Count Basie & Shirley Bassey - What Now My Love (Bassey) / April In Paris / Cute / One O'Clock Jump

1967 (Something Special - Shirley Bassey and Count Basie. Shirley performs one of her hits, 'What Now My Love' then Count Basie and his Orchestra performs three of his hit Theme songs, 'April In Paris', 'Cute', and 'One O'Clock Jump' - The songs Cute and One O'Clock Jump were composed by Count Basie. All of the music to this TV Special is performed by Count Basie and his Orchestra.

This song, What Now My Love, was recorded and released as a Shirley Bassey EMI/Columbia Single in 1962. The song was also included on Shirley's 1962 EMI/Columbia LP titled, 'Let's Face The Music'. Both the single and the LP were top 10 hits for Shirley.

ABOUT this Song:
"What Now My Love" is the English title of a popular song whose original French version, "Et Maintenant" ("And Now") was written in 1961 by composer Gilbert Bécaud and lyricist Pierre Delanoë. English language lyrics and the title were written by Carl Sigman:

US top 40 covers include Dame Shirley Bassey. In 1962, Bassey's collaboration with Nelson Riddle and his orchestra produced the album Let's Face the Music (#12) and the single "What Now My Love" (#5). Other artists singing this song include Sonny & Cher in 1966, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass instrumentally in the same year, and Mitch Ryder the following year. On January 14, 1973, Elvis Presley performed the song before a live audience of 1 billion people, as part of his satellite show, "Aloha from Hawaii", which was beamed to 43 countries via INTELSAT.

LYRICS:
What now my love?
Now that you've left me
How can I live
Through another day?
Watching my dreams
Turning to ashes
And my hopes
Into bits of clay
Once I could see
Once I could feel
Now I'm numb
I've become unreal
I walk the night
Without a goal
Stripped of my heart
My soul

What now my love?
Now that it's over
I feel the world
Closing in on me
Here come the stars
Tumbling around me
There's the sky
Where the sea should be
What now my love?
Now that you're gone
I'd be a fool To go on and on
No one would care No one would cry
If I should live Or die

What now my love?
Now there is nothing
Only my last
Good-bye

ABOUT Count Basie:
William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 -- April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Basie led his jazz orchestra almost continuously for nearly 50 years. Many notable musicians came to prominence under his direction, including tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams. Basie's theme songs were "One O'Clock Jump" and "April In Paris".

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Shirley Bassey
• Count Basie
• Et Maintenant
• Gilbert Bécaud
• Pierre Delanoë
• Carl Sigman
• Vernon Duke
• E.Y. Harburg
• Musical
• Walk A Little Faster

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Shirley with the Count. Sweet.  WOW! Sheer Delight.

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I love this.