Shirley Bassey - The Way We Were (1975 Recording) video free download

1975 (Veteran vocalist/entertainer Shirley Bassey recorded this beautiful song and released it on her 1975 LP titled, 'Good, Bad But Beautiful'. Of course, this song is most well known as one of Barbra Streisand's hits, and it was the theme song for the movie of the same name. Actually, this classic has been recorded by many artists over the years, and I enjoy all versions that brings out each artists' own style and vocal abilities. Bassey, with her tremendous vocal abilities and interpretation skills, brings across an innocence to her rendition.

ABOUT the LP, Good, Bad But Beautiful:

Good, Bad but Beautiful is a 1975 album by Shirley Bassey. In the first half of the decade, Bassey recorded nine albums, with three making the top ten. In March 1975, Bassey released a compilation that became her highest-charting album to date, The Shirley Bassey Singles Album (#2), and reflects the momentum Bassey had maintained since her 1970 "comeback". Good, Bad but Beautiful, released in the autumn of 1975, spent seven weeks on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at #13. The album reflects the formula that brought Bassey back to the charts: a combination of contemporary songs combined with her forte of standards, show tunes, and torch songs, featuring arrangements aimed squarely at the adult contemporary, or middle-of-the-road, audience. This was also achieved by modifying her backup orchestra to include electric guitars, a string and brass section with a more contemporary sound, and drumming that is more soft rock-oriented than jazz-oriented, while side two's opener, "Feel Like Makin' Love" displays a smooth jazz style.

This was Bassey's seventh album of the 1970s to make the Billboard 200, peaking at #186. It also reached #54 on the US R&B chart. In the UK the album was awarded a silver disc six weeks after it was released. The original release was in stereo on vinyl and cassette. In 2005, BGO Records issued a remastered Good, Bad but Beautiful, together with the 1973 album Never Never Never, on a 2 CD set.

LYRICS - The Way We Were:

Memories, light the corners of my mind

Misty watercolor memories

of the way we were.

Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind

smiles we give to one another

for the way we were.

Can it be that it was all so simple then

or has time rewritten every line?

If we had the chance to do it all again

tell me would we? Could we?

Memories, may be beautiful and yet

what's too painful to remember

we simply choose to forget

So it's the laughter we will remember

whenever we remember

the way we were.

the way we were.....