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Love, Life and Feelings is the twenty-first studio album from Shirley Bassey, released in 1976 on the United Artists label. The album peaked a #13 in the UK album chart, and charted at #149 in the Billboard 200. Love, Life and Feelings was awarded silver record status by the British Phonographic Industry, with sales of more than 60,000 copies.

Features covers of contempory pop songs from the late 1960's and early 1970's, such as "Alone Again (Naturally)" the 1972 UK #1 single from Gilbert O'Sullivan and "The Way I Want to Touch You" from Captain & Tennille along side "What I Did for Love", from the musical A Chorus Line written by Marvin Hamlisch. Singles released from the album include "Natali", an Italian song with lyrics by Norman Newell, which was with the non-album track "Runaway" as the B-side, this track has of 2011 not been re-issued on CD.

Love, Life and Feelings was issued originally on 33.3rpm vinyl and audio cassette with a sleeve cover photography by Richard Avedon. The album was re-issued on a double CD set in 2006, by BGO Records, together with the 1974 album Nobody Does It Like Me.

Track listing

Side One.

1. "What I Did for Love" (Edward Kleban, Marvin Hamlisch) - 3.47
2. "The Hungry Years" (Howard Greenfield, Neil Sedaka) - 4.36
3. "Born to Lose" (Bardotti, Bembo, Norman Newell) - 5:46
4. "Everything That Touches You" (Kamen) - 3.22
5. "Isn't It a Shame (Edelman) - 3.47
6. "Midnight Blue (Melissa Manchester, Carol Bayer Sager) - 4.11

Side Two.

1. "The Way I Want to Touch You" (Toni Tennille) - 3.17
2. "Natali" (Balsamo, Norman Newell) - 5.02
3. "You've Made Me So Very Happy" (Berry Gordy, Holloway, Holloway, Wilson) - 3.41
4. "Alone Again (Naturally)" (Gilbert O'Sullivan) - 4.54
5. "Feelings" (Morris Albert) - 4.46
6. "If I Never Sing Another Song" (Don Black, Udo Jurgens) - 4.04

Personnel

• Shirley Bassey – vocal
• Martin Davis - producer
• Arthur Greenslade - arranger, conductor
• Martin Rushent - engineer