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Dame Shirley Bassey at Electric Proms 2009 Dame Shirley Bassey was giving her only performance of the year on October 23 2009. It really was a great concert, the voice is still good. If you have missed it, here are some links: (that will only work for a few days): http://www.bbc.co.uk/electricproms/2009/artists/shirleybassey/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nh0ys http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nn7vx New double CD Burn my candle "The complete early years"
Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, DBE, is probably the most famous, highly-regarded female song stylist ever to have emerged from the UK, an internationally-acclaimed singer who has accumulated more than 20 silver discs for sales in Britain, Europe and the Middle East; 50-plus gold discs for international record sales; and countless greatest-hits collections including one gold and two platinum. The only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond theme song, she sang the movie themes to “Goldfinger” (1964), “Diamonds Are Forever” (1971), and “Moonraker” (1979). Shirley emerged from the tough, working class dockland area of Tiger Bay in Cardiff, South Wales, in 1953, at the age of just 16, and within three years was topping bills at prestigious venues in London’s West End. She registered her first hit records during 1957 and finally got her really big, career-changing break in December 1958 when she was asked to appear as a last-minute substitute on “Sunday Night At The London Palladium”, after another singer dropped out. Shirley decided to sing ‘As I Love You’, the B-side to ‘Hands Across The Sea’, a disc which had been dead in the water for some four months, and stole the show. A week later it entered the charts and early in 1959, it climbed all the way to No.1. She nowadays enjoys venerable, iconic status – she even stole the show at Glastonbury a couple of years back – and has recently released an acclaimed new album, “Get The Party Started”. From the very first track – her debut single, the controversial Burn My Candle (At Both Ends)’, which was so raunchy that it was promptly banned by the BBC – to the last, a powerful rendition of ‘St Louis Blues’, from her 10” LP “Born To Sing The Blues”, this compilation oozes class all the way, in much the same way as does Ms Bassey herself. Disc One comprises her nine singles issued on the Philips label between February 1956 and October 1958, and includes her earliest hits, ‘The Banana Boat Song’, ‘Fire Down Below’, ‘You, You Romeo’, the epic ‘As I Love You’ (which topped the UK charts) and ‘Kiss Me, Honey Honey, Kiss Me’. Disc Two comprises two absolute rarities: the five-track “Shirley Bassey At The Café De Paris” live EP, which includes the highly-controversial ‘Sex’, plus the aforementioned 10” LP “Born To Sing The Blues”, a sublime collection of Jazz and Blues standards, of which only two tracks have ever previously been released on CD. You will find the following songs on these two cd's: CD 1: A’s & B’s 1. Burn My Candle (At Both Ends) CD 2: EP & LP 1. Born To Sing The Blues (live)
This is my opinion of The Complete Early Years 1956-58: It has a nice 12 page booklet inside, that looks very attractive. Remastering is good. I must say I enjoyed listening to this cd set very much, it’s nice to have these early songs together on a double cd set. I think this set is a must-have for all Shirley Bassey fans. |
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On October the 9th 2005 there were 3 songs by Shirley Bassey on radio 2 in Holland. These songs are from 1956 and were from a radio program that Shirley did back then. If you want to hear these recordings, go to one of these links: Playlist: http://www.desandwich.nl/index2.asp and choose playlist in the menu (all the songs that were on the radioprogram on October the 9th 2005). Podcast of the radio program: http://download.omroep.nl/avro/podcast/desandwich/rssSW.xml Real media complete radio program: rtsp://streams.omroep.nl/radio2/avro/sandwich/laatste.rm |
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