FROM THE ARCHIVE 297 -1969-

Concerto D’autunno
(Autumn Concert)
Written by C. Bargoni / Danpa.

Released in 1969 on an Italian Single (UA 3170, with “(You Are) My Way Of Life” on the B-side). On the single “Canzonissima ’69” it is noted which obviously means that Shirley Bassey sang this song at that Italian music festival 1969.

Lyrics: (with English translation)

Guarda le foglie morte
Look at the barren leaves
Portate via dal vento
Carried away by the wind
Si sente un brivido nel cuor
One can feel a shiver in one’s heart

Nel cielo tutto grigio
In the sky, completely grey
Si specchia il mio tormento
My pain finds a reflection
La vita non avrà più sole
Life won’t be sunny anymore

Nell’aria senza luce
Through the lightless air
S’innalzano più tristi
The first strains of a destiny that is going to come
Le prime note di un destin che verrà
Arise sadder and sadder
L’inizio di un concerto che dice a questo cuor:
The beginning of a concert that whispers to my heart:
“L’autunno è ritornato, l’amore no”
“Autumn is back, love is not”

Nell’aria senza luce
Through the lightless air
S’innalzano più tristi
The first strains of a destiny that is going to come
Le prime note di un destin che verrà
Arise sadder and sadder
L’inizio di un concerto che dice a questo cuor:
The beginning of a concert that whispers to my heart:
“L’autunno è ritornato, l’amore no”
“Autumn is back, love is not”

(Transcribed and translated by Francesco)

Tribute to Jean

This blog is in memory of the blog team’s dear friend and Dame Shirley Bassey fan, Jean, who sadly passed away 6 years ago. Below a selection of Jean’s favourite pictures and Dame Shirley performing one of her favourite songs Yesterday When I Was Young.  Our thoughts are with her partner, family and friends.

Dame Shirley Bassey & Jean

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THE 1979 BBC-SHOW # 4

For this weekend we have the fourth BBC show with guests Les Dawson, the Nolan Sisters, and Third World. Shirley’s songs: Something’s Coming, Hernando’s Hideaway/All You Need Is The Music, Yellowbird, How Insensitive, For All We Know, This Is My Life (disco version), I’d Like To Hate Myself In The Morning, A Couple of Swells (with Les Dawson), Climb Ev’ry Mountain.

Les Dawson (1931-1993) To find out more about this great British comedian click the picture above

Part of the show was filmed at Rockland’s bird sanctuary in Jamaica near Montego Bay. Miss Lisa Salmon explains to Shirley everything about the birds. Miss Salmon died in the year 2000 and was in her nineties. Her nephew Fritz took over the bird sanctuary after her death. If you want to visit the website of Rockland’s bird sanctuary click on the Yellow Bird. Below also a video about the bird sanctuary.

Miss Salmon & Shirley Bassey

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These pictures were taken by Coby Westerhout (Holland) and you see Shirley after the show with fans who were present at the recording in the BBC studio in London.

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As a bonus the beautiful song Daybreak by Barry Manilow that was also recorded for this BBC show but was not included in the British braodcast of the show but was only broadcast in the version of the show as shown in the USA.

Merry Cristmas!

The Blog team wishes everybody a very merry Christmas with this beautiful Christmas card from Dame Shirley Bassey and a beautiful Christmas card made by John den Outer. 

The highlights this year were of course Dame Shirley’s new album Hello Like Before and her attending the Royal Variety Performance this year. We now here have this fantastic performance in HD quality for you to watch.