American Look Explained

American Look
Type:	Album
Artist:	The Swingle Singers
Cover:	TheSwingleSingers_AmericanLook.jpg
Released:	1969
Genre:	Vocal jazz
Length:	29:48
Label:	Philips
Producer:	Pierre Fatosme
Prev Title:	Back to Bach
Prev Year:	1968
Next Title:	Sinfonia (Berio)
Next Year:	1969

American Look is a 1969 album by the Swingle Singers on the Philips Records label. All tracks from this album are also included on the 11 disk Philips boxed set, Swingle Singers.

Track listing

1. Country Dances (invention for vocal ensemble: "Arkansas Traveller" / "College Hornpipe" / "Devil's Dream" / "Old Zip Coon" / "Virginia Reel" / "Pop Goes the Weasel") – 2:15
2. "When Jesus Wept" (William Billings) – 2:07
3. Negro Spirituals (for vocal ensemble: "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" / "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" / "Little David" / "Deep River") – 3:52
4. Patriotic Songs (invention for vocal ensemble: "Dixie" / "Yankee Doodle" / "Battle Hymn of the Republic") – 2:07
5. "He's Gone Away" (trad.) – 2:12
6. "Saint's Fugue" (based on "When the Saints Go Marchin' In" for vocal ensemble) (Swingle) – 2:18
7. Stephen Foster Medley: "Old Folks at Home"; "Beautiful Dreamer"; "Camptown Races"; "Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair" (Foster) – 3:26

from the opera, Porgy and Bess (Gershwin):

8. "My Man's Gone Now" – 2:51
9. "It Ain't Necessarily So" – 1:59
10. "Summertime" – 1:58
11. "I Got Plenty of Nothin'" – 2:03
12. "Bess You Is My Woman" – 2:40

Personnel

Vocals:

• Christiane Legrand – soprano
• Nicole Darde – soprano
• Hélène Devos – alto
• Claudine Meunier – alto
• Ward Swingle – tenor, arranger
• Joseph Noves – tenor
• Jean Cussac – bass
• José Germain – bass

Rhythm section:

• Jacky Cavallero – double bass
• Roger Fugen – drums

References / external links

• Philips 6311.007, Philips 8262016
• American Look at [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=w128613|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic.com]