At the Pigalle / Live At the Talk of the Town

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Customer reviews

review by: cduk2001 date: 2008-08-19 rating:
Experience the live BASSEY!
BGO once again release another great 2 CD set. This time two great live albums "At the Pigalle" from 1965 (UK #15) and "Live at Talk of the Town" (UK #38) from 1970. Both albums have a unique sound. "At The Pigalle" is a much more intimate affair and finds Bassey singing some superb standards as well as her hits "With These Hands" and "I Who Have Nothing". Bassey sounds confident and relaxed, her vocals are assured; there is no sign of the shrillness that is often found in her studio recordings leading up to this recording. The other CD was recorded in 1970, and was Shirley's return to the UK after a couple of years as a tax exile. This is the first time this album has been released on CD. Recorded just before her return to the top of the singles and album charts with "Something", this was the crossover period from cabaret singer to concert performer and features a mix of standards and more pop oriented tracks from her late 60's albums. It's interesting to hear the change in her style and repertoire. As the album "Something" was a new direction that she followed to this day...."Live at Talk of The Town" gives the listener the chance to witness this organic change....from cabaret to classic pop. Included is "You and I" which would appear a few months later as a studio recording on the "Something" album (and again on the Carnegie Hall concert CD also available on BGO). This is an excellent 2CD set, with remastering that makes both albums sound better than ever!. br / br /

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review by: Terence Lee date: 2008-08-19 rating:
my long wait is over!
I have waited so long for the Talk Of The Town album to be released on CD. br /I remember loving the album as a school kid in 1970. BGO Records has again given me reason to rejoice as the sound is so much better than my vinyl 38 years ago. Dame Shirley sounds so confident and witty as she was on the brink of releasing her landmark "Something" album when this was released. br /It's a bona fide masterpiece!


review by: date: 2008-07-14 rating:
alive again
At the Pigalle/Live at the Talk of the Town br /Shirley Bassey is one of those artists who's albums were never reissued on cd but instead had loads of terrible best of albums most of which contained the same material over and over again. br /So these double reissues are very welcome to us fans who enjoy listening to an album as it was intended at first. br /These 2 live concerts capture some of miss Bassey's finest work. The first, "live at the pigale" shows a very sultry and intimate Shirley Bassey songs like "I get a kick out of you" and the show stopping "the lady is a tramp" just to name a few, miss Bassey also pays tribute to Nina Simone with "the other woman"a fabulous interpretation and a wild rendition of "la bamba" br /The second album "live at the talk of the town" is issued on cd for the very first time more recent than the first you will recognize more popular tunes from Shirley Bassey's repertoire always singing with a complete 40 piece orchestra that costantly competes with the extraordinary voice of miss B!guess who wins?

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