Four Decades of Song is a three-CD compilation from Shirley Bassey issued in 1996.[1] This set features 54 songs recorded between 1959 and 1993. In 2008 EMI repackaged and retitled this boxset as Shirley Bassey The Collection; the new version had six extra tracks.
With the exception of "Secret Love" (track 13 on disc 3), all of these tracks were previously issued. This track was recorded in the mid-1960s but remained unreleased until 1996, and appears exclusively on this collection.
CD1 extra tracks for 2008 re-issue:
4. "Big Spender" (Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields) (taken from the 1967 album And We Were Lovers)
5. "Diamonds Are Forever" (John Barry, Don Black) (1971 single A-side/soundtrack album track)
CD2 extra tracks for 2008 re-issue:
4. "You'll Never Know" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) (1961 single A-side in stereo)
20. "What Kind of Fool Am I?" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) (1963 single A-side in stereo)
CD3 extra tracks for 2008 re-issue:
19. "I (Who Have Nothing)" (Mogol, Donida, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) (1963 single A-side in stereo)
20. "I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) (1961 single A-side in stereo)
