Diamonds (The Best Of Shirley Bassey) - Shirley Bassey

Advantages: Live, and excellent sound
Disadvantages: NONE

...Recorded live at the impressive Althorp Park in Northamptonshire U.K., it's easy to tell why this album was nominated for a Grammy. What a better way to celebrate her 60th birthday then with a live concert! Bassey is vocally superior to counterparts half her age, as she flawlessly belts out all her best on this CD. Having studied voice and music theory myself, I can appreciate the quality of Ms. Bassey's voice that progessively gets better with age. There's no shaky grandma voice here when she hit's those unbelievable high notes in "Hey Jude", "This Is My Life", and "I Wanna Know What Love Is"! Not only is every song a vocal masterpiece, but her audience interaction is fun and playful. An expanded version of this same concert is available on the Import CD titled "Diamond Collection" and on another CD titled "Contemporary Classics... Read review

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Advantages: Best album of the end of last century
Disadvantages: I want more!

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Advantages: Great Songs You Remember From Films
Disadvantages: Dancing The 'Hot Stuff' From 'The Full Monty'!!

...expectations and leave you to remember the best moments from the best films ever. Disappointing though that this high energy isn't kept up for longer of the CD, as track 3 is James Brown & 'The Payback', which although has feeling and soul, it just is a disappointing conclusion to 2 superb songs, however it isn't a major flaw when compared to how strong a song 'Misirlou' is in it's own right. I just love the feeling I get from 'Misirlou', very rarely do I get such a good feeling from this genre of music but this captures me 100%. 2. Big Spender- Shirley Bassey (Little Voice) How could I resist Shirley Bassey? As a lovely Welsh Diva she picks up the energy from where we left off with Misirlou. Of course, there are so many people who love 'Big Spender' and this track is impossible to not sing along to. In my opinion, it's one of the tracks... Read review

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