Shirley Bassey - People (Who Need People Are The Luckiest People....) (1979 Show #5) video free download

1979 (Shirley Bassey recorded this song and included it on her 1965 LP titled, 'Shirley Bassey Stops The Shows (UK Cover) and 'Shirley Bassey Belts The Best (USA Cover). Here she is in 1979 performing this song on her TV Variety Show. Everyone recognizes this song as one of Barbra Streisand's signature songs, and at the end of this clip there is a 2013 great picture of them together nearly four decades after both recorded this classic song. (It's unfortunate, but WMG Publishing has blocked the view of Shirley's studio recording of this great song worldwide; otherwise, I would have uploaded it because it's great!)

ABOUT this song:

People" is a song that was written by Jule Styne (composer) and Bob Merrill (lyricist) for the Broadway musical Funny Girl (1964) starring Barbra Streisand, who introduced the song. It is often known by a line from its chorus, "People who need people....". It has been recorded by Shirley Bassey, Dionne Warwick, Steve Lawrence, Jack Jones, Aretha Franklin, Nat King Cole, Perry Como, The Supremes and others, but is most closely associated with Streisand as her signature song. The song asserts that "people who need people" — that is, people who love others and are not emotionally cut off from them — are the "luckiest people in the world". It was released as a single with "I Am Woman", a solo version of "You Are Woman, I Am Man", also from "Funny Girl".

Andy Williams released a version of the song on his 1964 album, The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits. Ella Fitzgerald recorded the song live on her CBS release Ella Fitzgerald at the Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall. The Tymes had a top 40 hit with the song in 1968

LYRICS:

People,

People who need people,

Are the luckiest people in the world

We're children, needing other children

And yet letting a grown-up pride

Hide all the need inside

Acting more like children than children

Lovers are very special people

They're the luckiest people in the world

With one person one very special person

A feeling deep in your soul

Says you were half now you're whole

No more hunger and thirst

But first be a person who needs people.

People who need people

Are the luckiest people in the world

With one person one very special person

No more hunger and thirst

But first be a person who needs people

People who need people

Are the luckiest people in the world