1967 REMASTERED CLIP (1967 Bassey and Basie TV Special) Shirley performs the song, "Strangers In The Night". Count Basie and his Orchestra provide all the music for this TV Special
ABOUT this song:
"Strangers in the Night" is a popular song composed by Bert Kaempfert with English lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder. It was originally created under the title Beddy Bye as part of the instrumental score for the movie A Man Could Get Killed. The song was made famous in 1966 by Frank Sinatra. Reaching number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the Easy Listening chart, it was the title song for Sinatra's 1966 album Strangers in the Night, which would become his most commercially successful album. The song also reached number one on the UK Singles Chart. Sinatra's recording won him the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, as well as a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist for Ernie Freeman at the Grammy Awards of 1967.
ABOUT the Shirley Bassey LP, 'I've Got A Song For You':
I've Got a Song for You is a 1966 album by Shirley Bassey. Bassey had left EMI's Columbia Label, and this was her first album for United Artists, a label she would remain with for approximately 14 years. This album and the following release And We Were Lovers were produced by Bassey's former husband, Kenneth Hume. (Their marriage had ended in divorce in 1965, but he continued to act as her manager, and for these two albums, her producer.) The album entered the UK Albums Chart at #26, but only remained on the chart for one week, and failed to chart in the US, despite her having received outstanding reviews for live engagements in New York and Las Vegas that same year, and the fact that the album was recorded in New York. It was an inauspicious start for her at UA, as none of her albums would chart either in the UK or the US until 1970 (save one EMI/Columbia album issued after she left for United Artists, most likely previously recorded material, and one compilation album). In that year, 1970, Bassey would begin to produce more contemporary pop-oriented albums, but here in 1966, despite scoring her biggest hit with Goldfinger a year or so earlier, she was still firmly in the traditional pop genre.
SLEEVENOTE from LP:
In April of 1966, SHIRLEY BASSEY opened a two-week engagement at The Royal Box of the Americana Hotel in New York City. Shortly thereafter, she headlined at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas. The reviews that greeted these engagements were absolutely fantatstic. One veteran Vegas scribe compared the dynamic vocalist to Lena Horne, Helen Morgan, Ella Fitzgerald and Barbra Streisand, and closed his column by shouting to the rooftops that he hadn't been so completely devastated by a lady singer since Judy Garland in 1956.
Our album, I'VE GOT A SONG FOR YOU vividly shows why Shirley means Bassey. In it SHIRLEY BASSEY runs through a completely new programme of great songs, chanting as she has never done before. It was in Las Vegas in April this year that Shirley Bassey and manager Kenneth Hume decided to make this album. They wanted to show a new side of Shirley's talent and have deliberately included many up-tempo numbers along with the ballads.
LYRICS - Strangers In The Night:
Strangers in the night exchanging glances
Wond'ring in the night
What were the chances we'd be sharing love
Before the night was through.
Something in your eyes was so inviting,
Something in your smile was so exciting,
Something in my heart,
Told me I must have you.
Strangers in the night, two lonely people
We were strangers in the night
Up to the moment
When we said our first hello.
Little did we know
Love was just a glance away,
A warm embracing dance away and -
Ever since that night we've been together.
Lovers at first sight, in love forever.
It turned out so right,
For strangers in the night.
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