The Swing of Delight

The Swing of Delight is a 1980 double album by Carlos Santana. It was the last of three solo albums (the others being Illuminations in 1974 and Oneness in 1979) to be released under his temporary Sanskrit name Devadip Carlos Santana, given to him by Sri Chinmoy.

Track listing

Side one

Side two

Side three

Side four

Personnel

The Swing

The Swing may refer to:

See also

The Swing (song)

"The Swing" is a song written by Robert Ellis Orrall and Bob Regan, and recorded by American country music artist James Bonamy. It was released in March 1997 as the lead single from the album Roots and Wings. The song reached number 31 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and peaked at number 16 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.

Music video

The music video was directed by chris rogers and premiered in March 1997. It was filmed in Charleston, South Carolina.

Critical reception

Frank Roberts of The Virginian-Pilot called it a "clever novelty". David Simons of New Country magazine wrote that it was "a catchy boy-meets-girl fiddle stomper."

Chart performance

"The Swing" debuted at number 72 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of April 5, 1997

References

The Swing (painting)

The Swing (French: L'Escarpolette), also known as The Happy Accidents of the Swing (French: Les Hasards heureux de l'escarpolette, the original title), is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the Wallace Collection in London. It is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the rococo era, and is Fragonard's best known work.

Painting

The painting depicts a young man hidden in the bushes, watching a woman on a swing, being pushed by an elderly man, almost hidden in the shadows, and unaware of the lover. As the lady goes high on the swing, she lets the young man take a furtive peep under her dress, all while flicking her own shoe off in the direction of a statue of the Greek god of discretion and turning her back to two angelic cherubim on the side of the older man.

The lady is wearing a bergère hat (shepherdess hat) which is ironic since shepherds are normally associated with virtue because of their living close to nature, uncorrupted by the temptations of the city.