Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
2. Bill
3. If You Love Me (Really Love Me)
4. Count On Me
5. With These Hands
6. Party's Over
7. As Long As He Needs Me
8. So In Love
9. You'll Never Know
10. Hold Me Tight
11. Reach For The Stars
12. Climb Ev'ry Mountain
13. I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)
14. Who Are We
15. Angel D'Amore
16. Where Shall I Find Him
17. It Might As Well Be Spring
18. Tonight
19. Let's Start All Over Again
20. Ave Maria
21. You'll Never Walk Alone
22. Far Away
23. My Faith
24. What Now My Love
25. Above All Others

Disc 2:

1. What Kind Of Fool Am I
2. Till
3. I (Who Have Nothing)
4. How Can You Tell
5. In Other Words (Fly Me To The Moon)
6. Just One Of Those Things
7. It's Magic
8. Song Is You
9. My Special Dream
10. You
11. Gone
12. Your Love
13. Who Can I Turn To
14. To Be Loved By A Man
15. Goldfinger
16. Strange How Love Can Be
17. Now
18. How Can You Believe
19. No Regrets (Non Je Ne Regrette Rien)
20. Seesaw Of Dreams
21. It's Yourself
22. Secrets
23. Liquidator
24. My Liquidator
25. Sunshine

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36433 in Music
• Released on: 2006-05-01
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

CD Description
For most people born after 1965 or so, Shirley Bassey is best known as the singer of songs associated with James Bond movies (especially the theme song for GOLDFINGER). For those born a bit earlier, Bassey was a British counterpart to singers like Tony Bennett and Judy Garland--that is, a classy, polished interpretive vocalist of classic, non-rock pop. Thisset compiles all the singles (both A- and B-sides) Shirley Bassey recorded for (the British branch of) Columbia Recordsbetween 1959 and 1966, in their original mono form. For collectors of classic orchestral pop, this set will be forever golden (or diamonds).

Customer Reviews

Long-awaited complete singles set
What a marvellous collection! Theo Morgan has written well-researched & comprehensive liner notes to accompany these songs which were compiled by him. I hope Theo & EMI will now work on Shirley Bassey's singles during her United Artists tenure and include rare non-album recordings like Copacabana & Runaway. Now, that will be a set to die for. Meanwhile there is a fantastic picture of Shirley Bassey in the booklet apparently taken from the "I've Got A Song For You" photo session but never seen before. I would have selected that photo to be the cover of this double CD set.

Fantastic
This compilation collects all the tracks from Dame Shirley's time at EMI with the Columbia singles collection. This two cd set is definitive, lovingly restored and accompanied by fantastic in depth sleevenotes. I can't recommend this cd enough!

Excellent
Almost incredibly, Dame Shirley Bassey will be 70 years old next January, and for over 50 of them she has been Britain's best non-operatic singer of popular ballads. Blessed with an unmistakeable, powerful voice, when she wraps her pipes round a song it stays wrapped, and becomes her own, no matter whether it was originally Piaf's, or Newley's, or the Beatles', come to that.

This excellent collection comes from the period 1959 to 1966, when she was signed to EMI's (then) Columbia label, and is made up of 20 singles, A and B sides, 15 of which charted, plus seven tracks off two EPs, two from an LP of the musical Showboat, and one movie end-credit song, "My Liquidator", which is an alternative version of the preceding song which she sings at the start of the film. They are all in their original glorious mono, undoctored, and sound superb.

Nearly all the songs are those epic, emotive ballads she sings so well, many come from stage shows and from the cream of British and American popular songwriters, and all are given the lush big orchestra or big band arrangements to match the power of the vocals. Only final track "Sunshine", written by Mitch Murray, is different, in bouncy, jokey, Merseybeat style, a B-side that says "I can do this stuff as well, you know" (and better than nearly everyone else).

There will be many a household up and down the land with a pile of worn and warped green or black Shirley Bassey 7-inch singles lurking in the loft. Now's the time for a clearout, buy this CD and refresh the memory of a true diva of song and style.