A quick question – can you recognise this photo?
Date – place – circumstances – gown?
No prizes but any information is welcome
Thanks to Astrid
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More Diamonds for Shirley from Don?
In a recent interview for the Joe Longthorne Fan Club Newsletter, the Oscar winning lyricist Don Black was asked:
Have you written songs for specific performers?
Don answers:
“I do all the time. Shirley Bassey for example has just asked me to write her a song and this week I am going to devote some time to that.”
Most fans know that Don wrote the lyrics for Diamonds Are Forever, If I Never Sing Another Song, and many more.
Matt Monro’s Born Free won an Oscar for Don and John Barry
Don meets Dino in LA
So let’s hope Don is writing another masterpiece for Shirley!
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Don’t miss this magnificent performance of If I Never sing Another Song…
Click here to watch DSB singing Don Black
Thanks to Scot
Lyrics
Music by Udo Jurgens
Lyrics by Don Black
In my heyday
Young men wrote to me
Everybody seemed to have time to devote to me
Everyone I saw all swore they knew me
Once upon a song
Main attraction, couldn’t buy a seat
The celebrity, celebrities were dying to meet
I’ve had every accolade bestowed on me
And so you see
If I never sing another song
It wouldn’t bother me
I had my share of fame
You know my name
If I never sing another song
Or take another bow
I would get by, but I’m not sure how
Always posing, but you love it all
Though you have to learn to act like you’re above it all
Everything I did the world applauded
Once upon a star
Framed citations, hung on every wall
Got a scrapbook full of quotes, I can recall them all
There were times I felt the world belonged to me
And so you see
If I never sing another song
It wouldn’t bother me
I had my share of fame
You know my name
If I never sing another song
Or take another bow
I would get by, but I’m not sure how
But I’m not sure how
But I’m not sure how
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(Non DSB) Listen to Matt Monro’s version (audio only)
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(Non-DSB) Joe Longthorne’s 2006 Christmas Card to fans
Joe ends most shows with this great song
Official web site is http://www.joelongthorne.com
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