''And We Were Lovers'' is a 1967 studio album by

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. The album featured Bassey's first recording of "

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', the single subsequently hit #21 on the charts. ''And We Were Lovers'' was recorded in America and in England. The American release replaced "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" with "

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", which was not available in the UK until the release of a compilation album '' The Shirley Bassey Collection II'' in the mid-1970s. A different version of "Big Spender", produced by Kenneth Hume and arranged by Marty Paich, also appeared only on the US issue. These two recordings are included as bonus tracks on a 2005

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release that has a remastered ''And We Were Lovers'' and ''I've Got a Song for You'' on a single CD in stereo.

Track listing

Side One. #" And We Were Lovers" (

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Summer Wind "Summer Wind" is a 1965 song, originally released in Germany as "Der Sommerwind" and written by Heinz Meier and German language lyrics by Hans Bradtke. Johnny Mercer re-wrote the song into English along the same themes as the original, which ta ...

" (Hans Bradtke, Henry Mayer,

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) #"Somebody Like Me" (

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) #" It Must Be Him" (Seul Sur Son Étoile) (

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, Maurice Vidalin,

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Dorothy Fields Dorothy Fields (July 15, 1904 – March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist. She wrote more than 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Her best-known pieces include " The Way You Look Tonight" (1936), "A Fine Romance" (193 ...

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) Side Two. #" The Impossible Dream" (

Mitch Leigh Mitch Leigh (born Irwin Stanley Michnick; January 30, 1928March 16, 2014) was an American musical theatre composer and theatrical producer best known for the musical '' Man of La Mancha''. Early years Leigh was born Irwin Stanley Michnick in B ...

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) #"Dommage, Dommage" (Too Bad, Too Bad) (

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" (Ne Me Quitte Pas) (

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) #" That's Life" (Dean Kay, Kelly Gordon)

Personnel

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vocal The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound producti ...

Marty Paich Martin Louis Paich (January 23, 1925 – August 12, 1995) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, record producer, music director, and conductor. As a musician and arranger he worked with jazz musicians Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Kento ...

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arranger In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orchestrat ...

conductor Conductor or conduction may refer to: Biology and medicine * Bone conduction, the conduction of sound to the inner ear * Conduction aphasia, a language disorder Mathematics * Conductor (ring theory) * Conductor of an abelian variety * Cond ...

(tracks 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10) *

Ernie Freeman Ernest Aaron Freeman (August 16, 1922 – May 16, 1981) was an American pianist, organist, bandleader, and arranger. He was responsible for arranging many successful rhythm and blues and pop music, pop records from the 1950s to the 1970s. B ...

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References

Shirley Bassey on Official Charts
{{Authority control Shirley Bassey albums 1967 albums United Artists Records albums Albums produced by Norman Newell Albums conducted by Marty Paich Albums arranged by Marty Paich Albums conducted by Ernie Freeman Albums arranged by Ernie Freeman