Shirley Bassey - As I Love You / He Loves Me

1966 (Shirley Bassey TV Special)

ABOUT the song, 'As I Love You':
In mid-1958, Shirley recorded two singles that would become classics in the Bassey catalogue. "As I Love You" was released as the B-side of another ballad, "Hands Across the Sea"; It did not sell well at first, but after a chance appearance at the London Palladium things began to pick up. In January 1959, it reached number one and stayed there for four weeks. It thus became Shirley's first number one single.

LYRICS - As I Love You:
I will love you as I love you
All my life
Every moment spent with you
Makes me more content with you
Just as you are
You are all I could pray for
All that you are
That's what I wake up each day for
Every single Touch and tingle
I adore
Every kiss from you to me
Always seems so new to me
Each one warmer Than the one before
As I love you more and more and more

Every single Touch and tingle
I adore
Every kiss from you to me
Always seems so new to me
Each one warmer
Than the one before
As I love you
more
and more
And more

ABOUT the song, "He Loves Me":
The song, 'She Loves Me' is sung by a male in the actual musical but of course is changed to 'He Loves Me' when Shirley sings the song. This song is from the musical titled,' She Loves Me.' She Loves Me is a musical and movie with a book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock. She Loves Me was originally produced in 1963 with inspiration taken from the play and films that preceded it. Composer Jerry Brock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick are best known for Fiddler on The Roof which ran for eight years on Broadway, and is considered one of the longest running shows.

The musical is the fifth adaptation of the play Parfumerie by Hungarian playwright Miklos Laszlo, following the 1940 James Stewart-Margaret Sullavan film The Shop around the Corner and the 1949 Judy Garland-Van Johnson musical version In the Good Old Summertime. It would surface yet again in 1998 as the Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan feature You've Got Mail.

LYRICS - He Loves Me:
He loves me
And to my amazement
I love it knowing that he loves me
He loves me,
Though he doesn't show it
How could he,
When he doesn't know it.
Yesterday he loathed me,
Now today he likes me,
And tomorrow, tomorrow...

My teeth ache from the urge to touch him
I'm speechless for I mustn't tell him
It's wrong now, but it won't be long now
Before my love discovers
That he and I are lovers
Imagine how surprised he's bound to be,
He loves meeeeeeeeeee!

HE LOVES ME.......!
Though he doesn't show it
How could he,
When he doesn't know it!

I'm tingling such delicious tingle,
I'm trembling, what the heck does that mean?
I'm freezing that's because it's cold out.

But still I'm incandescent
And like some adolescent
I'd like to scrawl on ev'ry wall I see
He loves me!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Shirley Bassey
• Jay Livingston
• Ray Evans
• Jerry Brock
• Sheldon Harnick

[mrjinxie]

voice sampled in little people's "unsaid". both great. different, but great.

[RebornLegacy]

Little People - Unsaid, sampled this 

[skoot2u]

What a voice !!!!!

[drymac1]

Just pure magic. Her voice in the 60's was just great.

[1944dr]

!!!!!Adorable !!!!! I love her...

[nancyfloressantos]

"...as I love you.......more and more and more.........". Thanks for uploading this great classic!

[sydders03]

go on shirl ya smasher, love ya xx