Shirley Bassey LET ME SING & WE DON'T CRY OUT LOUD
Video Info
Description:
A Special Lady Part 5 (last part)
A Special Lady
DVD: Brazil 2003, Multimedia Group AA1500, Australia 2004, Umbrella DAVID0343
Produced by Thames Television UK in 1983, this musical extravaganza features a selection of songs, featuring Richard Clayderman and Robert Goulet. Musical Director Michael Alexander. Programme produced by Keith Beckett.
Sleeve Note
From the Australian Release
Shirley Bassey needs no introduction, she is truly one of the greatest in the entertainment business whose unwavering appeal spans more than four decades, many generations, and fans spanning to the corners of the globe. Shirley belongs quite rightly to a tiny handful of international artists whose popularity refuses to diminish.
In this concert, recorded for English TV in 1980, Bassey delivers a stellar performance and invites special guests Robert Goulet and Richard Clayderman to join her on stage.
Lyrics Let Me Sing And I'm Happy:
Let me sing a funny song
With crazy words that roll along
And if my song can start you laughing
I'm happy, yes, happy
Let me sing a sad refrain
Of broken hearts that love in vain
And if my song can start you crying
I'm happy
Let me croon a lowdown blues
To lift you out of your seat
If my song can reach your shoes
And start you tapping your feet
I'm happy
Let me sing of Dixie's charms
The Swanee shores and mammy's arms
And if my song can make you homesick
I'm happy
Let me croon a lowdown blues
To lift you out of your seat
If my song can reach your shoes
And start you tapping your feet
I'm happy
Let me sing of Dixie's charms
The Swanee shores and mammy's arms
And if my song can make you homesick
I'm happy
YES.
Don't Cry Out Loud
or sometimes also
We Don't Cry Out Loud
Music written by Peter Allen, and words by Carol Bayer Sager.
Released on the 1982 album All By Myself and on a single. Shirley Bassey has performed this song live in some shows from 1982 till 1990, including in the TV special A Special Lady in 1983.
The composer Peter Allen was born Peter Allen Woolnough. He's got recognition both as a composer of romantic ballads and, contrastingly, as a flamboyant stage performer. He was married to Liza Minnelli for a few years.
He recorded this song first live in 1977 on a double live LP "It Is Time for Peter Allen". In 1978 Melissa Manchester reached position number 10 in the US Billboard with this song. Next year on Peter Allen's fourth studio album "I Could Have Been a Sailor" he then released his studio version of this song, and this album was a success for him, because it was his first album reaching the charts.
For more information on Carol Bayer Sager, see When I Need You.
For background information about how Shirley Bassey came to this song read a letter of Rick Gianatos, and read what she herself said about this song on the concert video You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet.
Lyrics
Baby cried the day the circus came to town
'cause she didn't want parades just passing by her
So she painted on a smile and took up with some clown
While she danced without a net upon the wire
I know a lot about her 'cause, you see
Baby is an awful lot like me
Don't cry out loud
Just keep it inside
And learn how to hide your feelings
Fly high and proud
And if you should fall
Remember you almost had it all
Baby saw that when they pulled the big top down
They left behind her dreams among the litter
The different kind of love she thought she'd found
There was nothing left but sawdust and some glitter
But baby can't be broken 'cause you see
She had the finest teacher - that was me
Don't cry out loud
Just keep it inside
And learn how to hide your feelings
Fly high and proud
And if you should fall
Remember you almost had it all
Don't cry out loud
Just keep it inside
And learn how to hide your feelings
Fly high and proud
And if you should fall
Remember you almost made it
Don't cry out loud
Just keep it inside
And learn how to hide your feelings
Fly high and proud
And if you should fall
Remember you almost had it all
(Transcribed by Roman)
