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Apparently, Swing When You re Winning was inspired by the praise Robbie Williams received for his contribution to the soundtrack on Bridget Jones s Diary. Recorded with an 18-piece band in Frank Sinatra s old stomping ground, the Capitol Records Studio in LA, this collection of finger-clickin , Rat Pack standards and new material features plenty of guest collaborations, such as the much-hyped Nicole Kidman effort on Sinatra s Something Stupid. Swing... is billed by Williams as a tribute to The Rat Pack, a gang of entertainers including Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr, as well as Ol Blue-Eyes himself, that dominated the Las Vegas dinner-club scene of the early 1960s. The selection of tracks reflect the karaoke sessions of Robbie s childhood in Stoke, and have been given the full tribute treatment, with no funny business going on in the production to take away from their classic appeal. There s never been any doubt that Williams sees himself as an entertainer in the most traditional sense of the word (not to mention a bit of a swinger), and his old-time-crooner fantasies are certainly given free rein to charm the pants off us all on this classy album. --Ruby Tuesday