REMASTERED CLIP (1970 Shirley Bassey appearance on the Engelbert Humperdinck Show)

Shirley appeared on the Engelbert Humperdinck TV Show and performed two solo numbers, including:
1) The Joker
By: Leslie Bricusse/Anthony Newley
Musical: The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd
2) The Sea and Sand
By: Johnny Harris/Tony Colton/Raymond Smith

Shirley recorded and released "The Joker" on her 1968 album titled, 'This Is My Life'. She recorded and released "The Sea and Sand" on her 1970 album titled, 'Something'. While re-imaging herself as a POP singer, Shirley always would include songs like these that would appeal to older fans. Both songs are favorites of mine.

LYRICS - The Joker:
There's always a joker in the pack
There's always a lonely clown
The poor laughing fool falls on his back
And everyone laughs when he's down
There's always a funny man in the game
But he's only funny by mistake
But everyone laughs at him, just the same
They don't see his lonely heart break
They don't care as long as there is a jester, just a fool
As foolish as he can be
There's always a joker, that's a rule
But fate deals the hand and I see
The joker is me
There's always a funny man in the game
But he's only funny by mistake
But everyone laughs at him, just the same
They don't see his lonely heart break
They don't care as long as there is a jester, just a fool
As foolish as he can be
There's always a joker, that's a rule
But fate deals the hand and I see
The joker is me
The joker is me
The joker is me

LYRICS - The Sea and Sand:
In the choir of the ocean air
Are you here? Were you ever there?
In the yellow shifting sands
In a dream I held your hand
I run to the sea and I reach for the sand
Just to hold in my hand to believe your love
I stand with the waves rushing in
On the tide with my arms open wide
And I feel your love
I recall you in the sea and sand
Crying eyes and a reaching hand
Touching spray from my brow
Are you near? Where are you now?
I call to the sea to the wind
To the rain bring him back
Come again for I need your love
I turn to the sky and I search with my eyes
For a sign you were mine and I see your love
And then the ebb tide brings a small
Piece of your driftwood in it's hand
And you get washed up on the
Beaches of my long forgotten sand
And I go searching down the long
Deserted shore lines of my mind
Lighting fires with the pieces to
Pass away the time
I run to the sea and I reach for the sand
Just to hold in my hand to believe your love
I stand with the waves rushing in
On the tide with my arms open wide
And I feel your love i call to the sea
To the wind to the rain
Bring him back come again
For I need your love i turn to the sky
And I search with my eyes for a sign
You were mine and I see your love
I run to the sea and I reach for the sand
Just to hold in my hand to believe your love