Shirley Bassey - Thank-You For The Years / Diamonds Are Forever (2003 Live) video free download

2003 (In 2003, Shirley Bassey celebrated 50 years in show business, and the song, Thank-You For The Years was written especially for her. In 2013, Dame Shirley will celebrate 60 years in the music business and both Shirley and her vocal powers, I'm happy to say, are still in excellent shape! This is a wonderful feel-good song that will apply to anyone remembering and celebrating their long past, their friends, family, and with all the good & bad along the way. The second song is one of Shirley's signature hit tunes, and it's the theme song from the movie, Diamonds Are Forever. Shirley appears on the Michael Parkinson TV Show)

Shirley recorded and released Thank-You For The Years on her 2003 CD Titled, 'Shirley Bassey - Thank-You For The Years'. This was the title track. This CD included sever new songs plus many of her older hits.

ABOUT the significance of TYFTY:

Thank You for the Years is a 2003 album by Welsh singer Shirley Bassey.

This album, a mix of new and previously released material, commemorated Bassey's 50 years in show business. Bassey marks the year 1953 as her official entry into show business, as that is the year, at the age of sixteen, she signed her first professional contract: to tour in a variety show called "Memories of Jolson".[1] The album reached #19 in the UK Albums Chart, and earned a silver disc.

In a 1999 interview with Nigel Havers in her Monte Carlo apartment, Bassey pointed to a piece of paper framed on the wall and referred to it as her first contract, at a salary of £14 a week (a considerable sum for a sixteen-year-old in 1953). However, upon closer inspection of this document, dated December 17, 1953 (three weeks before her 17th birthday), it appears to be £10 for two performances.

ABOUT the songwriter:

Andrew Neve has enjoyed a successful career in music for over 20 years. As a composer and musician he has worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation and other prolific broadcast companies in the broadcast and film arenas. As a Brass player, Keyboard player and vocalist he has worked with and alongside many acts including Alison Moyet (Top 20 Album), Free the Spirit (Top 30 Album), Godley & Creme (10cc), Dame Shirley Bassey (Top 20 Album) and Steve Hackett (Genesis). He has recorded five children's albums, co-produced a top 30 album for the band Free the Spirit and wrote the title track on Shirley Bassey's top 20 album "Thank you for the Years." Examples of Neve's TV work include Wogan's Web (BBC 1). Secret Service (BBC 1), Tomorrow's World (BBC 1), A Word in your Ear (BBC 1) and the BBC World Service Programmes Europe Today and Newsday. He has recently completed the music for "The Jarmies", a made for TV series due to air in 2010.

LYRICS - Thank-You For The Years:

I thank you for the years

I thank you for the good times

As we go on together

I just want to say I'm glad you're here tonight

Thank you for the way you've touched my life

I thank you for your love

It helps me through the hard times

And the joy we share together

gives me all I need to make it through the night

Thank you for the way you hold me tight

I thank you for the years

I thank you for the years

I thank you its been so wonderful

and through all the good and bad times

I just want to say I'm glad you're in my heart

loving you was only just the start

Holding on

When we're down and we are hurting

Holding on

To the precious things we have

We'll carry on

We'll carry on together

Our love's the reason we are strong

As we grow old together

I just want to say I'm glad you came my way

Thank you for the love you bring each day

I love you now and all I have to say

Is thank you for the years

LYRICS - Diamonds Are Forever:

Diamonds are forever,

They are all I need to please me,

They can stimulate and tease me,

They won't leave in the night,

I've no fear that they might desert me.

Diamonds are forever,

Hold one up and then caress it,

Touch it, stroke it and undress it,

I can see every part,

Nothing hides in the heart to hurt me.

I don't need love,

For what good will love do me?

Diamonds never lie to me,

For when love's gone,

They'll luster on.

Diamonds are forever,

Sparkling round my little finger.

Unlike men, the diamonds linger;

Men are mere mortals who

Are not worth going to your grave for.

I don't need love,

For what good will love do me?

Diamonds never lie to me,

For when love's gone,

They'll luster on.

Diamonds are forever, forever, forever.

Diamonds are forever, forever, forever.

Forever and ever.