Shirley Bassey - Get the Party Started CD

Get the Party Started album for sale Lucille Ball stars as Auntie Mame, an eccentric and wealthy woman who teaches her young orphaned nephew how to live life to the fullest. Based on the popular stage play. Featured songs include "Mame," "If He Walked Into My Life," and "We Need a Little Christmas." She'll coax the blues right out of your heart. Madcap Auntie Mame (Lucille Ball) is suddenly her nephew's guardian. Robert Preston and Beatrice Arthur co-star in a sparkling adaptation of the Broadway hit.

Get the Party Started buy CD music Digitally remastered by Ron Hill & Peter Mew (Abbey Road Studios, London, England) & Bob Norberg (Capitol Mastering, Los Angeles, California). These 16 songs spanning the 1960s to the 1990s (most from the 1960s and 1970s) aren't the ideal way to survey the career of the proudly melodramatic singer, who has recorded prolifically since the 1950s, and who has had more than a couple dozen chart British singles. It does include the numbers that the fan who only wants one Shirley Bassey album will likely want: "Goldfinger," "What Now My Love," "Diamonds Are Forever," "Moonraker," "Big Spender," "As Long As He Needs Me," "I (Who Have Nothing)," "(Where Do I Begin) Love Story," and "Something," the last of which was actually a British Top Five hit just half a year after the Beatles put it out as a single. There's also her 1997 British hit collaboration with Propellerheads, "History Repeating." Perhaps its success spurred the inclusion of the three remixes that conclude the album: "Goldfinger" (by the Propellerheads), "(Where Do I Begin) Love Story" (by AwayTeam), and "Big Spender" (by Wild Oscar). Fuddy-duds will find this unfortunate, as it's not typical of Bassey's work and will quickly date this anthology as a partial attempt to cash in on "History Repeating." ~ Richie Unterberger Producers include: Norman Newell, Johnny Harris, John Berry, Tony Colton, George Martin. Compilation producers: Nigel Reeve, Paul Atkinson.

Get the Party Started songs Dame Shirley Bassey's first full studio album in over 20 years, The Performance is produced by the legendary composer David Arnold, who scored five James Bond films. Featuring songs written by a host of top musicians, including Rufus Wainwright and the Manic Street Preachers, The Performance also features a song written by John Barry, his first for Bassey since "Diamonds Are Forever." 2009 standard edition of Britain’s most successful female artist’s first full studio album in over 20 years. David Arnold, the Grammy Award-winning producer best known for scoring five James Bond films produced the album. It features songs written specifically for Bassey, by contemporary artists, including Take That’s Gary Barlow, Manic Street Preachers, Pet Shop Boys, KT Tunstall & Rufus Wainwright. 11 tracks. Liner Note Author: Paul Sexton. Recording information: Air Lyndhurst, London; Grouse Lodge, Ireland. Personnel: David Arnold (guitar, percussion); Toby Pitman (guitar); James Hayto (flamenco guitar); Skaila Kanga (harp); Warren Zielinski, Mark Berrow, Deborah Widdup, David Woodcock, Gabrielle Lester, Maciej Rakowski, Dai Emanuel, John Bradbury, Helen Paterson, Philippa Ibbotson, Roger Garland, Boguslaw Kostecki, Jackie Shave, Emlyn Singleton (violin); Donald McVay, George Robertson, Ivo Jan van der Werff, Andy Parker , Rachel Bolt, Kate Musker (viola); Helen Keen, Jonathan Snowden (flute, alto flute); David Fuest (clarinet, bass clarinet); Nicholas Bucknall (clarinet); Dominic Morgan, Richard Skinner (bassoon); Jamie Talbot (tenor saxophone); David Bishop (baritone saxophone); John Barclay, Maurice Murphy, Derek Watkins (trumpet, flugelhorn); Mike Lovatt (trumpet); Neil Sidwell (trombone); Lindsay Shilling, Mark Nightingale (tenor trombone); Dave Stewart , Richard Edwards (bass trombone); Owen Slade (tuba); Michael Thompson , Richard Berry , Richard Watkins (horns); Andrew McCormack (electric piano); Steve McManus, Paddy Lannigan, Mary Scully (double bass); Steve Pearce (bass guitar); Les Arnold, Ian Thomas (drums); Tristan Fry (timpani, percussion); Paul Clarvis (percussion). Audio Mixer: Tom Elhirst.

Get the Party Started CD music The first digital re-release of Judy Garland's fascinating 1959 song cycle, centered on a letter that recounts the arc of a relationship between two lovers, THE LETTER features narrative excerpts read by the actor John Ireland, as well as orchestral arrangements by Gordon Jenkins. This remastered set features four bonus tracks, as well as informative liner notes and reproductions of the album's original artwork. Composer: Gordon Jenkins. Personnel: Judy Garland (vocals); Ernie Newton, Robert Stevens, Lee Gotch, Loulie Jean Norman, Norma Zimmer, Sally Sweetland, Betty Noyes, Betty Wand, Donald Williams (vocals); Kathryn Tompson (harp); Mischa Russell, Jacques Gasselin, Lou Raderman, Murray Kellner, Dan Lube, Joseph Livoti, David Frisina, Marshall Sosson, Victor Arno, Israel Baker, Paul Shure, Walter Edelstein (violin); David Sterkin, William Baffa, Louis Kievman, Paul Robyn (viola); Arnold Koblentz, Bert Gassman (oboe); Jack Chaney, Wayne E. Songer, Matty Matlock, Wilbur Schwartz (woodwinds); Uan Rasey, Conrad Gozzo , Dick Cathcart, Charles Griffard (trumpet); Richard Perissi, Vincent DeRosa, John Cave (French horn); Moe Schneider, Bill Schaefer (trombone); Nick Fatool (percussion). Audio Remasterer: David McEowen. Audio Remixer: David McEowen. Liner Note Author: Scott Schechter. Recording information: Capitol Records Tower, Hollywood, CA (01/15/1959/01/16/1959). Additional personnel: Ralph Brewster Singers, The Gordon Jenkins Orchestera, John Ireland.

Get the Party Started buy CD music Long after their favorite singers have passed, vocal fans still have many avenues to hear new (to them) recordings from the peak era of vocal jazz. Alternate takes aside, radio transcriptions and broadcast programs are the two usually plundered for reissue. While most are hastily packaged and terribly mastered, the best of them occur in settings that are artistically advanced compared to the artist's usual studio sides. (Vocalists, like all other musicians, used opportunities like these to experiment and play around with ideas that would only later become fully fledged releases.) The Rosemary Clooney Show, a compilation from Concord, is one of the most valuable releases on an underrated artist that's ever been seen. It features 26 recordings from 1956, when Clooney's TV program -- basically self-produced -- featured the singer backed by Nelson Riddle, the prime arranger/conductor of the era, and the Hi-Lo's, the best vocal chorus in action. (Due to frequent label conflicts, Riddle and Clooney recorded together elsewhere much less frequently.) Michael Feinstein, the disc's producer, found the tapes in Clooney's home, played them for her well before her death, and earned her approval for a release -- which dismisses the lingering suspicion that these performances wouldn't have appeared during her lifetime. The music is sparkling and betrays no elements of its catch-all sources; in fact, most of these songs were recorded well before broadcast. Except for the brevity of most of these selections, these could easily have been released as a studio LP. Rarely allowed to record what she wished at Columbia, Clooney stretched out on her television show and appealed to older audiences with the standards she loved to sing; here, after getting a pair of novelties out of the way, she sprints joyously through two dozen standards. Among the highlights are a modernist version of "How About You" recorded with Bob Morse and the Hi-Lo's, and the balladry of "Moonlight in Vermont" and "A Foggy Day." Imagine if two of Clooney's finest LPs were shelved immediately after recording ended and only released 50 years after the fact; that's the impact of The Rosemary Clooney Show on her artistic legacy. ~ John Bush Recorded in 1956. Includes liner notes by Rosemary Clooney. Personnel: The Hi-Lo's (vocals). Liner Note Author: Michael Feinstein. Recording information: 1956. Arrangers: Nelson Riddle; Paul Weston. Personnel includes: Rosemary Clooney (vocals); Nelson Riddle (arranger); The Hi-Los. Compilation producer: Michael Feinstein.

Get the Party Started songs A veteran of musicals, revues, and cabarets, Shirley Bassey was born to belt out larger-than-life torch ballads, and while she recorded many studio projects throughout her career, which began in 1959, she was most herself at center stage in front of an audience, where her powerful voice and presence made her the full performer. This set features two of Bassey's late-'70s studio LPs -- 1974's Martin Rushent-produced and engineered Nobody Does It Like Me, which is about as tamed down as Bassey ever got, and 1976's Love, Life and Feelings -- combined in one package. ~ Steve Leggett Digitally remastered two-fer consisting of two mid-'70s albums from Dame Shirley Bassey, a British musical institution for over four decades. Nobody Does It Like Me, originally released in 1974, contains 10 tracks. Love Life & Feelings, released two years later, features 12 tracks. Comes packaged in a slipcase with extensive liner notes. BGO. 2006. Audio Remasterer: Andrew Thompson . Audio Remixer: Don Hahn. Liner Note Author: John O'Regan. Recording information: A&R Studios, New York, NY; The Record Plant, LA. Photographers: Bert Stern; Richard Avedon. Arrangers: Gene Page; Nick Perito; Arthur Greenslade.