For this blog the duet of Dame Shirley Bassey with Dickie Henderson from his 1971 Show. From the DVD ‘On TV Shirley Bassey’. Song: ‘Flattery Will Get You Everywhere’.
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DUETS # 12
In 1971 Shirley Bassey sang With A Little Help From My Friends as a duet with Tom Jones on The Tom Jones Show
Lyrics:
What would you think if I sang out of tune?
Would you stand up and walk out on me?
Well lend me your ears and I’ll sing you a song
And I’ll try not to sing out of key.
I’ll get by with a little help from my friends
I get high with a little help from my friends
I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends
What do I do when my love is away?
Does it worry you to be alone?
How do I feel by the end of the day?
Are you sad because you’re on your own?
No I get by with a little help from my friends
I get high with a little help from my friends
I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends
Do you need anybody?
I need somebody to love
Could it be anybody?
I want somebody to love
Now would you believe in a love at first sight?
Yes I’m certain that it happens all the time
Now what do you see when you turn out the light?
I can’t tell you, but I know it’s mine
I get by with a little help from my friends
I get high with a little help from my friends
I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends
Do you need anybody?
I need someone to love
Could it be anybody?
I want somebody to love
I get by with a little help from my friends
I get by with a little help from my friends
With a little help from my friends
With a little help from my friends.
Duets # 11
Today a duet from 1970. Shirley Bassey on the Engelbert Humperdinck show. They are performing a medley of songs. Video from the DVD ‘Bassey on TV’. On the DVD it says the duet is from 1971 but a newspaperarticle from 1970 (below) states that it is from 1970.
Duets # 10
For this Video Show Case the second duet of Dame Shirley with Mike Douglas. Mike Douglas sings the Frank Sinatra song called ‘Around the world’ and our Dame sings the Patsy Cline song called ‘Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey’. originally called; ‘Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home’. The song was written in 1902!
Around the world; Written by Norreen, Claus / Rasted, Soren.
Around the world I’ve searched for you
I traveled on till hope was gone to keep a rendezvous
I knew somewhere, sometime, somehow
You’d look at me and I would see the smile you’re smiling now
It might have been in County Down
in ol’ New York, in gay Paris , or even London town
No more will I go all around the world
I found my world in you.
Won’t you come home Bill Bailey; Written by Hughy Cannon
Won’t you come home, Bill Bailey
won’t you come home
I moan the whole night long
I’ll do the cookin’, honey, I’ll pay the rent
I know I’ve done you wrong
Remember that rainy evening I put you out
nothin’ but a fine tooth comb
Well ain’t that a shame, I know I’m to blame,
Bill Bailey, won’t you please come home.
I FOUND MY WORLD IN YOU.
The year 1969 was also the year Shirley Bassey recorded the album: ‘Does anybody miss me’. The title being very appropriate as she moved that year from the UK to Switzerland.
On the cover of the album Shirley’s wears the dress that she was not allowed to wear on this Mike Douglas Show because it was to revealing.
The ‘Does anybody miss me’ album was re-issued on CD in 2009 by BGO along with the 1968 album ‘This is my life’.
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