Shirley Bassey Version
| "Big Spender (remix)" | ||||
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| Single by Shirley Bassey | ||||
| from the album Get the Party Started | ||||
| Released | 10 December 2007 | |||
| Format | Digital download | |||
| Recorded | 1984 | |||
| Genre | Pop, vocal | |||
| Length | 3:24 | |||
| Label | Lock Stock and Barrel | |||
| Writer(s) | Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields | |||
| Producer | Nikki Lamborn, Catherine Feeney, Diz Disdale | |||
| Shirley Bassey singles chronology | ||||
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A hit version of the song by Shirley Bassey reached #21 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1967. This version featured in the 2004 film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, and in the 2005 film Nynne. The song has become one of Bassey's signature songs. She has performed the song numerous times, most notably for the 80th birthday of Prince Philip. She also sang it at the 2007 Glastonbury Festival.
In December 2007 it was re-released in a new remixed version as a digital download. This was the third and final single released from the album Get the Party Started. The single features a remix from Pink Pound and two instrumental remixes that were not included on the album release. Unlike the previous two singles this track featured a remix of a previous released recording, the vocal track was taken from a session recorded in 1984 for the album I Am What I Am. There was no promotion undertaken for the single and no video was made to support the release.
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