Decca
2007
Get The Party Started
About This Album
Fresh from her appearance at the Glastonbury festival in the summer of 2007, Shirley Bassey released her album, Get the Party Started. Celebrating 50 years in the U.K. charts since she first arrived with a cover version of "The Banana Boat Song," here was a brand new Bassey album, with the tracks including "Big Spender," "I Who Have Nothing," "What Now My Love," "Kiss Me Honey," and wait a minute! This can't be a new album. These were all hits for the lady in the '50s and '60s. But brand new it certainly was, using the talents of remixers Bugz in the Attic and Mungolian Jet Set among others to create new, reworked, late-night electro dancefloor versions of some of her own and others' classic songs. When you've been in show business as long as Bassey has, one is bound to appeal to long-term fans to the detriment of gaining and alienating new, hip record buyers, but ever since her collaborations with Yello in the '80s and the Propellerheads on the hit "History Repeating" in the '90s, she's attempted to broaden her cabaret style image and this album succeeds in that respect, taking her to number six on the album charts, her first album to hit the Top Ten since the 25th Anniversary Album limited-edition vinyl compilation in 1978.
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