I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself - Dusty Springfield, Bacharach, Burt
All I See Is You - Dusty Springfield, Weisman, Ben
Summer Is Over - Dusty Springfield, Springfield, Tom
Losing You - Dusty Springfield, Springfield, Tom
You Don't Own Me - Dusty Springfield, Madara, John
All Cried Out - Dusty Springfield, Kaye, Buddy
Some of Your Lovin' - Dusty Springfield, Goffin, Gerry
I Only Want to Be with You - Dusty Springfield, Hawker, Mike
Welcome Home - Dusty Springfield, Taylor, Chip [1]
I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten - Dusty Springfield, Westlake, Clive Ger
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield, Donnagio, P. Giusep
Goin' Back - Dusty Springfield, Goffin, Gerry
The Look of Love - Dusty Springfield, Bacharach, Burt
If You Go Away - Dusty Springfield, Brel, Jacques
How Can I Be Sure - Dusty Springfield, Brigati, Edward J.
Never Love Again - Dusty Springfield, Chambers, Roland
Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield, Hurley, John
Spooky - Dusty Springfield, Buie, Buddy
It's Over - Dusty Springfield, Rodgers, Jimmie [Co
Broken Blossoms - Dusty Springfield, Gray, Robert Anthon
Beautiful Soul - Dusty Springfield, Adam, Margie
In the Winter - Dusty Springfield, Ian, Janis
I Can't Make It Alone - Dusty Springfield, Goffin, Gerry
What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? - Dusty Springfield, Bergman, Alan
Soft Core - Dusty Springfield, Pope, Carole Ann
Track Listings (26) - Disc #2
They Long to Be Close to You - Dusty Springfield, Bacharach, Burt
Your Hurtin' Kinda Love - Dusty Springfield, Hawker, Mike
Nothing - Dusty Springfield, Augustus, Frank
Standing in the Need of Love - Dusty Springfield, Traditional
Heartbeat - Dusty Springfield, Cobb, Margaret
I Wish I'd Never Loved You - Dusty Springfield, Hawker, Michael
In the Middle of Nowhere - Dusty Springfield, Kaye, Buddy
Little by Little - Dusty Springfield, Kaye, Buddy
If Wishes Could Be Kisses - Dusty Springfield, Alfred, Roy
I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face - Dusty Springfield, Ragovoy, Jerry
The Corrupt Ones - Dusty Springfield, Garvarentz, Georges
Give Me Time - Dusty Springfield, Callander, Peter Ro
I Will Come to You - Dusty Springfield, Westlake, Clive Ger
Sweet Ride - Dusty Springfield, Hazelwood, L.
Goodbye - Dusty Springfield, Tanega, Norma Cecil
Sometimes Like Butterflies - Dusty Springfield, Roberts, Bruce
I'll Be Faithful - Dusty Springfield, Albright, Ned W.
I Have Found My Way Through the Darkness - Dusty Springfield, Slavin, Gilbert
Love Shine Down - Dusty Springfield,
Natchez Trace - Dusty Springfield, Goldberg, Neil Bria
Sweet Inspiration - Dusty Springfield, Cameron, Johnny
Go My Love - Dusty Springfield, Tanega, Norma Cecil
I Am Your Child [#] - Dusty Springfield, Manilow, Barry
Bits and Pieces - Dusty Springfield, Frontiere, Dominic
I'm Coming Home Again - Dusty Springfield, Roberts, Bruce
I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself [Alternate Take] - Dusty Springfield, Bacharach, Burt
Fantastic two CD collection. Not only does Classics And Collectibles offer, in many cases for the first time on CD, the original mono mixes of the majority of her hits but it also includes some of her finest non-hit perfor... more »mances, some remixed favorites and many tracks previously unreleased in the UK. Includes Top 10 hits 'I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten', 'Goin' Back' and 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me', which gave Dusty her only #1 in the UK. Also features '(They Long To Be) Close To You' (recorded years before the Carpenters' version) in a previously unreleased remix form and 'I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself' with a different, although no less powerful, vocal to the instantly recognizable hit version. 51 tracks. Mercury. 2004.« less
Fantastic two CD collection. Not only does Classics And Collectibles offer, in many cases for the first time on CD, the original mono mixes of the majority of her hits but it also includes some of her finest non-hit performances, some remixed favorites and many tracks previously unreleased in the UK. Includes Top 10 hits 'I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten', 'Goin' Back' and 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me', which gave Dusty her only #1 in the UK. Also features '(They Long To Be) Close To You' (recorded years before the Carpenters' version) in a previously unreleased remix form and 'I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself' with a different, although no less powerful, vocal to the instantly recognizable hit version. 51 tracks. Mercury. 2004.
"While one can't argue with the price of this 2-CD set, one wonders why all these redundant compilations of Dusty's music are necessary? And, since most of them were released after her untimely death in 1999, there's a certain aroma of crass cashing in by serving what this writer calls the Necrophiliac Music Market. It seems every time a musician dies, their record sales skyrocket. It happened with Elvis, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, et al. In other words, who's raking in this dough? Certainly not the late great artist. And, therein lies the tragic irony of Dusty Springfield. It would appear Dusty has had more albums released after her way too early demise than she ever did in life. This is but one of many postmortem compilations floating around.
While the song choices cover just about every phase of Dusty's 40-year career, including her early days with The Springfields, their chronology has been totally ignored. Why this album doesn't begin with the Springfields' tracks followed by Dusty's first solo hit "I Only Want To Be With You" defies logic. Why the first disc ends with the Kurt Weill-esque "Soft Core" and the second disc begins with the insipid, non-Dusty hit "Close To You" is but one example of the disjointed, herky-jerky musical progression of this album. With no prevailing theme and no natural segues, this album leaves the listener confused and unsatisfied.
This writer gave it 4 stars only because it's Dusty. However, if you're truly a Springfield aficionado, might I suggest you pay the extra money and purchase the brilliant 4-disc compilation, "Simply Dusty" - the nearly 100 track, well-thought-out, chronological remastered compilation of Dusty's finest work.
Dust was one of the 20th Century's most gifted vocalists/musicians. While this album will give the listener more than a glimpse of her incredible talent, the way this set is organized will not accord the new Dusty Springfield fan the opportunity to hear how Dusty grew and changed as an artist. "Simply Dusty" tells the whole story - this set is merely disjointed fragments of a fantastic talent's life's work."
Classic Dusty Springfield
DER5280 | Denver, CO | 06/08/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is a great 2-CD set of Dusty Springfield, from when she first began recording through her tragically short career. For Dusty Springfield fans, the sound is crisp and clean and the songs bring back many fond memories...what's not to enjoy??"
Pop music gold
SML | Northridge, CA USA | 01/10/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This music belongs in any cd collection that is purported to contain the best popular music ever recorded. Though there are 51 songs here, here is the lineup that one can program one's cd player to play: Son of a Preacher Man (remember Pulp Fiction?); I Only Want to Be With You; If You Go Away (Jacques Brel classic); The Look of Love; How Can I Be Sure; Spooky. And throw in You Don't Have to Say You Love Me when in the mood. The rest of the songs are interesting enough. Her smoky, inimitable voice, the '60s-style sometimes dreamily cool, sometimes danceable arrangements represent the best of an era in pop music as significant as any. And she did more than hit the notes and keep the beat. She bends the notes in the right places, and possesses a distinctive and remarkably warm voice."
Classic Dusty
James Fenos | Columbus, OH United States | 12/28/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I bought this set when it was first released and it saddens me deeply that this well mastered set is now out of print. I live in the States where Dusty and her neighbor Cliff Richard are criminally overlooked along with Swing Out Sister and Simply Red and Texas and Sharleen Spiteri and oh hell, I should just move to England!!
Seriously kids, if this set can be had used I recommend it and sure, it's not the best assembled set and it may miss a few points but contains Dusty's fine interpretations of "In The Winter" and "What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life" guaranteed to invoke tears and remind us of the talent we the world lost."
Track Listings (25) - Disc #1
