Shirley Bassey live performance from 1994 in Tokyo, Japan part 9 (last part).
http://shirleybassey.wordpress.c om
This Is My Life
Music written by B. Canfora, Original Italian words by A. Amurri, English lyrics by Norman Newell. This Is My Life
recorded: January 14, 1968
released:
UK: Mar '68 on United Artists sgl UP 1207
US: Sep '68 on United Artists sgl UA 50459
Released 1968 on a single and on the album This Is My Life (La Vita).
Norman Newell wrote the English lyrics for Shirley Bassey from the Italian song La Vita. She sings this song with so much emotion, it has become a personal anthem. With "I Am What I Am" she sings this song at the end of almost every concert. It is therefore available on many live recordings and on many collections and videos. Live available for example on The Birthday Concert.
Because there are also many different studio versions, here is a list:
The 1968 English/Italian version La Vita.
The 1968 English album version with a length of 3:07, that is on most of the collections.
1978: 7" single (UP 36502, Holland 1979: UA 5C 006-82651) "disco" version remixed by Hank Cicalo without the slow intro and verse one, but verse two twice - length 3:40. (B-side: The Magic Is You.) This version is also referred to as the "European Single Version". Though on the collection Original Gold according to the cover should be this version on the CD, it indeed contains the 1968 album version.
1979: a 12" European maxi-single (UA K 052 Z 82651) with the slow intro and verse one and stretched at the end which makes it very long: 6:51. (B-side: The Magic Is You.)
A 12" U.S. maxi-single (but 33 rpm) from 1979 (UA D6007D and UA-P5007-D) with alternate vocals by Shirley re-recorded and re-mixed by Rick Gianatos. It does not include the slow intro but indeed verse 1 in disco beat - time: 6:17 (intro 0:37). (B-side: Copacabana (At The Copa))
See Also Rick Gianatos working together with Shirley Bassey.
1979: 12" "disco" maxi-single from United Artist (EMI Electrola 1 C 052-82 734 YZ, 45rpm, length 6:08) with "Copacabana (At The Copa)" on the B-side. Despite of the 9 seconds difference noted to the version above, these two versions seem to be the same. The "disco" versions were very successful. In the Netherlands for example this maxi was her biggest hit ever, reaching No. 4 in the charts.
I have a 45rpm single with another version "re-recorded and mixed by Rick Gianatos, remixed from the United Artists LP The Magic Is You", length: 4:25 (intro 0:19). The intro is different and shorter than on the other Rick Gianatos version and at the end it is fading down during an instrumental part, but the rest seems to be the same.
A really different version re-mixed by Meco Monardo & Tony Bongiovi has been released in 1979 by United Artists USA on UA-D6001-D (UAST-20388), length 6:15. This version has also been released on a CD-maxi-single "This Is My Life - the lost disco mixes".
For more information on Meco and Tony read Mecoman or The Official MECO Fan Page.
Another new "disco" version was released 1978 on the album The Magic Is You on CD and LP and on a single with a length of 4:53 (sometimes 4:51). This version is available on CD for example on the 1992 collection The Magic Is You.
And with the London Symphony Orchestra on the album I Am What I Am (length 3:51).
The Delta Lloyd insurance used "This Is My Life" as background music for one of their TV commercials.
Lyrics
Funny how a lonely day,
can make a person say:
What good is my life
Funny how a breaking heart,
can make me start to say:
What good is my life
Funny how I often seem,
to think I'll find another dream
(or to think I'll never find a dream)
In my life Till I look around and see,
this great big world is part of me And my life
This is my life
Today, tomorrow, love will come and find me
But that's the way that I was born to be
This is me
This is me
This is my life
And I don't give a damn for lost emotions
I've such a lot of love I've got to give
Let me live
Let me live
Sometime when I feel afraid,
I think of what a mess I've made of my life
Crying over my mistakes,
forgetting all the breaks I've had In my life
I was put on earth to be,
a part of this great world is me
And my life
Guess I'll just have to score,
and count the things I'm grateful for In my life
This Is my life
Today, tomorrow, love will come and find me
But that's the way that I was born to be
This is me
This is me
This is my life
And I don't give a damn for lost emotions
I've such a lot of love I've got to give
Let me live
Let me live
This is my life
This is my life
This is my life
Shirley Bassey THIS IS MY LIFE
Shirley Bassey live performance from 1994 in Tokyo, Japan part 9 (last part).
http://shirleybassey.wordpress.c om
This Is My Life
Music written by B. Canfora, Original Italian words by A. Amurri, English lyrics by Norman Newell. This Is My Life
more
|
 Comments :
0
|
|
|
![50 Cent: Blood on the Sand [HD QUALITY] (flv video)](http://fliiby.com/images/_thumbs/tn_kqleuen72r1.jpg "50 Cent: Blood on the Sand [HD QUALITY] (flv video)")
