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Born to Sing the Blues is the debut album by Welsh singer Shirley Bassey. It was released on a 10" LP in 1957 by the Philips Records label. Long-playing records were newly introduced in the mid-1950s and the 10" album was briefly introduced as an album format, shortly before the 12" format became the standard long playing format.

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  • Born to Sing the Blues is the debut album by Welsh singer Shirley Bassey. It was released on a 10" LP in 1957 by the Philips Records label. Long-playing records were newly introduced in the mid-1950s and the 10" album was briefly introduced as an album format, shortly before the 12" format became the standard long playing format. Shirley Bassey had been signed, a year earlier, to Philips by Johnny Franz and had released three singles which failed to chart, including her debut recording "Burn My Candle (At Both Ends)". But 1957 would bring her first chart success with the top ten hit "The Banana Boat Song". Philips were not certain to which market Shirley Bassey should be directed. They had recorded her singing Great American Songbook standards, novelty songs and even the blues. The opening track from the album, the only one previously released, is the title song "Born to Sing the Blues". This track was one of the three singles issued in 1956, as the B-side of "The Wayward Wind". After a successful live performance of the song on British television, John Franz decided to present her in an album of traditional blues songs. Several of the compositions that appeared on the album were written by W.C. Handy, known as "Father of the Blues". The recordings appear here in mono, no stereo versions are known to exist. In the 1970s Philips did re-issue them in an "electronically enhanced" stereo (also known as "pseudo-stereo"), but these added echoes proved unpopular, and these versions have not been re-released. For many years the recordings made by Bassey at Philips were not generally available on CD. Since the late 2000s they have fallen into the public domain and in the past few years, several compilations have been released on CD. The most comprehensive is Burn My Candle - The Complete Early Years 1956-58 from Fantastic Voyage Music released in 2009. (en)
  • Born To Sing The Blues è l'album di debutto di Shirley Bassey, pubblicato su un LP da 10" nel 1957 dall'etichetta Philips Records. I dischi di lunga durata furono introdotti a metà degli anni '50 e l'album da 10" fu brevemente presentato come un formato possibile di album. Nel giro di pochi anni, l'album da 12" divenne il formato offerto al pubblico che acquistava dischi, rimanendo così fino alla metà degli anni '80, quando il Compact Disc conquistò il mercato. Shirley Bassey firmò, un anno prima, per la Philips con Johnny Franz e pubblicò tre singoli che non riuscirono ad entrare in classifica, inclusa la sua canzone d'esordio "Burn My Candle (At Both Ends)". Ma il 1957 le avrebbe portato il suo primo successo in classifica con la canzone "The Banana Boat Song". La Philips non era certa a quale mercato Shirley Bassey dovesse essere diretta. La Bassey fu registrata mentre cantava canzoni del Great American Songbook, canzoni umoristiche e persino il blues. La traccia di apertura dell'album, l'unica precedentemente pubblicata, fu la canzone "Born to Sing the Blues". Questo brano fu uno dei tre singoli pubblicati nel 1956, come lato B di "The Wayward Wind". Dopo un'esibizione dal vivo di successo della canzone alla televisione britannica, John Franz decise di presentarla con un album di canzoni blues tradizionali. Molte delle composizioni apparse sull'album furono scritte da WC Handy, noto come "Padre del Blues". Le registrazioni furono fatte in mono, non sono note versioni stereo. Negli anni '70 la Philips li ripubblicò in una versione stereo "potenziata elettronicamente" (nota anche come "pseudo-stereo"), ma gli echi aggiunti si rivelarono impopolari e queste versioni non furono più ripubblicate. Per molti anni le registrazioni fatte da Bassey alla Philips non furono disponibili su CD. Dall'inizio degli anni 2000 divennero di dominio pubblico e negli ultimi anni furono rilasciate diverse compilation su CD. Il più completo è Burn My Candle - The Complete Early Years 1956-58 della Fantastic Voyage Music, pubblicato nel 2009. (it)
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  • Born to Sing the Blues is the debut album by Welsh singer Shirley Bassey. It was released on a 10" LP in 1957 by the Philips Records label. Long-playing records were newly introduced in the mid-1950s and the 10" album was briefly introduced as an album format, shortly before the 12" format became the standard long playing format. (en)
  • Born To Sing The Blues è l'album di debutto di Shirley Bassey, pubblicato su un LP da 10" nel 1957 dall'etichetta Philips Records. I dischi di lunga durata furono introdotti a metà degli anni '50 e l'album da 10" fu brevemente presentato come un formato possibile di album. Nel giro di pochi anni, l'album da 12" divenne il formato offerto al pubblico che acquistava dischi, rimanendo così fino alla metà degli anni '80, quando il Compact Disc conquistò il mercato. (it)
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