Egyptology is an album by World Party

World Party

World Party is a British pop/alternative rock band, which is essentially the solo project of its sole member, Karl Wallinger. He started the band in 1986 in London after leaving The Waterboys.-Career:...

 released in 1997, re-released in 2006. It contained the #31 British single "Beautiful Dream" and the award-winning She's the One, among other songs. But the album was not a commercial success, and Karl Wallinger

Karl Wallinger

Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for leading the band World Party and for his mid-1980s stint in The Waterboys...

 was upset when his label, Chrysalis, used "She's the One" as a vehicle for pop artist Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams

Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams...

; Williams' version hit #1 on the British pop charts and won Williams several awards. Wallinger later wrote:

I was so lucky that Robbie recorded "She's the One" because it allowed me to keep going [after his aneurysm

Aneurysm

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 in 2000]. He nicked my pig and killed it but gave me enough bacon to live on for four years. He kept my kids in school and me in Seaview [Wallinger's recording studio] and for that I thank him.

Due in part to the disagreement over "She's the One," Egyptology would be Wallinger's last album with Chrysalis; his 2000 album "Dumbing Up" was released on his own label.

Track listing

1. "It Is Time" (3:20)
2. "Beautiful Dream" (4:45)
3. "Call Me Up" (2:57)
4. "Vanity Fair" (3:33)
5. "She's The One" (4:56)
6. "Vocal Interlude" (0:24)
7. "Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" (5:58)
8. "Hercules" (3:15)
9. "Love Is Best" (3:03)
10. "Rolling Off A Log" (5:54)
11. "Strange Groove" (4:10)
12. "The Whole of the Night" (3:15)
13. "Piece of Mind" (4:58)
14. "This World" (4:21)
15. "Always" (4:23)

Musicians

• Karl Wallinger: "All songs played recorded written produced by Karl Wallinger"
• Chris Sharrock: drums, northern vibes

Guest musicians

• Johnson Somerset: loops on tracks 11 and 15
• Anthony Thistlewaite: "additional massed saxes" on track 3
• John Turnbull: guitar on track 12
• The Swingle Singers
  The Swingle Singers
  The Swingle Singers are a mostly a cappella vocal group formed in 1962 in Paris, France by Ward Swingle with Anne Germain, Jeanette Baucomont, Jean Cussac and others. Christiane Legrand, the sister of composer Michel Legrand, was the group's lead soprano through 1972. Until 2011 the group...
  
  : vocals on track 6

Charts

Album

Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1997	The Billboard 200	167