Shirley Bassey SOMEHOW & (TONIGHT I GAVE) THE GREATEST PERFORMANCE OF MY LIFE

From the 1973 concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Part 5. http://shirleybassey.wordpress... the end of "The greatest performance of my life" Doug Darnell, the designer of the gown, is presenting Shirley a bouquet of flowers.Somehow Music written by Larry Grossman and lyrics by Harold (Hal) Hackady. Released 1973 on the album Never, Never, Never. Available on CD on the collection Bassey - The EMI/UA Years 1959 - 1979. I don't know if anyone else did this song before. I only know that the two who wrote this song have also written a musical together - "Snoopy" in 1975 about the little dog of Charlie Brown. Lyrics Somehow:You are what you are It was, what it was The world didn't end The world never does I wake up alive From habit I guess Yes, I can survive, one love more or less And sometime, somewhere, somehow I laugh all my laughter I've cried my tears now I want my years now My years I've nowhere to go That I have to be There's no one I know Who's waiting for me There's so much inside I still have to give So much to be tried A life time to live And sometime, somewhere, somehow I'll have my tomorrow Today won't stop me No way to stop me Not now The world still holds me I want what's due now If not with you now Then someone, sometime, somehow (Transcribed by Roman)The Greatest Performance Of My Life Sometimes also entitled: Tonight I Gave The Greatest Performance Of My Life Written by Roberto 'Sandro' Sánchez / Oscar Petri Anderle. English lyrics by Robert I. Allen. Released on the 1972 album I Capricorn and on a single. The album has been re-released digitally remastered on CD and additionally this song is available on the CD collections The Greatest Hits - This Is My Life (European release) and Bassey - The EMI/UA Years 1959 - 1979. Shirley Bassey has performed this song live on some concerts and shows which is always very emotional. You can see that her eyes must be filled with tears at the end of the song. A live performance has been released on Live In Japan '77 and on the 1995 video An Audience With Shirley Bassey. The Argentinean composer team Sandro / Anderle have written more than 100 songs together, and I assume that this was originally one of their many Spanish compositions (obviously from 1968). Sandro is an Argentinean pop balladist. He was born Roberto Sánchez in 1945. He was successful not only in Argentina as singer, song-writer and later also as actor.Robert Allen translated the song to English. He is a pop composer who worked much together with lyricist Al Stillman. I don't know how the original Spanish title was, before the translation.This song had been sung in English by Nancy Wilson on an album 1971, but I don't know if the song has been translated for her, or if anyone else has performed it in English before her.Pagliacci (sometimes also written Paliachi), which appears in the lyrics below, is an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo, which has been performed first 1892. Pagliacci is Italian and means Clowns. The opera is about a small theatrical road company with clowns where also someone has to play a clown though his heart is breaking. Lyrics (Tonight I gave) The greatest performance of my life:Tonight I gave the greatest performance of my lifeI never lost control, I played the part so wellThat not a single soul could tell that I was lying And so though it was hard to face our friends I gave a party I know I meant to show them all I've gotten over you And though I saw the unbelieving looks on all their faces I had to try to make them think that it was trueSo I who hardly dance, danced through the night, just like a gypsy And I who seldom drink, drank like a fish till I was high And I who hadn't laughed since God knows when, out laughed Pagliacci Till they believed it more than even I Tonight I gave the greatest performance of my lifeI never lost control, I played the part so wellThat not a single soul could tell that I was lying But love if you had been behind the curtain when it fell When all the lights were out and I was all aloneYou would have seen this actress crying Yes, tonight I gave the greatest performance of my lifeI never lost control, I played the part so wellThat not a single soul could tell that I was lying But love if you had been behind the curtain when it fell When all the lights were out and I was all aloneYou would have seen this actress crying (Transcribed by Roman supported by Gordon and Ed)

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