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Something Else
Album 1971: United Artists England: UAS 29149 US: UAS 6797
Re-Issue 1980: Spain: Liberty 10C 054-083.046  CD Re-Issue 1999: EMI 4996772
 
Also Released As

Love Story: United Artists France UAG 29149
 
Chart Positions
Official British Chart   Entered: May 15 1971
Highest: Albums: #7  Run: 9 weeks
USA Billboard   Entered: Jul 1971
Highest: Pop Albums: #123
Cover Images


Cover Images: T. Timoleon
 
Track Listing

01. 3:15 - (Where Do I Begin?) Love Story
02. 3:45 - 'Til Love Touches Your Life
03. 4:22 - Easy Thing To Do
04. 4:07 - Until It's Time For You To Go
05. 2:46 - It's Impossible
06. 3:04 - What's Done Is Done
07. 2:46 - Pieces Of Dreams
08. 3:40 - Breakfast In Bed
09. 2:30 - Excuse Me
10. 5:09 - Bridge Over Troubled Water
11. 3:04 - I'm Not There
12. 2:46 - I'd Like To Hate Myself In The Morning

The 1999 EMI CD release contains two additional bonus tracks:
13. 2:58 - For The Love Of Him
14. 3:41 - Vehicle
 
Notes

The French Pressing "Love Story" also contained the track For All We Know, though this was not noted on the sleeve.

On the 1980 Spanish  'Edicion Especial Coleccionistas' the Sleeve is not gatefold as on the original release, thus lacking the locker-style fold-out pin-up of Shirley (Perhaps they felt it was too 70ish nine years later...) On this edition the track Easy Thing To Do was left out. All song titles appeared in English and Spanish. Album subtitled Algo más on LP itself.
 
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Review
From the Billboard Magazine, Jul 24 1971

PICK: This strong program of artistic as well as highly commercial performances of some of today's top songs serves as a potent chart topper for her recent "Is Really Something" LP. With super support from the Johnny Harris arrangements, the stylist brings her own unique and exceptional touch to such as "Pieces of Dreams," "Love Story," "Until It's Time For You to Go," and "Breakfast in Bed."
 
CD Sleeve Note
By Chris White, From The 1999 EMI Re-Release

If Shirley Bassey's 1970 landmark album Something had marked a new adventurous turning point in her recording career thus far, then her 1971 follow-up album Something Else continued the musical tradition.

Shirley had already been a major British singing star since the late Fifties, and the Sixties had seen her become an international artist thanks to such hits as the million-selling Goldfinger in 1964. The Seventies however were to see her develop into a fully fledged international superstar, with best selling records, and headlining television, concert and cabaret, around the world.

With the benefit of hindsight, it is now possible to see the Something and Something Else albums were responsible for paving the way to this worldwide success.

Something Else was released in May 1971 and, like it's predecessor Something, immediately leapt into the UK album chart, climbing to number 7 and spending over two months in the Top 50. Unlike the Something album, Something Else had not had the benefit of a Top 10 hit single to promote it. However Shirley's passionate reading of (Where Do I Begin) Love Story had reached the Top 40 and spent over two months in the British charts (albeit overtaken by Andy Williams' Top 10 version).

Nonetheless, Something Else earned Shirley Bassey gold discs around the world and is still considered to be one of the finest albums of her recording career. It once again teamed her with the formidable musical team of producer Noel Rogers and arranger/director Johnny Harris, and featured 12 scintillating contemporary recordings which ideally showcased Shirley's unique singing style.

Apart from the film theme (Where Do I Begin) Love Story, Something Else also included two other movie songs, Pieces Of Dreams, composed by Michel Legrand, and Alan and Marilyn Bergman (who earlier had been responsible for the classic Windmills Of Your Mind), and the electrifying Till Love Touches Your Life.

Shirley also revived two very-underrated songs from the mid-Sixties. American fold singer's Buffy Sainte-Marie's Until It's Time For You To Go had originally been a minor hit for The Four Pennies in 1965 while under-stated ballad Excuse Me had been released as a single by Kiki Dee around the same time, although failing to make the charts. Indeed, the latter song was reputed to be Shirley's favourite song on the album.

More contemporary ballads like It's Impossible (which had been a major hit for Perry Como) and Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water were also included on Something Else. Shirley also brought her unique vocal touch to Breakfast In Bed (originally introduced by Dusty Springfield on the Dusty In Memphis album) and the bump-and-grind-styled I'd Like To Hate Myself In The Morning (originally written by John Meyer for Judy Garland).

Completing the album were Easy Thing To Do, What's Done Is Done and I'm Not There, all performed in great style and graced by Johnny Harris' usual imaginative musical arrangements.

This is Something Else's first-time release on compact disc, and is a long overdue re-instatement into the EMI catalogue. Bassey fans will also be pleased to note the inclusion of two bonus tracks, recorded during the Something Else sessions but not included on the eventual album.

For The Love Of Him was originally the B-side of (Where Do I Begin) Love Story, while Vehicle, recorded in February 1971, remained unreleased for many years until it's eventual inclusion on the 1994 boxed set, Bassey: The EMI/UA Years. This is its first-time release outside of that set.

Something Else marks Shirley Bassey at her very best and still sounds as great as when we first heard the album back in 1971!
 

Review
 By John Bush, All Music Guide

In keeping with the title, Shirley Bassey's follow-up to her 1970 hit LP Something does indeed present a bit of a change of direction. In fact, it's a step back to her MOR dates of the mid-'60s; the album includes no recent rock standards, and the arrangements focus on full-orchestra symphonic pop with fewer nods to the contemporary scene. Though it didn't chart quite as high as its predecessor, it did make the Top Ten while her version of "(Where Do I Begin) Love Story" hit the Top 40 in Britain. Most of the album is given over to large scale, dramatic pop songs - "It's Impossible," "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Until It's Time to Go" - best treated by a full-throated vocalist like Bassey. It's not quite as raucous or adventurous as Something, but it must've been an easier album to digest for Bassey fans from way back.

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