Shirley Bassey - Let Me Sing and I'm Happy / Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend

1976 (Shirley Bassey performs Irving Berlin and Jule Styne classics! First, she performs the wonderful Irving Berlin song, 'Let Me Sing And I'm Happy' then follows with the Jule Styne song, 'Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend' from the musical & movie, 'Gentleman Prefer Blonds'. Shirley performed both songs on her 1976 TV Variety Show.

BOUT 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!

"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" is a song introduced by Carol Channing in the original Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949), which was written by Jule Styne (who also wrote the scores for such famed Broadway musicals as Funny Girl and Gypsy) and Leo Robin. It was based on a novel by Anita Loos

LYRICS:
"The French are glad to die for love,
They delight in fighting duels,
But I prefer a man who lives and gives
Expensive jewels.

A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
A kiss may be grand... but it won't pay the rental on your humble flat
Or help you at the automat
Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end
But square cut or pear shape these rocks don't lose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
... Tiffany's!
... Cartier!
Black star Frost Gorham
Talk to me Harry Winston tell me all about it!
There may come a time when a lass needs a lawyer
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
There may come a time when a hard boiled employer thinks you're awful nice
But get that ice or else no dice
He's your guy when stocks are high but beware when they start to descend
It's then that those louses go back to their spouses
Diamonds are a girl's best friend

I've heard of affairs that are strictly plutonic
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
And I think affairs that you must keep liaisonic are better bets
If little pets get big baguettes,
Time rolls on and youth is gone and you can't straighten up when you bend
But stiff back or stiff knees you stand straight at... Tiffany's...

Diamonds... diamonds... I don't mean rhinestones... but diamonds... are a girls best... best friend"

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Shirley Bassey
• Irving Berlin
• Jule Styne

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Sing sweetheart, Sing

Nobody does it like you

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