And We Were Lovers
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{{Infobox album
| name = And We Were Lovers
| type = studio
| artist = Shirley Bassey
| cover = Shirley Bassey And We Were Lovers.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1967
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Vocal
| length =
| label = United Artists
| producer = Kenneth Hume, Norman Newell
| prev_title = I've Got a Song for You
| prev_year = 1966
| next_title = 12 of Those Songs
| next_year = 1968
| misc = {{Extra album cover
| header = Big Spender
| type = Album
| cover = Shirley Bassey Big Spender.jpg
| border =
| alt =
| caption = 1971 re-issue
}}
}}
And We Were Lovers is a 1967 studio album by Shirley Bassey. The album featured Bassey's first recording of "Big Spender', the single subsequently hit #21 on the charts.
And We Were Lovers was recorded in America and in England. The American release replaced "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" with "Walking Happy", which was not available in the UK until the release of a compilation album The Shirley Bassey Collection II in the mid-1970s. A different version of "Big Spender", produced by Kenneth Hume and arranged by Marty Paich, also appeared only on the US issue. These two recordings are included as bonus tracks on a 2005 BGO Records release that has a remastered And We Were Lovers and I've Got a Song for You on a single CD in stereo.
Track listing
Side One.
- "And We Were Lovers" (Jerry Goldsmith, Leslie Bricusse)
- "Summer Wind" (Hans Bradtke, Henry Mayer, Johnny Mercer)
- "Somebody Like Me" (Wayne Carson Thompson)
- "It Must Be Him" (Seul Sur Son Étoile) (Gilbert Bécaud, Maurice Vidalin, Mack David)
- "Big Spender" (Dorothy Fields, Cy Coleman)
Side Two.
- "The Impossible Dream" (Mitch Leigh, Joe Darion)
- "Dommage, Dommage" (Too Bad, Too Bad) (Paul Vance, Lee Pockriss)
- "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" (Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane)
- "If You Go Away" (Ne Me Quitte Pas) (Rod McKuen, Jacques Brel)
- "That's Life" (Dean Kay, Kelly Gordon)
Personnel
- Shirley Bassey – vocal
- Marty Paich – arranger, conductor (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10)
- Ernie Freeman – arranger, conductor (tracks 2, 5, 6, 8)
References
- [https://www.officialcharts.com/artists/ Shirley Bassey on Official Charts]
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