What Now My Love - Shirley Bassey (1962 Recording) video free download

1962 (Shirley Bassey recorded and released this Columbia Single in 1962. Nelson Riddle arranged the music for this song, and he and his orchestra recorded this song with Shirley)

This song, What Now My Love, was recorded and released as a Shirley Bassey EMI/Columbia Single and it first hit the UK charts on January, 9 1962. This song was also included on Shirley's 1962 EMI/Columbia LP titled, 'Let's Face The Music'. Both the single and the LP were top 10 hits for Shirley. The single peaked at #5, and it stayed on the charts for over 4 months. Shirley's version of this song is the highest ranked recording in regards to record sales, but the live versions by Judy Garland and Elvis Presley both significantly have contributed to keeping this song well known around the world for the past 50+ years. Shirley has been very faithful to this song, and has included it in her live concert line-up many times during her world wide concert tours.

ABOUT this Song:

"What Now My Love" is the English title of a popular song whose original French version, "Et Maintenant" ("And Now") was written in 1961 by composer Gilbert Bécaud and lyricist Pierre Delanoë. English language lyrics and the title were written by Carl Sigman:

US top 40 covers include Dame Shirley Bassey. In 1962, Bassey's collaboration with Nelson Riddle and his orchestra produced the album Let's Face the Music (#12) and the single "What Now My Love" (#5). Other artists singing this song include Sonny & Cher in 1966, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass instrumentally in the same year, and Mitch Ryder the following year. On January 14, 1973, Elvis Presley performed the song before a live audience of 1 billion people, as part of his satellite show, "Aloha from Hawaii", which was beamed to 43 countries via INTELSAT.

LYRICS:

What now my love?

Now that you've left me

How can I live

Through another day?

Watching my dreams

Turning to ashes

And my hopes

Into bits of clay

Once I could see

Once I could feel

Now I'm numb

I've become unreal

I walk the night

Without a goal

Stripped of my heart

My soul

What now my love?

Now that it's over

I feel the world

Closing in on me

Here come the stars

Tumbling around me

There's the sky

Where the sea should be

What now my love?

Now that you're gone

I'd be a fool To go on and on

No one would care No one would cry

If I should live Or die

What now my love?

Now there is nothing

Only my last

Good-bye

Special Thanks to Pieter, Astrid and others from the Shirley Bassey blog, Tal from the Diamond Bassey website, and all those who have contributed wonderful pictures of Shirley!