Shirley Bassey The Birthday Concert CD

Contains 25 tracks.Contains 24 track.The brassy '60s belter Shirley Bassey, Britain's delayed answer to Lena Horne, recently celebrated her 60th birthday with a series of outdoor concerts, of which THE BIRTHDAY CONCERT draws from two. "Goldfinger," a smash hit in 1965, isn't included here but she performs her other big, bad James Bond theme "Diamonds Are Forever" with suitable brio.Bassey's speciality is a slightly menacing Euro power ballad, with her primo version of Lieber & Stoller's adapted Italian hit "I (Who Have Nothing)" a choice example. Bassey is also a large enough musical personality to straddle the parallel worlds of Broadway and rock with ease. The Beatles' "Something" and "Hey Jude" actually benefit from her outsize approach and Foreigner's " I Wanna Know What Love Is" was pretty "outsized" to begin with. To bring matters further up to date, a disco-inflected version of Chris Rea's "La Passionne" reveals this all-out entertainer to be a proto-Grace Jones, sharing the same stern, declamatory style, but strangely satisfying in the end.br /br //span_x000D_Track Listingbr /1. 'S Wonderfulbr /2. Diamonds Are Foreverbr /3. Nobody Does It Like Mebr /4. Never, Never Neverbr /5. Honey, Honey, Kiss Me Kiss Mebr /6. Big Spenderbr /7. The Lady Is a Trampbr /8. New York New Yorkbr /9. What Now My Lovebr /10. Somethingbr /11. Hey Judebr /12. I Wanna Know What Love Isbr /13. La Passionebr /14. I Who Have Nothingbr /15. Yesterday When I Was Youngbr /16. This Is My Lifebr /17. I Wish You Lovebr /18. I Am What I Ambr /19. (Untitled) - (hidden track)br /20. (Untitled) - (hidden track)/span