Any Shirley Bassey Fans out there?

Billmiler · Post by **Billmiler** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:36 am

Hi Hilary and Marian,
Hope all well? I like the top hat! As you said Glastonbury did Mr Bennett (my namesake) no harm at all. I still believe Shirl's new single will make the charts.
Have a great day all you Forumites - for the 3rd day in succession it's been perfect Spring days here in Neath, South Wales.

mariana44 · Post by **mariana44** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:37 am

Hi Jon--I am sure that you know that Johnny Mathis was in line to sing the song for "Moonraker"-I do not know why he did not sing it--I like Shirley singing it, but I would very much have liked to listen to a version by Johnny Mathis !!

Billmiler · Post by **Billmiler** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:43 am

Hi Mariana (the great Mathis fan!)
My partner Margaret went out last night to a Drama Club reading so I had the house to myself! I played the whole of the Mathis 50th Celebration Concert - what a voice! I had a stool for Christmas (I know it sounds an unusual present!) but I used it for the first time in a Hotel last Monday where I was entertaining - and guess, Mariana, which song encouraged me to use the stool for the first time? Of course The Twelfth of Never!!!!

Marian · Post by **Marian** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:50 am

Hi Bill, It's a beautiful day here too south of Reading. I used to have an aunt and uncle lived in Cimla, just below Neath, so we used to say they lived "underneath"!!

Marian

Billmiler · Post by **Billmiler** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:54 am

I'm just beginning to realise how many witty people are on this Forum! Thanks for the message. I live less than a mile from Cimla and indeed later today, when my car returns from it's MOT, I'll be driving through Cimla on my way to the beautiful Pontrhydyfen where I jog on a Wednesday. The village of course is where Richard Burton was born! A truly beautiful area known as Little Switzerland because of the pine trees surrounding the valley with the River Afan meandering beneath them! I can't wait!!

mariana44 · Post by **mariana44** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:06 pm

Hi Bill--yes that is a great concert---amazingly brilliant now that he is 71--I find that hard to believe. Yes the version of "Twelth of Never" on a stool, makes it almost sound like a different song-I cannot tell you the amount of times I have seen him on that stool, with Gil playing beside him--just magic !!

jon · Post by **jon** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:05 pm

Hi Marian

It may surprise you, but no, I didn't know that Johnny Mathis was lined up to sing "Moonraker". What a pity he didn't, though; he could have featured it on one of his albums at least.

Hello Bill, from one Welshman to another (though I don't know your part of the Principality). Nice to hear about your Johnny Mathis impression on the stool (like Mariana44, I'm another big JM fan) - I can just visualise it. Keep up the good work.

jon · Post by **jon** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:07 pm

Forgot to welcome Hilary back to the forum. Where have you been hiding, Hilary? You must have a story to tell.

Marian · Post by **Marian** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:27 pm

If any of you are thinking of booking for Glastonbury, Dame Shirley is appearing on June 24th!!!!! Take your wellies

I'm a girl from the valleys originally too Bill, there are quite a few folk here from the Land of my Fathers

Marian

ROBERT M. · Post by **ROBERT M.** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:40 pm

Welcome back Hilary. Please stay with us in the future, as we miss reading your posts very much. We even discussed your disappearance a while ago. Where have you been hiding yourself these past few months

Hope you come back to answer my question Hilary.

In Yorkshire we have had thick fog all last night, then it turned to low cloud, but the sun is out now, probably for just a short while. All you other memebers "darn sarf" don't know how lucky you are with the weather. I believe it reached 18 degrees in London yesterday, not bad for March, as that's about our summer temperature up here

Lena & Harry Smith · Post by **Lena & Harry Smith** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:04 pm

Yes definitely wellies, specially for a wet Glastonbury.
We've seen these people on their way home after this event,

and they haven't needed to pay out for a mud-pack.
But it's about having a good time isn't it.

And yes, welcome back Hilary. We saw your article in the "In Tune" mag. Well said!!!!

john · Post by **john** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:20 am

Yes, good to hear from you again Hilary, it has been a long while since we heard from you!

Billmiler · Post by **Billmiler** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:14 pm

Hi Jon,
I'm in Neath! I sang in a Port Talbot Club last night! Where are you from! Mind you I'm not Welsh - born in Eire, lived in Liverpool for years, then found Deal in Kent and now Neath. Does Katherine Jenkins know about my Dean Martin impersonation yet - I DOUBT IT!!!

Marian · Post by **Marian** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:39 pm

Is she avoiding you Bill???!!!!!!!!

Marian

Billmiler · Post by **Billmiler** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:00 pm

Marian,
If I sing my version of Sway to her I think I'll win her over!