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Does Anybody Miss Me?
Album 1969: United Artists
UK: UAS 29039, US: UAS 6713
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The songs of this album have been re-released completely digitally remastered
on the CD Shirley Bassey - The Collection. On the US release of the LP
As I Love You and
Think Of Me are missing.
The album was released just after Shirley had moved into a house in the Swiss
Alps, so the title is very appropriate.
Cover Image: T. Timoleon
01.
2:29 -
Does Anybody Miss Me?
02.
2:56 -
I'll Never Fall In Love Again
03.
3:03 -
Never, Never No
04.
2:34 -
Picture Puzzle
05.
2:33 -
I Only Miss Him
06.
2:07 -
As I Love You
07.
2:59 -
Think Of Me
08.
2:22 -
(You Are) My Way Of Life
09.
3:06 -
We
10.
2:29 -
Give Me You
11.
3:28 -
It's Always 4 a.m.
12.
2:56 -
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
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Sleeve Note
From the US Issue of the Album
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Ladies and Gentlemen ...
Miss Shirley Bassey
For what seems like only a moment in time and space she gives all that
she is and will ever be / cooing ... revealing ... demanding ... pleading
... attacking ... loving / soaring to the pinnacle of reciprocal emotion and
plunging to the abyss of the unaccepted gift of herself / warring against
the denial of her own terms / woman and child coexisting a mere light
year above the footlights / tonight ... every night.
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Review
 By
Joe Viglione, All Music Guide |
With total authority and enthusiasm, Shirley
Bassey takes the Les Reed/Johnny Worth song "Does Anybody Miss Me?" for her
title track, opening this album with the consistency few artists give their
audience recording after recording, performance after performance. She's decked
out in a somewhat revealing angelic white on the front and back cover and her
voice flies over the beautiful Dave Pell production and Artie Butler
arrangements with perfection, reflecting the ease of the cover photos. Side
one's closer, "I Only Miss Him," seems to add to the intrigue of the Les Reed
title track, though it's not as tragic as Vicki Carr's "It Must Be Him"; in this
artist's hands the melody becomes a pleasant up-tempo song about love that might
come back. The array of songwriters is staggering: an early David Buskin
composition, "Never, Never No," Rod McKuen/Henry Mancini's "We" from the Patty
Duke film Me, Natalie, and a strong reading of Bacharach/David's "I'll Never
Fall in Love Again" from Promises, Promises, including a verse not on Dionne
Warwick's hit. Bassey's vocal command and presence simply amazes from LP to LP,
and despite how short the songs and album content appear decades after release -
only two songs go over the three-minute mark - the striking results do not
short-change the fan in the least. "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" is redefined by
Bassey; the female perspective of Mel Carter's hit from four years earlier is a
bit more coy in some parts, but still gets the message across. The uncredited
and appropriate liner notes proclaim that Bassey is "Woman and child co-existing
a mere light year above the footlights/tonight...every night." Does Anybody Miss
Me? is yet another powerful recording from the diva's diva.
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