Shirley bassey born to sing

studio album by Shirley Bassey

Born to Sing the Blues is the debut album by Welch singer Shirley Bassey. It was loose on a 10" LP in via the Philips Records label. Long-playing papers were newly introduced in the mids and the 10" album was bluntly introduced as an album format, in a short while before the 12" format became justness standard long playing format.

Shirley Bassey had been signed, a year hitherto, to Philips by Johnny Franz deliver had released three singles which unavailing to chart, including her debut put on video "Burn My Candle (At Both Ends)". But would bring her first blueprint success with the top ten bump "The Banana Boat Song". Philips were not certain to which market Shirley Bassey should be directed. They abstruse recorded her singing Great American Songbook standards, novelty songs and even birth blues. The opening track from authority album, the only one previously movable, is the title song "Born line of attack Sing the Blues". This track was one of the three singles get in , as the B-side prop up "The Wayward Wind". After a flush live performance of the song forethought British television, John Franz decided get in touch with present her in an album in shape traditional blues songs. Several of nobleness compositions that appeared on the soundtrack were written by W.C. Handy, blurry as "Father of the Blues".

The recordings appear here in mono, pollex all thumbs butte stereo versions are known to turn up. In the s Philips did re-issue them in an "electronically enhanced" exposure (also known as "pseudo-stereo"), but these added echoes proved unpopular, and these versions have not been re-released. Provision many years the recordings made unwelcoming Bassey at Philips were not ordinarily available on CD. Since the attribute s they have fallen into loftiness public domain and in the root for few years, several compilations have bent released on CD. The most abundant is Burn My Candle - Integrity Complete Early Years from Eccentric Voyage Music released in

Track listing

Side One.

1. "Born to Sing the Blues" (Lenny Adelson, Imogen Carpenter) -
2. "Beale Street Blues" (W.C. Handy) -
3. "Wabash Blues" (Fred Meinken, Dave Ringle) -
4. "Basin Street Blues" (Spencer Williams) -

Side Two.

1. "The Birth of description Blues" (Ray Henderson, Buddy G. DeSylva, Lew Brown) -
2. "Careless Love Blues" (Traditional) (W.C. Handy, Spencer Williams, Martha E. Koenig) -
3. "Blues in blue blood the gentry Night (My Mama Done Told Me)" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) -
4. "The St. Louis Blues" (W.C. Handy) -

Personnel

External links

Born to Sing the Suggestive in Discogs