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The Collection |  | Artist: Shirley Bassey
Label: EMI Gold
Category: Music
List Price: £10.99
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 420
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 1
EAN: 5099926407920
ASIN: B001G93Z8I
Release Date: December 1, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Something | | • | As Long As He Needs Me | | • | Goldfinger | | • | Big Spender | | • | Diamonds Are Forever | | • | With These Hands | | • | Don't Rain On My Parade | | • | In The Still Of The Night | | • | Feelings | | • | You Are The Sunshine Of My Life | | • | What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life | | • | Cry Me A River | | • | You'd Better Love Me | | • | Imagination | | • | All Of Me | | • | Days Of Wine And Roses | | • | If You Love Me (I Won't Care) | | • | Love Is A Many Splendored Thing | | • | As If We Never Said Goodbye | | • | Don't Cry For Me Argentina |
Disc 2
| • | Look Of Love | | • | Bridge Over Troubled Water | | • | My Way | | • | You'll Never Know | | • | Funny Girl | | • | It's Impossible (Somos Novios) | | • | Breakfast In Bed | | • | One Less Bell To Answer | | • | Greatest Love Of All | | • | You Never Done It Like That | | • | Better Off Alone | | • | As We Fall In Love Once More | | • | Night Moves | | • | Anyone Who Had A Heart | | • | Magic Is You | | • | How Insensitive | | • | Run On And On And On | | • | I'll Be Your Audience | | • | All In Love Is Fair | | • | What Kind Of Fool Am I |
Disc 3
| • | Way We Were | | • | What I Did For Love | | • | Emotion | | • | Good Bad But Beautiful | | • | Where Or When | | • | Kiss Me Honey Honey (Kiss Me) | | • | Ave Maria | | • | My Special Dream | | • | Let There Be Love | | • | I've Got You Under My Skin | | • | In Other Words (Fly Me To The Moon) | | • | Just One Of Those Things | | • | Secret Love | | • | Born To Lose | | • | Come Back To Me | | • | If I Were A Bell | | • | Something Wonderful | | • | He Loves Me | | • | I (Who Have Nothing) | | • | I'll Get By As Long As I Have You |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 6
 Worth every penny. February 28, 2003
Sami El Alam (Limassol, Cyprus)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
If you're looking for some of Shirley's Biggest Hits like " Never Never Never" or "Diamonds are forever" this box set is not for you. It includes some wonderful highlights from her unique career, disc 2 features many songs from her "The Magic Is you" album, most songs here were out of print for many years. I was surprised to hear Shirley's version of "Emotion" (or "Amoureuse"). Her own interpretations of "Feelings", "You are the sunshine..." The Way We Were", "All In Love Is Fair", etc remain unforgettable until today.
Hidden Treasure November 30, 2003
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This boxed set contains a true hidden treasure: Shirley's rendition of the old Doris Day standard, "Secret Love", which to my knowledge has never appeared anywhere else in any form.brShirley gives a fantastic, utterly beautiful performance to this classic tune, better than the original and better than Sinatra's. It was probably recorded in 1966 just before she left EMI for United Artists. The entire collection is great, but "Secret Love" alone is worth the price of admission.
Dame Shirley is the greatest! May 30, 2001
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
One of the hugely acclaimed perfomers and greatest entertainers of our time. A Great Diva! This is one of Dame Shirley Bassey most beautiful Albums ever... The 3 CD box set is well re-mastered, and compiled in a wonderful way. It takes you into a world of song and glitter... What else can I say...I recommend it to all fans.
Great value from Dame Shirley. May 2, 2007
Geoffrey Prentice
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
What great value this unique and peerless ballad singer. Great songs and a great voice. Three cds for the price of one. This box set features all her best loved songs and I defy anyone to sing them better.
 Expanded version of earlier "Four Decades of Song" release. November 2, 2009
Robert Neave (Norwich, UK.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The track listing of this 3 disc set reads like a list of some of Dame Shirley's biggest commercial hits and anthems with the bonus of some lesser known but stunning "album tracks". Whether you consider such tracks as "Something", "As long As He Needs Me", "Goldfinger", "Big Spender", "Diamonds Are Forever", "Kiss Me Honey Honey Kiss Me" and "I (Who Have Nothing" as hits or anthems depends on your opinion and experience of Dame Shirley, although for a lot of people to see them performed live is probably the catalyst which elevates the mere hit song to the status of anthem!
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br /What intrigued me about this compilation is that it is essentially the earlier "Four Decades of Song" re-issued with artwork much more in line with the contemporary Dame and with the welcome addition of six songs (of note "Diamonds...", "Big Spender" and "I (Who Have Nothing)") Other additional tracks: "You'll Never Know", "What Kind Of Fool Am I?" and "I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)". However the magic of this collection is in the lesser known standards and covers given the Bassey treatment. The emotional, intense "Born To Lose" is well worth buying the collection for alone, along with "Don't Rain On My Parade" which gives Streisand a run for her money, a fabulously biting "Cry Me A River", and "As If We Never Said Goodbye" a glimpse of what Bassey could do with the role of Norma Desmond (why not?).
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br /Disc 2 is the most low-key of the three discs, a softer side of Bassey (apart from early concert favourite "I'll Be Your Audience") and although not without its high-points ("Breakfast In Bed", "I'll Be Your Audience", an unconventional "The Look of Love", lyrical "Run On And On") overall it is the most dated of the three discs (this is the reason I've given 4, not 5 stars), however discs 1 and 3 more than make up for this lull.
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br /Tracks I would probably skip: "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" and "The Greatest Love Of All", as there are better represenations of Bassey's softer side on this compilation, like "Secret Love", "Emotion", "Imagination", "One Less Bell To Answer" and "Feelings".
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br /What's missing? "This Is My Life", "I Am What I Am", "What Now My Love", "Never Never Never", "If You Go Away", "As I Love You"... But, for the price and overall content I was delighted with this. Recommended.
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