4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Perhaps the best Bassey compilation, April 4 2010
By nyctc7 - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: EMI/Ua Years 1959-1979 (Audio CD)
I had been looking forward for some time to get my hands on the 1964 Carnegie Hall concert! The booklet is really nice, it has two sections of track lists: The first has the song credits, and the second gives a sentence or two about the song. The liner notes by Chris White stretch for half a dozen pages, giving a nice overview of her life and career. (I did detect a stray error here and there, but still this is the most comprehensive liner notes I've seen on her.) In addition to the Carnegie concert, there are 14 previously unreleased (as of 1994) recordings amongst the other 94 tracks. (A couple of those have since been included as bonus tracks on the BGO re-issues.) Finally, I now have the version of "La vita" that appears on the album of that name (the Italian-only release that as far as I know has never been released on CD)! Of course there are many songs that I do already have, but no matter. Sometimes I just like to drop a compilation like this on and treat it like a greatest hits, hearing a few songs from one album, then going right into songs from the next album. Add the songs I don't have, such as the aforementioned unreleased tracks, and single releases (especially B - sides: I do not own vinyl), and I love this compilation! Of course, it only goes up to 1979, but that does represent the bulk of her recording career, releases came a little slower after that, but are also an indispensible part of any Bassey collection. boxset. Pre-1979, also recommended are Burn My Candle - The Complete Early Years and The Complete EMI Columbia Singles Collection. Another great all-around compilation is the three-disc Four Decades of Song, also known as The Collection. It contains many great songs not included here.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Track listing, Mar 26 2010
By Giddy Giddy Carousel - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: EMI/Ua Years 1959-1979 (Audio CD)
Tracks
1 S' Wonderful
2 As Long As He Needs Me
3 You're Never Know
4 So In Love
5 Reach For The Stars
6 Who Are We
7 I'll Get By As Long As I Have You
8 Tonight
9 What Now My Love
10 Above All Others
11 It Could Happen To You
12 It All Depends On You
13 I (Who Have Nothing)
14 Gone
15 How Can You Believe
16 Goldfinger
17 My Child
18 Seesaw Of Dreams
19 Its Yourself
20 Secrets
21 Stay On The Island
22 Once In A Lifetime
23 The Liquidator
24 Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
25 The Boy From Ipanema
26 More
27 A House Is Not A Home
28 Don't Take The Lovers From The World
29 Take Away
30 I've Got A Song For You
31 Shirley
32 Give Him Your Love
33 And We Were Lovers
34 Who Could Love Me
35 Do I Look Like A Fool
36 Big Spender
37 Dangerous Games
38 La Vita
39 I Must Know
40 This Is My Life
41 Without A Word
42 If He Walked Into My Life
43 To Give
44 My Love Has To Faces
45 Clown Town
46 Does Anybody Miss Me
47 I'll Never Fall In Love Again
48 (You Are) My Way Of Life
49 The Bus That Never Comes
50 Fa Fa Fa (Live For Today)
51 Something
52 Spinning Wheel
53 Yesterday I Heard The Rain
54 Sea And Sand
55 What About Today
56 You And I
57 Light My Life
58 Yesterday When I Was Young
59 Fool On The Hill
60 Where Do I Begin
61 Till Love Touches Your Life
62 For The Love Of Him
63 Vehicle
64 Diamonds Are Forever
65 The Way A Woman Loves
66 For All We Know
67 The Grestest Performance Of My Life
68 Lost And Lonely
69 The Way Of Love
70 Day By Day
71 Ballad Of The Sad Young Men
72 If I Should Love Again
73 Let Me Be The One
74 Never Never Never
75 Somehow
76 Going Going Gone
77 Make The World A Little Younger
78 Everything I Own
79 All That Love Went To Waste
80 I'm Not Anyone
81 Jesse
82 Living
83 Natali
84 If I Never Sing Another Song
85 Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You
86 You Take My Heart Away
87 Come In From The Rain
88 Tomorrow Morning
89 Razzle Dazzle
90 You Made Me Love You
91 My Man
92 Natural Boy
93 The Greatest Love Of All
94 Bonus Track
95 Once In A Lifetime
96 Just One Of Those Things
97 As Long As He Needs Me
98 Burn My Candle (At Both Ends)
99 All The Things That You Are
100 If I Were A Bell
101 What Now My Love
102 A Lot Of Living To Do
103 No Regrets
104 Typically English
105 In Other Words (Fly Me To The Moon)
106 Please Mr Brown
107 I'm A Fool To Want You
108 You
109 Johnny One Note
110 I Could Have Danced All Night & A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
BASSEY THE EMI/UA YEARS 1959-1979, Nov 13 2011
By Alan H.Myers - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: EMI/Ua Years 1959-1979 (Audio CD)
I`ve been a long time fan of Shirley Bassey.The only problem is you can`t find any of her CD`S in the American stores.I went onto Amazon.com,and was amazed of all the Shirley Bassey CD`S i found.
The CD that i ordered is;"BASSEY THE EMI/UA YEARS 1959-1979".It`s a five CD set,and has 111 songs,and all the songs are great.
Alan Myers- Wheeling,IL.