Talk:The Shirley Bassey Singles Album

Certification for The Shirley Bassey Singles Album[edit]

The Songs Of Shirley Bassey is now (sadly) dead (you are redirected to the Bassey Blog), but the old site can still be accessed here http://home.arcor.de/bassey/

According to BPI's online database, this album was certified gold, not platinum, despite what it says on the SOSB site. http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx

There is not sufficient documentation here to say that it is the best-selling album of her career, especially when you consider that the "25th Anniversary Album" (1978) did go platinum.

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The songs "Big Spender" and "If You Go Away" were not from this period, but had experienced a revival due to the re-release in 1971 of one of her 1960s albums featuring these tracks, which had previously failed to chart

On the entry for the 1967 album "And We Were Lovers" on the SOSB site, which contains the songs in question, it states that that the album was also released as "Big Spender" in 1973, not 1971. It also says that in 1971 she was awarded a gold disc in Australia for the album, but does not draw the conclusion that this is the reason two songs from the album were included on "The Shirley Bassey Singles Album." And on the entry for the song "Big Spender" it says "From the sixties until today "Big Spender" is an essential part of every live concert"...which does not suggest a revival, this has been a signature song for her.--Nyctc7 (talk) 23:14, 10 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK thanks for he help. You may be correct in saying The 25 th Anniversary album sold more - so it's good that you found a reference to show that. I've modified it to say it was her highest peak in the charts. The Big Spender album was indeed 1971 - and have added a ref for it, the 1973 in the other ref may have been a typo perhaps? As for the reason, you were right to remove it as it was probably an assumption on my part!--Tuzapicabit (talk) 08:34, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I should have researched the album "Big Spender" more closely. I don't know enough about the industry to know if an album that spent one week at No. 27 and quickly dropped off constitutes a "hit," though. If she received a gold disc in Australia for it (and I am in the process of trying to find sources for her international certifications--see my note on her discography discussion page) that would help.--Nyctc7 (talk) 16:54, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have added the writers for the songs released on this release and the recording dates. I have also made a note of the change or renaming of the CD release. Dutchdean (talk) 08:32, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]