Track Listing

1. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You - Dean Martin
2. Paid for Loving - Love Jones
3. With Plenty of Money and You - Count Basie, Tony Bennett
4. You & Me & The Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby) - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
5. Knock Me a Kiss - Louis Jordan
6. Wake Up - Jazz Jury
7. Groove Me - King Floyd
8. I Wanna Be Like You [Does Not Appear in Movie] - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
9. Mucci's Jag M.K. LL - Joey Altruda
10. King of the Road - Roger Miller
11. Pictures - Jazz Jury
12. She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones
13. Car Train - Jazz Jury
14. Pick Up the Pieces - The Average White Band
15. Go Daddy-O - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
16. I'm Beginning to See the Light - Bobby Darin

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18258 in Music
• Released on: 1996-10-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English

Customer Reviews

Cool Soundtrack for a Cool Movie
In no other movie have I witnessed music govern the tone like in "Swingers." Sure, other movies have great, moving soundtracks that can move you to tears, but this movie lived and breathed off of the music played throughout.
There is not one bad track on this disc. "You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You" should be mandatory listening for every blue-blooded American. "Paid For Loving," "Knock Me A Kiss" and "Groove Me" are great as well. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and the Jazz Jury add instant modern hipster cred to the sound of this album. Country fried hits like "King Of the Road" and "She Thinks I Still Care" fit perfectly in this collection.
This album dominates the entire movie. Without it, "Swingers" would just have been another meager budget cult film. It opened the floodgates for bands like the "Cherry Poppin' Daddies" and good ol' Brian Setzer. It single-handedly made it cool, if only for a little while, to swing again. Gap owes a lot of credit to this album for doing what it did for their commercials.

It is a highly important, necessary piece of music history. You have to own this if you call yourself a true music fan.

Can I gush over this disc anymore? BUY IT.

Not a bad song on the whole CD
One morning I couldn't sleep and I turned on the television and I this movie came on. I found it kind of odd but after a while I was captivated. I've seen it at least 5 times since and it is one of my favorite contemporary films.

I bought the soundtrack the other day and believe me, that the CD is about as good as the film itself. Song to song, there is not a bad song in between Dean Martin's "Your Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You" and Bobby Darin's "I'm Beginning to See the Light". The big highlights are the songs from Tony Bennet, Joey Altruda, and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

"Swingers" is a hell of a movie and and album. Both give out a nice, cool and stylish feeling that can't really be explained but if your anybody go see this movie and buy the CD.

GREAT MOVIE AND AN EQUALLY GREAT SOUNDTRACK
Very few soundtracks these days are solid from start to finish. However, somehow, the soundtrack to Swingers is so "money". The music itself is a collection of old lounge and early swing favorite as well as some new swing acts like Love Jones and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. There is just something about this soundtrack and this movie that makes it so enjoyable to watch and listen to, but I couldn't attempt to pinpoint what it is. Whatever it is, the musical formula on this soundtrack completely flows with the movie, to the point where the viewer can trace back to the point in the movie where the song was heard. Never in my life would I have wanted to admit that I liked music by the old crooners like Dean Martin, Tony Bennett and Bobby Darin, but at least from what I hear here on this soundtrack, I would have to say that I do. There are a number of standout tracks on this album. Most notably, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's "Go Daddy-O" and Bobby Darin's "I'm Beginning to See the Light" are my personal favorites, as well as Average White Band's funk classic, "Pick up the Pieces". Overall, if you're looking for both a great, funny, smart movie and a great soundtrack, look no further than Swingers.