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hit) and "The Ballad of the Sad Young Men", although the CD liner notes considers tracks "If We Only Have Love" and "The Way of Love" to be stronger single choices. The title track did however become a UK top three hit some months later for Perry Como. The original release was in stereo on vinyl and cassette. This album was re-issued on CD in 2000 with two bonus tracks: "If I Should Love Again" (previously only released as a B-side to "The Ballad of the Sad Young Men") and " Let Me Be the One", which was unreleased until 1994. The album was re-released again in a double pack with previous album '' I Capricorn'' in November 2010.

Track listing

Side One # "Someday" (

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, Richard Carpenter) - 4.59 # " Bless the Beasts and Children" ( Perry Botkin, Jr.,

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) - 3.09 # "Jezahel" (

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, Oscar Prudente) - 2.50 # " And I Love You So" (

) - 4.31 # "

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" (Jacques Dieval,

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) - 2.38 # "

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" ( Ewan MacColl) - 4.48 Side Two # " Day by Day" ( Stephen Schwartz,

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) - 2.48 # " Without You" ( Tom Evans,

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" ( Andrew Lloyd Webber,

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) - 4.22 # "I'd Do It All Again" (Richard Ahlert, Leon Carr) - 3.35 # "If We Only Have Love" (

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, Jacques Brel,

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) - 3.53 CD re-issue bonus tracks: #"If I Should Love Again" (Adriano Della Guistina,

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) #" Let Me Be the One" ( Roger Nichols, Paul Williams)

Personnel

* Shirley Bassey – vocals * Johnny Harris – arranger, conductor, producer on tracks 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12 * Arthur Greenslade - arranger and conductor on tracks 1, 2, 5, 9 and 11 * Noel Rogers - producer on tracks 1, 2, 5, 9 and 11, executive producer

Public Enemy's sampling of "Jezahel"

The instrumental backing section of the track "Jezahel" was sampled to form the core of the backing track to rap band

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's single " Harder Than You Think". This was the first single from Public Enemy's 20th-anniversary album '' How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?'' released in 2007. The Public Enemy track instrumental version has been widely used as a soundtrack on TV, most famously for on the

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coverage of the

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. After the games, the track continued to be used at the theme for ''

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''. This created a renewed popularity in the Public Enemy single and it reached No.1 in the US R&B and UK Indie charts in 2012. Wikipedia entry for Public Enemy "Harder than you think"

References

{{Authority control Shirley Bassey albums 1972 albums Albums arranged by Arthur Greenslade Albums conducted by Johnny Harris (musician) Albums produced by Johnny Harris (musician) United Artists Records albums