Shirley Bassey - The EMI/UA Years 1959-1979 [5CD Remastered Box Set] (1994/2010)

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Artist: Shirley Bassey
Title: The EMI/UA Years 1959-1979
Year Of Release: 1994/2010
Label: EMI [5099960897923]
Genre: Vocal Pop, Jazz, Easy Listening, Stage & Screen
Quality: CBR 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+cue, log)
Total Time: 5:37:03
Total Size: 771 mb / 1.79 gb
WebSite: Album Preview

In the United States, Shirley Bassey has had a serious following since 1964, and is best-known for her recordings of the James Bond movie themes Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever; in her native Great Britain, by contrast, her popularity dates from 1957 and has never abated, transcending any single hit or pair of hits. Thus, the first disc of this five-CD set presents 15 songs before listeners even get to "Goldfinger." That disc, made up of hit singles, notable album cuts, and previously unissued tracks, sets the pattern for this set, which ties up a lot of loose ends in Bassey's recorded output without losing sight of the standard reference points -- it's a very good compromise between the two box-set philosophies, balancing the hits and the rarities, all in newly remastered sound. Each disc is programmed in chronological order, showing Bassey's evolution from British pop singer to international pop star, and the evolution of her repertory from the standards of Cole Porter, Frank Loesser, Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart, and newer British-spawned work by Leslie Bricusse and Lionel Bart; later embracing the work of the Beatles; and then latching on to '70s show numbers by Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and more, and pop material by David Gates. The songs are all worthwhile, including the outtakes, unissued tracks, and rare B-sides, but just as striking are Bassey's range and flexibility -- she was charting singles in 1957 and still placing records in the Top Ten in 1978, and she didn't achieve the latter as a nostalgia act or by bowing to crazes like disco. The real treat, however, is the fifth disc, Bassey's previously unissued complete Carnegie Hall debut concert from February 15, 1964. This is as fine a survey of Bassey's work as listeners are ever likely to see, short of Bear Family Records addressing her career, with excellent sound quality as well and a booklet that includes background on each song and a full U.K. discography.

:: TRACKLIST ::

CD 1 1959 - 1966
1-1 S'wonderful 2:18
1-2 As Long As He Needs Me 3:00
1-3 You'll Never Know 3:05
1-4 So In Love 3:02
1-5 Reach For The Stars 2:57
1-6 Who Are We 4:14
1-7 I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You) 2:52
1-8 Tonight 2:15
1-9 What Now My Love 2:56
1-10 Above All Others 2:58
1-11 It Could Happen To You 2:46
1-12 It All Depends On You 2:36
1-13 I (Who Have Nothing) 2:42
1-14 Gone 2:43
1-15 How Can You Believe 2:16
1-16 Goldfinger 2:51
1-17 My Child 2:06
1-18 Seesaw Of Dreams 2:41
1-19 It's Yourself 3:20
1-20 Secrets 2:08
1-21 Stay On The Island 2:12
1-22 Once In A Lifetime 2:25
1-23 The Liquidator 2:20
1-24 Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2:28
1-25 The Boy From Ipanema 2:50
1-26 More 3:46
1-27 A House Is Not A Home 3:26

CD 2 1966 - 1969
2-1 Don't Take The Lovers From The World 2:03
2-2 Take Away 2:21
2-3 I've Got A Song For You 2:39
2-4 Shirley 2:12
2-5 Give Him Your Love 1:40
2-6 And We Were Lovers 3:00
2-7 Who Could Love Me 2:27
2-8 Do I Look Like A Fool 2:40
2-9 Big Spender 1:50
2-10 Dangerous Games 2:23
2-11 La Vita 4:10
2-12 I Must Know 2:43
2-13 This Is My Life 3:17
2-14 Without A Word 2:06
2-15 If He Walked Into My Life 3:13
2-16 To Give 3:31
2-17 My Love Has Two Faces 3:55
2-18 Clown Town 2:07
2-19 Does Anybody Miss Me 2:29
2-20 I'll Never Fall In Love Again 2:57
2-21 (You Are) My Way Of Life 2:23
2-22 The Bus That Never Comes 2:21
2-23 Fa Fa Fa (Live For Today) 2:28

CD 3 1970 - 1972
3-1 Something 3:36
3-2 Spinning Wheel 3:09
3-3 Yesterday I Heard The Rain 3:30
3-4 Sea And Sand 4:03
3-5 What About Today 3:12
3-6 You And I 3:49
3-7 Light My Fire 3:29
3-8 Yesterday When I Was Young 3:52
3-9 Fool On The Hill 3:25
3-10 Where Do I Begin 3:17
3-11 Till Love Touches Your Life 3:45
3-12 For The Love Of Him 3:01
3-13 Vehicle 3:44
3-14 Diamonds Are Forever 2:42
3-15 The Way A Woman Loves 3:09
3-16 For All We Know 2:46
3-17 The Greatest Performance Of My Life 3:29
3-18 Lost And Lonely 2:49
3-19 The Way Of Love 2:37
3-20 Day By Day 2:48
3-21 Ballad Of The Sad Young Men 5:29
3-22 If I Should Love Again 2:48
3-23 Let Me Be The One 2:32

CD 4 1973-1979
4-1 Never Never Never 3:43
4-2 Somehow 2:25
4-3 Going Going Gone 2:15
4-4 Make The World A Little Younger 3:35
4-5 Everything I Own 3:05
4-6 All That Love Went To Waste 3:12
4-7 I'm Not Anyone 3:47
4-8 Jesse 3:54
4-9 Living 3:35
4-10 Natali 4:53
4-11 If I Never Sing Another Song 4:05
4-12 Can't Take My Eyes Off You 3:59
4-13 You Take My Heart Away 3:21
4-14 Come In From The Rain 4:04
4-15 Tomorrow Morning 3:48
4-16 Razzle Dazzle 3:00
4-17 You Made Me Love You 3:01
4-18 My Man 3:30
4-19 Nature Boy 3:07
4-20 The Greatest Love Of All 4:56
4-21 Moonraker 3:09

CD 5 - Live 15 Feb 1964 Carnegie Hall
5-1 Once In A Lifetime (Live) 3:13
5-2 Just One Of Those Things (Live) 2:49
5-3 As Long As He Needs Me (Live) 3:11
5-4 Burn My Candle (At Both Ends) (Live) 3:29
5-5 All The Things That You Are (Live) 3:24
5-6 If I Were A Bell (Live) 3:02
5-7 What Now My Love (Live) 3:38
5-8 A Lot Of Living To Do (Live) 2:15
5-9 No Regrets (Live) 2:47
5-10 Typically English (Live) 3:42
5-11 In Other Words (Fly Me To The Moon) (Live) 3:34
5-12 Please Mr Brown (Live) 1:58
5-13 I'm A Fool To Want You (Live) 4:05
5-14 You (Live) 2:19
5-15 Johnny One Note (Live) 3:17
5-16 I Could Have Danced All Night (Live) 2:47

Remastered By – Ron Hill

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