REMASTERED CLIP - (1961 appearance on The Bing Crosby TV Special from the UK)
This was a Christmas special with Bing Crosby touring the United Kingdom, and it included a slew of British stars of both stage and screen. However, it also had a surprise appearance by Bob Hope, which was nice to see. But, it was Shirley Bassey that made this special stand out. She performs a medley of "Lucky Day / I'm Shooting High" and then "As I Love You", which was her first number 1 hit. It is still a great song, and has lasted the ages. After many decades, I personally have never gotten tired of hearing and/or watching Shirley perform this song! Basically, the special is all about Bing traveling around the United Kingdom, looking for the history of his family tree.
Shirley recorded and released the song, 'I'm Shooting High on her 1961 LP titled, 'Shirley'. The songwriters were Jimmy McHugh and Ted Koehler. The song 'Lucky Day' was written in 1926 by Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson for George White's Scandals of 1926, along with "The Birth of the Blues".
LYRICS - Lucky Day / I'm Shooting High (Medley):
Oh boy, I'm lucky
I'll say I'm lucky
This is my lucky day
I'm all in clover
I'm glad all over
I want to shout, horay
I found a horse you couldn't go wrong
And then of course, you happened along
Oh boy, I'm lucky
I'll say I'm lucky
This is my lucky day
I'm shooting high
Got my eye on the star in the sky
Shooting high
I'll never stop till I get to the top
Tell me why, shouldn't I
You know it's you I'm after
Your my lucky star
I'm on a rainbow rafter
Climbing up to where you are
Oh, I'll have a time
If the climb that I make
Cause, I'm shooting high
Shooting high
Shooting high
I'm Shooting....High!
ABOUT the song, 'As I Love You':
In mid-1958, Shirley recorded two singles that would become classics in the Bassey catalogue. "As I Love You" was released as the B-side of another ballad, "Hands Across the Sea"; It did not sell well at first, but after a chance appearance at the London Palladium things began to pick up. In January 1959, it reached number one and stayed there for four weeks. It thus became Shirley's first number one single.
LYRICS - As I Love You:
I will love you as I love you
All my life
Every moment spent with you
Makes me more content with you
Just as you are
You are all I could pray for
All that you are
That's what I wake up each day for
Every single Touch and tingle
I adore
Every kiss from you to me
Always seems so new to me
Each one warmer Than the one before
As I love you more and more and more
Every single Touch and tingle
I adore
Every kiss from you to me
Always seems so new to me
Each one warmer
Than the one before
As I love you
more
and more
And more
(in the 1969 version repeating the last verse during fade out)
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