Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Burn My Candle (At Both Ends)
2. Stormy Weather
3. The Wayward Wind
4. Born To Sing The Blues (single version)
5. After The Lights Go Down Low
6. If You Don t Love Me
7. The Banana Boat Song
8. Tra La La
9. If I Had A Needle And Thread
10. Tonight My Heart She Is Crying
11. Fire Down Below
12. You, You Romeo
13. Puh-Leeze! Mister Brown
14. Take My Love, Take My Love
15. As I Love You
16. Hands Across The Sea
17. Born To Sing The Blues (LP version)
18. Beale Street Blues
19. Wabash Blues
20. Basin Street Blues
21. The Birth Of The Blues
22. Careless Love Blues
23. Blues In The Night (My Mama Done Tole Me)
24. The StLouis Blues
25. Kiss Me, Honey, Honey, Kiss Me
26. There s Never Been A Night
27. Love For Sale
28. Crazy Rhythm

Disc 2:

1. If You Love Me
2. Count On Me
3. My Funny Valentine
4. How About You?
5. Night And Day
6. The Gypsy In My Soul
7. The Wall
8. From This Moment On
9. Can t Help Lovin Dat Man
10. Bill
11. A Foggy Day
12. I ve Got You Under My Skin
13. Cry Me A River
14. April In Paris
15. I ve Never Been In Love Before
16. The Man That Got Away
17. S Wonderful
18. I ll Remember April
19. Easy To Love
20. No One Ever Tells You
21. They Can t Take That Away From Me
22. The Party s Over
23. With These Hands
24. As Long As He Needs Me
25. So In Love

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6130 in Music
• Released on: 2011-08-18
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

CD Description
If anyone doesn t need a lengthy introduction, it s Shirley Bassey - or, to give Shirl her full title, Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, DBE. Now well into her seventies - although she certainly doesn t look, sound or act it - she s been at the top of her profession for some five-and-a-half decades. And although The Tigress Of Tiger Bay has drastically reduced her workload in more recent years, she invariably manages to steal the show, upstaging everyone else around her whenever she appears in public. She remains one of the most iconic, glamorous and significant performers ever to have emerged from the UK, continually able to adapt and re-establish herself within contemporary settings. Indeed her most recent album, 2009 s The Performance, found Shirley recording material written for her by a vast range of luminaries, including the Manic Street Preachers, Gary Barlow, KT Tunstall, the Pet Shop Boys, the Kaiser Chiefs, Don Black and the late John Barry. It duly made the UK Top 20, giving Shirley her fortieth chart album. Shirley recorded her first session at IBC studios in January 56, shortly after her nineteenth birthday. Her debut single - which was engineered by a young Joe Meek - paired up Burn My Candle with Stormy Weather , another of her signature songs. Whilst it received encouraging reviews, the topside was banned by the BBC for its allegedly lewd lyrics - however the resultant publicity did neither the disc nor Shirley any harm at all, and although it failed to make the Top 30 it was a steady seller. So here are the collected all the hits and favourite tracks from the first five years of Dame Shirley s Phillips, HMV and Columbia recordings.