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Sings The Songs Of Andrew Lloyd Webber Album 1993: EMI MFP 8 27982-2

Shirley Bassey had recorded four of the songs already and the previous recordings are generally preferred by fans: Memory, All I Ask Of You, I Don't Know How To Love Him and Don't Cry For Me Argentina. The album was produced by Gordon Lorenz.
 

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Entered: Dec 04 1993 & Feb 05 1994 Highest: Albums: #34  Run: 5 Wks

 

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Track Listing

01. 5:02 - Memory (from musical "Cats")
02. 3:04 - Starlight Express (from musical "Starlight Express")
03. 4:05 - All I Ask Of You (from musical "Phantom of The Opera")
04. 4:15 - I Don't Know How To Love Him (from musical "Jesus Christ Superstar")
05. 3:17 - Macavity (from musical "Cats")
06. 2:28 - Chanson D'Enfance (from musical "Aspects Of Love")
07. 3:44 - With One Look (from musical "Sunset Boulevard")
08. 3:33 - Tell Me On A Sunday (from musical "Song & Dance")
09. 3:38 - The Last Man In My Life (from musical "Song & Dance")
10. 5:13 - Don't Cry For Me Argentina (from musical "Evita")
11. 3:25 - Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (from musical "Phantom Of The Opera")
12. 3:47 - As If We Never Said Goodbye (from musical "Sunset Boulevard")
13. 1:09 - Memory (reprise) (from musical "Cats")
 

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Sleeve Note By Shirley Bassey

This is a unique recording indeed and represented for me a musical challenge I could not resist. It is the first time I have sung the works of one composer on a complete album. The songs were marvellous to record and I hope they bring you as much pleasure as they have brought to me.
 

Sleeve Note By Gordon Lorenz

It hardly seems possible that some forty years have elapsed since a young teenager from Tiger Bay, Cardiff first took the world of Show Business by storm.

Shirley's first professional job came at the age of sixteen in a Touring Revue Show called "Memories Of Al Jolson".
Before long she was playing London's Astor Club, where she was spotted by bandleader and impresario, Jack Hylton. He immediately booked her for the West End Christmas Show and subsequent Revue starring Al Reed and called "Such Is Life" which ran for a year.

Her extraordinary appeal as a performer shone through even in those early days and it was obvious that the world of theatre and concerts lay at her feet. It wasn't too long before the world of 'recordings' was to beckon. Shirley was destined to become one of the biggest selling recording stars internationally.

Her first hit came in 1957 with the calypso styled "Banana Boat Song", it made the top ten and stayed in the charts for 10 weeks. Her next big hit was "Kiss Me Honey Honey Kiss Me", which made No.3 in the charts and was the forerunner of her first No.1 "As I Love You". From then on the hits flowed continuously ... Lionel Bart's "As Long As He Needs Me", "You'll Never Know" and yet another No.1 in 1961 with the double 'A' sided "Reach For The Stars" and "Climb Every Mountain".

Shirley's 'top ten' singles have included "I'll Get By", "What Now My Love", "I (Who Have Nothing)", George Harrison's "Something", "For All We Know" and "Never, Never, Never". Her single sales were such that, well into the 1980's her recordings spent more weeks in the UK charts than any other female performer. Over a period of some twenty years her records charted for well over 300 weeks.

The accolades she has received over the years have been numerous and all of them deserved. In the 1976 The American Guild Of Variety Artists voted her "Best Female Entertainer" and the following year she received the Britannia Award for the "Best Female Solo Singer In The Last 50 Years".

This exciting album opens a new chapter in the illustrious career of this great lady. Over the past twenty years the theatres in the capital cities of the world have become increasingly dominated by the musicals of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. It was perhaps inevitable that eventually these two great names would be linked in a unique recording of the biggest and most successful Lloyd Webber songs.

The music spans the complete career of the great composer. "I Don't Know How To Love Him" from his early musical "Jesus Christ Superstar", written in collaboration with Tim Rice, through to "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from "Evita" and on to his more recent works from "Phantom" and "Aspects" namely "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again", "All I Ask Of You" and "Chanson D'Enfance". The recording also features the two big numbers from his most recent success "Sunset Boulevard" ... "As If We Never Said Goodbye" and of course "With One Look".

Every song is sung with that special magic that comes from a performer who makes every word count and who always sings straight from the heart. As someone said in the studio during the actual recording - "It's as if they had all been written especially for Shirley".

The songs cover such a wide range of styles and interpretations ... from the Big Band swing numbers "Starlight Express" and "Macavity" ... to the tender love songs from "Song & Dance", "The Last Man In My Life" and "Tell Me On A Sunday".

A special recording ... the music of the greatest composer of our age sung by someone who can only be described as the one and only Shirley Bassey.

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