It was recorded with Geoff Love and his orchestra and peaked at #12 in the UK album chart in early 1961.

[2] Released in 1959, this was the first studio album from Shirley Bassey with completely new material.

In 1997 the Dutch company Disky Records issued a two-CD set entitled Original Gold, four tracks from the album "A Foggy Day in London Town", "April In Paris", "The Man That Got Away" and "They Can't Take that Away from Me" were included, all were previously unavailable on CD at this time.

EMI at Abbey Road, London provided the mono masters, instead of stereo, for this release.

Unlike other artists, such as Cliff Richard and the Beatles, EMI has not re-issued any complete Shirley Bassey album in mono on CD.