No.13 on “The Top 50 U.K. Albums Chart” on my Birth Day

Going from a future “Sir” at No.14 to a future “Dame” at No.13, the formidable Welsh songstress who would later become Dame Shirley Bassey, and who was still taking in the adulation from her latest James Bond theme “Diamonds Are Forever”, had entered the U.K. Album Chart with this album only the week before this current chart, when it had entered at No. 34…

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