Shirley Bassey - Let Me Sing And I'm Happy

1978

Shirley recorded and released this song on her 1966 LP titled, 'Shirley Bassey - I've Got A Song For You'

ABOUT the songwriter, Irving Berlin:
Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 -- September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in history. Many songs became popular themes and anthems, including "Easter Parade", "White Christmas", "Happy Holiday", "This is the Army, Mr. Jones", and "There's No Business Like Show Business". His Broadway musical and 1942 film, This is the Army, with Ronald Reagan, had Kate Smith singing Berlin's "God Bless America" which was first performed in 1938. After the September 11 attacks in 2001, Celine Dion recorded it as a tribute, making it #1 on the charts.

Berlin's songs have reached the top of the charts 25 times and have been re-recorded countless times by singers including Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Dame Shirley Bassey, Ethel Waters, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, Rosemary Clooney, Diana Ross, Bing Crosby, Rita Reys, Frankie Laine, Johnnie Ray, Al Jolson, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald. Composer Douglas Moore sets Berlin apart from all other contemporary songwriters, and includes him instead with Stephen Foster, Walt Whitman, and Carl Sandburg, as a "great American minstrel" -- someone who has "caught and immortalized in his songs what we say, what we think about, and what we believe."[1] Composer George Gershwin called him "the greatest songwriter that has ever lived",[2]:117 and composer Jerome Kern concluded that "Irving Berlin has no place in American music - he is American music.

LYRICS - Let Me Sing and I'm Happy:
Let me sing a funny song
with crazy words that roll along
And if my song can start you laughing
I'm happy,
Yea happy.
Let me sing a sad refrain
of broken hearts that loved in vain
And if my song can start you crying
I'm happy.
Let me croon a low down blues
To lift you out of your seat.
If my song can reach your shoes
and start you tapping your feet,
I'm happy.
Let me sing of Dixie's charms,
The Swanee Shore and mommys arms
And if my song can make you homesick,
I'm happy
Yea!

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• Shirley Bassey
• Irving Berlin

[grai]

I saw her in Birmingham in the UK in the black version of this dress and her voice at that point in her career was amaaaaazing