ORIGINAL RELEASED AS LP UNITED ARTISTS UAS 29100 (UK, AUGUST 1970)
Shirley Bassey, Britain’s most successful female recording artist ever, celebrates today her 70th birthday!
Rato Records salutes Miss Shirley by sharing one of her most popular albums, Something, original released in August 1970.
Not only did the album quickly become the most successful of Shirley’s career, it was also notable for a radical new musical approach that presented the Welsh singing star in an entirely new recording light, after 14 years from her beginnings. Previously, Shirley’s albums had mainly been a mix of big ballads and well-known show songs. However this new album would see her tackling contemporary rock and pop material.
Rato Records salutes Miss Shirley by sharing one of her most popular albums, Something, original released in August 1970.
Not only did the album quickly become the most successful of Shirley’s career, it was also notable for a radical new musical approach that presented the Welsh singing star in an entirely new recording light, after 14 years from her beginnings. Previously, Shirley’s albums had mainly been a mix of big ballads and well-known show songs. However this new album would see her tackling contemporary rock and pop material.
During an interview at her home in Switzerland in 1976, Shirley admitted:
«The recording of Something was the real turning point for me, I suppose you could even say that it made me a pop star, and yet it seemed such a natural change.»
«I just went into the studio one evening with these songs, including “Something” which I had first heard sung by Peggy Lee on the Ed Sullivan show in the States. I didn’t even know that The Beatles had done it! I just caught the end of Peggy’s perfomance and I was so knocked out that I started ringing people up, asking if they knew the name of the song that she had sung. About two weeks later I found that it had been written by George Harrison.»
«The recording of Something was the real turning point for me, I suppose you could even say that it made me a pop star, and yet it seemed such a natural change.»
«I just went into the studio one evening with these songs, including “Something” which I had first heard sung by Peggy Lee on the Ed Sullivan show in the States. I didn’t even know that The Beatles had done it! I just caught the end of Peggy’s perfomance and I was so knocked out that I started ringing people up, asking if they knew the name of the song that she had sung. About two weeks later I found that it had been written by George Harrison.»
