39)	3:52
13.	No One Likes a Fat Pop Star *	Robbie Williams	Robbie Williams, Guy Chambers, Chris Heath	2:52

Deluxe Edition Bonus Title

No.	title	Performers	Composers & lyricists	length
14th	Where There's Muck *	Robbie Williams	Robbie Williams, Guy Chambers	4:09
15th	16 notes	Robbie Williams	controversial (30s / 40s)	2:36
16.	Wedding Bells *	Robbie Williams	Robbie Williams, Gary Barlow	4:35
17th	Swings Both Ways Bonus Studio Footage ( Video )			10:37

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Australia (ARIA)	gold	35,000
Denmark (IFPI)	gold	10,000
Germany (BVMI)	5 × gold	500,000
Europe (IFPI)	platinum	(1,000,000)
Ireland (IRMA)	gold	7,500
Italy (FIMI)	gold	30,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	gold	7,500
Austria (IFPI)	4 × platinum	80,000
Poland (ZPAV)	gold	10,000
Switzerland (IFPI)	platinum	20,000
Hungary (MAHASZ)	gold	3,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × platinum	600,000
All in all	8 × gold 10 × platinum	1,303,000

Main article: Robbie Williams / Music Sales Awards

Web links

• Info about the album
• Information about the deluxe version of the album
• 2013 interview about the album

Individual evidence

1. ^ Article in the Salzburger Nachrichten , published on November 12, 2013 at 2:08 p.m., accessed on November 16, 2013 at 12.41 p.m.
2. ↑ Article by Universal Music , published September 12, 2013, accessed November 16, 2013 at 12:38 pm
3. ↑ Artikel der Zeit , published on November 14, 2013 at 5.48 p.m., accessed on November 16, 2013 at 12.33 p.m.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Booklet of the CD
5. ^ The NPR 100