SHIRLEY BASSEY — Something (1970-1999) RM | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Locked out of the singles charts for the past seven years, Shirley Bassey finally returned with this collection of "contemporary" standards, including her British Top Five single "Something." (Bassey, who first heard the song when Peggy Lee sang it, apparently didn't even know it was a Beatles tune until just before recording it.) To parallel the modern material, Johnny Harris' arrangements add an upfront electric bass and hang-loose drumkit to the heavy strings and brass. Of course, Bassey was never a jazz singer, so she makes the transition from traditional pop to contemporary rock with an ease more comparable to Barbra Streisand than Peggy Lee. There are a few jazzy rock standards ("Light My Fire," "Spinning Wheel," "Something") plus plenty of latter-day show tunes ("Easy to Be Hard," "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life,") and a few '60s vocal pieces ("The Sea and Sand," "My Way," "Yesterday When I Was Young"). Each tune that comes her way gets stamped with the irrepressible Bassey style, and ends up making a remarkably cohesive album of contemporary pop. John Bush
Tracklist :
1 Something 3:35
George Harrison
2 Spinning Wheel 3:08
David Clayton-Thomas
3 Yesterday I Heard the Rain 3:30
Gene Lees / Armando Manzanero
4 The Sea and Sand 4:02
Shirley Bassey
5 My Way 3:39
Paul Anka / Claude François / Jacques Revaux / Gilles Thibault
6 What About Today? 3:11
David Shire
7 You and I 3:47
Leslie Bricusse
8 Light My Fire 3:28
John Densmore / Robby Krieger / Ray Manzarek / Jim Morrison
9 Easy to Be Hard 2:41
Galt MacDermot / James Rado / Gerome Ragni
10 Life Goes On 2:41
Barbara Martin / Mikis Theodorakis
11 What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? 2:59
Alan Bergman / Marilyn Bergman / Michel Legrand
12 Yesterday, When I Was Young 3:54
Charles Aznavour / Herbert Kretzmer
– BONUS TRACK –
13 The Fool on the Hill 3:23
John Lennon / Paul McCartney
 Credits :
Arranged By, Conductor – Johnny Harris
Bass Guitar [Uncredited] – Tony Campo
Drums [Uncredited] – Harold Fisher
Guitar [Uncredited] – Bill Parkinson
Other [Dress By] – Siki Milan