Shirley Bassey - What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life / The Magic Is You (1979 Show #5)

1979 (Shirley hosts, Michel Legrand on her TV Variety Show. Shirley duets with Legrand on the first number as she sings an emotionally dynamic rendition of 'What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life'. Shirley then changes things up and sings the fun song, 'The Magic Is You'.)

Shirley recorded, What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life, on her 1970 LP Titled, 'Shirley Bassey - Something'

ABOUT, 'What Are you Doing The Rest of Your Life'
"What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" is a song with lyrics written by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman and original music written by Michel Legrand for the 1969 film The Happy Ending and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Apart from the award winning versions, this song has been covered by many renowned artists including Dame Shirley Bassey, Julie Andrews, Diana Ross, Na Leo Pilimehana, Maysa, Bill Evans, Ferrante & Teicher, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, Carmen McRae, Jaye P. Morgan, Joe Pass, Frank Sinatra, Dusty Springfield, Barbra Streisand, Rita Reys, Andy Williams, Michael Bolton, Rick Braun.

LYRICS - 'What Are you Doing The Rest Of Your Life'
What are you doing the rest of your life?
North and South and East and West of your life
I have only one request of your life
That you spend it all with me
All the seasons and the times of your days
All the nickels and the dimes of your days
Let the reasons and the rhymes of your days
All begin and end with me
I want to see your face in every kind of light
In fields of dawn and forests of the night
And when you stand before the candles on a cake
Oh, let me be the one to hear the silent wish you make Those tomorrows waiting deep in your eyes
In the world of love you keep in your eyes
I'll awaken what's asleep in your eyes
It may take a kiss or two
Through all of my life
Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall of my life
All I ever will recall of my life
Is all of my life
with you

THE MAGIC IS YOU was originally recorded and released as the title song to Shirley's 1978 LP titled, 'The Magic Is You'

LYRICS - The Magic Is You:
Close, when you're close I can hear violins
and the sound of a sweet mandolin
Touch, when you touch me a new dream begins
and I'm half way through summer and spring, yeah

And suddenly there's magic in the air
A tender sort of magic that we share
An unsuspected feeling just for you and me

No words can say exactly how I feel
'Cause I'm not sure that what I see is real
Well, I guess the magic is you

Love feels my heart with each word that you say
I'm so happy that you came my way

And suddenly there's magic in the air
A tender sort of magic that we share
An unsuspected feeling just for you and me