You Take My Heart Away

Studio album by Shirley Bassey

Released

1977

Vocal / MOR

Martin Davis

Shirley Bassey chronology

Love, Life and Feelings
(1976)

You Take My Heart Away
(1977)

Yesterdays
(1978)

You Take My Heart Away is the 22nd studio album from Shirley Bassey, released in 1977 on the United Artists Records label. The album peaked at #34 in the UK album chart.^[1] The tracks recorded for this album are contemporary pop, soft rock songs, dating mainly from the early to mid-1970s. The title track "You Take My Heart Away", originally performed by Bill Conti, was featured in the 1976 film Rocky. Other covers versions included are: "This One's for You" from Barry Manilow, "Silly Love Songs" from Wings, which had been a #1 hit single on the Billboard Hot 100, "Stargazer" from Neil Diamond. Only one track dates from a previous era: "Can't Help Falling in Love" was recorded by Elvis Presley in 1962.

Two singles were issued from the album "I Let You Let Me Down Again" which featured "Razzle Dazzle", a non-album track, on the B-side. The second single, issued in the wake of the success of the Rocky movie, was "You Take my Heart Away" with "I Let You Let Me Down Again" issued as the B-side. You Take My Heart Away was issued originally on 33.3rpm vinyl and audio cassette with a sleeve cover photography by Ray Massey. The album was re-issued on a double CD set in 2006, by BGO Records, together with the 1978 album Yesterdays.^[2]

Track listing

Side One.

"You Take My Heart Away" (Bill Conti, Ben Raleigh, P. McClure) – 3:21
"Perfect Strangers" (Neil Sedaka, Phil Cody) – 3:33
"Sometimes" (Henry Mancini, Felice Mancini) – 3:02
"This One's for You" (Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer) – 3:28
"Silly Love Songs" (Paul McCartney) – 3:32
"Stargazer" (Neil Diamond) – 2:23

Side Two.

"Can't Help Falling in Love" (Luigi Creatore, Hugo Peretti, George David Weiss) – 3:01
"I Let You Let Me Down Again" (Welch) – 3:27
"If" (David Gates) – 3:00
"Come in from the Rain" (Carole Bayer Sager, Melissa Manchester) – 4:03
"I Need To Be in Love" (Richard Carpenter, John Bettis, Albert Hammond) – 3:29
"C'est La Vie" (Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter) – 2:54

Bonus track on the CD re-issue:

13. "Razzle Dazzle" (Fred Ebb, John Kander) – 2:58

Personnel

Shirley Bassey – vocalist
Martin Davis – producer
Arthur Greenslade – arranger, conductor
Martin Rushent – engineer

References

Shirley Bassey

Studio albums	Born to Sing the Blues The Bewitching Miss Bassey The Fabulous Shirley Bassey Shirley Shirley Bassey Let's Face the Music Shirley Stops the Shows I've Got a Song for You And We Were Lovers This Is My Life This Is My Life (La vita) Does Anybody Miss Me Something Something Else I Capricorn And I Love You So Never Never Never Nobody Does It Like Me Good, Bad but Beautiful Love, Life and Feelings You Take My Heart Away The Magic Is You All by Myself I Am What I Am La Mujer Keep the Music Playing The Bond Collection Sings the Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber Sings the Movies The Show Must Go On Thank You for the Years Get the Party Started The Performance Hello Like Before

Live albums	Shirley Bassey at the Pigalle Live in Japan

Compilation albums	The Shirley Bassey Collection The Shirley Bassey Singles Album Thoughts of Love Bassey – The EMI/UA Years 1959 – 1979 Four Decades of Song

Singles	"Burn My Candle" "The Wayward Wind" "After the Lights Go Down Low" "Banana Boat Song" "As Long As He Needs Me" "Reach for the Stars"/"Climb Ev'ry Mountain" "Love for Sale" "Goldfinger" "If You Go Away" "Big Spender" "Something" "The Fool on the Hill" "For All We Know" "And I Love You So" "Never Never Never" "To All the Men I've Loved Before" "The Rhythm Divine" "Love Is No Game" "Sin Ti" "How Do You Keep the Music Playing" "'Disco' La Passione" "History Repeating" "Light My Fire" "World in Union" "Where Do I Begin" "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" "That's What Friends Are For" "The Living Tree" "Get the Party Started" "Big Spender (remix)"

Related articles	Discography Songs Albums

Book:Shirley Bassey

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