Something (album)

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Something
Studio album by Shirley Bassey

Publication
(s)

1970

Label (s) United Artists (LP), EMI Records (CD)

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

pop

Title (number)

12 (LP), 13 (CD)

running time

44 min 01 s (CD)

production

Johnny Harris & Tony Colton

Studio (s)

Abbey Road Studios , London

Something is a studio album by Shirley Bassey . It is one of their most successful albums.

album

The album was released in August 1970 by United Artists . In the US it was released under the name Shirley Bassey Is Really Something . It was Shirley Basey's nineteenth album. With the exception of “The Sea And Sand”, the album only contains cover versions . Unlike their previous albums, which mostly of ballads and show songs exist, this album also includes songs from the rock and pop genre of.

Cover

The cover shows Shirley Bassey on the beach. She is wearing an orange dress with cut out holes. She carries her shoes in her right hand.

successes

In England the highest chart position was number 5. In America it reached position 105 in the general pop charts and number 29 in the black music charts.

Single releases

The title song "Something" was released before the album was released in June 1970. It moved up to number 4 in the UK charts and stayed in the top 50 for 21 weeks. In the USA the single reached number 55 and number 6 on the easy-listening charts In Germany she reached number 40 in the singles charts. It was the biggest success to date for Shirley Bassey and was more successful in England than the Beatles' single of the same name . Further singles were the songs The "Sea And Sand" and "What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?" (As B-side of the single "Fool On The Hill").

Track list

  1. Something - 3:35 ( George Harrison ) (Original artist: The Beatles )
  2. Spinning Wheel - 3:08 (Thomas) (Original artist: Blood, Sweat & Tears )
  3. Yesterday I Heard The Rain - 3:30 (Manzanero / Lees)
  4. The Sea And Sand - 4:02 (Harris / Colton / Smith)
  5. My Way - 3:39 ( Jacques Revaux / Claude François / Thibaut / Paul Anka ) (Original interpreter: Paul Anka)
  6. What About Today? - 3:11 (Shire) (Original artist : Barbra Streisand )
  7. You And I - 3:47 (Bricusse) (from the movie Goodbye, Mr. Chips )
  8. Light My Fire - 3:26 ( The Doors )
  9. Easy To Be Hard - 2:41 (MacDermot / Ragni / Rado) (from the musical Hair )
  10. Life Goes On - 2:41 (Theodorakis / Martin) (from the film Z )
  11. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? - 2:59 (Legrand / Bergman / Bergman) (from the movie Happy Ending for a Marriage )
  12. Yesterday When I Was Young - 3:48 (C. Aznavour / H. Kretzmer) (original artist Charles Aznavour )

The CD version contains as a bonus track an interpretation of the Lennon / McCartney composition Fool On the Hill , which was released as a single in 1971 and made it into the Top 50.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US catalog number United Artists 6765
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Albums 1955-1996 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1996, p. 62
  3. ↑ For twelve weeks the title was listed in the Top 20 in Great Britain, see: Nugent, Stephen / Fowler, Anne / Fowler, Pete: Chart Log of American / British Top 20 Hits, 1955-1974 . In: Gillett, Charlie / Frith, Simon (eds.): Rock File 4 . Frogmore, St. Albans: Panther Books, 1976, p. 79
  4. ↑ Castalo number United Artists 50698
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 35
  6. ↑ Ehnert, Günter (Ed.): Hit balance sheet. German chart singles 1956-1980 . Hamburg: Taurus Press, 1990, p. 22

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