1993 - Shirley Bassey recorded and released this song on her 1993 Album titled, 'Shirley Bassey Sings the Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber.' Webber and Don Black wrote this song for the musical, 'Song & Dance'. Although this song is not as well known as Webber's many other compositions, it's a beautiful song nevertheless.

ABOUT the musical, Song & Dance:
Song and Dance is a musical comprising two acts, one told entirely in "Song" and one entirely in "Dance", tied together by a unifying love story. The "Song" act is Tell Me on a Sunday, with lyrics by Don Black and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, about a young British woman's romantic misadventures in New York City and Hollywood. The "Dance" act is a ballet choreographed to Variations, composed by Lloyd Webber for his cellist brother Julian, which is based on the A Minor Caprice No. 24 by Paganini. The musical had its world premiere on March 26, 1982 at the Palace Theatre, where it ran for 781 performances.

Synopsis of Play:
Song focuses on an English girl who has recently arrived in New York. Following an argument with her boyfriend, they decide to break up. She writes to her mother in England about what happened, and that she has met a new man, Hollywood producer Sheldon Bloom, with whom she travels to California. She eventually realizes that Sheldon has only been using her as a trophy, and she ends things once and for all.

The girl returns to New York disappointed and meets a younger man who she finds more fulfilling. When he has to leave on a business trip, the girl can't bear to let him go. Her friend later comes over to tell her about the man's infidelity, and she asks him for the truth.

Depressed, the girl walks through the city streets. She meets a married man, and reflects on whether their affair is wrong. The married man comes by to confess his love, however she realizes that she has been using him. In the end she decides that it wasn't the end of the world to have no one.

Dance explores the story of the younger man, his various relationships and his commitment issues. At the end, the man sees the girl, and they make up, joining both at last in Song and Dance.

ABOUT The Album:
This album, 'Shirley Bassey Sings the Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber, saw Bassey briefly return to her old label EMI (which also owns her United Artists recordings); the album was issued by EMI on the Music For Pleasure Premier label. All songs on this album are from the pen of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. This is the first, and to date the only Songbook album that Shirley Bassey has recorded and released. In her early recording career she had recorded many songs from the Great American Songbook, but unlike Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and many other artists, she had never recorded a complete album of songs by one composer. The songs on the album are all taken from the popular musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber, that he wrote with various lyricists. The oldest song found on the album is from the 1971 musical Jesus Christ Superstar which originally opened on Broadway in October of that year. Bringing it up to date the album also includes two songs from Sunset Boulevard which had recently premiered on July 12, 1993 in London's West End

LYRICS:
I'm a lady when you kiss me
I'm a child when you are leaving
I'm a woman ev'ry time our bodies meet
Complete

Long lost feelings stir inside me
Used to think nights were for sleeping
Being wanted is a thrill I never knew
Till you

Now I'm alive, inside I'm glowing
I'm how I want to be
Loving you I can be me
Just me

It's the first time when you touch me
Now I long for rainy mornings
I am certain you're the last man in my life

I'm a woman every time our bodies meet
Complete

Long lost feelings stir inside me
Used to think nights were for sleeping
Being wanted is a thrill I never knew
Till you

Now I'm alive, inside I'm glowing
I'm how I want to be
Loving you I can be me
Just me

It's the first time when you touch me
No more dreams with one face missing
I am certain you're the last man in my life
I am certain you're the last man in my life

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