Dusty Springfield - Dusty Springfield, Council, Jim
Ragtime Selection/I Love A Piano/Pretty Baby/When The Midnight ... - Dusty Springfield, Berlin, Irving
(Seven Little Girls) Sitting On The Back Seat - Dusty Springfield, Hilliard, Bob
Far Away Places - Dusty Springfield, Kramer, Alex
Island of Dreams - Dusty Springfield, Springfield, Tom
Say I Won't Be There - Dusty Springfield, Springfield, Tom
No Sad Songs for Me - Dusty Springfield, Springfield, Tom
I Only Want to Be With You - Dusty Springfield, Hawker, Michael
Once upon a Time - Dusty Springfield, Springfield, Dusty
Stay Awhile - Dusty Springfield, Hawker, Michael
Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Dusty Springfield, Goffin, Gerry
Wishin' and Hopin' - Dusty Springfield, Bacharach, Burt
I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself - Dusty Springfield, Bacharach, Burt
All Cried Out - Dusty Springfield, Kaye, Buddy
Losing You - Dusty Springfield, Springfield, Tom
Summer Is Over - Dusty Springfield, Springfield, Tom
I Will Always Want You - Dusty Springfield, Bindi, Umberto
Your Hurtin' Kinda Love - Dusty Springfield, Hawker, Michael
I Wanna Make You Happy - Dusty Springfield, Titelman, Russ
In the Middle of Nowhere - Dusty Springfield, Kaye, Buddy
Baby Don't You Know - Dusty Springfield, Kaye, Buddy
Some of Your Lovin' - Dusty Springfield, Goffin, Gerry
Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) - Dusty Springfield, Bricusse, Leslie
Doodlin' - Dusty Springfield, Hendricks, Jon
I've Been Wrong Before - Dusty Springfield, Newman, Randy
Little By Little - Dusty Springfield, Gin, Eddie
If It Hadn't Been For You [Remix] - Dusty Springfield, Kaye, Buddy
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield, Donaggio, Giuseppe
Every Ounce of Strength - Dusty Springfield, Cropper, Steve
Track Listings (25) - Disc #2
Goin' Back - Dusty Springfield, Goffin, Gerry
Poor Wayfaring Stranger - Dusty Springfield, Traditional
All I See Is You - Dusty Springfield, Weisman, Benjamin
Go Ahead On [Remix] - Dusty Springfield, Bell, Madeline
I'll Try Anything [Remix] - Dusty Springfield, Barkan, Mark
Give Me Time - Dusty Springfield, Callander, Peter
The Look of Love - Dusty Springfield, Bacharach, Burt
What's It Gonna Be? [Remix] - Dusty Springfield, Rogovoy, Jerry
Chained to a Memory - Dusty Springfield, Ahlert, Richard
Welcome Home - Dusty Springfield, Taylor, Chip [1]
Broken Blossoms - Dusty Springfield, Gray, R.
If You Go Away - Dusty Springfield, Brel, Jacques
Where Am I Going? - Dusty Springfield, Coleman, Cy
It's Over - Dusty Springfield, Rodgers, Jimmie [2]
Magic Garden [Remix] - Dusty Springfield, Webb, Jimmy [1]
I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten - Dusty Springfield, Westlake, Clive
I Will Come To You [Remix] - Dusty Springfield, Westlake, Clive
Sweet Lover No More - Dusty Springfield, Frishberg, David L.
Another Night [Remix] - Dusty Springfield, Bacharach, Burt
I Can't Give Back The Love I Feel For You [Remix] - Dusty Springfield, Ashford, Nickolas
I Think It's Going to Rain Today - Dusty Springfield, Newman, Randy
Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield, Hurley, John
The Windmills Of Your Mind - Dusty Springfield, Bergman, Alan
No Easy Way Down - Dusty Springfield, Goffin, Gerry
Am I the Same Girl - Dusty Springfield, Record, Eugene
Track Listings (25) - Disc #3
Let Me Get In Your Way - Dusty Springfield, Chambers, Roland
A Brand New Me - Dusty Springfield, Bell, Theresa
The Star of My Show - Dusty Springfield, Gamble, Kenneth
Someone Who Cares - Dusty Springfield, Harvey, Alex [Count
Live Here With You - Dusty Springfield, Slavin, Gilbert
Make It With You - Dusty Springfield, Gates, David [1]
You've Got A Friend - Dusty Springfield, King, Carole [1]
Morning Please Don't Come - Dusty Springfield, Springfield, Tom
How Can I Be Sure - Dusty Springfield, Brigati, Eddie
What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? - Dusty Springfield, Bergman, Alan
Mixed up Girl - Dusty Springfield, Webb, Jimmy [1]
Crumbs off the Table - Dusty Springfield, Dunbar, Ronald
Yesterday, When I Was Young - Dusty Springfield, Aznavour, Charles
See All Her Faces - Dusty Springfield, Ryan, Alexander
Easy Evil - Dusty Springfield, ODay, Alan
Of All the Things - Dusty Springfield, Lambert, Dennis
Learn to Say Goodbye - Dusty Springfield, Craig, Bradford
Sea and Sky - Dusty Springfield, Legrand, Michel
In the Winter - Dusty Springfield, Ian, Janis
Home to Myself - Dusty Springfield, Manchester, Melissa
Exclusively For Me - Dusty Springfield, Blunstone, Colin
I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love - Dusty Springfield, Allen, Peter [Piano
Turn Me Around - Dusty Springfield, Coltrane, Chi
Love Me By Name - Dusty Springfield, Gore, Lesley
Hollywood Movie Girls - Dusty Springfield, Heidermann, Gallie
Track Listings (19) - Disc #4
That's the Kind of Love I've Got for You - Dusty Springfield, Fletcher, Don
Closet Man - Dusty Springfield, Foster, D.
I Just Fall in Love Again - Dusty Springfield, Dorff, Steve
I Wish That Love Would Last - Dusty Springfield, Lasley, David
(But It's A) Nice Dream - Dusty Springfield, Allen, Peter [Piano
I Don't Think We Could Ever Be Friends - Dusty Springfield, Roussel, Jean-Alain
Blind Sheep - Dusty Springfield, Faragher, Tommy
Losing You - Dusty Springfield, Costello, Elvis
You'll Be Loving Me - Dusty Springfield, Faragher, Tommy
What Have I Done To Deserve This? - Dusty Springfield, Lowe, Chris [1]
Nothing Has Been Proved - Dusty Springfield, Lowe, Chris [1]
In Private - Dusty Springfield, Lowe, Chris [1]
Daydreaming - Dusty Springfield, Lowe, Chris [1]
Something In Your Eyes - Dusty Springfield, Carpenter, Richard
Go Easy on Me - Dusty Springfield, Goodrum, Randy
I Can't Help the Way I Don't Feel - Dusty Springfield, Garvin, Michael [1]
Wherever Would I Be? - Dusty Springfield, Warren, Diane
Quiet Please, There's a Lady on Stage [Live] - Dusty Springfield, Allen, Peter [Piano
Someone to Watch over Me - Dusty Springfield, Gershwin, George
Lavish 11 inch x 11 inch CD box set housed in a hard-back book from classic Universal artists featuring around 100 pages of essays, beautiful photographs and memorabilia. This repackaged box set features 98 tracks across ... more »four CDs by Britain's finest female Pop vocalist. Includes tracks from her first band, The Springfields, as well as rare recordings, hits, album tracks and so much more. Universal.« less
Lavish 11 inch x 11 inch CD box set housed in a hard-back book from classic Universal artists featuring around 100 pages of essays, beautiful photographs and memorabilia. This repackaged box set features 98 tracks across four CDs by Britain's finest female Pop vocalist. Includes tracks from her first band, The Springfields, as well as rare recordings, hits, album tracks and so much more. Universal.
"A wonderful collection for any Dusty fan or for someone looking to be introduced in a more sophisticatd way than to just buy her 'best of' albums. She is here in all her glory. A must for the Dusty devotee."
Dusty Springfield
M. Barry | New York, New York United States | 05/12/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is an incredible book and the CD's are awesome! Dusty chronology as far as songs, when, where & why is noted page by page, as well as photographs throughout her career. It has early songs almost impossible to find as well as hits. 95 in all. A tribute to a great great singer and an interesting catalogue of the music and the times. Thoughts by other artists about Dusty's contribution throughout. Worth the price tag."
The White Diamond in a Superior CD and Book Package
Gary F. Taylor | Biloxi, MS USA | 02/04/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"She was born Mary O'Brien in 1939, the daughter of a tax accountant and a housewife, in London. In the 1950s, like many other English teens, she became enamored of American music--and in 1958 became a member of a girl group known as "The Lana Sisters." In 1960 she left the group to form "The Springfields" with brother Dion and Tim Field, who was later replaced by Mike Hurst. The trio met with significant chart success in both England and America, but by 1963 "The Springfields" had run their course. By this time Mary was known as Dusty Springfield, and she embarked on a solo career that would launch her to international fame as both a singer and a personality.
Although Mary O'Brien had been an ordinary-looking young woman, Dusty Springfield was an astonishing vision, sporting a blonde bouffant, light make-up, and heavy eye-liner--a look that became known as "Panda Eyes." Her gowns sparkled; her gestures were broadly melodramatic; her life as it unfolded was a riot of scandal that included alcohol, drugs, and whispers of lesbianism. She rode the rocket of fame throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, self-destructed more than once in the 1970s and 1980s, and made a stunning return to the public eye in the 1987. She died of breast cancer in 1999.
Now that swinging London, panda eyes, and all the trappings of her heyday in the spotlight have passed into myth, it has become possible to more clearly assess Springfield's gifts. And by any standard her work was and is exceptional. Springfield was clearly influenced by the folk and soul movements of the 1960s as well as various jazz artists, most particularly Peggy Lee--and in light of this many critics have attempted to define her by genre. But as Burt Bacharach so famously said, "you could hear just three notes and you knew it was Dusty." Her vocal stylings often reflect her influences, but she was never less than herself, unique, specific.
Likewise, Springfield's choice of material tends to defy genre. She did indeed do a host of recordings that most people would describe as "soul," but at the same time she did everything from lounge-style to Broadway to blues-inflected. It is extremely difficult to think of another singer with such broad tastes: from "the wall of sound" effect of "Stay Awhile" to the smoky, nightclub-ish "The Look of Love" to the super-clean style of "Goin' Back," she encompassed virtually every 20th Century pop idiom.
SIMPLY DUSTY suffers from the usual complaint one always has about collections: what to keep in and what to leave out. I am personally frustrated by the failure to include "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" recorded with The Springfields and the Bacharach "24 Hours From Tulsa." But such quibbles aside, this is a remarkably effective collection of ninety seven cuts (the opening cut, "Dusty Springfield," is a tribute by Blossom Dearie)--including bits from The Lana Sisters and The Springfields and continuing right up until the last recordings she made before her death. The recordings are crisp and clean and have tremendous clarity.
The accompanying book is also quite nice, offering a brief but accurate biography, overview of her career, a history of each song included in the set, and lavish photography. I am sure there are more comprehensive collections, but even so, this may be the best available. Worth the price and strongly recommended.
GFT, Amazon Reviewer"
Great Set!
A. Grable | 02/26/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I ordered this & received the full size 11x11 book, not the 6x10 book like the description says. Great book & CD selections!"