A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening/On A Wonderful Day Like Today/I Get A Kick Out Of You/Who Can I Turn To/You’d Better Love Me/The Other Woman/He Loves Me/With These Hands/A Lot Of Living To Do/I(Who Have Nothing)/La Bamba/You Can Have Him/The Second Time Around/The Lady Is A Tramp/Somewhere/On A Wonderful Day Like Today/A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening
Shirley Bassey At The Pigalle was the first live album from Britain's most consistent female vocalist. Recorded in September 1965 during an eight week engagement at London's West End Pigalle nightclub. (UK:15)
"At The Pigalle features a younger Bassey with a set of mainly show tunes."
"At The Pigalle is a an intimate affair which finds Bassey singing some superb standards as well as her hits With These Hands and I Who Have Nothing. Bassey sounds confident and relaxed, her vocals are assured; there is no sign of the shrillness that is often found in her studio recordings leading up to this performance."
"This live concert capture some of her finest work and shows a very sultry and intimate Shirley Bassey with songs like I Get A Kick Out Of You and the show stopping The Lady Is A Tramp, just to name a couple. Miss Bassey also pays tribute to Nina Simone with a wild rendition of La Bamba."
"Although Shirley Bassey fills huge concert halls throughout the world, she is just as powerful and electrifying and at home in a nightclub setting. The set At The Pigalle is a bombastic performance with an equally bombastic audience."
"This 1965 performance was near perfect and Shirley belted them out in her usual robust style. Critics compared her to Judy Garland and Lena Horne, and that is magnificent company to be in."
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