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I Am What I Am
Re-Issues of the 1984 album
2003

Golden Hits
Eurotrend CD 142.017


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1998
I Am What I Am
QED QED 269


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1997

I Am What I Am
Long Island 20005–2


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1996
Big Spender
Platinum Collection CD PLAT 052


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I Am What I Am
Aardvark ANT003


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I Am What I Am
Upbeat Music 10013–2


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1995
Best Of
Cameo CD 3544

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Shirley Bassey
Orbis-Fabri CD-824

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1994
Something
Remember RMB 75079
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1993
Big Spender
Starburst CD STB 8785


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Greatest Hits
Pilz 44 8201 2


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This Is My Life
Start Audio MU 5039 CD


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1992
I Am What I Am
Wisepack/Freestyle STACD 027


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1991
This Is My Life
Music Club MCCD 038
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1989
LP: The Best Of
BR Music BRLP 60
Cover Image: T. Timoleon

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CD: The Best Of
BR Music BRCD 60


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Unknown Year
Greatest Hits
Classic Artists AVM-095


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I Am What I Am
Tring/Classic Artists JHD057


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I Am What I Am
Lemust 500 022-2


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The Magic Collection
Arc Records MEC 949006


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The Magic Collection
2 CD Set including Liza Minnelli Collection CD
Arc Records MEC 949006

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A Tapestry Of Hits
Tempo DBCD 105


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This Is My Life
Music Options MO 3037


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Important Note

It is not always noted on the cover that it is from this recording session with the London Symphony Orchestra. To be sure, compare the tracks with the album track listing, noting that they are not always in the original order on the re-issues.

On many issues the last track If You Don't Understand
is missing and on the 1989 LP re-issue "Best Of" the track Natali is replace with All By Myself from the earlier album.
 
Sleeve Note
From the 1991 Music Club Release


 
Sleeve Note
From the 1994 release

Hundreds of thousands of words have been written about her and countless tributes have been paid to her artistry. Nevertheless, it can all be summed up in one short sentence: there is just no one like her. To hear her sing for the first time is to joyously discover one of the finest singers of our day, the one and only Shirley Bassey.

With a voice of angelic purity, striking beauty, and a gentle but irresistible charisma, Shirley Bassey is an artist of many gifts. She has become the most singular success among contemporary popular entertainers and she is unique in the range of her huge international audiences. "All music", Shirley is convinced, "is related. And if you feel and believe in your music, that conviction carries over to the public." The degree to which Shirley Bassey's conviction does indeed carry over to her public was described recently by an American critic: "When she sings, you forget your ills, who you are, where you come from, and what you're going to do when the show is over."

Shirley Bassey, born in Cardiff, Wales, on January 8, 1937, is the daughter of a West Indian merchant seamen. Her first success in Britain came in 1957 with the Harry Belafonte hit "Banana Boat Song". She didn't break into the charts again for nearly two years, when a chance appearance on the London Palladium Show helped to break "As I Love You". In early 1959, both this song and "Kiss Me Honey, Honey Kiss Me" were in the Top Ten. Among her next chart successes were "As Long As He Needs Me" (from Oliver), "Goldfinger" (from the James Bond film), "Big Spender" (from Sweet Charity), "Something" (the Beatles' hit) and "For All We Know".

In the early 1960s, Shirley Bassey's dynamic singing and extravagant gestures established her as a live act in American show business. In 1969, she moved to Switzerland, but all over the world her concert and cabaret appearances continued to be real sensations.

In her brilliant career, Miss Bassey has tackled just about every genre of song. She maintains her un-diminishing popularity because she handles a theatre audience just as effectively as she holds the attention of fans grouped around a CD player, listening to her albums. This compact disc features Shirley singing sixteen of her greatest hits, accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra, recorded (digitally) in 1984.

In popular singing there are great names, but few can equal the reputation and respect by Shirley Bassey. This collection is the perfect illustration of everything that makes her "divine". Whatever the song, there is no mistaking the voice or the temperament. "Something" proves that a singer who usually means business can also sing for the fun of it - and still siphon the truth out of every phrase.

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