Bassey Sings Bond [Import]

Shirley Bassey | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 3, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B00006FN0H
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #702,128 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. View To A Kill 3:38

2. Nobody Does It Better 3:28

3. From Russia With Love 3:39

4. We Have The Time In The World 3:13

5. You Only Live Twice 2:58

6. Diamonds Are Forever 4:27

7. Live And Let Die 3:17

8. Moonraker 3:18

9. For Your Eyes Only 3:41

10. All Time High 3:33

11. Thunderball 3:10

12. Goldfinger 2:32

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nobody does it better?, September 6, 2004

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J. Barrett "SHIRLEY, MI AMOR" (UNITED KINGDOM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bassey Sings Bond (Audio CD)

Unfortunately, I'm afriad they do!

What a wasted opportunity - Shirley's voice is great as always, though rather uncharacteristically subdued on this album.

The biggest let down are the truly terrible arrangements. This should have been a classic album - and would have benefitted from full orchestrations - instead we get a synthesizer, which gives a very bad sound and ruins the whole thing.

If I had to highlight any of the tracks they would be Thunderball, Live and let die and perhaps Moonraker - even though these are mediocre at best.

We are all crying out for this album to be remade properly with Propellerheads or David Arnold - this version is sadly for die-hard Bassey fans only I'm sorry to say.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bassey (should) Sing Bond, April 18, 2006

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Thomas G. Miller (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bassey Sings Bond (Audio CD)

I wanted to type "Bassey (could) Sing Bond", but she still can. Her singing is fine. As in a previous review, I too was very disapointed with the arrangements of the songs, and of course the lack of an orchestra. It's almost as if she was recording a 'demo' to be re-recorded later using a real orchestra (and better arrangements). I hope some day this happens. I waited over a year for a copy of this CD to become available (and paid quite a high price) -- but that's because Ms. Bassey was my favorite theme song vocalist for the Bond films and I'm a big fan of both.