The 1968 Shirley Bassey Show -USA-

Celebrities confirmed to attend include Sir Cliff Richard, Dame Shirley Bassey, Kate Moss, Jeremy Irons, Jane Torville, Christopher Dean, Gary Lineker, Rosie Jones, Cadena Cox, Alan Titchmarsh, Heston Blumenthal, James Martin, Bill Bailey and Jokowan .The event will be divided into four acts: for the queen and the country, the time of our lives, let us celebrate, rejoice and be amazed.

Open-topped double decker buses from each of the seven decades of the Queen’s reign will carry 150 ‘national treasures’ who have contributed to British life from singers Sir Cliff Richard and Dame Shirley Bassey to actor Jeremy Irons, model Kate Moss, sports legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean and Gary Lineker and chefs Heston Blumenthal and James Martin.

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For today this great Shirley Bassey show from 1968 made in the USA with special guests Laurindo Almeida, Noel Harrison and Jimmy Durante.  Shirley does 3 duets with Noel Harrison and one with Jimmy Durante.

FROM THE ARCHIVE 548 -1994-

The year 1994 was another very busy year for Shirley Bassey. She collected her gong at the palace in February and it was the year of her 40th. year in show business. There was a 2 month world tour and she performed at the Royal Variety Performance once more.

100 years of the Royal Variety Performance

Still from the 1971 Royal Variety Performance Dame Shirley singing ‘Yesterday when I was young’.

Today a video from 2012  from a was program on ITV called 100 years of the  Royal Variety Performance. 

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FROM THE ARCHIVE 547 -1993-

Today the trip to memory lane goes back to 1993. An extremely busy year for Commander of the British Empire Shirley Bassey. Below we have two newspaper articles from The Bristol Evening Post and an interview which is actually taken out of the documentary from that year Have Voice Will Travel. Shirley was also on tour that year and performed In Cardiff early that year with the 10.000 men choir. Later in an interview she confessed there were ‘only’ 8500 men. In September that year she opened the Cardiff International Arena.