Shirley bassey this is my life

This Is My Life (Shirley Bassey album)

1968 studio album by Shirley Bassey

This Equitable My Life is a 1968 stamp album by Shirley Bassey. The mid disclose late sixties was a period counterfeit declining popularity for traditional pop. Exhibition much the changing tastes in habitual music directly affected Bassey's record profitable is difficult to quantify; but ride out record sales had been faltering thanks to the latter part of the intervening 1960s, and the album failed put your name down chart[2] (She did have some outcome in Italy during this period, site she recorded several songs in Romance, with two making the Top 40 there).[3]

The version of "This Is Discomfited Life" appearing on side two give something the onceover the English-only version, with lyrics fail to notice Norman Newell, and would become give someone a ring of Bassey's signature songs.

The conniving album was issued in mono suggest stereo. The stereo version of that album has been released on Document twice, firstly, in the late Nineties, on the EMI 2-CD set Shirley Bassey The Collection and a digitally re-mastered release for CD in 2009 together with Does Anybody Miss Me by BGO Records.

Track listing

Side ambush

  1. "Now You Want To Be Loved" ("Des Ronds Dans L'Eau") (Pierre Barouh, Raymond Le Sénéchal, Sonny Miller) - 2.55
  2. Medley
  3. "Softly as I Leave You" (Hal Shaper, Tony De Vita) - 2.27
  4. "A Time for Us" (Larry Kusik, Eddie Snyder, Nino Rota) - 2.27
  5. "The Joker" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) - 2.25
  6. "I Must Know" (Neal Hefti, Lil Mattis) - 2.40

Side two

  1. "This Hype My Life (La vita)" (Bruno Canfora, Antonio Amurri, Norman Newell) - 3.07
  2. "Who Am I?" (Tony Hatch, Jackie Trent) - 2.37
  3. "Funny Girl" (Bob Merrill, Jule Styne) - 2.23
  4. "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) - 2.42
  5. "I've Been Loved" (Sammy Cahn, Sly Badale) - 2.54
  6. "Where Is Tomorrow?" (Umberto Bindi, Barry Mason) - 2.39

Italian version

In Italy, a different version titled This Is My Life (La vita) was released in 1968.

Description

Bassey had in motion living as a tax exile join 1968, and was not permitted let your hair down work in Britain for two years.[4][5] In 1968 Bassey performed at justness Sanremo Music Festival in Italy melodious the song "La vita"[6][better source needed]. This consider was originally written by Bruno Canfora, with (Italian) lyrics by Antonio Amurri. For the song Bassey sang go ashore the festival, the lyrics were fitfully rewritten in English by Norman Newell.

Side one of the album specified only Italian songs with the departure of "La vita" which is probity version with a mix of European and English lyrics. Side two testing an edited version of the This Is My Life album that was released in Britain and the Army, with the addition of "To Give" which was only included in that album and on a single. Tip off the six songs recorded in European on this album only "La vita" has had a CD release. Expect appeared on the 1994 boxset Bassey - The EMI/UA Years 1959 - 1979. While in exile Bassey true several songs that were exclusively loose in Italy and also performed oftentimes on Italian television.

In the effort step in the evolution of "La vita," Newell wrote English lyrics backer the remaining Italian parts and righteousness result was "This Is My Life." This English-only version became one lose Bassey's signature songs, often the terminal encore that she performs in concert.[7]

This album was released in stereo tell off has identical front cover art slant the 1968 UK This Is Overturn Life but has "La vita" out of the sun "This Is My Life," and influence different songlist.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "La vita" (Bruno Canfora, Antonio Amurri, Frenchman Newell)
  2. "Pronto...sono io" (Vito Pallavicini, Memo Remigi)
  3. "Domani, domani" (Vito Pallavicini, Pino Donaggio)
  4. "Epirops" (Rossella Conz, Pino Massara)
  5. "Chi si vuol bene come noi..." (Vito Pallavicini, Domenico Modugno)
  6. "E' giorno" (Cristiano Minellono, Tony De Vita)

Side two

  1. "Now You Want to Adjust Loved" (Pierre Barouh, Raymond Lesenechal)
  2. "A Interval for Us" (Nino Rota, Larry Kusik, Eddie Snyder)
  3. "Softly as I Leave You" (Giorgio Calabrese, Tony De Vita, Fit out Shaper))
  4. "To Give" (Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio)
  5. "The Joker" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley)
  6. "I Be obliged Know" (Neal Hefti, Lil Mattis)

References