Shirley Bassey - Yesterday When I Was Young / SOMETHING (1970 Live) video free download

1970 (Two of Shirley's signature songs from a televised concert in Germany)

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.....

ABOUT Shirley's 1970 LP, 'Something' & Song:

Something is a 1970 album by Shirley Bassey. With her career having been in decline since the latter part of the mid 1960s, Something proved to be Shirley Bassey's comeback when it was released in August 1970. The title track single became her biggest UK hit for many years, reaching No.4 and spending 22 weeks on the chart. This was actually the second single featured on the album, "The Sea and Sand" having already been released earlier. The album was similarly her biggest hit for many years in the album charts, reaching No.5 and spending 28 weeks in the top 50.

LYRICS - Something:

Something in the way he moves

Attracts me like no other lover

Something in the way he moves me

I don't want to leave him now

You know I believe in how

Somewhere in his smile he knows

That I don't need no other lover

Something in his style that shows me

Don't want to leave him now

You know I believe in how

You're asking me will our love grow

I don't know, I don't know

You stick around now it may show

I don't know, I don't know

Something in the way he moves

And all I have to do is think of him

Something in the things he shows me

I don't want to leave him now

You know I believe in how

You're asking me will our love grow

I don't know, I don't know

You stick around now it may show

I don't know, I don't know

Something in the way he moves

Something in the way he knows

Something in the way he smiles

Something in the way he moves

Something in the way he smiles

Something