Shirley Bassey - Get The Party Started (Official Video)
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Published 2007-07-03
Music video for Get The Party Started by Dame Shirley Bassey. This incredible recording can be found on the Get The Party Started album, which is out now. A new single with some fabulous dance mixes by NorthxNWest, Flip N Fill and Fugitive, as well as this music video is now also available.
Get The Party Started was produced by Catherine Feeney, Nikki Lamborn (Never The Bride), Bob Kraushaar and Chuck Norman (NorthxNWest) with backing vocals by Rietta Austin, Margo Buchanan, Nikki Lamborn and Catherine Feeney. The music video was produced by Hera King and directed by Harvey and Carolyn (Crossroads Films).
This song was written by Linda Perry and originally recorded by Pink. Shirley sang it for the M&S Christmas TV ad, filmed in a spy movie style, and featured models Lizzy Jagger, Erin O'Connor, Laura Bailey, Noemie Lenoir and Twiggy as undercover agents on a secret mission to attend an exclusive DSB performance at a glamorous Christmas party.
It's difficult to know where to begin when it comes to describing Dame Shirley's incredible career which has spanned over 50 years. Having just celebrated her 70th birthday and a top ten UK album DSB proves age is no barrier for creating great music.
The original Welsh Diva and one of Wales' greatest musical exports, she stands tall alongside fellow Welsh singers Charlotte Church, Katherine Jenkins, Tom Jones, Cerys Matthews, Dorothy Squires, Bryn Terfel and Bonnie Tyler to name but a few.
During her career Shirley has also collaborated with Swiss band Yello on The Rhythm Divine. She sang with Chris Rea on his Ferrari inspired film, La Passione, and probably most famously with The Propellerheads whose international club hit History Repeating propelled her into the spotlight. It featured on the soundtrack to the movie There's Something About Mary starring Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz and was the music behind a Jaguar car ad.
Shirley is the only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond Theme. She recorded three! Applauded by John Barry, Sean Connery and David Arnold, her hit records Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever ranked as the two best Bond themes ever in a recent poll, where she comfortably beat fellow Bond singers such as Tina Turner, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Matt Monro, Gladys Knight, Sheryl Crow, Lulu and Sheena Easton to the top spots. Casino Royale star Daniel Craig recently suggested DSB should record the next theme - after hearing The Living Tree you can't help but see he's got a point!
In recent years Shirley's recording of Diamonds Are Forever was sampled by hip-hop star Kanye West.
DSB has performed duets with acts such as Neil Diamond, Andy Williams, Alain Delon, Michael Ball, Bryn Terfel, Charles Aznavour, Jack Jones, Robert Goulet and Eydie Gorme and shared a stage with Ray Charles and Liza Minnelli on a successful tour.
In an episode of American Idol (the US equivalent to The X-Factor) contestants Jordin Sparks, Lakisha Jones and Melinda Doolittle all chose Shirley Bassey hits to impress judges Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul. Chris Sligh said "Shirley Bassey rocks hard core" and presenter Ryan Seacrest proclaimed that it was Dame Shirley Bassey songs that ruled the night.
All Comments (21)
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She makes it sound like a lost Bond theme. These sounds so awesome
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I’m here because of Cats & Dogs 2
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I love it when artists cover a song you'd never think would be their thing and completely own it.
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Imagine being able to sing like this at at 70 years of age. Shirley's voice is amazing.
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Even Pink prefers this version lol.....I'd pay to hear Shirley sing the phonebook
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This version sounds like something you'd hear in a James Bond movie!
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I hope P!nk realizes what an honor and a privilege it is to have her song covered by Shirley Bassey. Even watching her now 2022 in her mid 80s taking the stage to sing Goldfinger, it just gives you chills.
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"This should be in a James Bond/Spy movie" Ahem; "Cats and Dogs"
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I really don't know why everyone seems surprised at this performance! If you've been a Shirley fan like I have for 60 years and counting you'd know this lady is capable of anything! And in a career of 66 years she's proved it time and time again. Phenomenal.
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Not only does she sing great, but she looks fantastic.
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Sounds like a James Bond villan song! It's 2023 baby 🥂🥂🥂🥂
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Only someone as classy as Dame Shirley Bassey can make a line like "kissing my ass" sound classy...!!!
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Pink's version was more "in your face" and sweaty...the kind of song that makes you move till you sweat on the dance floor. Shirley's version is more polished and sophisticated The best version depends on your perceptions. Different strokes for different folks! PS: Shirley was 70 when she recorded this video and she was looking like a stone cold FOX (like the old people say...lol.)
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I like how she kind of cracks up when she says "you'll be kissing my ass" at 2:01.
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I'm not sure what I was expecting, I guess just a Shirley Bassey song, but the fact that it's a Pink cover got me off guard.
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I love this woman so much. Spent all of the 60s and 70s not liking her because my father considered her ‘pop music’ and ridiculed everything she did. But when she did ‘All The Sad Young Men’ I cried buckets and couldn’t deny her any longer. You absolutely rock, Dame Shirley, and you outsing this daft pop song by a million starry miles. I’m SO glad you got to revive Goldfinger for the Bond anniversary. Good bless you, you gorgeous woman…😍
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I've always loved this song. But man, Shirley Bassey made it her own! And I love the whole 60s James Bond thing. And she was 70 when she did this? She looks and sounds fierce! Take a lesson, young singers. When you can nail a song like this at her age, THEN you're a legend!
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Awesome: that´s how a REAL diva should look and sound at her 70th birthday. Dame Shirley ROCKS :-)
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Dame Shirley Bassey has the Golden Touch. Any song she covers becomes a Bond Villain classic.
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The Bond theme we never knew we needed.
