Artist: Shirley Bassey
Genre(s):
Pop
Other
Vocal
R&B: Soul
Dance
Easy Listening
Rock
Discography:
Get the Party Started (Remixes)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 3
Get The Party Started
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Legendary Performer (With The London Symphony Orchestr)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 20
Thank You for the Years
Year: 2003
Tracks: 22
Sings The Standards
Year: 2001
Tracks: 22
Love Album
Year: 2001
Tracks: 20
The Fabulous Shirley Bassey
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Shirley Bassey - The Greatest Hits: This Is My Life
Year: 2000
Tracks: 22
Diamonds Are Forever: the Remix Album
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Magic Is You: The Very Best of Shirley Bassey
Year: 1998
Tracks: 18
Sings the Movies
Year: 1995
Tracks: 14
Thought I'd Ring You EP
Year:
Tracks: 6
Known to Americans well-nigh for her belting rendering of the theme to Goldfinger, the 1964 edition in the James Bond series (as well as 1971's Diamonds Are Forever and 1979's Moonraker), Shirley Bassey was one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the net half of the twentieth century. Known as Bassey the Belter and as well the Tigress of Tiger Bay, her other career in touring shows and floorshow brought her a recording contract with Philips by the late '50s. After stretch the round top of the British charts in 1959 with "As I Love You" and later "Strive for the Stars/Climb Every Mountain," Bassey was tapped to swing the musical theme song to the third James Bond vehicle. Her voice, bodacious and aphrodisiacal, conveyed the James Bond myth utterly and became a big hit in America. Though later graph placings in the U.S. were few, she continued to do well in Great Britain, France and the Netherlands into the mid-'70s.
Born in January 1937 in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales, Shirley Bassey was the youngest of vII children. Her parents, a Nigerian panama and an English woman, divorced in front she was trey geezerhood old, but they kept the family together for the most part, and Shirley was able to blab duets with her pal at kinsperson get-togethers. After finishing school, she establish a job at a local factory, and earned extra money singing at men's clubs after-hours. Bassey traveled more or less the land in revues during the early '50s, and made her great breakout in 1955 at a London Christmas show apt by comedian Al Read (though it was promoted by bandleader Jack Hylton, world Health Organization had caught Bassey's act at the nearby Albany Club). Soon after, Shirley Bassey began appearance in Read's revue, Such Is Life. The show ran for o'er a year, and gained her a recording shorten for Philips Records. "Banana Boat Song" hit the British Top Ten in early 1957, followed by her number one hits, 1959's "As I Love You" and 1961's "Reach for the Stars/Climb Every Mountain." A 1962 pairing with adapter Nelson Riddle increased her prestigiousness in America, and a vaunted resilient prove gained her headlining floater in both New York and Las Vegas during the early '60s. Popular recognition in the United States came in early 1965, when "Goldfinger" make number octad in the American charts, instantaneously becoming her signature vocal across the Atlantic. (Queerly though, it lost even the Top 20 in Great Britain.)
Bassey's hits in the U.K. continued into the mid-'70s, lED by Top Ten entries such as "Something," "For All We Know" and "Never Never Never." After the crowning achievement of her career, a 1977 Britannia Award for Best Female Solo Singer in the Last 50 Years, Shirley Bassey gained her own highly rated BBC-TV show in the later '70s, just step by step slowed dispirited her in use agenda during the side by side decennium. Semi-retired to Switzerland by 1981, she still emerged quite oftentimes, spurred by the recording of several telecasting specials and LPs, including a 1987 date with the synth-pop radical Yello. Bassey became much more visible during the '90s, opening a nightclub in Cardiff, and touring the world several times.
