Shirley Bassey - The Way I Want To Touch You (1976 TV Show)

Описание: Shirley performs a wonderful cover of one of Captain & Tennille's Big Hit songs, 'The Way I Want To Touch You'. This song was written by Toni Tennille from the group, Captain & Tennille.

Shirley Bassey recorded and released this track on her 1976 LP titled, 'Shirley Bassey - Love, Life and Feelings'

ABOUT the Song, The Way I Want To Touch You:
This song is about a woman who has met the love of her life, and is willing to give herself to him like no one before. Toni Tennille wrote it about The Captain (Daryl Dragon), who she married later in 1975. This was the first song Captain & Tennille recorded. Dragon had worked with The Beach Boys and hired Tennille to tour with the band as a keyboard player. In 1974, they financed and produced this single themselves, and it was a hit in the Los Angeles area, leading to a record deal with A&M Records. When their first major label release "Love Will Keep Us Together" became a huge hit in 1975, "The Way I Want To Touch You" was re-released and also became a hit.

ABOUT the Album, "Love, Life and Feelings":
Love, Life and Feelings is the 21st studio album from Shirley Bassey, released in 1976 on the United Artists label. The album peaked at #13 in the UK album chart, and charted at #149 in the Billboard 200. Love, Life and Feelings was awarded silver record status by the British Phonographic Industry. It features covers of contemporary pop songs from the late 1960s and early 1970s, such as "Alone Again (Naturally)" the 1972 UK #3 single from Gilbert O'Sullivan and "The Way I Want to Touch You" from Captain & Tennille alongside "What I Did for Love", from the musical A Chorus Line written by Marvin Hamlisch.

LYRICS:
I never wanted, I never wanted to touch a man
The way that I want to touch you
I never wanted, I never wanted to love a man
The way that I want to love you

You are sunshine, you are shadow
You are morning, you are night
You are hard times, you are good times
You are darkness, you are light

I never wanted, I never wanted to give a man
The things that I want to give you
I never wanted, I never wanted to live with a man
The way that I want to live with you

You are sunshine, you are shadow
You are morning, you are night
You are hard times, you are good times
You are darkness, you are light

I never wanted, I never wanted to love a man
The way that I want to love you
I never wanted (I never wanted)
I never wanted to touch a man

The way that I want to touch you
The way that I want to touch you, now
The way that I want to touch you
The way that I want to touch you, now
The way that I want to touch you
The way that I want to touch you, now