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"...Some Of Your Lovin'..."
As if anyone in the Western hemisphere (let alone
Blighty) needed proof positive of just how good a reissue label Ace Records
of the UK really is - point the 2022 accusational finger over here you KGB
operative, because this is a deeply, deeply classy release.
"Dusty Sings Soul" has me dribbling at
the bottom lip while the hairier one atop is quivering in some sort of music
spasm not known to many of England's top drug-dealers (I checked). It even has me
using heady adjectives and verbs in a frankly cavalier manner unworthy of my
literary genius (but more of that later).
Dusty-philes will probably have all of this for
sure, but for those of us who just aren't that invested in Dusty Springfield
outside of the more familiar 60ts hits, this is a fabulous way to catch her in
genre pockets she adored and spent years emulating - American Soul Music and
its little sister Rhythm 'n' Blues.
Haven't left the overtly and ever so slightly
po-faced Folk Pop of The Springfields behind in 1963, her burgeoning solo
career was going to be different. Hip and happening at the Twisted Wheel,
rather than knitting cardigan patterns around the hearth with a warm mug of
cocoa.
Twenty-four cuts and nearly 64-minutes of music
stretch from 1964 to 1969, and you can literally hear the spirit and joy in
Dusty's renditions as she lays into Motown, Stax, Atlantic, Chess and all
points in-between. Can I Get A Witness - you betcha baby - here are the pieces
of her heart...
UK released Friday, 25 March 2022 - "Dusty
Sings Soul" by DUSTY SPRINGFIELD on Ace Records CDCHD 1612 (Barcode
029667105224) is a CD compilation of 24-Tracks spanning 1964 to 1969 that plays
out as follows (63:54 minutes):
1. Can I Get A Witness
First Track on "Dusty", September 1964 UK
4-Track EP on Philips BE 12564
Original: Marvin Gaye - September 1963 US 45-single
on Tamla T-54087, A
2. Long After Tonight Is All Over
From her 2nd LP "Ev'rything's Coming Up
Dusty", October 1965 UK on Philips SRBL 1002
Original: Jimmy Radcliffe - October 1964 US
45-single on Musicor MU-1042, A
3. Won't Be Long
From her 2nd LP "Ev'rything's Coming Up
Dusty", October 1965 UK on Philips SRBL 1002
Original: Aretha Franklin - December 1960 US 2nd
45-single on Columbia 41923, A
4.Bring Him Back
From her 3rd LP "Where Am I Going",
October 1967 UK on Philips SBL 7820
Original: Sissie Houston (Cissy) - April 1966 US
45-single on Congress CG-268, A
5. All Cried Out
Second Track on "Dusty", September 1964
UK 4-Track EP on Philips BE 12564
Original: Darlene Paul - June 1964 US 45-single on
Capitol 5200, A
6. Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart
From LP "Dusty...Definitely", November
1968 UK on Philips 7864
Dusty's version features guest vocalists Madeline
Bell, Lesley Duncan and Kay Garner with John Paul Jones on Bass, who would
later join Led Zeppelin
Original: Erma Franklin - as "Piece Of My
Heart", October 1967 US 45-single on Shout S-221, A
7. Do Re Mi
From her Debut LP "A Girl Called Dusty",
August 1964 UK on Philips 7594
Original: Lee Dorsey - December 1961 US 45-single
on Fury 1056, A
8. Welcome Home
From her 3rd LP "Where Am I Going", October 1967 UK on Philips SBL 7820
From her 3rd LP "Where Am I Going", October 1967 UK on Philips SBL 7820
Original: Walter Jackson - April 1965 US 45-single
on Okey 4-7219, A
9. Some Of Your Lovin'
September 1965 Non-LP UK 45-single on Philips BF
1430, A
Dusty's version features guest vocalists Madeline
Bell, Lesley Duncan and for the first time, Kiki Dee
Original: The Honey Bees (written by Gerry Goffin
and Carole King) - April 1965 US 45-single on Fontana F-1505, B-side of
"You Turn Me On Boy"
10. That's How Heartaches Are Made
From her 2nd LP "Ev'rything's Coming Up
Dusty", October 1965 UK on Philips SRBL 1002
Original: Baby Washington - March 1963 US 45-single
on Sue Records 783, A
11. It Was Easier To Hurt Him
From her 2nd LP "Ev'rything's Coming Up
Dusty", October 1965 UK on Philips SRBL 1002
Original: Garnet Mimms - March 1965 US 45-single
(as "It Was Easier To Hurt Her") on United Artists UA 848, A
12. Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone
From her 4th LP "Dusty...Definitely",
November 1968 UK on Philips 7864
Dusty's version features guest vocalists Madeline
Bell, Lesley Duncan and Kay Garner with John Paul Jones on Bass, who would
later join Led Zeppelin
Original: The Temptations - from their July 1967 US
LP "With A Lot O' Soul" on Gordy GS 922 in Stereo
13. I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself (Mono)
June 1964 UK 45-single on Philips BF 1348, A
Original: Tommy Hunt - August 1962 US 45-single on
Scepter 136, A
14. Every Ounce Of Strength (Mono)
March 1966 UK 45-single on Philips BF 1482, B-side
of "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me (No Che No Vivo Senza
Te)"
Original: Carla Thomas - May 1965 US 45-single on
Stax 172, B-side of "Stop! Look What You're Doing" - A-side written
by Steve Cropper, David Porter & Isaac Hayes
15. I Wanna Make You Happy
Track 1, Side 2 - April 1965 "Dusty In New
York" 4-Track EP on Philips BE 12572
Original: Margaret Mandolph - May 1965 US 45-single
on Planetary P-106, A
16. Nothing
From her Debut LP "A Girl Called Dusty",
August 1964 UK on Philips 7594
Original: Marie Knight - October 1961 US 45-single
(as "Nothing in The World") on Okeh 4-7141, B-side of "Come
Tomorrow"
17. Oh No Not My Baby
From her 2nd LP "Ev'rything's Coming Up
Dusty", October 1965 UK on Philips SRBL 1002
Original: The Shirelles - from 1965 US LP
"Swing The Most" on Pricewise P 4001
18. I Had A Talk With My Man
From her 2nd LP "Ev'rything's Coming Up
Dusty", October 1965 UK on Philips SRBL 1002
Original: Mitty Collier - August 1964 US 45-single
on Chess 1907, A
19. I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face
From her 3rd LP "Where Am I Going",
October 1967 UK on Philips SBL 7820
Original: Pat Thomas - October 1964 US 45-single on
Verve 10333, A
20. Every Day I Have To Cry
Track 2, Side 2, April 1964 UK Debut EP "I
Only Want To Be With You" on Philips BE 12560
Original: Arthur Alexander - Unreleased Recording
from 1962 on Dot Records
21. Love Power
From her 4th LP "Dusty...Definitely",
November 1968 UK on Philips 7864
Original: The Sandpipers - October 1967 US
45-single on Calla C-141, A
22. Don't Let Me Lose This Dream
From her 3rd LP "Where Am I Going",
October 1967 UK on Philips SBL 7820
Original: Aretha Franklin - from the March 1967 US
LP "I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You" on Atlantic SD 8139
23. Am I The Same Girl
September 1969 UK 45-single on Philips BF 1811, A
(Mono)
Original: Barbara Acklin - January 1969 US
45-single on Brunswick 55399, A
24. What's It Gonna Be
September 1967 UK 45-single on Philips BF 1608, A
Original: None - Jerry Ragovoy and Mort Shuman song
she did first
All tracks in STEREO except 13, 14 and 23 which are
MONO
The 20-page booklet is gorgeous, all those Philips
45 labels, colour EP sleeves, UK LP cover art and sheet music - the usual
classy Ace Records affair. Long-time Soul aficianado, genre expert and
collaborator with Ace and other reissue labels TONY ROUNCE outdoes even his own
lofty standards by providing fact-crammed liner-notes to each song. This is a
great read by someone who clearly reveres his subject matter, crisscrossing her
cover version with the original. The AUDIO is cracking throughout (three Mono,
twenty-one Stereo cuts) provided by NICK ROBBINS - stuff like the gorgeous "Some
Of Your Lovin'" and "What's It Gonna Be" (huge fan faves)
sounding huge and full of life.
Influenced by great ladies of Soul like Baby
Washington, Barbara Acklin, Erma Thomas and Carla Thomas - Dusty showed her
staggering street smarts by choosing to cover Aretha on only her second
45-single release in the USA for Columbia Records. The big writers for Motown
(Holland-Dozier-Holland) and Brill Building geniuses like Gerry Goffin and
Carole King are not surprisingly amidst the versions - but check out her savvy
at spotting a Stax B-side "Every Ounce Of Strength" by Carla Thomas -
a Steve Cropper, David Porter and Isaac Hayes tune - a song that was reputedly
lined up for her cancelled fifth UK EP "Heartbeat".
For sure the tempo wanes and the magic drops in
places, and I'm pretty sure I never want to hear the overly sampled hit-list
radio regular "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" even again.
But make no mistake, "Dusty Sings
Soul" is a great CD compilation for 2022 and one that will bring a
tear to the eyes of her many fans and open up others to her right-on career
choices - 60ts Soul...
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