Astrid’s Simply Bassey #101

This week the first of two requests for Mike, who has asked me to play Where Is Tomorrow, from Shirley Bassey’s 1968 album, This Is My Life. I agree with you Mike that it is such a longing and beautiful recording. Thank you so much for the kind words you sent me Mike. It’s such [...]

Bewitching Miss Bassey

Monday 24th May saw the release of a CD called ‘The Bewitching Miss Bassey’ on the Hallmark label.  It is a release of Shirley’s Philips 1959  album of the same name.  I was looking forward to this release although I wished they had used the original album artwork.  This is a budget release and I [...]

YouTube

Dear Blog viewers: Unfortunately on Monday evening our YouTube account for the blog was deleted because of a copyright claim by the French INA (Institut National de Audiovisuel) for the videos of “Le Grand Echiquier”. Without the YouTube account it becomes impossible to continue the Video Showcase for the Blog. We have had almost 9 million viewers over the [...]

Bristol Evening Post -Part 6- (Last part) & DSB Quiz!

Today the last part of the Bristol Evening Post with a contribution of Mollie Petrie who is a voice expert AND a Bassey fan. Read what she has to say about Dame Shirley Bassey and the voice, below. Also we had an email from Sam Howley from Australia who made a Bassey quiz. So if [...]

New DVD!

Exciting news!  There is to be a new DVD released on 12th July entitled ‘Shirley Bassey: On TV’.  This DVD will comprise of some of her past TV appearances including the Royal Variety Performance.  This DVD is not being released by the BBC so I doubt there will be any clips from her TV series [...]

Butterfly Ball.

Dame Shirley attended the Caudwell Children Butterfly Ball on the 20th May.  It was held at the Battersea Evolution in London.  As you can see from the photos below she looked absolutely stunning.