Shirley Bassey I COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT & I (WHO HAVE .
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Description:
From the 1980 concert in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Part 4 of 6. I could have danced all night & I (who have nothing)
Lyrics I could have danced all night:
I could have danced all night!
I could have danced all night!
And still have begged for more.
I could have spread my wings
And done a thousand things
I've never done before.
I'll never know what made it so exciting;
Why all at once my heart took flight.
I only know when he
Began to dance with me
I could have danced a walz I could have danced a samba,
On and on.. and on and on and on
I'll never know what made it so exciting
Why all at once my heart took flight,
I only know when he
began to dance with me.
I could have danced, danced danced all night!
Lyrics I (who have nothing:
I, I who have nothing
I, I who have no one;
Adore you and want you so
I'm just a no one,
with nothing to give you but oh...
I love you
You, you buy her diamonds,
bright, sparkling diamonds.
But believe me, dear, when I say
that you can give her the world
but she'll never love you the way,
I love you
You can take her any place she wants
to fancy clubs and restaurants;
But I can only watch you with
My nose pressed up against
the window pane..
I, I who have nothing
I, I who have no one;
Must watch you, go dancing by
wrapped in the arms of somebody else
but darling 'tis I
Who love you.
Ooh.
About the dress Dame Shirley is wearing for this show:
Goldfinger - a sensational stage ensemble by Douglas Darnell comprising: a bias cut gown with fitted bodice, the flesh-coloured silk chiffon ground lavishly embroidered with graduated Swarovski clear crystals, gold sequins and gold pearl beads in bands radiating from an apex at the upper bodice, slit centrally to the upper leg, the flowing train lined in gold silk tissue and terminating in a large tassel of clear crystals, rhinestones, gold pearl beads and mirror sequins; and a corresponding voluminous sleeveless coat of silver silk chiffon decorated with bands of silver lurex edged with silver tinsel fringing and embroidered with gold and silver sequins, the coat further embellished at the opening, armholes and collar with gold and silver mirror sequins, imitation pearls and gold beads, lined in gold silk tissue.
Weight of gown: approx. 4kg.
Although this gown is not the first one worn by Dame Shirley to sing the theme song to the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger, her first international hit, it is the one which she particularly associates with the Bond song. This gown was made in the late 1970s and according to Darnell, was first worn for a concert at the Wembley Conference Centre attended by HRH Prince Charles, 14th November, 1979. The stage coat in this lot however does date from the early 1960s, and was occasionally worn with the first Goldfinger dress. Dame Shirley wore the original dress and this stage coat together during a twelve-day engagement at the Empire Room, New York, October, 1967.
Sold at Christies for £18,000
