Shirley Bassey - This Is My Life "La Vita" (1968 Live Recording)

Shirley Bassey recorded in Italian and toured Italy throughout the late 1960s. She appeared on RAI UNO TV frequently during this time. This clip includes the live recording of one of Shirley's signature songs, "This Is My Life" during her appearance on RAI Uno. Due to copyright restriction I was not able to include any video of this performance, and thus I added a picture montage. Shirley recorded and released this song on her 1968 album of the same name. Although this album did not chart, Shirley did have a minor hit with this song as a single in the United Kingdom and Australia. ABOUT This Album: This Is My Life is a 1968 album by Shirley Bassey. The mid to late sixties was a period of declining popularity for traditional pop. How much the changing tastes in popular music directly affected Bassey's record sales is difficult to quantify; but her record sales had been faltering since the latter part of the mid 1960s, and the album failed to chart. (She did have some success in Italy during this period, where she recorded several songs in Italian, with two making the Top 40 there). The version of "This Is My Life" appearing on side two is the English-only version, with lyrics by Norman Newell, and would become one of Bassey's signature songs. LYRICS: Funny how a lonely day, can Make a person say: What good is my life Funny how a breaking heart, can Make me start to say: What good is my life Funny how I often seem, to Think I'll find another Dream In my life Till I look around and see, This great big world is Part of me And my life This is my life Today, tomorrow, love Will come and find me But that's the way that I was born to be This is me This is me This is my life And I don't give a damn for lost emotions I've such a lot of love I've got to give Let me live Let me live Sometime when I feel Afraid, I think of what a Mess I've made Of my life Crying over my mistakes, Forgetting all the breaks I've had In my life I was put on earth to Be, a part of this great World is me And my life Guess I'll just add up the Score, and count the things I'm grateful for In my life This Is my life Today, tomorrow, love Will come and find me But that's the way that I was born to be This is me This is me This is my life And I don't give a damn for lost emotions I've such a lot of love I've got to give Let me live Let me live This is my life This is my life This is my life