This Is My Life (La vita)
This Is My Life (La vita) | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1968 | |||
Recorded | 1968 | |||
Genre | Vocal | |||
Label | United Artists | |||
Producer | Norman Newell, Dave Pell | |||
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This Is My Life (La vita) is a 1968 album by Shirley Bassey that was released in Italy on the United Artists label (UA 9035).
Description
Bassey had started living as a
Side one of the album included only Italian songs with the exception of "La vita" which is the version with a mix of Italian and English lyrics. Side two is an edited version of the This Is My Life album that was released in Britain and the USA, with the addition of "To Give" which was only included in this album and on a single. Of the six songs recorded in Italian on this album only "La vita" has had a CD release. It appeared on the 1994 boxset
In the next step in the evolution of "La vita," Newell wrote English lyrics for the remaining Italian parts and the result was "This Is My Life." This English-only version became one of Bassey's signature songs, often the final encore that she performs in concert.[4]
This album was released in stereo and has identical front cover art to the 1968 UK This Is My Life but has "La vita" under "This Is My Life," and the different songlist.
Track listing
Side One.
- "La vita" (Bruno Canfora, Antonio Amurri, Norman Newell)
- "Pronto...sono io" (Vito Pallavicini, Memo Remigi)
- "Domani, domani" (Vito Pallavicini, Pino Donaggio)
- "Epirops" (Rossella Conz, Pino Massara)
- "Chi si vuol bene come noi..." (Vito Pallavicini, Domenico Modugno)
- "E' giorno" (Cristiano Minellono, Tony De Vita)
Side Two.
- "Now You Want to Be Loved" (Pierre Barouh, Raymond Lesenechal)
- "A Time for Us" (Nino Rota, Larry Kusik, Eddie Snyder)
- "Softly as I Leave You" (Giorgio Calabrese, Tony De Vita, Hal Shaper))
- "To Give" (Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio)
- "The Joker" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley)
- "I Must Know" (Neal Hefti, Lil Mattis)
Note: The capitalization of song, film or book titles is different in Italian than in English.[5]
References
- ^ "The minute she walked in the joint".
- ^ The Songs of Shirley Bassey website Archived 2014-03-07 at the Wayback Machine, See CD sleeve notes by Chris White, "Something" album
- ^ it:Festival di Sanremo 1968 Festival di Sanremo 1968 on Italian Wikipedia
- ^ The Songs of Shirley Bassey website Archived 2009-06-10 at the Wayback Machine, see pages for "La vita" and "This Is My Life"
- ^ http://rateyourmusic.com/wiki/Italian%20Capitalization [dead link]