Acclaimed close harmony group The King’s Men return with Love From King’s, an album of beautiful new arrangements of romantic pop & jazz favourites, featuring classic tracks by Adele, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Simon & Garfunkel, Michael Bublé and more.
The King’s Men is made up of singers from the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge and nine of the fourteen arrangements on this album were written specially for this recording by current and former members of the group. Unlike many close harmony groups, The King’s Men record most of the tracks together in a natural acoustic, instead of tracking each voice separately in a studio. This results in stronger musical cohesion and a more authentic sound.
Previous albums by the King’s Men include the ★★★★★ album Twelve Days of Christmas, which was described by Gramophone as having “all the cosiness and geekiness of a garish Christmas jumper”. The group’s first album on the King’s College label, After Hours, shot to #1 in the iTunes Classical Charts on release.
1 Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby? 4:09 B Austin, L Jordan, arr. James Oxley
2 Billie Jean† 3:09 M Jackson, arr. Harry Bradford, Sebastian Johns
3 When She Loved Me† 3:23 S McLachlan, R Newman, arr. Benedict Kearns
4 What a Wonderful World† 4:06 L Armstrong, B Thiele, G D Weiss, arr. Harry Bradford, Sebastian Johns
5 Everything† 3:46 M Bublé, A Chang, A Foster-Gilles, arr. Ruairi Bowen
6 Autumn Leaves 3:29 J Kosma, arr. Roland Robertson
7 Isn’t She Lovely† 2:40 S Wonder, arr. Harry Bradford
8 Misty† 2:45 E Garner, J Burke, arr. Sebastian Johns
9 Scarborough Fair 3:25 Folk song, arr. Keith Roberts
10 Rolling in the Deep† 3:56 A Adkins, P Epworth, arr. Benedict Kearns
11 O Waly Waly 3:16 Folk song, arr. Guy Turner
12 Quizás, Quizás, Quizás† 2:20 O Farrés, arr. Toby Young
13 Fever 3:39 E Cooley & J Davenport, arr. Peter Foggitt, ed. James Mawson
14 I Carry Your Heart* 3:19 Toby Young