Reach for the Stars (song)
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Reach for the Stars is a song made popular by Shirley Bassey
and written by Austrian pop singer/songwriter Udo Jürgens
(with English lyrics by Norman Newell
). As a double A-side single (b/w "Climb Ev'ry Mountain
") it went to #1 in the UK charts.
Shirley Bassey
Dame Shirley Bassey, DBE , is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the late 1950s and was "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century"...
and written by Austrian pop singer/songwriter Udo Jürgens
Udo Jürgens
Udo Jürgens is an Austrian composer and singer of popular music whose career spans over fifty years...
(with English lyrics by Norman Newell
Norman Newell
Norman Newell, OBE was born in Plaistow, Essex , and was a successful British record producer in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as co-writer of many notable songs...
). As a double A-side single (b/w "Climb Ev'ry Mountain
Climb Ev'ry Mountain
"Climb Ev'ry Mountain" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. Here it is sung at the close of the first act by the Mother Abbess...
") it went to #1 in the UK charts.