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Birthday Concert

Shirley Bassey Format: Audio CD
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Track Listings

1 S'Wonderful
2 Diamonds Are Forever
3 Nobody Does It Like Me
4 Never, Never, Never
5 Kiss Me, Honey, Honey, Kiss Me
6 Big Spender
7 The Lady Is A Tramp
8 New York, New York
9 What Now My Love
10 Something
11 Hey Jude
12 I Wanna Know What Love Is
13 La Passione
14 I Who Have Nothing
15 Yesterday, When I Was Young
16 This Is My Life
17 I Wish You Love
18 I Am What I Am
19 Bonus Track
20 Bonus Track

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Contains 25 tracks.Contains 24 track.The brassy '60s belter Shirley Bassey, Britain's delayed answer to Lena Horne, recently celebrated her 60th birthday with a series of outdoor concerts, of which THE BIRTHDAY CONCERT draws from two. "Goldfinger," a smash hit in 1965, isn't included here but she performs her other big, bad James Bond theme "Diamonds Are Forever" with suitable brio.Bassey's speciality is a slightly menacing Euro power ballad, with her primo version of Lieber & Stoller's adapted Italian hit "I (Who Have Nothing)" a choice example. Bassey is also a large enough musical personality to straddle the parallel worlds of Broadway and rock with ease. The Beatles' "Something" and "Hey Jude" actually benefit from her outsize approach and Foreigner's " I Wanna Know What Love Is" was pretty "outsized" to begin with. To bring matters further up to date, a disco-inflected version of Chris Rea's "La Passionne" reveals this all-out entertainer to be a proto-Grace Jones, sharing the same stern, declamatory style, but strangely satisfying in the end.

Track Listing
1. 'S Wonderful
2. Diamonds Are Forever
3. Nobody Does It Like Me
4. Never, Never Never
5. Honey, Honey, Kiss Me Kiss Me
6. Big Spender
7. The Lady Is a Tramp
8. New York New York
9. What Now My Love
10. Something
11. Hey Jude
12. I Wanna Know What Love Is
13. La Passione
14. I Who Have Nothing
15. Yesterday When I Was Young
16. This Is My Life
17. I Wish You Love
18. I Am What I Am
19. (Untitled) - (hidden track)
20. (Untitled) - (hidden track)

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In a world where Celine Dion passes for a diva, Shirley Bassey's Birthday Concert--celebrating her 60th--arrives to remind us how it's really done. Sharing in-jokes with a noisily appreciative crowd while never letting anyone forget who's boss, the Welsh-born singer torches (and occasionally flame-throws) her way through a songbook including "Big Spender," "The Lady Is a Tramp," "Diamonds Are Forever" (but, alas, no "Goldfinger"), and a series of I-will-survive anthems ("I Am What I Am"). She's still big: it's the discs that got small. --Rickey Wright

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  • Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.22 x 1.02 x 12.45 cm; 90.72 g
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Drg
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 1984106
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Drg
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000006FBQ
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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  • Roy Elliott
    5.0 out of 5 stars Bassey
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 October 2018
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    Bassey at her best
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  • Music Rocks
    5.0 out of 5 stars Dame Shirley Does It Again!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 November 2003
    Oh to have been there at these concerts! Which took place over two days. This album should have won a grammy as it was nominated. If you want to experience a taste of Shirley in concert then this is the album for you. Great songs and some different ones with Shirley interacting with the crowd who were picnicking in the grounds of the stately homes! Great atmosphere and Dame Shirley in fantastic form. Buy it!
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  • Larkhall
    5.0 out of 5 stars Dame Bassey - Live!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 June 2007
    The Greatest at her Best.

    I've seen Miss Bassey perform live twice - She's fantatsic and this CD of her concert is one of my favorites.
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  • submariner
    5.0 out of 5 stars If Great Voices Thrill You!!
    Reviewed in the United States on 16 December 2012
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    If Shirley Bassey had been born in America she would be appreciated for being the Whitney Houston of her day. Really this singer is Streisand,Judy Garland,Celine Dion, and Mariah Carey class in vocals. Any note they and Anita Baker can hit so can Shirley. I often dream of what it would be like to have all these great voices together at their peaks singing each other's songs. Saw Englebert Humperdinck & Tom Jones do that once on tv. They perfectly copied each other.As for Shirley we americans know her best as the ONLY sultry singer to perform 3 James Bond movie themes. Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, and her signature song Goldfinger. She actually passed out hitting that final note while recording Goldfinger so the legend says. Some of the DVD's of her performances are over $100. So listen to perfection and then compare her to Susan Boyle.
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  • Bart
    5.0 out of 5 stars It's wonderful, it's wonderful!
    Reviewed in Germany on 10 November 2016
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    Brilliant singer, fun and wonderful recording! I knew some of these live versions, from the days when music mp3s weren't for sale yet, but mp3s were easy to get. So it's nostalgic for me!
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  • Damien1973
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous Bassey
    Reviewed in the United States on 12 November 2011
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    The best way to experience the magic of Shirley Bassey is to hear her live recordings. A series has been released - Live at Pigalle and Talk of the Town, Live in Japan & Live at Carnegie Hall. These were a much younger Bassey and this Birthday Concert recorded live at Althorp Park in July 1997 proves that Bassey is one performer who keeps on getting better with age. A must for every Bassey fan's collection
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  • Ernie
    4.0 out of 5 stars It's Shirley!
    Reviewed in the United States on 5 July 2015
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    Liked it. Nowhere near her Carnegie Hall concert but voice still strong.
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  • Allan Popsack
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Supreme Diva
    Reviewed in the United States on 26 August 2013
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    Excellent variety of Bassey classics. Her voice has a broader, in depth tonality. A shame that more albums were not recorded from age 50 on. Also wish there were DVD's available of this and other live performances.
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