Shirley Bassey

Another great song is "Where do I begin". Its original title, Heavy Flow, was scrapped when it was noticed that fellow musician Moby had a song with the same name. Bassey became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (the female equivalent of a Knight Commander) on December 31, 1999. The band's next album, Hefty Fine, is due for release some time during late 2004 to early 2005. A few months later, Shirley Bassey signed to EMI Columbia, and the second phase in her recording career had begun. In 2003, the band released a DVD entitled One Fierce Beer Run, which chronicles their One Fierce Beer Coaster tour of 1997. They ended up with both in the top 3 at the same time. The album also featured a song about porn star Chasey Lain, and A Lapdance is So Much Better When the Stripper is Crying.

Shirley also recorded Kiss Me, Honey Honey, Kiss Me at this time, and while As I Love You raced up the charts, so too did this record. Hooray for Boobies included the hit single "The Bad Touch" which featured the chorus "You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel." Due to its happy melody and instrumentation the song is one of the most played songs in German Adult contemporary radio stations. In February 1959, it made #1 and stayed there for 4 weeks. "Fire Water Burn" became a major hit and enabled the band to record a successful follow-up, Hooray for Boobies in 2000. It didn't sell well at first, but after a chance appearance at the London Palladium, things began to pick up. The album was a flop and the group lost their record contract but then signed to Geffen and released 1996's One Fierce Beer Coaster. As I Love You appeared as a b-side to another ballad, Hands Across The Sea. The band formed in 1994 and released the Dingleberry Haze EP, then signed to Columbia Records for the full length debut, Use Your Fingers.

In mid-1958, she recorded two singles which would end up as classics in the Bassey catalogue. A common theme in the band's lyrics are elaborate metaphors, similes and puns, such as "you came twice last year like a Sears catalogue," "like Times New Roman, you know the type." or "Like the Jim Jones cult, I'll take you out with one punch" Perhaps the group's best known hit is "Fire Water Burn" which contained the memorable and much reproduced chorus of "The roof/The roof/The roof is on fire/We don't need no water/Let the motherfucker burn/Burn motherfucker burn." In 2004 it was featured in the film Fahrenheit 9/11 anecdotally as a song popular with American soldiers fighting in Iraq. That year she also recorded under the direction of US producer Mitch Miller in America for the Columbia label, producing the single If I Had A Needle And Thread / Tonight My Heart She Is Crying. Known for humorous, obscene, and often offensive lyrics, the Bloodhound gang makes jokes about taboo subjects from race to child abductions and incest in bizarre, stream-of-consciousness hip-hop influenced lyrics. Further singles appeared, and in February 1957 Shirley scored her first hit with The Banana Boat Song, which peaked at #8 in the British chart. Spanky G left in 1998. Due to the suggestive lyric, the BBC banned it, but it still sold well nonetheless, backed with her powerful rendition of Stormy Weather. The group formed in 1994 (see 1994 in music) and currently consists of Jimmy Pop (born James Franks), DJ Q-Ball, Evil Jared Hasselhoff, Lüpüs Thünder and Willie the New Guy.

Shirley duly recorded her first single, entitled Burn My Candle, and Philips released it in February 1956. The Bloodhound Gang are an American post-grunge rock-and-roll band, originally from King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. While she starred in this show, Philips A&R and record producer Johnny Franz spotted her on television, became impressed, and offered her a record deal. She toured various theatres until she got an offer of the show that put her firmly on the road to stardom, Al Read's Such Is Life. He saw talent in Shirley, and decided he would make her a star.

However, in 1955, a chance recommendation of her to Michael Sullivan, a booking agent in London, put her firmly on course for her destined career. By this time Shirley had become sick of show business and had become pregnant at 16 years old with her daughter Sharon, so she went back to waitressing in Cardiff. She next took up a professional engagement in Hot From Harlem, which ran until 1954. In 1953, she signed up for the revue Memories of Jolson, a musical based on the life of Al Jolson.

She enjoyed singing while she packed enamel pots, and to supplement her wage she sang in local pubs and clubs. Shirley first found employment packing in a local factory when she left school at the age of fifteen. Her father left when she was just two years old. She grew up in the notorious Tiger Bay area of Cardiff as the youngest of seven children.

Shirley had a Nigerian seaman father, while her mother came from Yorkshire, Northern England.
. To date no other performer has recorded more than one of the coveted theme songs. Dame Shirley Bassey (born January 8, 1937), Welsh singer, perhaps best known for performing the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, and Moonraker.