And We Were Lovers
| And We Were Lovers | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1967 | |||
| Genre | Vocal | |||
| Label | United Artists | |||
| Producer | Kenneth Hume, Norman Newell | |||
| Shirley Bassey chronology | ||||
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| Big Spender | ||||
 1971 re-issue | ||||
And We Were Lovers is a 1967 studio album by Shirley Bassey. The album featured Bassey's first recording of "Big Spender', the single subsequently hit #21 on the charts.
And We Were Lovers was recorded in America and in England. The American release replaced "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" with "Walking Happy", which was not available in the UK until the release of a compilation album The Shirley Bassey Collection II in the mid-1970s. A different version of "Big Spender", produced by Kenneth Hume and arranged by Marty Paich, also appeared only on the US issue. These two recordings are included as bonus tracks on a 2005 BGO Records release that has a remastered And We Were Lovers and I've Got a Song for You on a single CD in stereo.
Track listing[edit]
Side One.
- "And We Were Lovers" (Jerry Goldsmith, Leslie Bricusse)
- "Summer Wind" (Hans Bradtke, Henry Mayer, Johnny Mercer)
- "Somebody Like Me" (Wayne Carson Thompson)
- "It Must Be Him" (Seul Sur Son Étoile) (Gilbert Bécaud, Maurice Vidalin, Mack David)
- "Big Spender" (Dorothy Fields, Cy Coleman)
Side Two.
- "The Impossible Dream" (Mitch Leigh, Joe Darion)
- "Dommage, Dommage" (Too Bad, Too Bad) (Paul Vance, Lee Pockriss)
- "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" (Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane)
- "If You Go Away" (Ne Me Quitte Pas) (Rod McKuen, Jacques Brel)
- "That's Life" (Dean Kay, Kelly Gordon)
Personnel[edit]
- Shirley Bassey – vocal
- Marty Paich – arranger, conductor (Tracks 1,3,4,7,9,10)
- Ernie Freeman - arranger, conductor (Tracks 2,5,6,8)
