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CD 1

01. 3:37 - Something
02. 3:34 - As Time Goes By
03. 3:18 - With These Hands
04. 2:59 - As Long As He Needs Me
05. 3:06 - You'll Never Know
06. 2:15 - Tonight
07. 2:56 - What Now My Love?
08. 3:19 - It Must Be Him
09. 2:51 - I'll Never Fall In Love Again (1970 live recording)
10. 4:32 - If You Go Away
11. 2:49 - I Get A Kick Out Of You
12. 4:20 - The Nearness Of You
13. 3:15 - (Where Do I Begin?) Love Story
14. 3:08 - The Look Of Love
15. 3:01 - You Made Me Love You
16. 3:09 - Time After Time
17. 2:31 - Softly As I Leave You
18. 3:22 - I Wish You Love
19. 2:13 - Who Can I Turn To
20. 3:32 - The Party's Over

CD 2

01. 2:40 - Diamonds Are Forever
02. 3:12 - The Fool On The Hill
03. 1:48 - Big Spender
04. 3:30 - Make The World A Little Younger
05. 2:40 - I (Who Have Nothing)
06. 3:15 - What Kind Of Fool Am I
07. 3:02 - Let's Fall In Love
08. 2:51 - Somewhere
09. 3:25 - Cry Me A River
10. 3:24 - Where Or When
11. 2:47 - Goldfinger
12. 2:55 - The Lady Is A Tramp
13. 2:49 - If I Were A Bell
14. 2:58 - It's Magic
15. 3:35 - Too Late Now
16. 3:35 - Never, Never, Never
17. 3:27 - When You Smile
18. 4:25 - And I Love You So
19. 2:26 - Does Anybody Miss Me
20. 2:41 - For All We Know

The most successful female vocalist on the British charts has been Shirley Veronica Bassey, born in Cardiff on 8 January 1937, Elvis Presley's second birthday. Shirley Bassey's chart career began a month after her 20th birthday, when her version of Harry Belafonte's Banana Boat Song entered the charts. Although beaten by the original version, she nevertheless scored her first top ten hit.

Miss Bassey's greatest chart achievement is to have had a bigger hit with a song the Beatles put out as a single than the Beatles did themselves. Her version of Something reached number four, which is the same position that the Beatles climbed to, but Shirley Bassey's record stayed for 22 weeks on the chart, compared with only 12 weeks for the Beatles. There have been many other versions of songs the Beatles recorded as singles but only Shirley Bassey has come up with a bigger hit than the original.

In the early seventies Shirley's efforts won an even wider audience than in the previous decade. She appeared at the New York's Waldorf Astoria and the Royal Variety Performance at London's Palladium, a guest spot on the Ed Sullivan Show and her own special on BBC-TV.

This wonderful Lady is best described by a review in the Los Angeles Times following a performance at The Pavilion of the Los Angeles Music Centre: "Shirley Bassey had one convinced she is the most deliciously dangerous, engaging evil, utterly exciting popular vocalist in captivity."
 

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