The Songs of Shirley Bassey

Full Tracklisting:

1. 3:56 - Where Do I Begin (Love Story) (single edit) (awayTEAM)
2. 5:01 - Light My Fire (mix) (Kenny Dope)
3. 6:15 - Where Do I Begin (Love Story) (instrumental) (awayTEAM)

The promo issue of the "(Where Do I Begin) Love Story" remix single reached number 1 position in the club DJ charts in the UK in July 2000.
See also the corresponding album The Remix Album...Diamonds Are Forever.

An article from "NME" (New Musical Express) Music News, Tuesday June 13th, 2000, 3:33PM

Shirley Bassey remixed and re-released

SHIRLEY BASSEY'S single 'WHERE DO I BEGIN' is to be remixed and re-released on July 10 through EMI

The single will be reworded by production duo awayTEAM. It is the first track to be lifted from 'Diamonds Are Forever - The Remix Album', a collection of Bassey classics remixed by contemporary names such as Mantronik, Nightmares On Wax, Groove Armada, Moloko and Propellerheads.

awayTeam, Ian Davenport and Andy Lovegrove, claim to have chosen 'Where Do I Begin', the theme to the film 'Love Story', as it was a favourite of their mothers'

Ian said: "As kids, our mums seemed to watch Love Story endlessly so the song is familiar to us on a subconscious level firstly." Of their own track Andy added: "Shirley's version was very groovy and we thought we could expand on that. We felt it always needed a Tony Bennett-style swinging chorus so we gave it one." awayTeam have also just recorded a song for a movie themselves. Their tune appeared on the soundtrack of the screen adaptation of Iain Banks's novel 'Complicity'.

A note from the promo video "Where Do I Begin":

Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Shirley Bassey...
"Where Do I Begin" is the first single to be taken from the forthcoming Shirley Bassey Remix Album 'History repeats' containing remixes of classic Bassey songs by the likes of Kenny Dope, Propellerheads, Groove Armada and Moloko to name but a few. 'Where Do I Begin' has been remixed by The Awayteam who describe it as "Sassy, Bond-style-sex, romance and glamour.' Throughout the forthcoming album and throughout the ever-progressing musical world there remains one undeniable, unmistakable, lip quivering, unique constant - the voice that is Shirley Bassey!

And here another message about the "Where Do I Begin" remix I found on the net:

... The first track to be released is 'Where Do I Begin', the song from the classic '70's film 'Love Story'. That's been remixed by the AWAYTeam, who told Radio 1 they're still waiting to meet the legend. Apparently, Bassey loves the new arrangement and they'd love to perform it with her: "She could do her own version! She's very slinky. She's a bit old but she's very glamorous," they laughed.