This week I’m playing a popular choice for Roy who wrote to me requesting “Excuse Me” from the German TV programme “All About Shirley”
Roy wrote: “Absolutely stunning and even better than the studio recording from the album Something Else” and I agree!
I hope you enjoy listening to this today Roy.
Excuse Me 1972
For today we have a request from Jonas. He asks for ‘Something’ on the Tom Jones Show from 1971. Jonas wrote:
Thank you for sharing your DSB videos, the recent Blog video of Shirley’s 70 birthday I had never seen before. I believe that most Shirley fans do also like Tom Jones and I saw your YouTube post of DSB singing Something on this show shortly before your channel was taken down.
I read that Shirley did also sing ‘The fool on the hill’ and a duet with Tom Jones which should sound great as they are two of the best singers of our time. Maybe you could share the Something video of the Tom Jones show on the blog again, it has become one of my favourite songs since I have seen DSB doing it live. I don’t know if you have the whole show, but if you happen to have the duet with Tom it would be amazing if you posted it.
Thank you and best wishes,
Jonas
Unfortunately we don’t have the duet with Tom Jones or the performance of ‘Fool on the hill’ but if you like to listen to the studio version CLICK HERE.
For a previous post about DSB on the Tom Jones show CLICK HERE.
For a previous post about ‘Something’ CLICK HERE.
To watch the performance of Shirley on the Tom Jones show CLICK HERE or CLICK HERE.
(From the George Webb collection)
The Fool On The Hill.
Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Released January 2nd, 1971 on a single (with What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? on the B-side). The single reached chart position no. 48 in the UK. It was also on the The Shirley Bassey Singles Album in 1975 and in 1978 on the “25th Anniversary Album”. Shirley Bassey performed this song live in a Dutch TV special in 1971.
The song is available digitally remastered on CD collections, for example on the 1999 re-issue of the 1970 album Something.
Originally this was a Beatles song released first on their album “Magical Mystery Tour” in December 1967. This was the first Lennon & McCartney song by Shirley Bassey, but the first Beatles song had been Something in 1970. In 1968 this song was a place no. 6 in the US Billboard for “Sergio Mendes & Brazil ’66″ and his album with the title “Fool On The Hill” reached no. 3 in the album charts.
Lyrics:
Day after day
Alone on a hill
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him
They can see that he’s just a fool
And he never gives an answer
But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round
Well on the way
Head in a cloud
The man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud
But nobody ever hears him
Or the sound he appears to make
And he never seems to notice
But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round
And nobody seems to like him
They can tell what he wants to do
And he never shows his feelings
But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round
Day after day
Fool on the hill
Day after day
Fool on the hill
Day after day
Fool on the hill
Day after day after day after day after day
(transcribed by Roman)
This week I’m celebrating two often overlooked recordings from Shirley Bassey’s “Sings The Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber” album, released in 1993.
Andrew requested “Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again” and “All I Ask Of You” and it is a pleasure to play these for you today. Thank you for your lovely message Andrew.
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
All I Ask Of You
The Magic Is You
The next CD to be released by BGO is ‘The Magic Is You / Thoughts Of Love‘. The date given is April 4th. I have no details of the track listing so have no idea if any bonus tracks are included. This will be the first time that ‘The Magic Of You’ will have been released in the UK and it will be great to have the tracks remastered at long last. It was released many years ago in the USA but is out of print. The album ‘Thoughts Of Love’ was a compilation album and so all the tracks will have appeared on previous CD releases. I would love ‘Runaway’ to be a bonus track as I long to have this song remastered on CD. As soon as I know any further details I will post them.
Amazon have the CD listed for pre-order.
I have just seen the sleeve for the new release which I have added and also the track listing. NO bonus tracks but just as the original albums were released. Cannot help but say this is a missed opportunity.
The Magic Is You / Thoughts Of Love
