Astrid’s Simply Bassey #151

Today I’m playing a special request for Lydia who asked that I play the song Once In A Lifetime. As it has already been featured, I’m playing the live version from 1964. I hope you like it. Once In A Lifetime

Album commercial for ‘The performance’

For this blog the last one in the series of album commercials which is the one for the 2009 CD ‘The performance’. I hope you enjoyed them. Thank you to those who responded to my earlier offer to transfer videos to DVDs. To clarify, I’m happy to pay all postage costs involved and if your video already [...]

Astrid’s Simply Bassey Special #150

Tonight was the launch of a new weekly radio special celebrating Dame Shirley Bassey on British radio. The show continues every Monday at 9pm (UK Time) and is available online for fans all over the world: (low quality recording, sound quality much better live) Send your requests for the show to: studio@gayradiouk.com The Bassey Blog is [...]

Album commercial for ‘Get the party started’

Today we review the commercial for the 2007 ’Get The Party Started’- album which was produced by Catherine (Been) Feeney and Nikki Lamborn from Never The Bride, who wrote The Living Tree and lots of other great songs. They are still making music and I have become a fan myself. On Wednesday 14th September I’m looking [...]

Astrid’s Simply Bassey #149

The John Barry Tribute (Special thanks to Peter for the pictures) Listen to the full concert on BBC iPlayer