#Shirley Bassey cover

[ladycharles]

Scenes from a vocal practice

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I always struggled with hearing since my high school band days (WEAR EARPLUGS), and what I now realize as Muscle Tension Dysphonia, which absolutely mangled my ability to sing for years. I have been completely relearning since a great vocal teacher (Trina Langthorne) set me straight in 2019. I am far from a golden throat but I am proud of my progress, singing every day is therapeutic and fun!

[edsmusicblog]

shirley bassey - the german singles 1959 - 1972

[myvinylplaylist]

Shirley Bassey: Shirley Bassey’s Greatest Hits (1972)

United Artist Records

[zanygardenherowobbler]

Watch "How Do You Keep The Music Playing? ( Cover )" on YouTube

[timmersposts]

Diamonds are forver - Tim Robinson [ cover , as ELVIS [ ITS THE VOICE O...

[retropopcult]

"Something" is a song by British rock band the Beatles from their eleventh studio album, Abbey Road (1969). It was written by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist, about his wife Pattie Boyd and is widely considered one of the greatest love songs of all time.

Apple Records issued the single as the flip side of "Come Together" (not as a "B" side, but as an "alternate A side") insisted by John Lennon, who considered "Something" to be the best song on the album. The single reached #1 in the US and three other countries (and was Top Ten in dozen more). The release marked the first time that a Harrison composition had been afforded A-side treatment on a Beatles single. In a 1990 letter to Mark Lewisohn, Alan Klein rebutted a claim made in the book The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions that the single was intended as a money-making exercise: Klein said it was purely a mark of Lennon's regard for "Something" and "to point out George as a writer, and give him courage to go in and do his own LP. Which he did."

Together with his second contribution to Abbey Road, "Here Comes the Sun", it is widely viewed by music historians as having marked Harrison's ascendancy as a composer to the level of the Beatles' principal songwriters, Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Harrison began writing "Something" in late 1968 during a session for the Beatles' White Album. In his autobiography, I, Me, Mine, he recalls working on the melody on a piano at the same time as McCartney recorded overdubs in a neighboring room at Abbey Road Studios. But Harrison suspended work on the song, believing that with the tune having come to him so easily, it must have been a melody from another song (something McCartney also wrestled with on "Yesterday"). Only after months of checking with other artists (and borrowing the opening lyric from fellow songwriter James Taylor, another Apple Records client), Harrison was able to work out the middle eight and finish it. Finally sometime in 1969, Boyd recalled: "He told me, in a matter-of-fact way, that he had written it for me. I thought it was beautiful. He first played it to me in the kitchen."

The promotional film for "Something" was shot in late October 1969, not long after Lennon privately announced that he was leaving the band. By this time, the band members had grown apart. As a result, the film consisted of separate clips, edited together, featuring the Beatles walking around the grounds of their homes with their respective wives. Harrison's segment shows him and Boyd together in their garden at Kinfauns. The four segments were edited and compiled into a single film clip by Neil Aspinall. Allan Kozinn noted: "What Mr. Aspinall's idyllic film avoided showing was that the Beatles were at that point barely on speaking terms. In the film, no two Beatles are seen together."

"Something" received the Ivor Novello Award for the Best Song of 1969. By the late 1970s, it had been covered by over 150 artists, making it the second-most covered Beatles composition after "Yesterday". Shirley Bassey had a top-five hit with her 1970 recording, and Frank Sinatra regularly performed the song, calling it "the greatest love song of the past 50 years." In 2000, Mojo ranked "Something" at number 14 in the magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time".

A year after Harrison's death, his good friends McCartney and Eric Clapton performed a loving rendition of the song at the Concert for George tribute at London's Royal Albert Hall. Pattie Boyd said she was "moved to tears" by the performance.

[lostcryptids]

i fully support female artists changing the pronouns to be "he" in songs originally written about women because there's something so beautiful in some of those songs lyrics when they're being sung about men. like the Something cover by Shirley Bassey is soo wonderful

[cleolinda]

The Maxence Cyrin piano cover is haunting in an abandoned-mansion way; the Goldfrapp original is Shirley Bassey by way of Sergio Leone, fed through a Korg synthesizer. (I’m not just saying that.) There might be a little Bernard Herrmann there as well. Frankenstein would want your mind, your lovely head. Melancholy; weird; unearthly.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Song of the Day - “People”

Today is the 60th Birthday of the song “People”, the Jule Styne composition with lyrics by Bob Merrill, signature-ly sung by the great diva Barbra Streisand.

The song was written for the upcoming musical “Funny Girl” and was recorded in New York at Columbia’s 30th Street Studio on December 20th, 1963. The musical would open in March 1964 and cement Streisand’s stardom.

This track was released as a single two months before the show opened.

Jule Styne and Bob Merrill had just met each other in Palm Beach, Florida in 1962. They soon began their collaborative songwriting, and would compose by day followed by trying their stuff out on the Palm Beach socialites by evening at cocktail parties.

They were classic collaborators who worked off each other’s sparks and ideas.

This song started with the lyric of Merrill’s, “a very special person”.

Styne marinated with that for a day. Then he came back to Merrill and they apparently wrote the whole song in thirty minutes.

Funnily, the producers hated it and the song was originally not included in the show.

Bob knew it was a winner, so he kept pushing. He got the producers to let Barbra sing it once in one evening’s show during tryouts.

Suffice to say, it was a showstopper. And the rest, as they say….is history.

It has been covered by oodles of people, and if you ask me, ridiculously. This is a perfect example of a song that is clearly and completely “owned” by an artist. Some of the coverers include: Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Steve Lawrence, Nancy Wilson, Marvin Gaye, Andy Williams, Billy Eckstine, Jack Jones, Ray Charles, Sammy Davis, Jr., The Lettermen, Shirley Bassey, Eddie Fisher, Robert Goulet, Patti LaBelle, The Supremes, Aretha, Kim Weston, Willie Tee, the Tymes, J Lo, the Friends of Distinction, Ethel Merman, and Jackie Wilson.

This was Barbra’s first charting hit, and is her signature song, or at least her first one.

For me, this song was so overplayed and the culture was so oversaturated with it that it soured on me. Even now, it is one which I can only enjoy hearing like once a year.

But…. It is so undeniably good. And whatever else it is, it is Barbra’s voice at its epic best.

And as Babs is yet another of the 80 Year Olds Club members who is worthy of our appreciation - then and now - I say, turn it up kinda loud and take it in….

(Mary Elaine LeBey)

[netscapenavigator-official]

Why did Dame Shirley Bassey re-release her cover of "Get The Party Started?" I went looking for that song months ago and couldn't find it on any platform. I had to use my previous iTunes purchases to download it, and now it's just back? Is it trending on TikTok or something? It's already highlighted with a "top listened to" mark on Apple Music. What's going on??

[singeratlarge]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Shirley Bassey, Melvin Carter III, Graham Chapman, C.P. Ellis (ex-segregationist turned civil rights activist), Cynthia Erivo, Bob Eubanks, Jose Ferrer, Angie Gilbert, Bill Graham, Handel’s 1705 opera ALMIRA, Stephen Hawking, Marcus Hutson (The Whispers), Mattel’s Intellivision (1980), Lee Jackson (The Nice), the brave Maximilian Kolbe, Robby Krieger, Rachel Lampa, Cristy Lane, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jenny Lewis, Little Anthony, disc jockey Bob Longman (thank you for playing my music), Yvette Mimieux, actor/singer-songwriter Ron Moody, the 1981 musical PIRATES OF PENZANCE, John Peterson (Beau Brummels), Elvis Presley + his 1993 postage stamp, Soupy Sales, Shostakovich’s 15th Symphony (1972), pianist Abbey Simon, Larry Storch (pleased to have met you), Terry Sylvester (The Hollies), Andrew Wood (Mother Love Bone), Ted Yoder, and the hugely influential, innovative, and inspirational English actor/singer-songwriter David Bowie. His music has brought me 1000s of hours of joy and insight, and tributes to him will abound this week. For my part I am listing 12 Bowie songs that resonate with me at this moment:

Aladdin Sane (1973) All the Madmen (1970)

Days (2003) Everyone Says ‘Hi’ (2002)

Fame (1975) ‘Heroes’ (1977) Jump They Say (1993)

Life on Mars (1971)

Space Oddity (1969)

Starman (1972)

Stay (1976)

+ (one I aim to cover someday) the powerful “techno spiritual” Dead Man Walking (1997):

“Let me dance away [Till I swivel back round then I fly fly fly] Now I'm wiser than dreams 

[Losing breath from the water when I'm gone gone gone] Let me fly fly fly [Spinning slack through reality] While I'm touching tomorrow [Deadens my brain falling up through the years] And I know Who's there [Till I swivel back round then I fly fly fly] [Losing breath from the water when I'm gone gone gone] When silhouettes fall [Spinning slack through reality]

And I'm gone, Like I'm dancing on angels And I'm gone through a crack in the past

Like a dead man walking…”

...and check out my cover of “Space Oddity” https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/space-oddity-album-version

...Meanwhile, HB DB!

#davidbowie #singersongwriter #actor #mikegarson #bowiecelebration #bowiealumni #deadmanwalking #birthday #johnnyjblair

[1989nihil]

Tagged by: @rovermcfly (thanks for the tag)

RULES: When you get this you have to put 5 songs you actually listen to, then tag 10 people!

Remix of the Samurai Champloo outro, originally by Nujabes. Remix by Sinusic

Mashup Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster Stronger (Discovery) and Get Lucky (Random Access Memory | Vanderway Remix. More details in the video description)

Song: Shirley Bassey cover version of Get The Party Started orig. by P!nk.

WALK THE MOON - Shut Up and Dance

Jeangu Macrooy - Birth Of A New Age

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[randomvarious]

Today’s compilation:

Off-Centre: A Riot On Old Street 2000 Broken Beat / Future Jazz / Soul / Drum n Bass

BBE really is just one of the greatest labels to ever do it, folks. The London-based outfit has always kept it eclectic since its mid-90s inception, reaching across every continent besides Antarctica to deliver all kinds of music that's tangentially rooted in either jazz, soul, funk, or R&B. And there have been countless genres that have manifested themselves over the years from those genres, from neo-soul, to future jazz, to broken beat, to disco, to hip hop, to downtempo, to house, to drum n bass, to breakbeat, to trip hop, to electro, and more. BBE releases all of it. They are one of the premier labels for crate diggers, founded by a pair of crate diggers themselves.

And this triple-12-inch comp from the label is nothing short of excellent. It's co-compiled by popular UK club and radio DJ Patrick Forge and someone named Ross Clarke. And much to my surprise, it's actually not a label sampler, even though all of these songs would fit right in in BBE’s catalog. A handful of them were exclusives at the time of this comp's release, but the rest of them are licensed from other labels. It's basically Forge and Clarke supplying some of their contemporary favorites along with a couple phenomenal tracks from the 70s as well. 

Primarily, this is a broken beat comp, a genre of music that was hugely popular in the underground at the turn of the millennium and that's similar to future jazz or nu-jazz, but uses complex drum beats or breaks. But this is so much more than broken beat too. We've got a couple drum n bass tunes, an outstanding funky breaks and turntablism remix of Shirley Bassey's cover of Blood, Sweat & Tears' late 60s classic hit, "Spinning Wheel," by the great DJ Spinna, some wild contemporary jazz fusion from Japanese group Sleep Walker, and I mentioned those two 70s songs prior: sweet disco-mambo from a short-lived group called Inner City Jam Band and a piece of psychedelic pop-soul from Shuggie Otis called "Strawberry Letter 23," whose much more famous cover by The Brothers Johnson appears in Pulp Fiction.

Such an awesome and diverse collection of tunes here. BBE as a label really just defines cool to me. They're like if Red Bull Music Academy had been a record label; pushing the envelope, cherishing and showcasing the contemporary underground, and paying a deep respect to underappreciated nuggets from the past. Such terrific stuff.

I don't have links to some of these highlights as standalone tracks, but the whole comp is up on YouTube as a single video 😋.

Highlights:

Corrina Joseph Featuring Daniel Thomas - "Baby I'm Scared of You (Radio Edit)" Inner City Jam Band - "Inner City Jam (Mambonique)" Phoojun - "Rainbow (Exclusive)" Da Lata - "Binti (Off-Centre Mix)" The Amalgamation Of Soundz - "Freedom Suite (Exclusive)" Shirley Bassey - "Spinning Wheel (DJ Spinna Mix)" Shuggie Otis - "Strawberry Letter 23" Sleep Walker - "Ai-No-Kawa"

[lboogie1906]

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey DBE (January 8, 1937) is a Welsh singer. She is known for her career longevity, powerful voice, and recording the theme songs to three James Bond films, she is regarded as one of the most popular vocalists in Britain. Born in Cardiff, she began performing as a teenager. She became the first Welsh person to gain a number-one single on the UK Singles Chart. She amassed 27 Top 40 hits in the UK, including two number-ones. She became well-known for recording the soundtrack theme songs of Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker(1979). In 2020, she became the first female artist to chart an album in the Top 40 of the UK Albums Chart in seven consecutive decades with her album I Owe It All To You. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to the performing arts. She received the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist in the previous 25 years. She is considered one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the second half of the 20th century. She had numerous hits in the UK, and five albums in the Top 15. Her recording of "As Long As He Needs Me" from Lionel Bart's Oliver! reached No. 2, and had a chart run of 30 weeks. She made her American television début on November 13, 1960, when she performed on The Ed Sullivan Show. Her collaboration with Nelson Riddle and his orchestra, the album Let's Face the Music, reached No. 12 in the UK album chart; and the single, "What Now My Love" made it to No. 5. Other UK Top 10 singles of the period included her second No. 1, the double A-side "Reach for the Stars"/"Climb Ev'ry Mountain", "I'll Get By", and a cover version of the Ben E. King hit "I (Who Have Nothing)" she appeared on the cover of Ebony magazine, and sang at a Washington gala celebrating President Kennedy's second year in office. She made her Carnegie Hall debut on February 15, 1964. The complete concert recording was not released until it was included in the EMI compilation 'The EMU/UA Years 1959-1979'. She married Kenneth Hume (1961-1965). She married Sergio Novak (1968-1979), and they adopted her grand-nephew. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CnKJV0KLJZy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=