DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
Born: 16 April 1939 - Died: 2 March 1999
R.I.P.
Britain's greatest pop diva, Dusty Springfield was also the finest white soul singer of her era, a performer of remarkable emotional resonance whose body of work spans the decades and their attendant musical transformations with a consistency and purity unmatched by any of her contemporaries; though a camp icon of glamorous excess in her towering beehive hairdo and panda-eye black mascara, the sultry intimacy and heartbreaking urgency of Springfield's voice transcended image and fashion, embracing everything from lushly orchestrated pop to gritty R&B to disco with unparalleled sophistication and depth. She was born Mary O'Brien on April 16, 1939, and raised on an eclectic diet of classical music and jazz, coming to worship Peggy Lee; after completing her schooling she joined the Lana Sisters, a pop vocal trio which issued a few singles on Fontana before dissolving. In 1960, upon teaming with her brother Dion O' Brien and his friend Tim Feild in the folk trio the Springfields, O'Brien adopted the stage name Dusty Springfield; thanks to a series of hits including "Breakaway," "Bambino," and "Say I Won't Be There," the group was soon the U.K.'s best-selling act.
1997 The Dusty Springfield Anthology
14 comments:
Hello OzzieGuy , can you please give links for the albums from the Springfields 1962 and 1963 and 2007 album Island of drems.Thanks Greetings Thomas
As I said once before, there was Dusty, there was Petula, and then there were the others who could never get far out of the shade of the big two.
Hello Tom
They were deleted from MF, so all and more have been placed in Mega
Hello PB
LOL, very true.
We know it was recorded in USA but lost It was made to her Album A Brand New Me in 1970 but not used then It was found again in 2017 on the Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia 18 years after her dead
so here is the last mising song from Dusty SWEET CHARLIE
https://mega.nz/file/EMpEnC6S#VnOIg3ADro3wBe8D-
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Thank You so much for all of the Dusty goodies. I truly appreciate you sharing them.
Hello GoodMD,
Thank you for your kind words and I share what I have in my studio and am glad that a lot of people are enjoying what I am sharing.
Needs a code!?
Please
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Thanks for prompt reply
However It says its not correct1
Cheers
Thank you very much for the Dusty Springfield Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1979. Looking forward to give it a pleasant listen,
Derek, you will love it as much as I do and she is still one of my favourites. Such a pity she has passed.
Very nice concert indeed. The download was missing song 5 "This will be" from the concert but found it on yutub so all is in order.
Thanks again for all these discoveries. Great time on your blog.
Greetings from Paris
Thank you Derek.
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