Shirley Bassey - Big Spender (Duet w/ Dame Edna) (2007 Live)

2007 (Appearance on Dame Edna TV Show)
ABOUT Dame Edna:
Dame Edna Everage is a character played by Australian comedian Barry Humphries. As Dame Edna, Humphries has written several books and hosted various television shows (on which Humphries has also appeared as himself). In 1979 Dame Edna was the subject of a BBC Arena mockumentary: La Dame aux Gladiolas.
Humphries initially created the character as a typical Australian housewife, through whom he could comment satirically on the ignorance and narrow-mindedness of his fellow suburban Australians. After moving to London, however, Edna grew in stature and popularity, becoming along the way a "Housewife and Superstar", and finally "Dame Edna," a "Megastar". The character came into her own during the 1980s when England's middle-class ascended to new heights of materialism and insensitivity towards the working-class and poverty-stricken members of England's population. Taking Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's hypocritical motto of "caring and compassion" and turning it on its head, Dame Edna became the voice of Humphries' outrage. The character has also been used to satirise the cult of celebrity. Dame Edna's larger-than-life persona, her outrageous (but usually dead-on) comments on the society and celebrity-hood, as well as her habit of treating celebrities like ordinary people (on her TV shows) and ordinary people like celebrities (in her stage shows) became Dame Edna's signatures.
The Edna Everage character first appeared in a Melbourne comedy revue in 1955. At this time she was "Mrs Norm Everage".
In the summer of 2006, Dame Edna appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno alongside Billy Crystal. On 23 September 2006, during an interview on Parkinson, she revealed that she would be returning to ITV in 2007 with a new chat show, The Dame Edna Treatment. The show began on Saturday 17 March 2007, with the set-up being that Edna runs a health spa where various famous guests come for treatment.
LYRICS:
The minute you walked in the joint
I could see you were a man of
distinction, a real big spender
Good looking, so refined
Say, wouldn't you like to know
what's going on in my mind?
So let me get right to the point
I don't pop my cork for every man I see
Hey big spender!
Spend a little time with me
Wouldn't you like to have fun, fun, fun?
How's about a few laughs, laughs?
I could show you a good time
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Let me show you a good time
The minute you walked in the joint
I could see you were a man of
distinction, a real big spender
Good looking, so refined
Say, wouldn't you like to know
what's going on in my mind?
So let me get right to the point
I don't pop my cork for every man I see
Hey big spender!
Hey big spender!
Hey big spender!
Spend a little time with me
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