Any Shirley Bassey Fans out there?

[john]

Terence, there are some clips of Dorothy Squires on youtube, not fantastic quality, but watchable.

[Gray]

Hi Lena & Harry

That's true about Goldginger and Shirley Bassey, very true.
I love the arrangement too, it's the strings and brass intro that gives me goosepimples.
I have to say, Goldfinger is my favourite Bond film too.

[ROBERT M.]

has anyone else ever recorded Goldfinger........................apart from Dame Shirley..................a very hard act to follow.......................for anyone

[john]

I can't recall anyone else recording it, Robert.

[Lena & Harry Smith]

Well, Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley wrote the Lyrics to Golfinger and Anthony Newley apparently recorded the song Twice,
You can see Newley on Youtube singing this song.

[mariana44]

Hi Neil--just bringing this to the top of the list, so you can see all our talk and discussions on Dame Shirley--with a few other bits along the way !!

There is a link on page 16 to Terence's photos on this thread.

Enjoy !!

[neil dalrymple]

Thanks Mariana,
That`s very sweet of you, plenty for me to read! Thought I had missed the link yesterday and was losing my marbles! Lots of interesting comments.
Thank you so much
Neil

[Terence Lee]

DAME Shirley Bassey has signed a new major label record deal – at the age of 72, it was announced today.

And the new recordings will be masterminded by the man who has been behind the soundtracks for numerous James Bond movies, David Arnold.

It will be the first collection of new songs from Dame Shirley for more than a decade, and follows her performance at Glastonbury in 2007.

The Welsh star, who is Britain’s most successful female artist of all time, has signed to Geffen Records, part of the massive Universal group and is working with Arnold on a set of ’contemporary songs’ which will be released in the autumn.

Although many of her biggest hits were notched up in the 1960s and 1970s, she has still continued to crop up in the charts in recent years.

In 1997 she scored a notable hit with Propellerheads on History Repeating and in 2005 she featured on the top 10 hit Diamonds Are From Sierra Leone by Kanye West.

In 2007 she had a hit with Pink’s Get The Party Started, originally recorded for a TV ad campaign.

She was awarded the DBE in 1999.

Arnold said of the collaboration: “There is a whole generation out there which has never sat in front of an amazing singer like Dame Shirley Bassey and experienced the power, the performance and the commitment that she has.

“Hopefully this album will introduce that audience to her as well as bringing her many fans along with them.

“There are not that many truly great singers in the world and Dame Shirley Bassey is one of them. She is still here, still relevant and still quite brilliant.”

Here's Shirley at Sir Elton John's White Tie & Tiara Ball last week. She's looking good for someone past 70!


Look here.......purple nails to match the gown!

[Marian]

She looks marvellous Terence, absolutely radiant!

[ROBERT M.]

I wasn't looking at her nails................my eyes were on a couple of other objects in the photo ................great photos

[mariana44]

I think she is looking better than ever !!

[john]

Yes, she looks fab! Looking forward to her new album as well.

[ROBERT M.]

Thanks for all of the Shirley Bassey posts..........I have to keep coming back on this page to view her...................................nails

[Terence Lee]

Hi Robert

Do you have a ..................... nails fetish?

[Sandra]

she is marvellous wish we heard more of her on the radio