{"id":3249,"date":"2015-10-13T02:51:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T01:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2015-10-13T03:38:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T02:38:22","slug":"dame-shirley-bassey-blake-announce-duet-of-the-christmas-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/dame-shirley-bassey-blake-announce-duet-of-the-christmas-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Dame Shirley Bassey & BLAKE announce duet of ‘The Christmas Song’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revealed today in the Daily Mirror newspaper, Dame Shirley Bassey and Brit-Award winning harmonisers BLAKE have joined forces to record ‘The Christmas Song’ for the band’s debut festive album, available now on PledgeMusic.com<\/a> with 10% of profits going directly to Variety the childrens charity!<\/p>\n

Pre-Order YOUR personal signed copy of Blake’s debut festive album featuring this special duet with Dame Shirley Bassey by clicking this link:<\/h2>\n

http:\/\/www.PledgeMusic.com\/projects\/ChristmasClassics<\/a><\/h2>\n

Teaming up with British vocal harmony trio Blake, Dame Shirley Bassey has recorded her first ever Christmas song and has revealed she would love a Christmas number 1. \u201cBlake-and-Bassey\u201d have recorded \u2018The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)\u2019 and the song will be the soundtrack for the upcoming festive season with soaring strings, swoonsome harmonies and, of course, Dame Shirley\u2019s distinctive voice.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI would love to have a Christmas number one,\u201d she revealed at the recording of the video in a North London studio, alongside Blake\u2019s Ollie Baines, Humphrey Berney and Stephen Bowman.<\/p>\n

Bookmakers William Hill have already take a sizeable bet on the song claiming the festive top spot, and have slashed the odds from 25\/1 \u2013 10\/1 before the single release was even announced.<\/p>\n

Dame Shirley explains how the collaboration came about: \u201cBlake sang Moon River at my 70th birthday party, and then we met again at the reception of [the charity] Variety\u2019s 70th anniversary six months ago. Ollie mentioned singing a Christmas song together, and I said I\u2019ve never done a Christmas song before!\u201d<\/p>\n

Blake toyed with the idea of writing a brand new original song but decided that when recording a voice as iconic as hers, only an absolute classic would do. Stephen Bowman explained: \u201cWe listened to Dame Shirley’s most recent recordings, as well as her past albums, watched a lot of YouTube clips from dozens of live shows, then started to compile a short list of about five songs. We felt sure that Dame Shirley could make a hit out of any of the songs on our list, so we sent it over and let her choose the one that she liked best \u2013 which was The Christmas Song.\u201d<\/p>\n

After recording the song Dame Shirley \u201cI was quite overwhelmed because it just fits my voice so well. I was amazed how well our voices blended.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018The Christmas Song\u2019 will also appear on Blake\u2019s new album \u2018Christmas Classics\u2019 (released November 20th) which has been funded through crowdfunding site \u0013\u0001\u0014PledgeMusic<\/a>\u0015. Part of the money raised through the Pledge campaign will go to the charity Variety, with Humphrey saying \u201cWe are ambassadors of Variety, The Children\u2019s Charity, and were reunited with Dame Shirley at Variety\u2019s gala event this year, so it is fitting that a sizeable donation is being made from the funding of the album to the charity. The work that they do for disadvantaged children in the UK is absolutely essential, and we are very proud to be associated with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dame Shirley is also supporting a children\u2019s charity with the release of the single \u201cIt\u2019s so lovely to finally get to release a Christmas song, and my royalties will go to my Children\u2019s Hospital, Noah\u2019s Ark in Cardiff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blake\u2019s new \u2018Christmas Classics\u2019 album also includes the likes of \u2018Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas\u2019, \u2018Frosty The Snowman\u2019 and \u2018White Christmas\u2019 \u2013 and a percentage of the sales of the entire album will go to Variety, the Children\u2019s Charity, when ordered on PledgeMusic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Blake have an impressive CV of achievements including several No. 1s, multi-platinum selling albums and over 150 TV appearances, as well as winning a Brit Award for Album of the Year. Famous fans include Keira Knightley, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey and Will Smith.<\/p>\n

They tour constantly and take part in a vast amount of charity work, from performing for the Queen and Prince Harry at the Festival of Remembrance and the launch of the Walking With The Wounded South Pole Challenge, to working with the \u2018Sing to Beat Breast Cancer\u2019 Choir. Other charities they have supported include Help For Heroes, The British Legion and MIND. They have legions of fans worldwide, which has sent them on tours to the Phillipines, South Korea, Barbados, Russia, and even at the White House in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Revealed today in the Daily Mirror newspaper, Dame Shirley Bassey and Brit-Award winning harmonisers BLAKE have joined forces to record ‘The Christmas Song’ for the band’s debut festive album, available now on PledgeMusic.com with 10% of profits going directly to Variety the childrens charity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}