Shirley Bassey - Does Anybody Miss Me? (1979 Show #4)

1979 (What a great uplifting song!! From Shirley Bassey TV Variety Show)

ABOUT this song AND the LP:
Does Anybody Miss Me is a 1969 album by Shirley Bassey. In 1969 Bassey moved her home to Lugano, Switzerland, with her second husband Sergio Novak, whom she had married in Las Vegas in August 1968. Remaining a a tax exile prevented her from performing and recording in the UK. In this period she continued to perform and record in Italy and the US. This album was recorded in the US and produced by the American producer Dave Pell, with arrangements by Artie Butler. The tracks on this album are a selection of standards and show tunes. The title track Does Anyboby Miss Me was issued as a single in the UK, backed with the non album track Fa Fa Fa, but this failed to make any impression on the chart. Does Anyboby Miss Me has remained part of her live show and was recorded as the opening track of the album Live At Talk Of The Town in 1970. This album saw Bassey re-record her 1958 UK #1 hit single As I Love You which she had previously released on the Philips label.

Also issued in the US as Does Anybody Miss Me there the album did not include the re-recording of As I Love You and Think Of Me. The original album was issued in mono and stereo. The stereo version of this album has been released on CD twice, firstly, in the late 1990's, on the EMI 2CD set Shirley Bassey The Collection and a digitally re-mastered release for CD in 2009 together with This Is My Life by BGO Records.

With total authority and enthusiasm, Shirley Bassey takes the Les Reed/Johnny Worth song "Does Anybody Miss Me?" for her title track, opening this album with the consistency few artists give their audience recording after recording, performance after performance.

LYRICS:
Does anybody miss me?
Doesn't anybody feel the way I do
Doesn't anybody wonder
If my lost and lonely heart is missing you
What kind of world can this be
That makes two lovers play a kind of waiting game
Someone you could kiss me
And never miss your loving arms again

Each night I walk an empty street
Where shadows hide and never meet the sky,
I feel I wanna die
I fool around with broken dreams
And as the memories pass by each echo
to ask me why
How can this be
I wanna cry

Does anybody miss me?
Anbody feel the way I do
Doesn't anybody wonder
If my lost and lonely heart is missing you
What kind of world can this be
That makes two lovers play a kind of waiting game
Someone you could kiss me
I'd never miss your loving arms again

If somehow you could kiss me
I'd never miss your loving arms,
Again......