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Shirley Bassey - Softly As I Leave You (1968 Recording)

1968 (Shirley Bassey recorded a beautiful POP rendition of the song, 'Softly As I Leave You' on her 1968 LP titled, 'This Is My Life.' ABOUT the LP, This Is My Life: This Is My Life is a 1968 album by Shirley Bassey. The mid to late sixties was a period of declining popularity for traditional pop. How much the changing tastes in popular music directly affected Bassey's record sales is difficult to quantify; but her record sales had been faltering since the latter part of the mid 60s, and the album failed to chart. (Bassey did have some success in Italy during this period, where she recorded several songs in Italian, with two making the Top 40 there). The version of "This Is My Life" appearing on side two is the English-only version, with lyrics by Norman Newell, and would become one of Bassey's signature songs. Looking back over the years, I for one am happy that Shirley recorded this LP, with it's wide mix of beautiful traditional POP songs, including this song. And, as stated above the emotional block buster song recorded for this LP, 'This Is My Life' became a perinnial favorite by Shirley's fans and for many years she closed her shows with it. With that said, Shirley is one of those artists with such tremendous vocal ability that she was easily able to sing a wider variety of songs, with many of them contemporary in genre. In a little over a year after this LP came out Shirley would hit again, over and over again, and the 1970's would become one of her most successful decades, both monetary and fluentially with quite a few world wide tours. In addition to Shirley, this song has been recorded by quite a few artists over the years, including Frank Sinatra (Chairman Of The Board), Bobby Darin, Cliff Richard, Eydie Gorme, The Letterman, Michael Buble, Lena Horne, and Robert Goulet. Elvis Presley would say the words to this song as his backup singers sang it. I like every version of this song by every artist. This picture clip include the wonderful leading actors/actresses who are no longer with us. Some of them had their lives cut so short....it was too soon to lose them. LYRICS: Softly, I will leave you softly For my heart would break If you should wake and see me go So I leave you softly long before you miss me Long before your arms can make me stay For one more hour or one more day After all the years I can't bear the tears to fall So softly as I leave you there Softly, long before you miss me Long before your arms can make me stay For one more hour or one more day After all the years I can't bear the tears to fall So softly as I leave you there As I leave you there, as I leave you there Special Thanks to Pieter, Astrid and others from the Shirley Bassey blog, Tal from the Diamond Bassey website, and all those who have contributed wonderful pictures of Shirley!