Shirley Bassey - If I Never Sing Another Song (1979 Shirley Bassey Show)

Shirley performs a beautiful Udo Jurgens/Alexandra/Don Black song on her 1979 TV Show. This song, "If I Never Sing Another Song", was recorded and released on her 1976 album titled, "Shirley Bassey - Love, Life, and Feelings".

ABOUT Udo Jurgens:
Udo Jürgen Bockelmann is an Austrian singer and composer. He’s one of the most successful and popular pop musicians in Germany for decades. In 1950 at the age of 16 he won an Austrian composer’s competition with his song “Je t’aime”. His first record was released in 1954, but his first successes came in the 1960’s. In 1960 Germany with Udo Jürgens’s song “Jenny” he won at a pop festival in Knokke, Belgium, and this song became a number one hit in Belgium. He got a press-prize for the best single artist of the festival. And in 1960 he wrote the hit-song “Reach For The Stars” especially for Shirley Bassey. Later he also recorded this song, but didn’t have the same success with it as Shirley. Udo Jürgens performed live with Shirley Bassey in 1974 in the huge Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro in front of 40000 people. In 1980 Udo Jürgens was given the “Country Music Award” from ASCAP for “Buenos Dias, Argentina”. He has got the award “Goldene Europa” (Golden Europe) eight times and these are only a few of the many awards, prizes and accolades he has achieved.

ABOUT Alexandra and This Song:
This song was originally sung in German about 1967 by Alexandra (born: Doris Treitz) who penned the lyrics herself. In German the title was “Illusionen” (Illusions). Other than “Zigeunerjunge”, this song was one of her greatest successes in her very short career. In 1967 she had been chosen as the best German new-generation singer, but she died very early on July 31st, 1969, when she was killed in a car accident when completely overworked.

LYRICS::
In my heyday
Young men wrote to me
Everybody seemed to have time to devote to me
Everyone I saw all swore they knew me
Once upon a song
Main attraction,
couldn't buy a seat
The celebrity, celebrities were dying to meet
I've had every accolade bestowed on me
And so you see
If I never sing another song
It wouldn't bother me
I had my share of fame
You know my name
If I never sing another song
Or take another bow
I would get by, but I'm not sure how
Always posing, but you love it all
Though you have to learn to act like you're above it all Everything I did the world applauded
Once upon a star
Framed citations, hung on every wall
Got a scrapbook full of quotes,
I can recall them all
There were times I felt the world belonged to me
And so you see
If I never sing another song It wouldn't bother me
I had my share of fame You know my name
If I never sing another song Or take another bow
I would get by, but I'm not sure how
But I'm not sure how
But I'm not sure how