1979 (Shirley Bassey recorded this song and included it on her 1965 LP titled, 'Shirley Bassey Stops The Shows (UK Cover) and 'Shirley Bassey Belts The Best (USA Cover). Here she is in 1979 performing this song on her TV Variety Show. Everyone recognizes this song as one of Barbra Streisand's signature songs, and at the end of this clip there is a 2013 great picture of them together nearly four decades after both recorded this classic song. (It's unfortunate, but WMG Publishing has blocked the view of Shirley's studio recording of this great song worldwide; otherwise, I would have uploaded it because it's great!)
ABOUT this song:
People" is a song that was written by Jule Styne (composer) and Bob Merrill (lyricist) for the Broadway musical Funny Girl (1964) starring Barbra Streisand, who introduced the song. It is often known by a line from its chorus, "People who need people....". It has been recorded by Shirley Bassey, Dionne Warwick, Steve Lawrence, Jack Jones, Aretha Franklin, Nat King Cole, Perry Como, The Supremes and others, but is most closely associated with Streisand as her signature song. The song asserts that "people who need people" — that is, people who love others and are not emotionally cut off from them — are the "luckiest people in the world". It was released as a single with "I Am Woman", a solo version of "You Are Woman, I Am Man", also from "Funny Girl".
Andy Williams released a version of the song on his 1964 album, The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits. Ella Fitzgerald recorded the song live on her CBS release Ella Fitzgerald at the Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall. The Tymes had a top 40 hit with the song in 1968
LYRICS:
People,
People who need people,
Are the luckiest people in the world
We're children, needing other children
And yet letting a grown-up pride
Hide all the need inside
Acting more like children than children
Lovers are very special people
They're the luckiest people in the world
With one person one very special person
A feeling deep in your soul
Says you were half now you're whole
No more hunger and thirst
But first be a person who needs people.
People who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world
With one person one very special person
No more hunger and thirst
But first be a person who needs people
People who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world
