As Long as He Needs Me
"As Long as He Needs Me" | ||||
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Single by Shirley Bassey | ||||
B-side | "So in Love" | |||
Released | 1960 | |||
Genre | Popular music | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Songwriter(s) | Lionel Bart | |||
Shirley Bassey singles chronology | ||||
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"As Long as He Needs Me" is a torch song sung by the character of Nancy in the 1960 musical Oliver! and written by Lionel Bart. Georgia Brown, who was the first actress to play Nancy, introduced the song. It is a love ballad expressing Nancy's love for her criminal boyfriend Bill Sikes despite his mistreatment of her. In the film adaptation of the musical, it was sung by Shani Wallis.
A reprise of this song towards the end of the show expresses Nancy's affection for young Oliver Twist, implying that she now feels that the child also needs her. This reprise was omitted from the film version.
Its popularity grew by virtue of renditions by several popular singers, including Shirley Bassey who reached number two for five weeks on the United Kingdom charts with the song.[1] The song has also been sung as "As Long as She Needs Me", when sung by a male singer. In 1963 Sammy Davis Jr. recorded the song, reaching number 19 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart.[2]
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External links
- Songs Of Shirley Bassey Song Info
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- Oliver Twist
- Bill Sikes
- Fagin
- Mr Brownlow
- Nancy
- Rose Maylie
- Monks
- The Artful Dodger
- Charley Bates
- Mr Sowerberry
- Mr. Bumble
- Oliver Twist (1909)
- Oliver Twist (1912)
- Oliver Twist (1912)
- Oliver Twist (1916)
- Oliver Twist (1919)
- Oliver Twist (1922)
- Oliver Twist (1933)
- Oliver Twist (1948)
- Oliver! (1968)
- Oliver Twist (1974)
- Las Aventuras de Oliver Twist (1987)
- Oliver Twist (2005)
- Manik (1961)
- Chitti Tammudu (1962)
- Oliver & Company (1988)
- Twisted (1996)
- Twist (2003)
- Boy Called Twist (2004)
- Twist (2021)
- Oliver Twist (1962 TV serial)
- Oliver Twist (1982 American-British TV film)
- Oliver Twist (1982 Australian TV film)
- Oliver Twist (1985 TV serial)
- Saban's Adventures of Oliver Twist (1996 TV series)
- Oliver Twist (1997 TV film)
- Oliver Twist (1999 TV series)
- Oliver Twist (2007 TV series)
- Oliver! (1960)
- "As Long as He Needs Me"
- "Consider Yourself"
- "Food, Glorious Food"
- "I'd Do Anything"
- "Oliver!"
- "Oom-Pah-Pah"
- "Where Is Love?"
- "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two"
- "Be Back Soon"
- Oliver! (soundtrack to the 1968 film)
- Escape of the Artful Dodger (2001 TV series retelling)
- Fagin the Jew (2003 graphic novel)
- Oliver and the Artful Dodger (1972 TV film)
- I'd Do Anything (2008 TV series)
- Dodger (2022 TV series)
- The Artful Dodger (2023 TV series)