Shirley Bassey - The Old Fashioned Way / Yesterday When I Was Young"Charles Aznavour" (1976 TV Show)

Описание: This clip from Shirley Bassey's 1976 TV Variety Series includes two performances, as follows:
1) The Old Fashion Way (Shirley Bassey
2) Yesterday When I Was Young (Charles Aznavour)

Shirley hosts Charles Aznavour on her 1976 TV Series. She first performs one of his songs, "The Old Fashion Way", and Aznavour joins her backwards to the camera towards the end. Aznavour then performs another one of his songs, 'Yesterday When I Was Young".

Shirley recorded and released 'The Old Fashion Way" on her 1973 album titled, 'Never Never Never'. This song was written by Georges Garvarentz, Ak Kasha, Charles Aznavour, and Joel Hirschorn. Shirley recorded the song, "Yesterday When I Was Young" on her 1970 album titled, 'SOMETHING".

LYRICS - The Old Fashion Way:
Dance in the old-fashioned way
Won't you stay in my arms?
Just melt against my skin and let me feel your heart
Don't let the music win by dancing far apart
Come close, where you belong, let's hear our secret song

Dance in the old-fashioned way
Won't you stay in my arms?
And we'll discover highs we never knew before
If we just close our eyes and dance around the floor
That gay, old-fashioned way that makes me love you more

[Instrumental]

Dance in the old-fashioned way
Won't you stay in my arms?
And we'll discover highs we never knew before
If we just close our eyes and dance around the floor
Come close, where you belong, let's hear our secret song
That gay, old-fashioned way that makes me love you more
Come close, where you belong, let's hear our secret song

LYRICS - Yesterday When I Was Young:
Yesterday when I was young
The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
I always built, alas, on weak and shifting sand
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day
And only now I see how the years ran away
Yesterday when I was young
So many drinking song were waiting to be sung
So many wayward pleasures laid in store for me
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
I never stopped to think what life was all about
And every conversation I can now recall
Concerned itself with me, me and nothing else at all
Yesterday the moon was blue
And every crazy day brought something new to do
I used my magic age as if it were a wand
And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died
The friends I made all seemed, somehow, to drift away
And only I am left on stage to end the play
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday
When I was young
Young
Young