Shirley Bassey - Dance In The Old Fashion Way - C Aznavour-Yesterday When I Was Young (1976 Show #3) video free download

1976 (Shirley Bassey hosts Charles Aznavour on her 1976 TV Variety Show. Shirley first performs Aznavour's, 'Dance In The Old Fashion Way' and Charles comes in half way through and dances with Shirley. Then, Charles sings another one of the songs he wrote, 'Yesterday When I Was Young.' The song, 'Yesterday When I Was Young' was a big hit for both Charles and Shirley, and Bassey has performed it live more times than probably any other artist but maybe Aznavous himself.

This song, 'The Old Fashioned Way' was recorded and released on Shirley's 1973 LP titled, 'Shirley Bassey - Never Never Never'

ABOUT this song:

"The Old Fashioned Way" is the English version of Charles Aznavour's "Les plaisirs demodes" song. The song was released in English in 1973 and became a hit in the UK.

YRICS:

Dance in the old-fashioned way.

Won't you stay in my arms ?

Just melt against my skin and let me feel your heart.

Don't let the music win by dancing far apart.

Come close where you belong, let's hear our secret song.

Dance in the old-fashioned way.

Won't you stay in my arms

and we'll discover heights we never knew before,

if we just close our eyes and dance around the floor.

That gay, old-fashioned way that makes me love you more.

Come closer, forget about the others.

It's nice to be like this, cheek to cheek,

in the old-fashioned way.

It's funny, but, I have the feeling that we are dancing as our parents used to do.

Well, maybe they weren't wrong :

the world changes, love stays.

Dance in the old-fashioned way.

Won't you stay in my arms

and we'll discover heights we never knew before,

if we just close our eyes and dance around the floor.

That gay, old-fashioned way that makes me love you more.

ABOUT Yesterday When I Was Young:

This song was recorded and released on Shirley's 1970 LP titled, 'Shirley Bassey - Something'. Bassey's UK comeback came in 1970, leading to one of the most successful periods of her career. In this year, she returned to the UK with a record breaking run of performances at the Talk of the Town nightclub. Also in that year, she released the album Something, which showcased a new Bassey style, a shift from traditional pop to more contemporary songs and arrangements

ABOUT the original songwriter, Charles Aznavour:

Charles Aznavour OC, (born Shahnour Vaghenag Aznavourian[1], May 22, 1924, Paris) is a French-Armenian singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world. Aznavour is known for his characteristic short figure and unique tenor voice; clear and ringing in its upper reaches, with gravelly and profound low notes. He has appeared in more than 60 movies, composed about 1,000 songs (including 150 at least in English, 100 in Italian, 70 in Spanish, and 50 in German, and has sold well over 100 million records. In 1998, Charles Aznavour was named Entertainer of the Century by CNN and users of Time Online from around the globe.

LYRICS - Yesterday When I Was Young:

Yesterday when I was young

The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue

I teased at life as if it were a foolish game

The way the evening breeze may tease the candle flame

A thousand dreams I dreamed

The splendid things I planned

I always built alas on weak and shifting sand

I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day

And only now I see how the years ran away

Yesterday when I was young

So many lovely songs were waiting to be sung

So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me

And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see

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I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out

I never stopped to think what life was all about

And every conversation I can now recall

Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all

Yesterday the moon was blue

And every crazy day brought something new to do

I used my magic age as if it were a wand

That never saw the waste and emptiness beyond

The game of love I played with arrogance and pride

And every flame I lit too quickly quickly died

The friends I made all seemed somehow drift away

And only I am left on stage to end the play

There are so many songs in me that won't be sung

I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue

The time has come for me to pay

For yesterday....

when I was young.....