Astrid’s Simply Bassey #134

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

Fool on the hill

  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 [...]

Astrid’s Simply Bassey #133

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 [...]

Next BGO Release

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 [...]

Astrid’s Simply Bassey #132

This week I’m playing a special request for my dear friend Denis who wrote to me about one two of his particular favourite Shirley Bassey numbers from many years ago. Denis remembers “In the early 60′s we had a radio programme called Two Way Family Favourites” and it was for requests from Germany to England [...]

The Monaco interviews

For this blog I have for you a few interviews (on video and from magazines), that Dame Shirley Bassey gave from her beautiful home in Monte Carlo. We will start today with the video which is from 1999 and an interview for a magazine from 1990 shortly after Shirley moved from Switzerland to Monte Carlo. Because [...]