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Shirley Bassey – IF YOU GO AWAY
September 3rd, 2011Dame Shirley Bassey for Children In Need at the Royal Albert Hall, London – 19 november 2009 .avi
June 25th, 2011Shirley Bassey – And I Love You So
October 10th, 2010
Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey DBE (born 8 January 1937, Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh singer. She performed the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). She is the only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond theme song. Bassey is an international artist who has accumulated 20 silver discs for sales in Britain, Europe and the Middle East; fifty-plus gold discs for international record sales; and countless greatest-hits collections including one gold and two platinum. Her Top 10 albums include Shirley; Something; Something Else; Never, Never, Never and 2007′s Get the Party Started. Bassey was born on 8 January 1937 at 182 Bute Street, Tiger Bay, Cardiff, to a Efik Nigerian sailor father and a mother from Yorkshire, who divorced when she was three. She grew up in the working-class dockside district of Tiger Bay as the youngest of seven children. After leaving Moorland School at the age of fifteen, Bassey first found employment packing at a local factory while singing in local pubs and clubs in the evenings and weekends. In 1953, she signed up for the revue Memories of Jolson, a musical based on the life of Al Jolson….. Bassey’s first marriage was to Kenneth Hume (from 1961 to 1965) and ended in divorce. Her second husband was Sergio Novak. Bassey and Novak were married from 1968 until they divorced in 1977; Novak served as Bassey’s manager for this period of time. Bassey has two daughters and one …
Shirley Bassey – Where Do I begin [Love Story]
August 30th, 2010
Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey DBE (born 8 January 1937, Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh singer. She performed the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). She is the only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond theme song. Bassey is an international artist who has accumulated 20 silver discs for sales in Britain, Europe and the Middle East; fifty-plus gold discs for international record sales; and countless greatest-hits collections including one gold and two platinum. Her Top 10 albums include Shirley; Something; Something Else; Never, Never, Never and 2007′s Get the Party Started. Bassey was born on 8 January 1937 at 182 Bute Street, Tiger Bay, Cardiff, to a Efik Nigerian sailor father and a mother from Yorkshire, who divorced when she was three. She grew up in the working-class dockside district of Tiger Bay as the youngest of seven children. After leaving Moorland School at the age of fifteen, Bassey first found employment packing at a local factory while singing in local pubs and clubs in the evenings and weekends. In 1953, she signed up for the revue Memories of Jolson, a musical based on the life of Al Jolson….. Bassey’s first marriage was to Kenneth Hume (from 1961 to 1965) and ended in divorce. Her second husband was Sergio Novak. Bassey and Novak were married from 1968 until they divorced in 1977; Novak served as Bassey’s manager for this period of time. Bassey has two daughters and one …
Shirley Bassey – Get The Party Started (HQ)
May 10th, 2010
Lyrics: Get this party started on a Saturday night Everybodys waitin for me to arrive I got lotsa style, check my gold diamond rings I can go for miles if you know what I mean Im comin up so you better get this party started Im comin up so you better get this party started Sendin out the message to all of my friends Well be looking flashy in my Mercedes Benz I got lot of style, check my gold diamond rings I can go for miles if you know what I mean Get this party started on a Saturday night Everybodys waitin for me to arrive Im comin up so you better get this party started Im cominup, Im comin Im comin up so you better get this party started Pumpin up the volume, breakin down to the beat Cruisin through the west side Well be checkin the scene Boulevard is freakin as Im comin up fast Ill be burnin rubber, youll be kissin my glass Pull up to the bumper, get out of the car License plate says Stunner N1 Superstar Woww Im comin up so you better get this party started Im cominup, Im comin up Im comin up so you better get this party started Get this party started, get this party started, Get this party started, get this party started Makin my connection as I enter the room Everybodys chillin as I set up the groove Pumpin up the volume with this brand new beat Everybodys dancin, and their dancin for me Im your operator, you can call anytime Ill be your connection to the party line Im comin up so you better get this party started Im cominup, Im comin up Im comin up so you better …
Dame Shirley Bassey and Dizzee Rascal THIS TIME & DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
April 12th, 2010
Dame Shirley Bassey performing at the Children in need concert at the Royal Albert Hall, November 2009. Lyrics This time: No more crying for help, No more blaming myself Living under a spell, hynotised Too much figuring out Too much standing my ground No pride left to be proud Only fear Didn’t know who it was In the mirror last night So I left here with nothing to lose Every step didn’t just take me further away Every step took me closer to finding you I know this time’s the time The time for love And it’s right here in front of my eyes I know this time the kind You only get once in your life I know this time’s the time The time for loving And it’s right here in front of my eyes I know this time the kind You only get once in your life Left a lot of courage behind That I won’t be needing this time ‘Cause I can be true I can be one, I can be strong I know this time’s forever For worse and for better This time, This time, This time, This time, This time. Lyrics Diamonds are forever: Diamonds are forever They are all I need to please me They can stimulate and tease me They won’t leave in the night, I’ve no fear that they might desert me Diamonds are forever Hold one up and then caress it Touch it, stroke it and undress it I can see every part, nothing hides in the heart to hurt me Idon’t need love For what good will love do me? Diamonds never lie to me For when love’s gone They’ll lustre on Diamonds are forever Sparkling round my little finger Unlike men, the diamonds linger …
Shirley Bassey SEND IN THE CLOWNS & DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
March 26th, 2010
Live performance from 1987 in honour of 750 years Berlin. Part 6. shirleybassey.wordpress.com About the dress Dame Shirley is wearing for this performance (from Ian): This gown was designed by Sara Perceval around 1983, Sara did all of the lace chiffon gowns for DSB in the 90′s. We call it the Cockeral Gown for obvious reasons. The gown was worn at Blazers in London in 1984, on British tv in 1987 and in Berlin in 1987 and several other occasions in the late 80′s. It was sadly destroyed in a fire in the early 90′s! Send In The Clowns Written by Stephen Sondheim. Released on the 1975 album Good, Bad But Beautiful. Another recording not quite as good as the original is on the 1984 album I Am What I Am. Live recordings have been released on the album Live In Japan ’77, and on the videoYou Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet. Additionally Shirley Bassey has performed this song live in some TV shows 1975/76, and again in the 1980′s. Stephen Sondheim (born 1930) is a Broadway show composer and lyricist, described not only as the greatest of his generation but as the only great one of his generation. He’s well known and loved for his quite complicated and not so accessible, but beautiful writing. He got his first big break when he was hired to write lyrics to Leonard Bernstein’s score for “West Side Story”. Shirley Bassey has performed songs also from other Sondheim musicals: “West Side Story” (1957), “Gypsy” (1959) and “Follies” (1971). “Send in the Clowns” has been performed by many …
