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About This Track
“History Repeating” is a song written by Alex Gifford and originally performed by the Propellerheads featuring Shirley Bassey in 1997.
The single was released shortly before the Propellerheads album Decksanddrumsandrockandroll (their only album to date), released in 1998 by Wall of Sound in Europe and DreamWorks in the US and Japan. The Propellerheads had previously worked with the James Bond composer David Arnold on the Bond tribute album Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project, where they remixed the John Barry composition “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”.
The track is a fusion of several different styles of big beat, breakbeat and Jazz combined with the powerful vocals of Shirley Bassey. The sleeve cover, an illustration by Duke D. Jukes takes its inspiration from classic album sleeves, such as those used for the Capitol 1959 release No One Cares from Frank Sinatra. The retro style was also continued with the video, filmed in monochrome, the opening of which is themed on a TV Jazz show called Jazz 1200 and clearly harks back to the serious music shows of the 1960s. Scenes from the video shoot were included in the Divas are Forever DVD.
The single was released shortly before the Propellerheads album Decksanddrumsandrockandroll (their only album to date), released in 1998 by Wall of Sound in Europe and DreamWorks in the US and Japan. The Propellerheads had previously worked with the James Bond composer David Arnold on the Bond tribute album Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project, where they remixed the John Barry composition “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”.
The track is a fusion of several different styles of big beat, breakbeat and Jazz combined with the powerful vocals of Shirley Bassey. The sleeve cover, an illustration by Duke D. Jukes takes its inspiration from classic album sleeves, such as those used for the Capitol 1959 release No One Cares from Frank Sinatra. The retro style was also continued with the video, filmed in monochrome, the opening of which is themed on a TV Jazz show called Jazz 1200 and clearly harks back to the serious music shows of the 1960s. Scenes from the video shoot were included in the Divas are Forever DVD.
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Shouts
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Darya01 wrote:
AMAZING track with Shirley Bassey.. can't stop dancing
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moonauto wrote:
AWESOME!
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CookieKentuki wrote:
winner
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DesVandrer wrote:
I keep thinking of her song with Yello when I hear this song.
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benberzerc wrote:
brilliant
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TNVWBOY wrote:
Wow forgot about this song. Love it!
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ekimmu wrote:
nice one!
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zgd123 wrote:
not just history repeating but also the track repeating and repeating and repeating and ...
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mjenn wrote:
Class
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needmymusictoda wrote:
killer awesome forever
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amanicangel wrote:
This is great
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sunset_nz wrote:
Wonderful!
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macpro wrote:
Cool track would be at home on any James Bond movie.
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Barock94 wrote:
Classic.
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Conacha wrote:
the amazing voice of Shirley Bassey...
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andreabrasil wrote:
Love it. It's a classic.
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Biscuit1978 wrote:
What an inspired use of Birley Shassey. Great song.
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Dementedcookie wrote:
Is it possible to molest a song? Lets find out. d-(^-^)z
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Ninja1980 wrote:
When this album came out in 1997 I hated this track.. as time progressed it just kept getting better and better and now is one my favorite on the album. lol
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luckylollyme wrote:
Kinda sounds like lounge, retro and electronica all rolled into one song.
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