The Songs of Shirley Bassey

Links

Some internet links collected by Roman that may be of interest for fans of Dame Shirley Bassey.

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Official promo sites:

Dame Shirley Bassey

The official website. Shirley Bassey - Greatest Hits

A promo site of the 2000 collection The Greatest Hits - This Is My Life and the Remix Album. See the TV advert for the Greatest Hits or look at the Where Do I Begin video clip online. Download wallpapers and even a Shirley Bassey screensaver. But don't await any news or updates here.

And read this older article about Shirley Bassey on the web.

Links to Fan-Sites:

Ed Burrow's Shirley Bassey page by Ed Burrow from England.

Great continuation of this site and much more. Sadly Ed stopped adding new things to his site, but it will remain the most important source of information about Shirley Bassey and her songs. Long live Dame Shirley! (Youtube Channel) by Jonas from Germany.

A new fan who's very busy to create dia shows of great photo material to his favorite Shirley Bassey songs. Shirley Bassey: An Illustrated Discography by Tim (bassified) from Danmark.

Walk through a big collection of Shirley Bassey CDs of a big fan and get additional information about the albums and collections and all the cover pictures. Miss Bassey by Marc from the U.S. (Alternative URL)

A very nice site with the beautiful outlook, my site is missing. Complete album discography and many magazine articles about Shirley Bassey. Dame Shirley Bassey by Jeri

Beautiful site with great concert photos and a biography. Shirley Bassey in Siadwell's Welsh Rock & Pop Pages by Siadwell from Wales.

Biography and a great discography - a very comprehensive records collection all with thumbnails. Marja's Homepage by Marja from the Netherlands. (alternative URL 1 alternative URL 2)

News, beautiful concert pictures, a big collection of recordings with tracklistings and more, but sadly almost no updates anymore. Ron Drew's Music Pages - Favourite Singers by Ron Drew from England.

A nice page with the story of a long-time fan. Shirley Bassey photo galleries by Roni(??) from ????.

Two big Shirley Bassey photo galleries with photos collected from Tim's site, my site and other sources on the internet. Great to have them all together. (Gallery 1 does not work with the English link, use the foreign language link.) The site is in a language I don't understand. Help me please if you can read anything or if you know the owner of the site. Shirley Bassey Queen Of Camp by Lester.

Short info on Shirley Bassey and small photos from several shows. (Not every photo is really Shirley Bassey, some are drag queens.) The Fabulous Shirley Bassey by Donny Van Go from Canada.

One page with a short biography, nice pictures and some news. HeJoh Divas by Joop from the Netherlands.

A few nice pictures of Shirley Bassey if you click on his link and a Shirley Bassey calendar for 2003. He's a big fan and friend and has the largest Shirley Bassey video collection you can imagine. The Shirley Bassey Collector's Page by Tony from Canada.

At this link was a great fan site until October 2002. Tony decided to close the site because of problems with some visitors, but I hope he'll open it again soon. The site was very informational including a news page and much more. You can still write him or visit his message-board.

Links to Message-Boards and Lists:

The Dame Shirley Bassey Message Board by Tony from Canada.

Get always the newest information about Shirley Bassey or put your questions on it. Daily news and comments by fans and very well informed people. Peggy's Shirley Bassey Blog

Messages, news and fotos of the Dame and her fans. The Shirley Bassey List by Anthony from the USA.

Subscribe to this list and participate in high-class discussions concerning Shirley Bassey and her music. Experience how emotional the fans debate these themes. Do you have questions? Here you'll meet the long time fans here that have attended so many concerts I missed, and they have such large collections of Shirley Bassey recordings that it will make you jealous. There's sometimes not so much message traffic, but if you're a member, you can read read the message archives since 1998. Alternative old URL to the eGroup. Link to Anthony's homepages Out On Broadway and Starparty Productions. Classy Bassey group by Scott.

New group with restricted membership to exchange Shirley Bassey files.

More Shirley Bassey sites:

HELLO! magazine

Nice biography with many quotes and some beautiful photos. BBC - Wales

Biography and wallpapers.
Try also this link for the BBC South Wales - Hall of Fame.
And a biography and discography at BBC Radio 2. JDHay's Crooners

WAVe files to listen some of her biggest hits. Divas - The Site

A biography, pictures and quotes and more. Direct link to the Shirley Bassey pages. Celebrities Worldwide

One page with a short bio and presenting the new album. Millennium Wales by Total Wales.

Do you think Shirley Bassey is the most famous Welsh person in the last 1000 years? If so, you can vote for her here. (It still works, though this is an old abandoned site.) Mirrorpix by Mirror Syndication International.

Search for "Bassey" and you'll find more than 100 archive pictures with a brief text. Colin Green by Colin Green.

The musical director / arranger of Dame Shirley Bassey since 1995.
Until 2002? I've heard that Shirley Bassey shall have a new MD, maybe because of differences in connection with the recording session for the 2002 "Bassey Sings Bond" album? www.45rpm.org.uk by Reg.

UK issued Shirley Bassey 45rpm singles from 1956-1969 with UK chart positioning. Can't take my ears off of you from New Media: New Practices: New Paradigms Conference.

Downloading Shirley Bassey MP3's? "never heard Shirley sound so thin, shallow, fuzzy and unreal...". Does MP3 do justice to Shirley Bassey's voice? James Bond 007 OHMSS by Kimberly Last.

This is the place to start if you're searching for information about the James Bond movies and you'll find really everything. Look for example at the film-list and the sound critique. The James Bond Singers by David.

"True Brits Extra!" presents short information about the singers of the James Bond movies, including Shirley Bassey of course. Nuvs' 007 Shrine by Nuv.

"Everything For The Hardcore Bond Fan" including sounds (like "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" for example), videos (the "Diamonds Are Forever" trailer in QuickTime for example) and many links. James Bond Soundtrack Pages by Joerg.

All available and unavailable soundtrack records collected. Vote for Shirley Bassey as the next singer, and a biography. Shirley Bassey Experience (email)

A stage show about the life story of Shirley Bassey starring Carolyn Rowe. I don't know about the quality of the show, but I'd prefer a concert of the real Dame Bassey as long as she is not in retirement. Sixties British pop culture by "Digger" Barnes.

Short biography which is not actual, incorrect, but a nice photo. Famous Welsh by The Assembly for Wales Internship Program.

One photo among other famous Welsh. Shirley Bassey in Lightfactor's Magazine

Read about the light in the Shirley Bassey shows in the "Listen" magazine of Lightfactor Sales Ltd. including a nice picture. Shirley Bassey Celebration Cake by The British Sugarcraft Guild

How about a Shirley Bassey cake at your next party? yourmobile

Download some songs of Shirley Bassey as ringtones for your Nokia mobile, or get the information how to program her songs manually into a Siemens or Ericsson mobile. To find Shirley's songs look into "Soundtracks" or "Love Songs" to find "Goldfinger" or "As Long As He Needs Me" for example. AMG All Music Guide

Find information about Shirley Bassey on AMG. Yahoo!

Shirley Bassey at Yahoo! Shirley Bassey at UBL by the ARTISTdirect Network

Biography, some albums, links and a list with more than 300 songs, but the page build-up is very slow. There's also a message forum to read messages or reply to messages from fans, but there's almost no traffic on this site.

Music Links in general:

HNH - Glossary of Musical Terms - Glossary
Musical Cast Album Database - More than 2700 musical recordings.
Musik Prouktiv - Good German address for music instruments and equipment. (German pages only)
Transferring LPs to CDR - Very helpful technical advice if you want to transfer old Shirley Bassey vinyls to CD-R by Clive.

Online Music Shops:

With the number of Shirley Bassey items (articles) that can be ordered there, without the various artists sampler. The numbers are a snapshot from January 2001 and vary, and they can't always deliver what they promise, but the numbers can give you an idea about the size of the assortment.
German links First some German online shops I'm using normally:

JPC This is the english link. The site is available in four languages. They've imported for me some pieces, not in their catalogue when I've asked them by email. 78 items.
CyberCD Press the british flag for english. Search for "Bassey". 147 items, but including some used items and older vinyls.
Alphamusic (buecher.de) German pages only. 68 items.
Amazon 54 items, and try the US site Amazon.com with 60 items. Both have also so called "zShops" with many used records from private people.
ADORI German pages only. 52 items.
FOCUS German pages only. 50 items.
bol German with 27 items. In the UK 47 items: bol UK
AddCom German only. Click on "Shopping Channel" to find 40 items.

International links Some shops with a big Shirley Bassey assortment:

CDZone UK shop with 125 items. Worlds biggest list with the most correct information about the real availability of the items, but no track-listings.
Tower Reords US shop with 104 items, the most tracklistings, the best listing of sampler with Shirley and additionally used records listed. The UK branch is Tower Europe.
FrontStage Belgian shop with 94 items and free shipment in the EU.
Footlight Records US shop with 52 items.
HMV UK shop with 57 items.
CD Universe US shop with 63 items.
Link Records Italian shop with many imports.
German Music Express Shop from The Netherlands with 28 items.
CD Teleshop Another shop from The Netherlands with 46 items.
CDNOW US shop with 50 items. As You surely know, this can only be a coarse selection of shops. There are many more, and I can't recommend any shop - try yourself.

Buy other things of Shirley Bassey

MP3: Listen.com 28 mp3 tracks available.
Midi: Net4music 4 Midi files available.

Copyrights and Licensing:

ARL - Copyright and Intellectual Property - Association Of Research Libraries
RIAA - Recordingindustry Association Of America
NMPA & HFA - National Music Publishers' Association and the Harry Fox Agency
ASCAP - The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
SESAC - American/British performing rights organization
BMI - Broadcast Music Inc. an American performing rights organization
Songfile - HFA site to search for songs, records, sheet music, and more.
When works pass into the public domain - From a University of North Carolina intellectual property task force.

Useful free Software:

The following software has nothing to do with Shirley Bassey, but it helped me to communicate with other fans and to collect all the information on this site. I highly recommend this software.

QuickDic German/English Dictionary

Very comfortable downloadable Windows program with an extensive database for the translation of words and idioms from German to English or vice versa. This program helps me very much to understand all the English information I find about Shirley Bassey and to find English words for this website.
Another free site for online translation if you need other languages than German is for example Free Translation. NoteTab Light

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