SHIRLEY BASSEY - GOOD BAD BUT BEAUTIFUL

GOOD BAD BUT BEAUTIFUL

SHIRLEY BASSEY

SONGWRITER:  Clive Westlake

ALBUM: GOOD BAD BUT BEAUTIFUL

LABEL: UNITED ARTISTS RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1976

Good, Bad but Beautiful is a 1975 album by Shirley Bassey. In the first half of the decade, Bassey recorded nine albums, with three making the top ten. In March 1975, Bassey released a compilation that became her highest-charting album to date, The Shirley Bassey Singles Album (#2), and reflects the momentum Bassey had maintained since her 1970 "come back". Good, Bad but Beautiful, released in the autumn of 1975, spent seven weeks on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at #13. The album reflects the formula that brought Bassey back to the charts: a combination of contemporary songs combined with her forte of standards, show tunes, and torch songs, featuring arrangements aimed squarely at the adult contemporary, or middle-of-the-road, audience. This was also achieved by modifying her backup orchestra to include electric guitars, a string and brass section with a more contemporary sound, and drumming that is more soft rock-oriented than jazz-oriented, while side two's opener, "Feel Like Makin' Love" displays a smooth jazz style.

I've seen a man help a friend

When he's down

And put him back on his feet

I've seen a man kick a man when he's down

In a lonely street

But I've seen the face of a child

When he's lying sound asleep in bed

And I've seen the sun go down when the world is red

I've seen good, and I've seen bad

But I've seen beautiful

I've seen right and I've seen wrong

But I've seen love

Life is good and life is bad, but very beautiful

And if you live it right

You'll fill your world with love

I've seen a boy take the hand of a girl

And lead her to his heart

I've seen a man break the heart of a girl

And leave her sad

But I've seen the love in the eyes of a man beside me

Yes, and I've seen the world the way that makes me glad

I've seen good, and I've seen bad

But I've seen beautiful

I've seen right and I've seen wrong

But I've seen love

Life is good and life is bad, but very beautiful

And if you live it right

You'll fill your world with love

I've seen good, and I've seen bad

But I've seen beautiful

I've seen right and I've seen wrong

But I've seen love

Life is good and life is bad, but very beautiful

And if you live it right

You'll fill your world with love

Your world with....

LOVE!