Shirley Bassey - GOLDFINGER / Typically English (1967 TV Special) video free download

1967 (Something Special - Shirley Bassey and Count Basie TV Special - All of the music for this TV Special is performed by Count Basie and his Orchestra)

ABOUT the song, Goldfinger:

"Goldfinger" was the title song from the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger. Composed by John Barry and with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, the song was performed by Shirley Bassey for the film's opening and closing title sequences, as well as the soundtrack album release. The single release of the song gave Bassey her only Billboard Hot 100 top ten hit, peaking at number eight; in the United Kingdom, the single reached #21. In 2008, the single was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Upon being asked to create a theme song for the film-in-progress, Bricusse and Newley looked at each other instantly and sang out, "Goldfinger . . . wider than a mile," reprising "Moon River," the successful theme song from Breakfast at Tiffany's. Originally, Newley recorded the song, but it was re-recorded by Bassey with George Martin and Jimmy Page as a session guitarist.[2] Newley's version was later released in 1992 to mark the 30th Anniversary of James Bond on film, in a compilation collector's edition: The Best of Bond...James Bond.

The release on vinyl of Bassey's version sold more than a million copies in the United States (Guinness Book of Records)[citation needed], and it also reached number one on the Japanese charts and the top ten of many European countries. The song has become Bassey's theme song and she has performed it in most of her concerts since the 1960s, often as an opening number.

LYRICS:

Goldfinger

He's the man, the man with the Midas touch

A spider's touch

Such a cold finger

Beckons you to enter his web of sin

But don't go in

Golden words he will pour in your ear

But his lies can't disguise what you fear

For a golden girl knows when he's kissed her

It's the kiss of death ...

From Mister Goldfinger

Pretty girl, beware of his heart of gold

This heart is cold

Golden words he will pour in your ear

But his lies can't disguise what you fear

For a golden girl knows when he's kissed her

It's the kiss of death ...

From Mister Goldfinger

Pretty girl, beware of his heart of gold

This heart is cold

He loves only gold

Only gold

He loves gold

He loves only gold

Only gold

He loves gold

ABOUT the song, 'Typically English':

Words & Music by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley from the musical, Stop the world - I want to get off.

ABOUT the Musical, 'Stop The World-I Want To Get Off:

STOP THE WORLD was a landmark in the history of the British musical, notable for its freedom of form and cynicism of content as it charted the bitter-sweet rise of its central character, played by Newley, from teaboy to millionaire. For Newley, its lasting legacy was its songs. They included Gonna Build a Mountain and What Kind of Fool Am I? which sold more than a million records and became his signature tune.

LYRICS - Typically English:

My mother said I never should

Play with the young men in the wood.

If I did, she would say

'Naughty little girl to disobey!'

I'm a typically English rosebud

Born of typically English stock

With a typically Anglo-Saxon family tree.

I received my education

In a typically English way

At a typically English Girls' Academy.

I play typically English tennis

At a typically English club

With a typically English feeling for fair play.

I eat typically English crumpets

With my typically English tea

At the end of every typically English day.

Father is a typically English colonel,

Home is a typically English county town.

Mummy and I play typically English patience

While the typically English rain is pouring down.

We've a typically English spaniel

Who likes typically English walks

Past the typically English trees upon the heath.

And if anyone asks me how I like

This typically English life,

I am fed up to my typically English teeth.

My mother said I never should

Play with the boys in the wood

If I did, she would say

They'll only end up in the family way.

When I go to typically English dances,

Mother gives me typically sound advice:

How to cope with typically coarse advances,

But I'm bound to confess I find them rather nice!

In the typically English summer

We take typically English trips

To a typically seaside place with Auntie Maude;

And if anyone asks me how I like

This typically English life,

I have never been so - bloody bored!