As Long as He Needs Me - wikipedia As Long as He Needs Me `` As Long as She Needs Me '' redirects here. For the album by Sammy Davis Jr., see As Long as She Needs Me ( album ). This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( October 2017 ) `` As Long as He Needs Me '' Single by Shirley Bassey B - side `` So in Love '' Released 1960 Format 7 - inch single Genre Popular music Label Columbia Songwriter ( s ) Lionel Bart Shirley Bassey singles chronology `` The Birth of the Blues '' ( 1960 ) `` As Long as He Needs Me '' ( 1960 ) `` You 'll Never Know '' ( 1961 ) `` The Birth of the Blues '' ( 1960 ) `` As Long as He Needs Me '' ( 1960 ) `` You 'll Never Know '' ( 1961 ) `` As Long as He Needs Me '' is a torch song sung by the character of Nancy in the 1960 musical Oliver ! and written by Lionel Bart. Georgia Brown, who was the first actress to play Nancy, introduced the song. It is a love ballad expressing Nancy 's love for her criminal boyfriend Bill Sikes despite his mistreatment of her. In the film adaptation of the musical, it was sung by Shani Wallis. A reprise of this song towards the end of the show expresses Nancy 's affection for young Oliver Twist, implying that she now feels that the child also needs her. This reprise was omitted from the film version. Its popularity grew by virtue of renditions by several popular singers, including Shirley Bassey who reached number two for 5 weeks on the United Kingdom charts with the song. Bassey 's recording became one of the highest sellers of 1960 staying on the UK charts for 30 weeks. The song has also been sung as `` As Long as She Needs Me '', when sung by a male singer. In 1963 Sammy Davis Jr. recorded the song, reaching # 19 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart. References Jump up ^ `` SHIRLEY BASSEY full Official Chart History Official Charts Company ''. www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2018 - 02 - 16. Jump up ^ `` Sammy Davis Jr. As Long As She Needs Me Chart History ''. Billboard. Retrieved 2018 - 02 - 16. External links Songs Of Shirley Bassey Song Info Charles Dickens ' Oliver Twist Characters Oliver Twist Bill Sikes Fagin Mr. Brownlow Nancy Rose Maylie Monks The Artful Dodger Charley Bates Mr. Sowerberry Film adaptations Oliver Twist ( 1909 ) Oliver Twist ( 1912 ) Oliver Twist ( 1912 ) Oliver Twist ( 1916 ) Oliver Twist ( 1919 ) Oliver Twist ( 1922 ) Oliver Twist ( 1933 ) Oliver Twist ( 1948 ) Chitti Tammudu ( 1962 ) Oliver ! ( 1968 ) Oliver Twist ( 1982 ) Las Aventuras de Oliver Twist ( 1987 ) Oliver Twist ( 1997 ) Oliver Twist ( 2005 ) Film retellings Manik ( 1961 ) Oliver & Company ( 1988 ) Twisted ( 1997 ) Twist ( 2003 ) Boy Called Twist ( 2004 ) TV adaptations Oliver Twist ( 1982 TV film ) Oliver Twist ( 1985 TV miniseries ) Saban 's Adventures of Oliver Twist ( 1996 TV series ) Oliver Twist ( 1999 miniseries ) Oliver Twist ( 2007 miniseries ) Play Oliver ! ( 1960 ) Songs `` As Long as He Needs Me '' `` Consider Yourself '' D'banj's 2012 song `` Food, Glorious Food '' `` I 'd Do Anything '' `` Oliver ! '' `` Oom - Pah - Pah '' Vaughn De Leath 's 1921 song `` Where Is Love ? '' `` You 've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two '' Related Oliver ! ( soundtrack to the 1968 film ) Escape of the Artful Dodger ( 2001 TV series retelling ) Fagin the Jew ( 2003 graphic novel ) Oliver and the Artful Dodger ( 1972 TV film ) I 'd Do Anything ( 2008 TV series ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=As_Long_as_He_Needs_Me&oldid=825945659 '' Categories : Songs from Oliver ! 1960 songs Songs written by Lionel Bart Nancy Wilson ( jazz singer ) songs Dionne Warwick songs Shirley Bassey songs Columbia Records singles Torch songs Hidden categories : Articles lacking sources from October 2017 All articles lacking sources All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from October 2017 Talk About Wikipedia Français Italiano Sicilianu Edit links This page was last edited on 16 February 2018, at 09 : 07. About Wikipedia

Question: who sings as long as he needs me in oliver
Answer: Nancy