Shirley Bassey - Born To Lose (1987 Live in Berlin)

1987 (A beautiful & emotionally powerful ballad by Shirley!) Shirley performs in Berlin celebrating the cities' existence for 750 years)

Shirley recorded and released this song as a 1976 Single (Side-B) / (Side-A) - Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You. This song was included on Shirley's 1976 LP titled, 'Shirley Bassey - Love, Life and Feelings'.

ABOUT this song:
Written by Sergio Bardotti / Dario Baldan Bembo. English lyrics penned by Norman Newell.

Released on the 1976 album Love, Life And Feelings and on a single with "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" on the A-side. Available on CD on the collection Four Decades Of Song.

Originally this was an Italian song called "Aria" and performed by Dario Baldan Bembo. Years later, 1976 Mr. Acker Bilk recorded "Aria" instrumentally with his clarinet, which became a hit - in Britain it reached number five in the charts. Mr. Acker Bilk (born: Bernard Stanley Bilk) is a well known musician, remember for example his 1962 hit "Stranger on the Shore".

Norman Newell then penned English lyrics to the song for Shirley Bassey and the title became "Born To Lose". Shirley Bassey has performed this song on some live appearances and TV shows - a live recording is on Live In Japan '77. In 2000 Shirley Bassey sung it again on some concerts of her Millennium Tour, and also recently on the Stately Homes Tour 2001.

The Italian singer Ornella Vanoni has later also sung "Aria" in English, but with different English lyrics penned by Ben Raleigh

LYRICS:
Born to lose
Born to lose the game
Born to cry
When I hear you're near
Born to smile
Through a mist of tears
Born to live
Lost in lonely years
Born to lose
Every game I play
You must go
There's no other way
Touch my life
With your love once more
It must last
Till forever more
Take my love
Take my life, my soul
Take my dreams
Take my word, my own
Would I change Could I only choose
No not me
I was born to lose
Take my love
Take my life, my soul
Take my dreams
Take my word, my own
Would I change
Could I only choose
No not me
I was born to lose
Take my love
Take my life, my soul
Take my dreams
Take my word, my own
Would I change
Could I only choose
No not me I was born to lose
Take my love Take my life, my soul
Take my dreams Take my word, my own

[andrewhubbard]

Bassey in her day was the best entertainer in the world god bless you dame Shirley ❤️

[SS]

As someone once said, " she doesn't just sing the song, she is the song"

[kylekurt]

No voice can break my heart and open it up to shreds like hers! Not Aretha, Not Whitney, Not Celine... Only BASSEY!!!

[lutgardabajon]

I love it beautiful song 💖💖💖 how great

[anthonyshirley]

One of my favourites always reduces me to tears she is the best

[josdenis]

There’s only one Shirley Bassey. She will never be matched!

[curtismorris]

They way she looks when she sings 'Born to Smile' - like the most beautiful angel. She is the singer best ever.

[billbailey]

She delivers with it all, just fantastic

[brokeheartwolf]

I listen to her often when I’m down…the dark clouds clear and the rain stops…Thank You Goddess Shirley🙏🙏🙏👍🏼👍🏼❤️

[robertclatworthy]

She sings the song with her eyes. A wonderful performance.

[giacomoattanasio]

Non smetto di ascoltare questo pezzo interpretato in modo Divino da questa straordinaria cantante di nome Shirley Bassey. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[celiachalmers]

The audience should have been up on their feet with rapturous applause after that performance! Outstanding!

[billyd]

There is only one Shirley Bassey and there will never be another. She is more than fabulous.

[jeh]

No one like her. A pohenomenal artist like no other and
an amazing career. This is one hard song to deliver in so
many ways. The nuances, the subletiesm the emotions she conveys.
Few pop singers would touch anything like this - except Shirley Bassey.
Its almost opera. And, she's one of the great living divas. Happy 75th to
Dame Shirley. Brava!

[markbennett]

I've have seen the Dame in concert so many times, but how I wish I had been at this one. Born to lose is in my humble opinion her best song

[danag]

NO ONE comes close to the talent that she possesses. There are many phenomenal female vocalists on the planet. But Shirley has such an amazingly powerful voice and exudes such emotion in her voice. She just does it for me. Sexy, beautiful, super talented, dynamic Capricorn woman who knows what she has, the confidence to be able to perform like this is not to be taken lightly.

[dazzamoritz]

Not many singers can take you through all sorts of different emotion in one song but Dame Shirley certainly is one of those that can..One of my all time favourite songs

[domingocastillolopez]

Probablemente estará entre las 3 mejores cantantes de su época, y seguramente también debería estar entre las top 10 de las mejores de la historia. Una artista con un voz increible que igual llegaba a registros muy poderosos de graves como de agudos. Fantástica. y en esta canción en directo está sublime, te lleva a una emoción que casi te hace llorar.

[johnbirtley]

Back in the day my sister Joan Birtley sang all of shirley Bassey's around the working MEN'S clubs my late sister Joan could belt out songs like this.
But unfortunately my late sister was never given the chance to perform in front of an orchestra,

[joanconnolly]

Im sitting on a balcony in spain on my own listening to this song such passion ❤️