1996 (Audience With Shirley TV Special)

Shirley recorded and released this song on her 1991 CD titled, "Shirley Bassey - Keep The Music Playing'

ABOUT this song:
"I Want to Know What Love Is" is a 1984 power ballad recorded by the British-American rock band Foreigner. The song hit #1 in both the UK and the U.S. and is the band's most successful single. It remains one of the band's best known songs and most enduring radio hits, charting in the top 25 in 2000, 2001 and 2002 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Recurrents chart. Written by Mick Jones with some degree of uncredited contribution by Lou Gramm,[citation needed] and produced by Jones and Alex Sadkin, it was the first single released from the album Agent Provocateur (1984). "I Want to Know What Love Is" reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 15 January 1985 and stayed there for three weeks. It reached the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 on 2 February 1985 where it stayed for two weeks.

Other covers of this song have been recorded by familiar artists as diverse as Dame Shirley Bassey, Progressive rock keyboardist Geoffrey Downes, pop chanteuses Rita Coolidge, Latin crooner Julio Iglesias, Memphis soul singer Ann Peebles and Christian pop artist Kathy Troccoli.

LYRICS:
I gotta take a little time
A little time to think things over
I better read between the lines
In case I need it when I'm older
Now this Mountain I must climb
Feels like a world upon my shoulders
Through the clouds I see love shine
It keeps me warm as life grows colder

In my life there's been
heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
Can't stop now, I'm traveled so far
To change my lonely life

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me

I'm gonna take a little time
A little time to look around me
I've got nowhere left to hide
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It looks like love has finally found me

In my life there's been
heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
Can't stop now, I've traveled so far
To change my lonely life

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me

(Fading down)
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what