Le Grand Echiquier 12

Part 12 in this magical series…
Songs: What Now My Love & Hey Jude

What Now My Love?
Music written by Gilbert Bécaud and English lyrics penned by Carl Sigman.
(Original French lyrics by Pierre Delanoë.)
Released in 1962 on the album Let’s Face The Music and as a single. The single reached number five in the UK chart and stayed [...]

(Non-DSB) Rhydian’s video

(Non-DSB)
As promised yesterday…
here is the video of Rhydian on The X Factor.
Singing a medley of I Vow To Thee My Country and Dame Shirley Bassey’s World In Union.
I hope the ITV’s production company do not remove this from YouTube again. They own and guard copyright, but this video allows the whole world to enjoy a proud [...]

Don Black interview

 

Lyricist Don Black wrote Diamonds Are Forever with composer John Barry. He has done a new audio interview.

Here’s an extract:
Diamonds Are Forever
Black remembered that the James Bond film producer Harry Saltzman was not at all keen on the Shirley Bassey tune, calling it too provocative and filthy. ‘Well, John Barry said “well, what the bloody hell do you [...]