British singer SHIRLEY BASSEY

Subject: British singer SHIRLEY BASSEY
From: GUEST,Bradfordian
Date: 08 Jan 26 - 06:28 AM

HAPPY 89th BIRTHDAY British singer SHIRLEY BASSEY

Subject: RE: British singer SHIRLEY BASSEY
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Jan 26 - 07:49 AM

As a youngster I never really appreciated her but tastes change and now I quite enjoy her singing. She seems to have a good sense of humour too :-)

Happy Birthday, girl from Tiger Bay!

Subject: RE: British singer SHIRLEY BASSEY
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 08 Jan 26 - 08:45 AM

I have a vivid memory of her on a TV variety show back during my teen years performing Hey Big Spender. When she got to the line "I don't pop my cork for any guy I see" she turned her fanny to the audience and gave it a good slap, the sexiest thing I'd ever seen up to that point and kind of shocking for the time.

Subject: RE: British singer SHIRLEY BASSEY
From: Paul Burke
Date: 08 Jan 26 - 10:41 AM

Only a couple of years younger than Billy Boston (also from Cardiff). What if they'd got together? With his rugby talent, and her musicality...

Subject: RE: British singer SHIRLEY BASSEY
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 26 - 10:58 AM

IMDb listing.

Subject: RE: British singer SHIRLEY BASSEY
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 08 Jan 26 - 01:02 PM

"she turned her fanny to the audience"

Errrrmmm...I assume you mean her backside? You do realise that, in Shirley's native country, 'fanny' has a very different, much ruder, meaning? :-)

Subject: RE: British singer SHIRLEY BASSEY
From: DaveRo
Date: 08 Jan 26 - 01:09 PM

Another IMDb listing

Subject: RE: British singer SHIRLEY BASSEY
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 08 Jan 26 - 01:29 PM

That would have been REALLY shocking, BW. It means buttocks over here.

Subject: RE: British singer SHIRLEY BASSEY
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 26 - 01:57 PM

DaveRo, why do you link to that?

Subject: RE: British singer SHIRLEY BASSEY
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Jan 26 - 02:20 PM

I suspect it was because Ms Bassey was born in Tiger Bay SRS.

When we were kids she was referred to as Burley Chassis BTW :-D

Subject: RE: British singer SHIRLEY BASSEY
From: Sol
Date: 08 Jan 26 - 08:07 PM

Great pipes.

Subject: RE: British singer SHIRLEY BASSEY
From: DaveRo
Date: 09 Jan 26 - 02:52 AM

Yes, she was a girl from Tiger Bay as DtG said. Which reminded me of the film, which was shot in Tiger Bay. You can see some scenes in the trailer.
Tiger Bay (1959 film).
I had forgotten in the 50 or so years since I watched it that its star was actually Horst Buchholz who was apparantly known as "the German James Dean" and went on to appear in several well-known American films.

Subject: RE: British singer SHIRLEY BASSEY
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Jan 26 - 10:37 AM

Surely her greatest moment was her appearance on the Morecambe and Wise show. The steps...the shoe...the boots...completely lost in smoke as she sang Smoke Gets In Your Eyes... Legendary!

Subject: RE: British singer SHIRLEY BASSEY
From: Sol
Date: 09 Jan 26 - 12:48 PM

I saw her live years ago - probably in the mid-70s. I couldn't believe how nervous she appeared in the first couple of songs. From then on she soared.
She blows this one out right the water ->

Hey Jude - Royal Command Performance 1994

Subject: RE: British singer SHIRLEY BASSEY
From: r.padgett
Date: 10 Jan 26 - 02:05 AM

Yes Shirley Bassey a true great of British entertainment and superb strong singer, all the best for her 89th birthday

Ray