Shirley Bassey - Where Am I Going? (1972 Talk Of The Town)

REMASTERED CLIP - Shirley Bassey performed at the Talk of The Town several times during the 1960s and 1970s. This particular concert was held in 1972, and the footage and sound is of better quality. This particular concert was held in 1972. This is her opening number, called ’Where Am I Going?’. ABOUT THIS SONG: This song was written for the musical, ’Sweet Charity’. The music and Lyrics were written by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields. Another big number from this musical that Shirley has included in her concert line-up for 6 decades is ’Big Spender’. The musical was directed and choreographed for Broadway by Bob Fosse, and it’s based on the book written by Neil Simon. It is based on the screenplay for the 1957 Italian film Nights of Cabiria. However, whereas Federico Fellini’s black-and-white film concerns the romantic ups-and-downs of an ever-hopeful prostitute, in the musical the central character is a dancer-for-hire at a Times Square dance hall. The
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