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Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), better known by her stage name Dusty Springfield, was an English singer.With her distinctive mezzo-soprano voice, she was a popular singer of blue-eyed soul, pop and dramatic ballads, with French chanson, country, and jazz also in her repertoire.
Dusty (Philips, September 1964) UK #3 [17] Dusty in New York (Philips, May 1965) UK #13 [17] Mademoiselle Dusty (Philips, July 1965) UK #17 [17] If You Go Away (Philips, August 1968) Note: The above chart placements are from the UK EP chart. The EP chart, which was separate from the singles chart and album chart, ran from 1960 to 1967.
Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau highlighted the songs "Of All the Things" and "The Other Side of Life", while writing of Springfield: "Simultaneously gushy and ladylike, she sings like the beautiful maidservant of men's vainest and most shameful fantasies--always the supplicant, always in love.
'So Much Love' will tell the story of Dusty Springfield's move from the UK to Memphis in the 1960s.
Norma Cecilia Tanega (January 30, 1939 – December 29, 2019) [2] was an American folk and pop singer-songwriter, painter, and experimental musician.In the 1960s, she had a hit with the single "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog" and wrote songs for Dusty Springfield and other prominent musicians.
Dusty in London – Lost British Recordings (1999) The Very Best of Dusty Springfield is a compilation album by Dusty Springfield , released by Mercury Records on 21 April 1998.
Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield performed the song for the 1988 Brit Awards. [20] Since Springfield's death in 1999, Pet Shop Boys have performed the song live several times with guest performers singing Springfield's parts. In 2000, singer Cerys Matthews performed the song with Pet Shop Boys during their set at Glastonbury Festival. [26]
Tracks from this album were finally released in the US in 1999 (the year of Springfield's death) on the Rhino Records compilation Dusty in London. In the UK Dusty... Definitely was first released to CD by Philips Records / PolyGram in the early 1990s and in 2001 Mercury Records / Universal Music Group re-released a digitally remastered edition ...