Shirley Bassey Version
| "Get the Party Started" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Shirley Bassey | ||||
| from the album Get the Party Started | ||||
| Released | July 23, 2007 | |||
| Format | CD single, digital download | |||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||
| Genre | Pop, vocal | |||
| Length | 4:02 | |||
| Label | Lock Stock and Barrel | |||
| Writer(s) | Linda Perry | |||
| Producer | Catherine Feeney, Nikki Lamborn, Chuck Norman, Bob Kraushaar | |||
| Shirley Bassey singles chronology | ||||
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Shirley Bassey recorded a cover for a spy-themed 2006 Marks & Spencer Christmas television advertising campaign. Her version became a cult hit and was included on her 2007 album, also titled Get the Party Started. The Guardian wrote, "Bassey is the only singer alive who could take the bouncing, enthusiastic R&B of the original Get the Party Started and turn it into a grand, imperious swoop worthy of a Bond theme; it's a terrific cover version, even if it perhaps didn't quite merit the album attached to it." On 13 January 2008, Bassey's version was used in the opening sequence to the ITV1 series Dancing on Ice. It was also used in the promo for Cycle 4 of Australia's Next Top Model, and Bassey's version charted at number 47 in the UK and ended at the Billboard Year-End Charts at number forty-three in the Hot Dance Club Plays Tracks of the year. The track was used again in 2010 for the opening credits of the spy-spoof movie Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.
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