Shirley Stops the Shows

Shirley Stops the Shows
Studio album by Shirley Bassey
Released	1965
Recorded	1965
Genre	Vocal
Label	EMI/Columbia
Producer	Norman Newell
Shirley Bassey chronology
Let's Face the Music (1962) Shirley Stops the Shows (1965) Shirley Bassey at the Pigalle (1965)
Shirley Bassey Belts the Best!
US album cover

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Record Mirror	[1]

Shirley Stops the Shows is the seventh Shirley Bassey studio album, her 5th and final studio album recorded for the EMI/Columbia label in the UK. Released in 1965, this album is a mix of standards and showtunes. Shirley Bassey was at a high point in her career, with worldwide success of her single "Goldfinger", but the album failed to chart in the UK, a first for her Columbia albums. ^[2] The album met with more success in the US, reaching number 85 in the US Pop charts. ^[3] For the US market it was issued with an alternative running order, retitled Shirley Bassey Belts the Best! and "The Lady Is a Tramp" was replaced by "Goldfinger". Original release was in mono and stereo, both mono versions feature an alternative studio recording of "People" which has not yet been re-issued on CD. The stereo version, remastered, was issued on CD in 2008 together with 12 of Those Songs by BGO Records.

Track listing

Side One.

1. "Everything's Coming up Roses" (Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim) – 3.22
2. "The Sweetest Sounds" (Richard Rodgers) – 2.38
3. "He Loves Me" (Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick) – 2.04
4. "I Believe in You" (Frank Loesser) – 2.13
5. "People" (Jule Styne, Bob Merrill) – 2.47
6. "The Lady is a Tramp" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2.55

Side Two.

1. "Once in a Lifetime" (Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse) – 2.20
2. "Something Wonderful" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2.42
3. "A Lot of Livin' to Do" (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) – 1.54
4. "If Ever I Would Leave You" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 2.43
5. "Somewhere" (Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein) – 2.49
6. "I Could Have Danced All Night" (Lerner, Loewe) – 1.54

Personnel

• Shirley Bassey – vocal
• Johnny Scott and his Orchestra – on track 4 and 10
• Tony Osborne and his Orchestra – on track 11
• Kenny Clayton and his Orchestra – on track 12
• Johnnie Spence and his Orchestra – on tracks all other tracks

Charts

Chart (1965)	Peak position
US Billboard Top LPs [4]	85

References

1. Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (3 April 1965). "Shirley Bassey: Shirley Stops The Shows" (PDF). Record Mirror . No. 212. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
2. Shirley bassey on officialcharts.com
3. Billboard position on allmusic
4. Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top LPs, 1955–1972. Record Research. p. 15. Retrieved 10 July 2025.