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For tonight’s Bond on Vinyl post, we’re back to Connery era Bond tunes, and listening to music from Diamonds Are Forever!
Maxine Barrie may not be a household name in the same vein as the Welsh singer Dame Shirley Bassey, but she surely can sing some Shirley Bassey tunes. Working odd jobs in addition to being an unnamed television extra, Barrie’s claim to fame was her appearance on the long-running British television talent series, Stars in Their Eyes. Based on the Dutch show ‘Soundmixshow,’ the program featured a singing contest where members of the public impersonated showbiz stars, running for seventeen seasons.
On the show’s first season during the summer of 1990, Barrie performed as Shirley Bassey and was the series’s Champion. Following the program, Barrie has continued to impersonate the legendary singer as her full-time gig and is versatile in singing all genres of music originally sung by Bassey. She performs in theaters, on cruise ships, and at London Fashion Week.
For recordings, Barrie is credited as Miss B featuring Maxine Barrie, including for this 12” single of ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ released by Klone Records in the UK in 1997. Despite the vocals not quite matching up to Bassey during the original 1970s recordings, it’s a unique album of electronic, Euro House music. The song’s included remixes are more about dance music than vocals, as evident in both the ‘Bondage Mix’ on the A-side and the ‘Shaken Mix’ on the B-side.
143. Miss B Featuring Maxine Barrie – Diamonds Are Forever
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It looks like she was still going with this act more than 20 years later:
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