Smith & Co

Tony Hadley, best known as the lead singer with Spandau Ballet, has been touring for the last couple of years with a Big Band which led to his recording a series of classic swing songs. As we all know, Tony has a superb, powerful, but smooth voice which lends itself perfectly to this genre. Three very successful CD’s now packaged as a 3 CD Box, which will appeal to a new consumer group as well as giving us a viable product to present to the mail-order companies. On top of that Jamie Cullum will be releasing a new CD this autumn which is going to be heavily promoted by Universal and Michael Bublé will be bringing out a new CD early in the new year. In all these 2 artists should be attracting masses of attention over the 6 to 8 months.

Jamie Cullum's first album released on Candid Records had a series of classic American songs, that, although given Jamie's unique jazz treatment, still had a definite swing feel to them. We therefore decided to combine these 7 tracks with 7 tracks from the maestro himself, Frank Sinatra. Following on the heels of the extremely successful Smith & Co. "Kings of Swing" CD featuring Michael Bublé & Frank Sinatra (in excess of 50,000 CD's sold to date) this was just screaming out to be the next album in the series.

There will be no new Universal album from Jamie this year so this is a great oppurtunity to to reach the the millions of fans waiting for new material, many of whom are unaware of the debut Candid album. They can also hear how the combo style of Jamie Cullum's  recordings blend beautifully with the big Nelson Riddle orchestra recordings of "Old Blue Eyes"! This album is an absolute delight!

Tony Hadley, best known as the lead singer with Spandau Ballet, has been touring for the last couple of years with a Big Band which led to his recording a series of classic swing songs. As we all know, Tony has a superb, powerful, but smooth voice which lends itself perfectly to this genre. Obviously, a perfect combination for that other swinger with the super smooth voice, Tony Bennett. Smith & Co. therefore decided to couple 7 tracks from both singers to create a new addition to the very successful series "Kings of Swing". Tony Hadley is touring consistently, both as an 80's revival artist and also with the swing band. He will be in Germany this month and again later in the year  and is touring Norway from 18 July to 4 August. Tony Bennett seems to be consistenly in the news and is currently touring the UK at the tender age of 80!

Once again, it is fantastic to hear just how well these two artists match each other making this "Kings of Swing" a sheer joy to listen to. Enjoy!

This attractively packaged 14 track CD features all the DRG tracks recorded by Michael Bublé and 7 classic recordings from Frank Sinatra (conducted and arranged by Nelson Riddle and George Siravo on "You do something to me" and "Lover",) demonstrating perfectly how well these two artists blend together on one CD. Probably one of the hottest acts on the M.O.R. scene at the moment, Michael Bublé's early 2001 recordings for DRG Records have the same panache and excellence as his current Universal recordings. Unfortunately he only recorded 7 tracks for DRG before signing to Universal. However, it has given us the possibility to put a compilation together featuring not only his self acclaimed greatest influence, but also the artist he is most likened, Frank Sinatra!