Love, Life and Feelings explained

Love, Life and Feelings
Type:studio album
Artist:Shirley Bassey
Cover:Shirley Bassey - Love, Life and Feelings.jpeg
Released:May 1976
Genre:Vocal / MOR
Label:United Artists
Producer:Martin Davis
Prev Title:Good, Bad but Beautiful
Prev Year:1975
Next Title:You Take My Heart Away
Next Year:1977

Love, Life and Feelings is the 21st studio album from Shirley Bassey, released in 1976 on the United Artists label.The album peaked at #13 in the UK album chart,[1] and charted at #149 in the Billboard 200. Love, Life and Feelings was awarded silver record status by the British Phonographic Industry, with sales of more than 60,000 copies.[2] It features covers of contemporary pop songs from the late 1960s and early 1970s, such as "Alone Again (Naturally)" the 1972 UK #3 single from Gilbert O'Sullivan and "The Way I Want to Touch You" from Captain & Tennille alongside "What I Did for Love", from the musical A Chorus Line written by Marvin Hamlisch.

Singles released from the album include "Natali", an Italian song with lyrics by Norman Newell, which was issued with the non-album track "Runaway" ("E poi..." Andrea Lovecchio, Shel Shapiro) as the B-side; the song was recorded in Italian and English by the Italian singer Mina. This track has of 2011 not been re-issued on CD.

Love, Life and Feelings was issued originally on 33⅓rpm vinyl and audio cassette with sleeve cover photography by Richard Avedon. The album was re-issued on a double CD set in 2006, by BGO Records, together with the 1974 album Nobody Does It Like Me.

Track listing

Side One.

  1. "What I Did for Love" (Edward Kleban, Marvin Hamlisch) - 3.47
  2. "The Hungry Years" (Howard Greenfield, Neil Sedaka) - 4.36
  3. "Born to Lose" (Sergio Bardotti, Dario Bembo, Norman Newell) - 5:46
  4. "Everything That Touches You" (Michael Kamen) - 3.22
  5. "Isn't It a Shame (Randy Edelman) - 3.47
  6. "Midnight Blue" (Melissa Manchester, Carole Bayer Sager) - 4.11

Side Two.

  1. "The Way I Want to Touch You" (Toni Tennille) - 3.17
  2. "Natali" (Balsamo, Norman Newell) - 5.02
  3. "You've Made Me So Very Happy" (Berry Gordy, Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway, Frank Wilson) - 3.41
  4. "Alone Again (Naturally)" (Gilbert O'Sullivan) - 4.54
  5. "Feelings" (Morris Albert) - 4.46
  6. "If I Never Sing Another Song" (Don Black, Udo Jürgens) - 4.04

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/4336/shirley-bassey/ Shirley Bassey on officialcharts.com
  2. https://www.bpi.co.uk/certified-awards.aspx BPI (manual search)