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| Name = Dusty Springfield |
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| name = Dusty Springfield |
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| birth_name = Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien |
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1939|4|16|df=y}} |
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| birth_place = [[London]], England |
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| Died = {{death date and age|1999|3|2|1939|4|16|df=yes}}<br />[[Henley-on-Thames]], [[Oxfordshire]] |
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1999|3|2|1939|4|16|df=y}} |
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| Origin = [[Ealing]], London, England |
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| death_place = [[Henley-on-Thames]], England |
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| Instrument = Guitar, vocals |
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| occupation = {{hlist|Singer|producer|presenter}} |
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| Genre = [[Pop music|Pop]], [[Soul music|soul]] |
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| years_active = 1958–1995 |
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| Occupation = Singer |
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| Label = [[Philips Records]], [[Atlantic Records]] |
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*[[Pop music|Pop]] |
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| Associated_acts = [[Lana Sisters]], [[Springfields]], [[Sweet Inspirations]] |
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*[[blue-eyed soul]]<ref> *Jazz * Northern Soul[https://lithub.com/dusty-springfield-reluctant-queen-of-blue-eyed-soul/ Dusty Springfield queen of blue-eyed-soul] Retrieved 12 April 2022</ref> |
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| discography = [[Dusty Springfield discography]] |
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* [[Philips Records|Philips]] |
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* [[Mercury Records|Mercury]] |
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* Hippodrome |
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* [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] |
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* [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]] |
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* [[Phonogram Records|Phonogram]] |
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* [[ABC Dunhill Records|ABC Dunhill]] |
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* [[United Artists Records|United Artists]] |
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'''Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}}<ref name=obe>{{London Gazette |issue=55354 |date=31 December 1998 |supp=1 |page=12}}</ref> (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), better known by her stage name '''Dusty Springfield''', was an English singer. With her distinctive [[mezzo-soprano]] sound, she was a popular singer of [[blue-eyed soul]], [[Pop music|pop]] and dramatic [[Sentimental ballad|ballads]], with [[Chanson|French chanson]], [[Country music|country]], and [[jazz]] in her repertoire. During her 1960s peak, she ranked among the most successful British female performers on both sides of the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]]. Her image–marked by a [[Blond#Varieties|peroxide blonde]] [[bouffant]]/[[Beehive (hairstyle)|beehive]] hairstyle, heavy makeup (thick black eyeliner and [[eye shadow]]) and [[evening gown]]s, as well as stylised, gestural performances–made her an icon of the [[Swinging Sixties]].<ref name=queen /> |
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Born in [[West Hampstead]] in [[London]] into a family that enjoyed music, Springfield learned to sing at home. In 1958, she joined her first professional group, [[the Lana Sisters]]. Two years later, with her brother Dion O'Brien ("[[Tom Springfield]]") and [[Reshad Feild|Tim Feild]], she formed the folk-pop vocal trio [[the Springfields]]. Two of their five 1961–63 Top 40 UK hits – "[[Island of Dreams (song)|Island of Dreams]]" and "Say I Won't Be There"–reached no. 5 on the charts, both in the spring of 1963. In 1962, they also hit big in the United States with their cover of "[[Silver Threads and Golden Needles]]". Her solo career began in late 1963 with the upbeat pop record "[[I Only Want to Be with You]]"—a UK no. 4 hit, and the first of her six transatlantic Top 40 hits in the 1960s, along with "Stay Awhile" (1964), "All I See Is You" (1966), "[[I'll Try Anything]]" (1967), and two releases which are now considered her signature songs: "[[You Don't Have to Say You Love Me]]" (1966 UK no. 1/US no. 4) and "[[Son of a Preacher Man]]" (1968/69 UK no. 9/US no. 10). The latter is featured on the 1968 pop and [[soul music|soul]] album ''[[Dusty in Memphis]]'', one of Springfield's defining works. In March 2020, the US [[Library of Congress]] added the album to the [[National Recording Registry]], which preserves audio recordings considered to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". |
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'''Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien''', [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), known professionally as '''Dusty Springfield''', was a British singer. Her career spanned from the late 1950s to the 1990s, though she is best known for her work during the 1960s when she released singles such as "[[I Only Want To Be With You]]", "[[You Don't Have to Say You Love Me]]" and "[[Son of a Preacher Man]]", and the acclaimed album ''[[Dusty in Memphis]]''. She was one of the most successful British female performers of the [[Swinging Sixties]], with 18 singles in the [[Billboard Hot 100]] from 1964 to 1970.<ref name=harmony/> Owing to her distinctive sensual sound, she was one of the most notable [[white soul]] artists. Her image was supported by her peroxide blonde [[beehive (hairstyle)|beehive hairstyle]], [[evening gown]]s, and heavy make-up.<ref name="queen"/> |
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Born to an Irish Roman Catholic family that loved music, Springfield learned to sing at home. She scored her first hits as a member of the pop-folk vocal trio [[The Springfields]]. Her solo career began in 1963 with the upbeat pop hit, "I Only Want To Be With You". Her following hits included "[[I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself]]", "[[Wishin' and Hopin']]" and "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me". Springfield was voted the "Top British Female Artist" in the ''[[New Musical Express]]'' reader's polls at the height of the [[British Invasion]] in 1964 and 1965, and again in 1968. |
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Between 1964 and 1969 Springfield hit big in her native [[England|Britain]] with several singles which in America either failed to chart or were not released, among them "[[I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself]]" (the biggest of her many [[Burt Bacharach|Bacharach]]/[[Hal David|David]] covers), "In the Middle of Nowhere", "Some of Your Lovin{{'"}}, "[[Goin' Back]]", and [[I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten (song)|"I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten]]". Conversely, she charted in the US (but not in the UK) with hits including "[[Wishin' and Hopin']]{{-"}}, "[[The Look of Love (1967 song)|The Look of Love]]", and "[[The Windmills of Your Mind]]". From 1971 to 1986, she failed to register a hit from five album releases (aside from a minor 1979 UK chart appearance), but her 1987 collaboration with UK [[synth-pop]] duo [[Pet Shop Boys]], "[[What Have I Done to Deserve This? (song)|What Have I Done to Deserve This?]]", took her back near the top of the charts, reaching no. 2 on both the [[UK Singles Chart]] and [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']] [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]]. The collaboration yielded two 1989 UK top 20 hits: "[[Nothing Has Been Proved]]" and "[[In Private]]". In 1990, Springfield charted with "Reputation"–the last of 25 UK Top 40 hits in which she features. |
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A fan of American pop music, she was the first public figure to bring little-known soul singers to a wider British audience by creating and hosting the first British performances of the [[List of Motown number-one singles in the United States|top-selling]] [[Motown Records|Motown]] artists in 1965.<ref name=queen>Annie Janeiro Randall, {{cite book |url=http://books.google.ee/books?id=D2mCQpLstCkC&pg=PA3&dq=her+iconic+look+and+her+landmark&hl=en&ei=KTBETP-_FuCM4gbjsYmRDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=her%20iconic%20look%20and%20her%20landmark&f=false |title=''Dusty!: Queen of the Postmods'', page 51|publisher=Oxford University Press US, 2009, ISBN 0195329430 |accessdate=2010-07-19 }}</ref> Her rendition of "[[The Look of Love (Burt Bacharach song)|The Look of Love]]", written by [[Burt Bacharach]] and [[Hal David]], was included on the soundtrack of the James Bond movie ''[[Casino Royale (1967 film)|Casino Royale]]'' (1967) and was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Song]]. The marked changes of pop music in the mid-1960s left many female pop singers out of fashion. To boost her credibility as a soul artist, Springfield went to [[Memphis, Tennessee]], to record an album of pop and [[soul music]] with the [[Atlantic Records]] main production team. ''Dusty in Memphis'' earned Springfield a nomination for a [[Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance|Grammy Award]] and it was awarded a spot in the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]]. International polls list the album among the greatest of all time. Its standout track "Son of a Preacher Man" was an international Top 10 hit in 1969. After this album, Springfield's success dipped for eighteen years. She returned to the Top 20 of the British and American charts in collaboration with the [[Pet Shop Boys]] on the songs "[[What Have I Done to Deserve This? (song)|What Have I Done to Deserve This?]]", "[[Nothing Has Been Proved]]" and "[[In Private]]". In 1995, Springfield was diagnosed with [[breast cancer]], which caused her death in 1999. |
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A fixture on British television, Springfield presented many episodes of the hip 1963–66 British TV music series ''[[Ready Steady Go!]]'' and, between 1966 and '69, hosted her own series on the [[BBC TV|BBC]] and [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]. In 1966, she topped the popularity polls, including ''[[Melody Maker]]''{{'}}s Best International Vocalist,<ref>{{cite web |title=Dusty Springfield obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/mar/04/guardianobituaries |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=4 March 1999 |access-date=10 May 2020}}</ref> and was the first UK singer to top the ''[[New Musical Express]]'' readers' poll for Female Singer. She is part of the [[National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame]], the [[Rock & Roll Hall of Fame]], and the [[UK Music Hall of Fame]]. International polls have lauded Springfield saying she is considered to have been one of the finest female popular singers of all time. |
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Interest in Springfield's early output was revived in 1994, due to the inclusion of "Son of a Preacher Man" on the [[Pulp Fiction soundtrack|soundtrack]] of the movie ''[[Pulp Fiction (film)|Pulp Fiction]]''. She is a [[List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees|member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] and the [[UK Music Hall of Fame|U.K. Music Hall of Fame]]. International polls have named Springfield among the best female rock artists of all time. Her album, ''Dusty in Memphis'', has been listed among the greatest albums of all time by ''Rolling Stone'' and [[VH1]] artists, ''[[New Musical Express]]'' readers, and the [[Channel 4]] viewers polls,<ref name=bestever/> and in 2001, received the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]] award. |
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==Early life |
== Early life == |
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[[File:Dusty Springfield Green Plaque in Ealing, West London.jpg|thumb|[[Blue plaque|Green Plaque]] at the entrance of Ealing Fields High School in [[Ealing]], London which Springfield, as Mary O'Brien, attended]] |
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Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien<ref name=britannica>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9118215/Dusty-Springfield|title=Dusty Springfield|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica Online}}</ref> (the alternative spelling of her second name is 'Isobel')<ref name=rnb357>{{cite book|title=Icons of R&B and Soul: An Encyclopedia of the Artists Who Revolutionized Rhythm |page=357|author=Bob Gulla|publisher=Greenwood Icons|year=2008}}</ref> was born in [[West Hampstead]], North London, England, to an Irish family.<ref name=observer>{{cite web|url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1062873,00.html|title=Flashback: Dusty Springfield|publisher=Observer Music Monthly}}</ref> She was raised in [[High Wycombe]], [[Buckinghamshire]] until the early [[1950s]] and later lived in the West London borough of [[Ealing]].<ref name=rnb357/> |
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Springfield was born Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien on 16 April 1939 in [[West Hampstead]],<ref>O'Brien, p. 3.</ref> the second child of Gerard Anthony 'OB' O'Brien (1904–1979) and Catherine Anne 'Kay' O'Brien (''née'' Ryle; 1900–1974), both Irish immigrants.<ref name="Valentine20">Valentine and Wickham, p. 20.</ref> Springfield's elder brother, Dionysius Patrick O'Brien (2 July 1934 – 27 July 2022) was later known as [[Tom Springfield]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7lUYAAAAIAAJ&q=Tom+Springfield+2+July+1934 |title=Tom Springfield |work=The Oxford Companion to Popular Music |page=542 |first=Peter |last=Gammond |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=New York |year=1991 |isbn=0-19-311323-6 |access-date=2 September 2010}}</ref> Her father grew up in [[British Raj|British India]] and worked as a tax accountant and consultant.<ref name=rnb357>Gulla, p. 357.</ref> Her mother came from an Irish family originally from [[Tralee]], County Kerry, that included a number of journalists.<ref>Valentine and Wickham, p. 21.</ref> |
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Dusty Springfield grew up in [[High Wycombe]], Buckinghamshire living there until the early 1950s and later in [[Ealing]] in [[West London]].<ref name=rnb357 /> She attended St Anne's Convent School in [[Northfields, London|Northfields]], a traditional all-girl school in London. The comfortable middle-class upbringing was disturbed by dysfunctional tendencies in the family: her father's perfectionism and her mother's frustrations sometimes resulted in food-throwing incidents.<ref>Valentine and Wickham, p. 23.</ref> Springfield and her brother were both prone to food-throwing as adults.<ref name=rnb357 /> She was given the nickname "Dusty" because she played football with boys in the street; she was described as being a [[tomboy]].<ref>Leeson, [https://archive.org/details/dustyspringfield0000lees <!-- quote=tomboy. --> p. 14].</ref> |
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Springfield grew up in a music-loving family. Her father tapped out rhythms on the back of her hand and encouraged her to guess which musical piece had the beat.<ref name="secret">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+secret+life+of+Dusty+Springfield-a054492600 |first=Michele |last=Kort |title=The Secret Life of Dusty Springfield |magazine=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]] |publisher=Liberation Publications (Thomson Corporation Company) |year=1999 |access-date=2 July 2012}}</ref> She listened to a wide range of music including [[George Gershwin]], [[Rodgers and Hart]], [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]], [[Cole Porter]], [[Count Basie]], [[Duke Ellington]], and [[Glenn Miller]].<ref name="secret" /><ref name="dustyinmemphis80">{{cite book |title=33 1/3 Greatest Hits |volume=1 |chapter=Dusty in Memphis |first=Warren |last=Zanes |editor=David Barker |publisher=The Continuum International Publishing Group |year=2007 |pages=1–16 |isbn=978-0-8264-1903-3 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7v7wJqhaBhoC&q=Zanes%2C+Warren+Dusty+in+Memphis.&pg=PA1}}</ref><ref name="rnb358">Gulla, p. 358.</ref> A fan of American [[jazz]] and the vocalists [[Peggy Lee]] and [[Jo Stafford]], she wished to sound like them. At age 12 she recorded herself performing the [[Irving Berlin]] song "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabama" at a record shop in Ealing.<ref name="secret" /><ref name="dustyinmemphis80" /><ref name="rnb358" /> |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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=== 1958–1963: Career beginnings === |
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===Early career (1958–66)=== |
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After leaving school, Springfield sang with Tom, her brother, in local folk clubs.<ref name="Welch">{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-dusty-springfield-1078196.html |title=Obituary: Dusty Springfield |last=Welch |first=Chris |work=[[The Independent]] |date=4 March 1999 |access-date=27 June 2012}}</ref> In 1957, the pair worked together at holiday camps.<ref name="Welch" /> The next year, Springfield responded to an advertisement in ''[[The Stage]]'' to join [[The Lana Sisters]], an "established sister act", with Iris 'Riss' Long (also known as Riss Lana, Riss Chantelle) and Lynne Abrams (a.k.a. Lynne Lana), who were not actually sisters.<ref name="AMGLana">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=P1616081/biography |pure_url=yes}} |title=Lana Sisters |publisher=[[AllMusic]]. [[Rovi Corporation]] |access-date=27 June 2012}}</ref> Dusty adopted the stage name "Shann Lana" and "cut her hair, lost the glasses, experimented with makeup, (and) fashion" becoming one of the 'sisters'.<ref name="Gulla359">Gulla, p. 359.</ref> |
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After finishing school in 1958, Mary O'Brien responded to an advertisement to join [[The Lana Sisters]], an "established sister act". With this vocal group, she developed the art of harmonising, learned microphone technique, recorded, did some television performances, and played at live shows in the U.K. and at U.S. Air Force bases.<ref name=rnb358/> |
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As a member of the pop vocal trio, Dusty Springfield developed skills in harmonizing and microphone technique; she recorded, performed on television, and played at live shows in the United Kingdom and at United States Air Force bases in continental Europe.<ref name="rnb358" /><ref name="AMGLana" /> In 1960, she left the Lana Sisters and formed a folk-pop trio, [[The Springfields]], with Tom and [[Reshad Feild]] (both had been in The Kensington Squares), the latter of whom [[Mike Hurst (producer)|Mike Hurst]] replaced in 1962. The trio chose their name while rehearsing in a field in [[Somerset]] in the springtime and took the stage names Dusty, Tom, and Tim Springfield.<ref name=demons>Valentine and Wickham, p.</ref> Intending to make an authentic US album, the group travelled to [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] to record ''Folk Songs from the Hills''. The music Springfield heard during their visit–but particularly [[the Exciters]]' "[[Tell Him (Bert Berns song)|Tell Him]]", while in [[New York City]]–influenced her shift from folk and country towards pop rooted in [[rhythm and blues]].<ref name="demons" /> The band was voted the Top British Vocal Group in a ''[[New Musical Express]]'' poll in 1961 and 1962,<ref name="www.rocklistmusic.co.uk" /> although their two biggest hits were in 1963: "[[Island of Dreams (song)|Island of Dreams]]" and "Say I Won't Be There", both peaking at number five within five weeks of each other. The group appeared on the hip [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] music series ''[[Ready Steady Go!]]'', which Springfield often presented in the earlier days of its run.<ref name="Gulla360">Gulla, p. 360.</ref> |
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Dusty left the band after their final concert in October 1963.<ref name="demons" /> After the break-up of the Springfields, Tom continued songwriting and producing for other artists, notably [[Music of Australia|Australian]] folk-pop group [[The Seekers]], producing, writing, and/or co-writing their four defining mid-1960s hits "[[I'll Never Find Another You]]", "[[A World of Our Own]]", "[[The Carnival is Over]]", and "[[Georgy Girl (song)|Georgy Girl]]". He also wrote additional songs for Dusty–most famously her 1964 UK hit "Losing You", with [[Clive Westlake]]–and released his own solo material.<ref name="AMGTom">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=P127598/credits |pure_url=yes}} |title=Tom Springfield – Credits |publisher=Allmusic. Rovi Corporation |access-date=1 July 2012}}</ref> |
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Dusty Springfield's first single, "[[I Only Want to Be with You]]", written and arranged by [[Ivor Raymonde]],<ref>{{cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=GOOs7dT9VlwC&pg=PA81&dq=dusty+springfield+Ivor+Raymonde&hl=en&ei=Ei5hTMKSDqWL4gbCgvzwCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=dusty%20springfield%20Ivor%20Raymonde&f=false |title=''The Impossible Dream: The Story of Scott Walker and the Walker Brothers'', p 81|author=Anthony Reynolds |publisher=Jawbone Publishing Corp., 2009, ISBN 1906002258|accessdate=2010-08-10 }}</ref> was released in November 1963. It was produced by [[Johnny Franz]] in a manner similar to [[Phil Spector]]'s "[[Wall of Sound]]",<ref name="20thcenturymasters">{{cite album-notes | title = The Best of Dusty Springfield (The Millennium Collection) | last=Chin | first=Brian | year = 1999 | bandname = Dusty Springfield | format = Inset | publisher = [[Mercury Records]] | location = USA | publisherid = 314 538 851-2}}</ref> and included rhythm and blues structures such as horn sections, backing singers and double-tracked vocals, along with pop music [[String section|strings]], in the style of girl bands that Springfield admired, such as [[The Shirelles]].<ref>{{cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YNae0zmGow4C&pg=PA364&dq=i+only+want+to+be+with+you+phil+spector&hl=en&ei=DyhhTK-FCIn74Abc1Z3OCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=i%20only%20want%20to%20be%20with%20you%20phil%20spector&f=false |title=''Icons of R&B and soul'', pp 363-364|author=Bob Gulla |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008, ISBN 0313340463 |accessdate=2010-08-10 }}</ref> The song rose to #4 on the British charts<ref name=everyhit/> and #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S.<ref name=allmusic>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:gifpxqr5ldae~T1|title=Dusty Springfield|publisher=Allmusic}}</ref> It was a "sure shot" pick on the influential New York pop music station [[WMCA]] in December 1963, in advance of [[Beatlemania]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}{{Clarify|date=August 2010}} The release reached the top 10 on WMCA's weekly top 25 countdown survey. It was record #48 on the Musicradio [[WABC (AM)|WABC]] Top 100 for 1964.<ref name=WABC>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicradio77.com/Top1964.html|title=The Musicradio WABC Top 100 of 1964}}</ref> This song was the first record played on BBC-TV's ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' program.<ref name=musicianguide>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicianguide.com/biographies/1608000465/Dusty-Springfield.html|title=Dusty Springfield Biography. musicianguide.com site}}</ref> It sold over one million copies and was awarded a [[music recording sales certification|gold disc]] in the U.K.<ref name="The Book of Golden Discs">{{cite book |
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=== 1963–1966: Early solo career === |
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Springfield's debut album ''[[A Girl Called Dusty]]'' included mostly covers of her favourite songs.<ref name=mcmillan/> Among the tracks were "Mama Said", "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes", "[[You Don't Own Me]]" and "Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa".<ref name=musicianguide/> The album reached #6 in the U.K. in May 1964.<ref>[http://theofficialcharts.com/album_chart_history_1964.php Sharon Mawer. Album chart history. 1964] The official U.K. charts company site</ref> The chart hits "Stay Awhile", "All Cried Out" and "Losing You" followed the same year.<ref name=everyhit/> In 1964, Springfield recorded two Burt Bacharach songs: "[[Wishin' and Hopin']]—an American Top 10 hit—<ref name=allmusic/> and the emotional "[[I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself]]",<ref name=readysteady>Dusty Springfield. Ready steady girls website at www.readysteadygirls.eu/#/dusty-springfield/4524350811</ref> which reached #3 on the British chart.<ref name=everyhit/> The latter song set the standard for much of her later material.<ref name=readysteady/> |
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[[File:I Only Want to Be with You - ad 1964.jpg|thumb|upright|''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cashbox]]'' advertisement, 7 March 1964]] |
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Dusty Springfield released her first solo single, "[[I Only Want to Be with You]]", co-written and arranged by [[Ivor Raymonde]], in November 1963.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GOOs7dT9VlwC&q=dusty%20springfield%20Ivor%20Raymonde&pg=PA81 |title=The Impossible Dream: The Story of Scott Walker and the Walker Brothers |page=81 |first=Anthony |last=Reynolds |publisher=Jawbone Publishing Corp |access-date=10 August 2010 |isbn=978-1-906002-25-1 |date=10 September 2009 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="APRAOnly">{{cite web |publisher=[[Australasian Performing Right Association]] (APRA) |title='I Only Want to Be with You' at APRA search engine |url=http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=I%20Only%20Want%20to%20Be%20with%20You |access-date=28 June 2012}}</ref> The record was produced by [[Johnny Franz]] in a manner similar to [[Phil Spector]]'s "[[Wall of Sound]]";<ref name="20thcenturymasters">{{cite AV media notes |title=The Best of Dusty Springfield (The Millennium Collection) |last=Chin |first=Brian |year=1999 |others=Dusty Springfield |type=Inset |publisher=[[Mercury Records]] |location=USA |id=314 538 851-2}}</ref> it included rhythm-and-blues features like horn sections, backing singers, and double-tracked vocals along with [[String section|strings]], recalling Springfield's influences such as [[the Exciters]] and [[the Shirelles]].<ref>Gulla, [https://books.google.com/books?id=YNae0zmGow4C&q=i%20only%20want%20to%20be%20with%20you%20phil%20spector&pg=PA364 pp. 363–364].</ref> In January 1964, the single peaked at no. 4 on the UK charts during a lengthy (for the time) 18-week run.<ref name=everyhit /> In December 1963, [[New York City|New York]] disc jockey "Dandy" Dan Daniel of [[WMCA (AM)|WMCA]] nominated the single as a "Sure Shot" pick of records not yet charted, preceding [[Beatlemania]]. The single debuted on [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']]'s [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]] on the chart dated 25 January 1964, a week after the debut of [[the Beatles]]' first hit "[[I Want to Hold Your Hand]]" and in the same week as the debut of "[[She Loves You]]", positioning Springfield at the forefront of the [[British Invasion]]. "I Only Want to Be with You" peaked at no. 12 during its ten-week chart run,<ref name=allmusic2>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/dusty-springfield-mn0000159214/awards |title=Dusty Springfield – Awards |publisher=Allmusic. Rovi Corporation |access-date=3 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.musicradio77.com/wmca/surveys/1963/surveydec1163.html |title=WMCA Top Twenty-Five for December 11, 1963 |first1=Randy |last1=Price |first2=Peter |last2=Kanze |first3=Greg |last3=Lance |date=11 December 1963 |publisher=WMCA Good Guys (Allan Sniffen) |access-date=2 July 2012}}</ref> and ranked 48 in the year-end Top 100 of New York radio station [[WABC (AM)|WABC]].<ref name=WABC>{{cite web |url=http://www.musicradio77.com/Top1964.html |title=The Musicradio WABC Top 100 of 1964 |publisher=WMCA Good Guys (Allan Sniffen) |access-date=2 July 2012}}</ref> The [[BBC]]'s 1964–2006 weekly chart-based music programme ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' debuted on 1 January 1964, with "I Only Want to Be with You" as the show's kick-off record.<ref name="musicianguide">{{cite web |title=Dusty Springfield Biography |date=24 July 2021 |publisher=Read steady girls! |url=http://readysteadygirls.co.uk/dusty-springfield/4524350811}}</ref> The single was certified [[music recording sales certification|gold]] in the UK,<ref name="The Book of Golden Discs">{{cite book |first=Joseph |last=Murrells |year=1978 |title=The Book of Golden Discs |edition=2nd |publisher=Barrie and Jenkins Ltd |location=London |page=[https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/166 166] |isbn=0-214-20512-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/166}}</ref> and its [[B-side]], "Once Upon a Time", was written by Springfield.<ref name="APRAOnce">{{cite web |publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) |title='Once Upon a Time' at APRA search engine |url=http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=Once%20Upon%20a%20Time |access-date=28 June 2012}}</ref><ref name=musicianguide /> |
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Springfield's debut solo album ''[[A Girl Called Dusty]]''–featuring mostly covers of her favourite songs–was released on 17 April 1964 in the UK (but not in America).<ref name=mcmillan /> Tracks included "[[Mama Said (The Shirelles song)|Mama Said]]", "[[When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes]]", "[[You Don't Own Me]]", and "[[Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa]]".<ref name=musicianguide /> In May 1964, the album reached no. 6 in the UK–one of only two of her Top Ten non-hits albums.<ref name=everyhit /> After "I Only Want to Be with You", she had five more singles chart in 1964, with just "Stay Awhile" registering as a transatlantic success (UK no. 13/US no. 38). Its B-side, "Somethin' Special", was written by Springfield, later described as "a first-rate Springfield original" by [[AllMusic]]'s [[Richie Unterberger]].<ref name="APRASomethin">{{cite web |publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) |title='Somethin' Special' at APRA search engine |url=http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=Something%20Special |access-date=28 June 2012 |archive-date=4 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004221037/http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=Something%20Special |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Unterberger">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r210315 |pure_url=yes}} |title=''Stay Awhile''/''I Only Want to Be with You'' – Dusty Springfield |last=Unterberger |first=Richie |author-link=Richie Unterberger |publisher=Allmusic. Rovi Corporation |access-date=28 June 2012}}</ref> She was quoted as saying "I don't really see myself as a songwriter. I don't really like writing... I just don't get any good ideas and the ones I do get are pinched from other records. The only reason I write is for the money–oh mercenary creature!"<ref name="Valentine66" /> The highest-charting of Springfield's 1964 releases were both [[Burt Bacharach]]-[[Hal David]] songs: "[[Wishin' and Hopin']]"–a US no. 6 hit which featured on ''[[A Girl Called Dusty]]''–and "[[I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself]]",<ref name=musicianguide /> which in July peaked at no. 3 on the UK singles chart (behind the Beatles' "[[A Hard Day's Night (song)|A Hard Day's Night]]" and [[the Rolling Stones]]' "[[It's All Over Now]]").<ref name=everyhit /> The dramatic and emotive "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" set the standard for much of her later material.<ref name=musicianguide /> In the autumn of 1964, Springfield peaked at no. 41 in the United States with "All Cried Out", but in her native Britain she hit big with "Losing You" (UK no. 9/US no. 91), which peaked in December–the same month in which the singer's tour of South Africa, with her group [[The Echoes (English group)|The Echoes]], was terminated following a controversial performance before an integrated audience at a theatre near [[Cape Town]], in defiance of the government's segregation [[Apartheid in South Africa|policy]]. Springfield was deported.<ref name=musicianguide /><ref name=rnb368>Gulla, p. 368.</ref> Her contract specifically excluded segregated performances, making her one of the first British artists to do so.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/woman-who-blazed-a-trail-for-female-singers-in-the-music-world/ |title=The Story of Dusty Springfield, Part One: Star Blazed a Trail for Female Sigers in the Music Worl |last=Campbell |first=Craig |date=23 October 2019 |website=The Sunday Post |access-date=23 April 2021}}</ref> In the same year, she was voted the year's top British Female Singer in the ''[[New Musical Express]]'' readers' poll, ahead of [[Lulu (singer)|Lulu]], [[Sandie Shaw]], and [[Cilla Black]].<ref name=mcmillan>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Springfield, Dusty |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]] |last=Larkin |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin (writer) |year=1998 |edition=3rd |publisher=Muze UK |pages=5090–5092 |volume=7 |isbn=978-0-333-74134-4}}</ref> Springfield received the award again for the next three years.<ref name=musicianguide /> |
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Springfield's tour of South Africa was interrupted in December 1964, and she was deported, after she performed before an integrated audience at a theatre near [[Cape Town]], which was against the [[South African government]]'s segregation policy.<ref name=musicianguide/><ref name=rnb368>{{cite book|title=Icons of R&B and Soul: An Encyclopedia of the Artists Who Revolutionized Rhythm |page=368|author=Bob Gulla|publisher=Greenwood Icons|year=2008}}</ref> In the same year, she was voted the Top Female British Artist of the year in the [[NME Awards|''New Musical Express'' poll]], topping [[Lulu (singer)|Lulu]], [[Sandie Shaw]], and [[Cilla Black]].<ref name=mcmillan>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Springfield, Dusty|encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=1998|publisher=Muze UK}}</ref> Springfield received the award again the following year.<ref name=musicianguide/> |
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[[File:Dusty Springfield Sanremo 1965 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Springfield in 1965]] |
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In 1965, Springfield reached the UK Top 40 with three hit singles: "Your Hurtin' Kinda Love" (no. 37), "In the Middle of Nowhere" (no. 8) and the [[Gerry Goffin]]/[[Carole King]]-penned "Some of Your Lovin{{'"}} (no. 8),<ref name="everyhit" /> though none was included on her next UK album recorded with [[The Echoes (English group)|The Echoes]], ''[[Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty]]''. Released in October 1965, the [[LP record|LP]] featured songs by [[Leslie Bricusse]], [[Anthony Newley]], [[Rod Argent]] and [[Randy Newman]], and a cover of the traditional Mexican song "[[La Bamba (song)|La Bamba]]".<ref name="Eder">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r49953 |pure_url=yes}} |title=''Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty'' – Dusty Springfield |last=Eder |first=Bruce |author-link=Bruce Eder |publisher=Allmusic. Rovi Corporation |access-date=28 June 2012}}</ref> In November 1965, the album peaked at no. 6 on the UK chart.<ref name=everyhit /> Springfield's one appearance on [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']]'s [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]] in 1965 was "Losing You", which stalled at 91. |
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From 28 to 30 January 1965, Springfield took part in the [[Festival della canzone italiana|Italian Song Festival in San Remo]], reaching a semi-final with "Tu che ne sai?" (English: "What Do You Know?") while failing to qualify for the final.<ref name="Italian" /> During the competition, she heard the song "Io Che Non Vivo (Senza Te)", performed by one of its composers, [[Pino Donaggio]], and separately by US country music singer [[Jody Miller]].<ref name=rnb365>Gulla, p. 365.</ref> An English-language version, "[[You Don't Have to Say You Love Me]]", would feature lyrics newly written by Springfield's friend (and future manager) [[Vicki Wickham]] and another future manager, [[Simon Napier-Bell]].<ref name=rnb365 /><ref name=youdont>{{cite magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726073631/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/dustyspringfield/articles/story/6596336/you_dont_have_to_say_you_love_me |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/dustyspringfield/articles/story/6596336/you_dont_have_to_say_you_love_me |title='You Don't Have to Say You Love Me' Dusty Springfield |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=9 December 2004 |access-date=28 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 July 2008}}</ref> Springfield's dramatic recording of the ballad was released in March 1966 and reached number one in the UK in its fifth week on the singles chart.<ref name=everyhit /><ref name=youdont /> Success followed in the US,<ref name=allmusic2 /> where in July it reached no. 4 on ''Billboard'''s Hot 100, ranking 21 for the year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chairborneranger.com/top100/top100-1966.htm |title=Chareborneranger Presents the ''Billboard'' Top 100 for 1966 |publisher=Chairborne Ranger (Dennis Mansker) |access-date=2 July 2012}}</ref> Springfield called it "good old schmaltz",<ref name=youdont /> and it became her signature song. In 1967, Springfield was nominated for the [[Grammy Award for Best Contemporary (R&R) Performance|Best Contemporary (R&R) Solo Vocal Performance – Male or Female]] award at the [[9th Annual Grammy Awards]], losing to [[Paul McCartney]] for "[[Eleanor Rigby]]". In 1999, "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" featured in an all-time Top 100 of songs as voted for by listeners of [[BBC Radio 2]]. |
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{{blockquote|text=There, standing on the staircase at Philips studio, singing into the stairwell, Dusty gave her greatest ever performance – perfection from first breath to last, as great as anything by Aretha Franklin or Sinatra or Pavarotti. Great singers can take mundane lyrics and fill them with their own meaning. This can help a listener's own ill-defined feelings come clearly into focus. Vicki [Wickham] and I had thought our lyric was about avoiding emotional commitment. Dusty stood it on its head and made it a passionate lament of loneliness and love.|sign=[[Simon Napier-Bell]], "Flashback: Dusty Springfield", ''[[The Observer]]'' (19 October 2003).<ref name="Napier-Bell">{{cite news |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1062873,00.html |title=Flashback: Dusty Springfield |last=Napier-Bell |first=Simon |author-link=Simon Napier-Bell |work=[[The Observer]] |location=London |date=19 October 2003 |access-date=4 July 2012}}</ref>}} |
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In 1965, Springfield released three more British Top 40 hits: "Your Hurtin' Kinda Love", "In the Middle of Nowhere", and [[Carole King]]'s "Some of Your Lovin'".<ref name=everyhit/> These were not included on the album ''[[Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty]]'', which featured songs by [[Leslie Bricusse]], [[Anthony Newley]], [[Rod Argent]] and [[Randy Newman]], and a [[cover version|cover]] of the traditional Mexican song, "[[La Bamba]]". This album peaked at #6 in the U.K.<ref>[http://theofficialcharts.com/album_chart_history_1965.php Sharon Mawer. Album chart history. 1965] The official U.K. charts company site</ref> |
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In 1966, Springfield scored with three other UK hits, all varying in style: the snappy "Little By Little" (no. 17), a cover of [[Gerry Goffin]] and Carole King's poignant and reflective "[[Goin' Back]]" (no. 10), and the sweeping dramatic ballad "All I See Is You" (no. 9), co-written by [[Ben Weisman]] and Clive Westlake. The last peaked at no. 20 in the United States.<ref name=everyhit /> In August and September 1966, she hosted ''Dusty'', a six-part [[BBC TV]] music/talk show series.<ref name="Bell">{{cite web |url=http://www.simonbell.com/TVseries.html |title=Dusty Springfield: Dusty Devotedly – Details of Dusty's TV Series' in the 60's |last=Bell |first=Simon |author-link=Simon Bell (singer) |access-date=28 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618101610/http://www.simonbell.com/TVseries.html |archive-date=18 June 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> A compilation of her singles, ''Golden Hits'', released in November 1966, peaked at no. 2 in the UK (behind the [[The Sound of Music (soundtrack)|soundtrack]] to ''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]'').<ref name=everyhit /> From the mid-1960s onward Springfield used the pseudonym '''"Gladys Thong"''' when recording backing vocals for other artists including [[Madeline Bell]], [[Kiki Dee]], [[Anne Murray]] and [[Elton John]].<ref name="Valentine66">{{cite web |url=http://www.cpinternet.com/~mbayly/article-gladys.htm |title=Dusty Changes Her Name to Gladys Thong |work=Disc & Music Echo |last=Valentine |first=Penny |date=24 September 1966 |access-date=1 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523144857/http://www.cpinternet.com/~mbayly/article-gladys.htm |archive-date=23 May 2012}}</ref><ref name="Randall32">Randall, (2009), [https://books.google.com/books?id=D2mCQpLstCkC&pg=PA32 pp. 32], [https://books.google.com/books?id=D2mCQpLstCkC&pg=PA57 57], [https://books.google.com/books?id=D2mCQpLstCkC&pg=PA173 173].</ref> Bell was a regular backing singer on early Springfield albums, and the pair, together with [[Lesley Duncan]], co-wrote "I'm Gonna Leave You" ,<ref name="APRAGonna">{{cite web |publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) |title='I'm Gonna Leave You' at APRA search engine |url=http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=Im%20Gonna%20Leave%20You |access-date=2 July 2012}}</ref> the B-side of "Goin' Back". |
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Springfield was instrumental in introducing [[Motown]] to a wider British audience with both her covers of Motown songs, and in facilitating the first British TV appearance for [[The Temptations]], [[The Supremes]], [[The Miracles]], and [[Stevie Wonder]] on a special edition of the ''[[Ready Steady Go!]]'' show, called ''The Sound Of Motown''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xewl6U_0WtgJ:depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/isam/NewsletF05/RandallF05.htm+%27%27The+Sound+Of+Motown%27%27+dusty+springfield&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a |title=Dusty Springfield and the Motown Invasion |publisher=Institute for Studies In American Music |accessdate=2010-08-10 }}</ref> The show was broadcast on April 28, 1965 by [[Associated-Rediffusion|Rediffusion TV]], with Springfield opening each half of the show accompanied by [[Martha Reeves and the Vandellas]] and Motown's in-house band [[The Funk Brothers]].<ref name= merseybeat>[http://www.merseybeat.co.uk/articles-details.php?cat=TV+Shows+%26+Documentaries&id=581 Ready, Steady, Go!] Mersey Beat Rock and Pop Memorabilia</ref> |
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During this period, Springfield was also known for her love of [[Motown]]. She introduced the Motown sound to a wider UK audience, both with her covers of Motown songs and by facilitating the first UK TV appearance for [[the Temptations]], [[the Supremes]], [[Martha & The Vandellas]], [[the Miracles]] and [[Stevie Wonder]] in a special edition of the 1963–66 British TV music series ''Ready Steady Go!'', produced by Vicki Wickham.<ref name="Randall2005">Randall, (Fall 2005).</ref> ''The Sound of Motown'' was broadcast by [[Associated-Rediffusion]]/[[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] on 28 April 1965, with Springfield opening each half accompanied by [[Martha and the Vandellas]] and Motown's in-house band, [[the Funk Brothers]].<ref name="Randall2005" /><ref name= merseybeat>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019215931/http://www.merseybeat.co.uk/articles.php?cat=TV+Shows+%26+Documentaries |url=http://www.merseybeat.co.uk/articles-details.php?cat=TV+Shows+%26+Documentaries&id=581 |title=Ready, Steady, Go! |publisher=Mersey Beat Rock and Pop Memorabilia (Bill Harry, Jimmy Devlin) |archive-date=19 October 2008 |access-date=4 July 2012}}</ref> The associated touring Tamla-Motown Revue–featuring the Supremes, the Miracles and Stevie Wonder–had started in London in March and was, according to the Supremes' [[Mary Wilson (singer)|Mary Wilson]], a flop: "It's always... disheartening when you go out there and you see the house is half-full... but once you're on stage... You perform as well for five as you do for 500."<ref name="White">{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/dancing-in-the-streets-of-britain-6149234.html?printService=print |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310083626/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/dancing-in-the-streets-of-britain-6149234.html?printService=print |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 March 2014 |title=Dancing in the Streets of Britain |last=White |first=Adam |work=The Independent |date=1 April 2005 |access-date=28 June 2012}}</ref> Wickham, a fan of the Motown artists, booked them for the ''Ready Steady Go!'' special and enlisted Springfield to host it.<ref name="White" /> |
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Springfield released three additional U.K. Top 20 hits in 1966: "Little By Little" and two dramatic ballads by Carole King: "Going Back" and "All I See Is You", which also reached the US Top 20.<ref name=everyhit/> In August and September 1966, she hosted ''Dusty'', a series of six [[BBC]] TV music and talk shows.<ref name=filmography>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0819778/filmoseries#tt0298624|title=Filmography by TV series for Dusty Springfield. IMDB site}}</ref> A compilation of her singles, ''Golden Hits'', released in November 1966, reached #2 in the U.K.<ref>[http://theofficialcharts.com/album_chart_history_1966.php Sharon Mawer. Album chart history. 1966] The official U.K. charts company site</ref> |
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The Bacharach-David composition "[[The Look of Love (1967 song)|The Look of Love]]" was designed as a centrepiece for the [[James Bond]] parody ''[[Casino Royale (1967 film)|Casino Royale]]''. For one of the slowest-tempo hits of the sixties, Bacharach created the sultry by minor-seventh and major-seventh chord changes, while Hal David's lyrics epitomised longing and lust.<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:dpfyxxlrldhe The Look of Love] Allmusic</ref> This song was recorded in two versions at the [[Philips Records|Philips]] Studios of London. The soundtrack version was recorded on January 29 and the single release version was done in April.<ref name=discography>{{cite web|url=http://www.wonderboymi.com/Discographies/ds60s.html|title=Dusty Springfield The 1960's|work=wonderboymi.com}}</ref> This song is featured in the scene where [[Ursula Andress]] as [[Vesper Lynd]] is persuading [[Peter Sellers]] as [[Evelyn Tremble]],<ref name=turner>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=21301&rss=mrqe|title=Casino Royale. Turner Classic Movies site}}</ref> seen through a man-size aquarium.<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061452/synopsis Synopsis for Casino Royale (1967)]</ref> "The Look of Love" was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Song]] of 1967.<ref name=infoplease>{{cite web|url=http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0149089.html|title=1967 Academy Awards|publisher=Infoplease}}</ref> The song was a Top 10 radio hit at the [[KGB-FM|KGB]] and [[KHJ (AM)|KHJ]] radio stations in the [[western United States]]. Springfield was not very popular in the United States in 1967,<ref name=imdb>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0819778/bio|title=Biography for Dusty Springfield. IMDB site}}</ref> so this song earned her highest place in the year's music charts at #22. |
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As with Springfield's chart success in the previous three years, there was minimal agreement in 1967 and 1968 between UK and US releases. The closest Springfield got to a transatlantic hit during this period was the spirited "[[I'll Try Anything]]", which charted in the spring of 1967 (UK no. 13/US no. 40). The follow-up single, "Give Me Time"–the singer's last traditional-sounding sweeping ballad–peaked outside the UK Top 20 (no. 24) and stalled at 76 in the United States. However, the single's B-side – the smokey-sultry [[Burt Bacharach|Bacharach]]-[[Hal David|David]] song "[[The Look of Love (1967 song)|The Look of Love]]", recorded for the [[James Bond]] parody film ''[[Casino Royale (1967 film)|Casino Royale]]''–emerged as one of Springfield's five defining US 1960s hits.<ref name="The Look of Love">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/the-look-of-love-mt0000197012 |title='The Look of Love' – Dusty Springfield, Reg Guest |last=Greenwald |first=Matthew |publisher=Allmusic. Rovi Corporation |access-date=2 July 2012}}</ref><ref name="Songfacts">{{cite web |url=http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=10717 |title='The Look of Love' by Dusty Springfield |publisher=Songfacts (Carl Wiser) |access-date=2 July 2012}}</ref> |
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The second season of the BBC's ''Dusty'' TV shows,<ref name=filmography /> featuring performances of "[[Get Ready (The Temptations song)|Get Ready]]" and the U.K. #13 hit "[[I'll Try Anything]]", attracted a healthy audience but the show did not keep up with changes in the pop music market.<ref name=mcmillan/> The comparatively progressive album''[[Where Am I Going?]]'' attempted to redress this by containing songs such as a "jazzy", orchestrated version of "[[Sunny (song)|Sunny]]" and [[Jacques Brel]]'s "If You Go Away". Though it was appreciated critically, it did not sell well.<ref name=mcmillan/> In 1968, a similar fate befell ''[[Dusty... Definitely]]''.<ref name=mcmillan/> On this album, her choice of material ranged from the rolling "Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone" to the aching emotion of "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today".<ref name=mcmillan/> In that same year, Springfield had a British #4 hit, "[[I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten (song)|I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten]]",<ref name=everyhit>{{cite web|url=http://www.everyhit.co.uk|title=UK Top 40 Hit Database}}</ref> written by Clive Westlake. Its flipside, "No Stranger am I", was written by [[Norma Tanega]].<ref name=readysteady/> |
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For "one of the slowest-tempo hits" of the sixties, Bacharach created the "sultry" feel by the use of "minor-seventh and major-seventh chord changes", while Hal David's lyrics "epitomised longing and, yes, lust."<ref name="The Look of Love" /> The song was recorded in two versions at the [[Philips Records|Philips]] Studios in London. The soundtrack version was released on 29 January 1967. The single version charted briefly in July, then re-entered ''Billboard'''s Hot 100 in early September, peaking at no. 22. However, it reached the Top Ten in several markets across the US, reaching number one in San Francisco ([[KFRC (defunct)|KFRC]] and [[KOIT|KYA]]) and [[San Jose, California]] ([[KLIV]]) as well as no. 2 in Boston ([[WBZ (AM)|WBZ]]), among other cities.<ref name=discography>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028140503/http://www.wonderboymi.com/Discographies/ds60s.html |url=http://www.wonderboymi.com/Discographies/ds60s.html |title=Dusty Springfield The 1960s |publisher=wonderboymi.com (Steve Albin, Donald Martin, Tom Coen, Paul Howes) |archive-date=28 October 2008 |date=24 August 2004 |access-date=28 June 2012}}</ref> "The Look of Love" received an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Song|Best Song]].<ref name=infoplease>{{cite web |url=http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0149089.html |title=1967 Academy Awards |publisher=Infoplease ([[Pearson PLC]]) |access-date=3 July 2012}}</ref> |
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In August and September 1967, Springfield headlined the second season of her BBC TV series ''Dusty'' (also known as ''The Dusty Springfield Show''), in which she welcomed guests and performed songs, among them a rendition of "[[Get Ready (The Temptations song)|Get Ready]]" and her then-recent hit "I'll Try Anything".<ref name=everyhit /><ref name="Bell" /> The series attracted a healthy audience but was seen as not keeping up with changes in pop music.<ref name=mcmillan /> Springfield's next LP ''[[Where Am I Going?]]'' (October 1967)–her first album of new material since 1965–experimented with various styles including a "jazzy", orchestrated version of "[[Sunny (Bobby Hebb song)|Sunny]]" and an acclaimed cover of [[Jacques Brel]]'s "[[Ne me quitte pas]]" ("[[If You Go Away]]").<ref name="Viglione">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r49957 |pure_url=yes}} |title=''Where Am I Going'' – Dusty Springfield |last=Viglione |first=Joe |publisher=Allmusic. Rovi Corporation |access-date=3 July 2012}}</ref> Though critically appreciated, the album peaked at 40 in the UK and failed to chart in the US.<ref name=mcmillan /><ref name="Viglione" /> In November 1968, a similar fate befell ''[[Dusty... Definitely]]'',<ref name=mcmillan /><ref name="Unterberger2">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r49958 |pure_url=yes}} |title=''Dusty... Definitely'' – Dusty Springfield |last=Unterberger |first=Richie |publisher=Allmusic. Rovi Corporation |access-date=3 July 2012}}</ref> which was not issued in the US, though it reached no. 30 in the UK during a six-week chart run.<ref name=everyhit /> Material ranged from the rolling "Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone" to the achingly emotive cover of [[Randy Newman]]'s "[[I Think It's Gonna Rain Today]]".<ref name=mcmillan /><ref name="Unterberger2" /> Also in 1968, Springfield scored with one of her biggest UK hits of the decade: the dramatic "[[I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten (song)|I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten]]",<ref name=everyhit>{{cite web |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/dusty%20springfield/ |title=Artist: Dusty Springfield |publisher=[[Official Charts Company]] |access-date=28 June 2012}} Note: Click on tab to access Albums charting.</ref> written by [[Clive Westlake]].<ref name="APRAClose">{{cite web |publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) |title = 'I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten' at APRA search engine |url=http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=I%20Close%20My%20Eyes%20and%20Count%20to%20Ten |access-date=28 June 2012}}</ref> The single peaked at no. 4 in August 1968. Its flip side, "No Stranger Am I", was co-written by American singer-songwriter [[Norma Tanega]]–known for her transatlantic 1966 Top 30 folk-pop hit "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog"<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book |first=David |last=Roberts |year=2006 |title=British Hit Singles & Albums |edition=19th |publisher=Guinness World Records Limited |location=London |isbn=1-904994-10-5 |page=549}}</ref>–and Norma Kutzer.<ref name=musicianguide /><ref name="APRAStranger">{{cite web |publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) |title='No Stranger Am I' at APRA search engine |url=http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=No%20Stranger%20Am%20I |access-date=29 June 2012}}</ref> By late 1966, Springfield was in a domestic "relationship" with Tanega.<ref name="Randall121">Randall, (2009), pp. vii, 113, [https://books.google.com/books?id=O4kFsOnFQqMC&q=%22Norma+Tanega%22 121], 125, 129, 135, 141, 185, 187.</ref> Springfield's 1968 TV series ''It Must Be Dusty'' was broadcast on ITV in May and June; episode six featured a duet performance of "[[Mockingbird (Inez & Charlie Foxx song)|Mockingbird]]" with singer-guitarist [[Jimi Hendrix]], fronting his band [[The Jimi Hendrix Experience|the Experience]].<ref name="Bell" /> |
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Springfield's personal TV shows continued with the [[ITV]] series called ''It Must Be Dusty'',<ref name=filmography /> which featured a duet with [[Jimi Hendrix]] on the song "[[Mockingbird (Inez & Charlie Foxx song)|Mockingbird]]". In that same year, [[Roger Moore]] presented her with her third "Top British Female Artist" award, voted by the readers of ''New Musical Express''.<ref name=nme68>{{cite web|url=http://www.nme.com/awardshistory/1968|title=The History of The NME Awards.1968. nme.com site}}</ref> |
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=== 1968–69: ''Dusty in Memphis'' === |
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In 1968, Carole King, one of Springfield's songwriters, embarked on a singing career of her own, while the chart-peaking Bacharach-David partnership was foundering. Springfield's status in the music industry was further complicated by the progressive music revolution and the uncomfortable split between what was [[Underground music|underground]] and "fashionable" and what was [[Pop music|pop]] and "unfashionable".<ref name=mcmillan/> In addition, her performing career was becoming limited to the British touring circuit, which at that time largely consisted of [[working men's club]]s and the hotels and cabarets circuit.<ref name=mcmillan/> Hoping to reinvigorate her career and boost her credibility, Springfield signed with [[Atlantic Records]],<ref name=mcmillan/> the record label of one of her idols, [[Aretha Franklin]]. The Memphis sessions at the [[American Sound Studio]]<ref name=britannica/> were recorded by the A-team of Atlantic Records: producers [[Jerry Wexler]], [[Tom Dowd]], and [[Arif Mardin]];<ref name=memphis>{{cite web|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/230620/review/5944299/dustyinmemphis?rating=11|title=Dusty In Memphis. Rolling Stone magazine}}</ref> the back-up vocal band [[Sweet Inspirations]]; and the instrumental band Memphis Cats,<ref name=treble>{{cite web|url=http://www.treblezine.com/reviews/294.html|title=Dusty in Memphis. The treble site}}</ref> led by guitarist [[Reggie Young]] and bass guitar player [[Tommy Cogbill]].<ref name=memphis/> The producers were the first to recognise that Springfield's natural soul voice should be placed at the forefront, rather than competing with full string arrangements. At first, Springfield felt anxious about being compared with the soul greats who had recorded in the same studios.<ref name=rnb369>{{cite book|title=Icons of R&B and Soul: An Encyclopedia of the Artists Who Revolutionized Rhythm |page=369|author=Bob Gulla|publisher=Greenwood Icons|year=2008}}</ref> Springfield later stated that she had never before worked with just a rhythm track, and that it was the first time she had worked with outside producers, as she had self-produced her previous recordings (although she never took credit for it).<ref name="liner">{{cite album-notes | title =Dusty In Memphis | last=Feldman | first=Jim | year = 1992 | bandname = Dusty Springfield | format = Inset | publisher = [[Rhino Entertainment]] | location = USA | publisherid = R2 75580}}</ref> Due to what Wexler called a "gigantic inferiority complex" and Ms. Springfield's pursuit of perfection, her vocals were recorded later in [[New York]].<ref name=musicianguide/><ref name=d89>{{cite web|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6598132/89_dusty_in_memphis|title= 89) Dusty in Memphis|publisher= Rolling Stone}}</ref> During the Memphis sessions in November 1968, Dusty suggested that the heads of Atlantic Records should sign the newly-formed band [[Led Zeppelin]]. She knew the band's bass player, [[John Paul Jones (musician)|John Paul Jones]], who had backed her in concerts. Without having ever seen them and largely on Dusty's advice,<ref>Welch, Chris (1994) ''Led Zeppelin'', London: Orion Books. ISBN 0-85797-930-3, p. 31.</ref> the record company signed a $200,000 deal with them. That was the biggest contract of its kind for a new band up until that time.<ref name="Mojo">{{cite magazine | title=No Way Out| year=2005 | author=Mick Wall | pages= 83 }}</ref> |
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By the late 1960s, Carole King–who with [[Gerry Goffin]] co-wrote "Some of Your Lovin{{'"}}, "Goin' Back" and four songs on the ''Dusty in Memphis'' album–had embarked on a solo singing career. At the same time, Springfield's relationship with the high-charting [[Burt Bacharach|Bacharach]]-[[Hal David|David]] partnership was floundering. Her status in the music industry was further complicated by a "progressive" music revolution which dictated an uncomfortable dichotomy: [[Underground music|underground]]/"fashionable" vs. pop/"unfashionable".<ref name=mcmillan /> Her performing career was limited to the UK touring circuit of [[working men's club]]s, hotels and cabarets.<ref name=mcmillan /> Hoping to reinvigorate her career and boost her credibility, she signed with [[Atlantic Records]],<ref name=mcmillan /> the label of her idol [[Aretha Franklin]]. (She signed with the label only in the United States; in her native United Kingdom she remained under contract with Philips.) |
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The Memphis sessions at the [[American Sound Studio]] were produced by [[Jerry Wexler]], [[Tom Dowd]], and [[Arif Mardin]];<ref name=memphis>{{cite magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414080722/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/230620/review/5944299/dustyinmemphis?rating=11 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/230620/review/5944299/dustyinmemphis?rating=11 |title=''Dusty in Memphis'': Dusty Springfield |last=Marcus |first=Greil |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=4 January 1999 |archive-date=14 April 2009 |access-date=29 June 2012}}</ref> the back-up vocal band [[Sweet Inspirations]]; and the instrumental band Memphis Boys.<ref name=treble>{{cite web |url=http://www.treblezine.com/reviews/294.html |title=Album Review: Dusty Springfield: ''Dusty in Memphis'' |last=Simpson |first=Ernest |work=Treble |date=23 September 2004 |access-date=29 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214024625/http://www.treblezine.com/reviews/294.html |archive-date=14 February 2012}}</ref> They were led by guitarist [[Reggie Young]] and bass guitarist [[Tommy Cogbill]].<ref name=memphis /> The producers recognized that Springfield's natural soul voice should be placed at the forefront, rather than competing with full string arrangements. At first, she felt anxious when compared with the soul greats who had recorded in the same studios.<ref name=rnb369>Gulla, p. 369.</ref> She had never worked with just a rhythm track, and it was her first time with outside producers; many of her previous recordings had been self-produced, while not being credited.<ref name="liner">{{cite AV media notes |title=Dusty in Memphis |title-link=Dusty in Memphis |last=Feldman |first=Jim |year=1992 |others=Dusty Springfield |type=Inset |publisher=[[Rhino Entertainment]] |location=USA |id=R2 75580}}</ref> Wexler felt Springfield had a "gigantic inferiority complex", and due to her pursuit of perfection, her vocals were re-recorded later, in New York.<ref name=musicianguide /><ref name=d89>{{cite magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100407211250/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6598132/89_dusty_in_memphis |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6598132/89_dusty_in_memphis |title=89) ''Dusty in Memphis'' |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=1 November 2003 |archive-date=7 April 2010 |url-status=dead |access-date=29 June 2012}}</ref> In November 1968, during the Memphis sessions, Springfield suggested to Wexler (one of the heads of Atlantic Records) that he should sign the newly formed UK band [[Led Zeppelin]]. She knew their bass guitarist, [[John Paul Jones (musician)|John Paul Jones]], from his session work on her earlier albums.<ref name="Welch2" /> Without ever having seen them and partly on her advice,<ref name="Welch2">{{cite book |last=Welch |first=Chris |year=1994 |title=Led Zeppelin |location=London |publisher=Orion Books |isbn=1-85797-930-3 |page=31}}</ref> Wexler signed Led Zeppelin to a $200,000 deal with Atlantic–the biggest such contract for a new band until then.<ref name="Welch2" /><ref name="Mojo">{{cite journal |title=No Way Out |journal=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |year=2005 |first=Mick |last=Wall |page=83}}</ref> |
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The album ''[[Dusty in Memphis]]'' received excellent reviews on its initial releases both in the UK and US.<ref name="rnb370">Gulla, p. 370.</ref> [[Greil Marcus]] of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine wrote: "most of the songs... have a great deal of depth while presenting extremely direct and simple statements about love... Dusty sings around her material, creating music that's evocative rather than overwhelming... Dusty is not searching–she just shows up, and she, and we, are better for it."<ref name="marcus1" /> |
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Commercial and chart success did not follow.<ref name="rnb370" /> The album failed to chart in the UK, and in April 1969 it stalled at no. 99 on [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']]'s [[Billboard 200|Top LP's]] chart,<ref name="everyhit" /><ref name="allmusic2" /> with sales of 100,000 copies.<ref name="demons" /><ref name="forgotten">{{cite web |url=http://www.forgottenhits.com/dusty_springfield |title=The Dusty Springfield Story |publisher=ForgottenHits.com (Kent Kotal) |access-date=4 July 2012}}</ref> However, by 2001, the album had received the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]] award and was listed among the greatest albums of all time by US music magazine ''Rolling Stone''<ref name="d89" /> and in polls conducted by [[VH1]], ''New Musical Express'' and UK TV network [[Channel 4]].<ref name="bestever">{{cite web |url=http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?a=88 |title=''Dusty in Memphis'' by Dusty Springfield |publisher=BestEverAlbums.com (Amulet Solutions – Europe) |access-date=2 July 2012}}</ref> In November 1968, the album's lead single, "Son of a Preacher Man", was issued. It was written by John Hurley and [[Ronnie Wilkins]].<ref name="APRASon">{{cite web |publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) |title='Son of a Preacher Man' at APRA search engine |url=http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=Son%20of%20a%20Preacher%20Man |access-date=29 June 2012}}</ref> Credited as "Son-of-a Preacher Man" on UK, US and other releases, it became an international hit, reaching no. 9 in the [[UK Singles Chart|UK singles chart]] and no. 10 on [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']]'s [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]] in January 1969. In continental Europe, the single reached the Top Ten in the Austrian, Dutch and Swiss charts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Dusty+Springfield&titel=Son%2DOf%2DA+Preacher+Man&cat=s |title=Dusty Springfield – 'Son of a Preacher Man' |publisher=Swiss Charts Portal. Hung Medien |last=Hung |first=Steffen |access-date=29 June 2012 |language=de}}</ref> In 1970, Springfield was nominated for the [[Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance|Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Female]] award at the [[24th Annual Grammy Awards]], losing to "[[Is That All There Is?]]" by [[Peggy Lee]], whom Springfield often cited as an influence.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.india-server.com/awards/features/grammy-awards-1970-219.html |title=Grammy Awards 1970 |publisher=IndiaServer |access-date=3 July 2012}}</ref> In 1987, ''Rolling Stone'' magazine placed the single at no. 77 in its critics' list The 100 Best Singles of the Last 25 Years. In 2002, the record ranked 43 in the 100 Greatest Singles of All Time, as voted for by ''New Musical Express'' critics. In 2004, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked it 240 in its list of [[The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6596085/son_of_a_preacher_man1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211184810/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6596085/son_of_a_preacher_man1|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 December 2008|title=The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=5 November 2008}}</ref> "Son of a Preacher Man" found a new audience when it was included on the soundtrack of [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s 1994 film ''[[Pulp Fiction (film)|Pulp Fiction]]''. The [[Pulp Fiction (soundtrack)|soundtrack]] reached no. 21 on [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']]'s [[Billboard 200]] album chart and at the time went platinum (100,000 units) in Canada alone.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sgsEAAAAMBAJ&q=Pulp+Fiction&pg=PA55 |title='94 Canadian Sales Are Best in a Decade |last=LeBlanc |first=Larry |magazine=Billboard |date=28 January 1995 |volume=107 |issue=4 |page=62 |access-date=29 June 2012}}</ref> It is thought that "Son of a Preacher Man" contributed to the sales of the soundtrack album, which sold more than 2 million copies in the US.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Going to the Movies |last=Lomax III |first=Johnny |magazine=Billboard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iw0EAAAAMBAJ&q=Pulp+Fiction&pg=PA83 |date=20 April 1996 |volume=108 |issue=16 |pages=48, 52 |access-date=29 June 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200#/album/original-soundtrack/pulp-fiction/156396 |title=''Pulp Fiction'' – Original Soundtrack |magazine=Billboard |access-date=29 June 2012}}</ref> |
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The main song on the album, "[[Son of a Preacher Man]]", was written by John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins. It reached #10 on the British, American and international music charts. Its best results in continental Europe were #10 on the Austrian charts and #3 on the Swiss charts.<ref>[http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Dusty+Springfield&titel=Son%2DOf%2DA+Preacher+Man&cat=s Dusty Springfield – Son of a Preacher Man] Swiss Charts</ref> The song was the 96th most popular song of 1969 in the United States.<ref>[http://www.chairborneranger.com/top100/top100-1969.htm Chareborneranger presents the Billboard Top 100 for 1969]</ref> The writers of ''Rolling Stone'' magazine placed Springfield's release at #77 among ''The 100 Best Singles of the Last 25 Years'' in 1987. The record was placed at #43 of the ''Greatest Singles of All Time'' by the writers of [[New Musical Express]] in 2002. |
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In 2004, the song made the ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' list of [[The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6596085/son_of_a_preacher_man1|title=The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|publisher=RollingStone.com|accessdate=2008-11-05}}</ref> at #240. In 1994 the song was featured in a scene of the film ''[[Pulp Fiction (film)|Pulp Fiction]]'', and [[Pulp Fiction (soundtrack)|the soundtrack]] reached No. 21 on the Billboard 200, and at the time, went platinum (1,000,000 units) in Canada alone.<ref>Billboard; 1/28/95, Vol. 107 Issue 4, p62, 1/2p</ref> "Son of a Preacher Man" helped the album sell over 2 million copies in the U.S.,<ref>Billboard, 00062510, 4/20/96, Vol. 108, Issue 16</ref> and it reached #6 on the charts.<ref>Christian Science Monitor, 08827729, 9/8/97, Vol. 89, Issue 198</ref> |
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During September and October 1969, Springfield hosted her third and final BBC musical variety series (her fourth variety series overall), ''Decidedly Dusty'' (co-hosted by [[Valentine Dyall]]).<ref name="Bell" /> All eight episodes were later wiped from the BBC archives, and to date the only surviving footage consists of domestic audio recordings. |
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===Years without commercial success (1969–86)=== |
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In September and October 1969, Dusty Springfield hosted eight episodes of the BBC TV show ''Decidedly Dusty''.<ref name=filmography /> She began 1970 by appearing on the BBC's highly rated review of the sixties music scene ''[[Pop Go The Sixties]]'', where she performed ''You Don't Have To Say You Love Me''. The show was broadcast live on [[BBC1]] and across Europe on December 31, 1969. In 1970, Springfield released her second album for Atlantic Records, ''[[A Brand New Me]]'', which featured songs written and produced by [[Gamble and Huff]]. The title song became a Billboard Top 25 single. In 2007, its British counterpart, ''From Dusty With Love'', was listed among the ''1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die'' by the ''Guardian'' newspaper. A third album for the Atlantic label, titled ''[[Faithful (Dusty Springfield album)|Faithful]]'' and produced by [[Jeff Barry]], was abandoned because of poor sales of singles slated for the album. Most of the material recorded for the aborted album was released on the 1999 reissue of ''Dusty in Memphis'' on [[Rhino Records]]. Her next album, ''[[See All Her Faces]]'', was released only in Britain, and had none of the cohesion of her previous two albums. In 1972, Springfield signed a contract with [[ABC Dunhill Records]] and the resulting album, ''[[Cameo (album)|Cameo]]'', was released in 1973 with little publicity. |
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Until her 1987 comeback with [[Pet Shop Boys]], 1969 marked the last year in which Springfield achieved any notable singles chart presence. In Britain, following "Son of a Preacher Man", she charted with only "[[Am I the Same Girl]]" (no. 43), while on the US Hot 100 she charted with the double A-side "Don't Forget About Me" (no. 64)/"[[Breakfast in Bed]]" (no. 91), a cover of "[[The Windmills of Your Mind]]" (no. 31), "Willie & Laura Mae Jones" (no. 78) and [[Brand New Me (Dusty Springfield song)|A Brand New Me]] (no. 24). Springfield's 1960s repertoire also is noted for interpretations of songs associated primarily with other artists. Those which have appeared on Springfield [[extended play|EPs]] and [[compilation album|compilations]] include "[[Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa]]", "[[You Don't Own Me]]", "[[La Bamba (song)|La Bamba]]", "[[If You Go Away]]" (released on the 1968 Philips EP ''If You Go Away'', which also featured tracks such as "Magic Garden" and "Sunny"), "[[Piece of My Heart]]" (released as "Take Another Little Piece of My Heart"), "[[I Think It's Going to Rain Today|I Think It's Gonna Rain Today]]", "[[Spooky (Classics IV song)|Spooky]]" and "[[Hier encore|Yesterday When I Was Young]]". |
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In 1974, Springfield recorded the theme song for the TV series ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]''. Her second ABC Dunhill album was given the working title ''Elements'' and scheduled for release as ''[[Longing]]''. The sessions were soon abandoned. Part of the material, including tentative and incomplete vocals, was released on the 2001 compilation ''Beautiful Soul''. She put her career on hold in 1974 and lived reclusively in the United States to avoid scrutiny by British tabloids.<ref name=musicianguide/> During this time she sang background vocals for [[Anne Murray]]'s album ''Together''<ref name=rolling/> and [[Elton John]]'s album ''[[Caribou (album)|Caribou]]'', and was heard on the single "[[The Bitch is Back]]". Springfield released two albums on [[United Artists Records]] in the late 1970s. The first was 1978's ''[[It Begins Again]]'', produced by [[Roy Thomas Baker]]. The album charted only briefly in the U.K., though it was well received by critics. The 1979 album, ''[[Living Without Your Love]]'', did even worse, not charting at all.<ref name=rolling/> In autumn 1979, Springfield played club dates in [[New York City]].<ref name=rolling/> In London, she recorded two singles with [[David Mackay (producer)|David Mackay]] for her British label, [[Mercury Records]] (formerly Philips Records). The first was the disco-influenced "Baby Blue", which reached #61 in Britain. The second, "Your Love Still Brings Me to My Knees" (released in January 1980), was Springfield's final single for Mercury Records; she had been with them for nearly 20 years. On December 3, 1979, she performed a charity concert for a full house at the [[Royal Albert Hall]], in the presence of [[Princess Margaret]]. In 1980 Springfield sang "Bits and Pieces", the theme song from the movie ''[[The Stunt Man]]''. She signed an American deal with [[20th Century Records]] that year, which resulted in the single "It Goes Like It Goes". Springfield was uncharacteristically proud of her 1982 album ''[[White Heat (album)|White Heat]]'', which was influenced by [[New Wave music]].<ref name=musicianguide/> She tried to revive her career in 1985 by returning to the United Kingdom and signing to [[Peter Stringfellow]]'s Hippodrome Records label. This resulted in the single "Sometimes Like Butterflies" and an appearance on [[Terry Wogan]]'s live television show. None of Springfield's recordings from 1971 to 1986 charted on the British or American Top 40s. |
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Springfield was one of the best-selling UK singers of the 1960s.<ref name=rolling /> She was voted the Top Female Singer (UK) by the readers of the ''New Musical Express'' in 1964 to 1966 and Top Female Singer in 1965 to 1967 and 1969.<ref name="www.rocklistmusic.co.uk">{{cite web |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/poppoll.html#64 |title=''NME'' Pop Poll Results 1952–1996 |publisher=Rock List Music (Julian White) |access-date=2 September 2010}}</ref> |
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===Comeback, illness, and death (1987–99)=== |
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In 1987, she accepted an invitation from the [[Pet Shop Boys]] to sing with [[Neil Tennant]] on the single "[[What Have I Done to Deserve This? (song)|What Have I Done to Deserve This?]]" and appeared on the promotional video. This record rose to #2 on both the British and American charts. The song appeared on the "Pet Shop Boys" album ''[[Actually (album)|Actually]]'' and both of their greatest hits collections. Springfield sang lead vocals on the [[Richard Carpenter (musician)|Richard Carpenter]] song "Something in Your Eyes", recorded for Carpenter's album ''Time''. Released as a single, it became a #12 [[Adult contemporary music|adult contemporary]] hit in the United States. Springfield recorded a duet with [[B.J. Thomas]], "As Long as We Got Each Other", which was used as the theme song for the American sitcom ''[[Growing Pains]]''. |
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=== 1970s === |
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A new compilation of Springfield's greatest hits, ''The Silver Collection'', was issued in 1988. Springfield returned to the studio with the Pet Shop Boys, who produced her recording of their song "[[Nothing Has Been Proved]]", commissioned for the soundtrack of the film ''[[Scandal (1989 film)|Scandal]]''. Released as a single in early 1989, the song gave Springfield a U.K. Top 20 hit. So did its follow-up, the upbeat "[[In Private]]", written and produced by the Pet Shop Boys. She capitalised on this by recording the 1990 album ''[[Reputation (album)|Reputation]]'', another U.K. Top 20 success. The writing and production credits for half the album, which included the two recent hit singles, went to the Pet Shop Boys, while the album's other producers included [[Dan Hartman]]. Sometime before recording the ''Reputation'' album, Springfield decided to leave California for good, and by 1988 she had returned to Britain. In 1993, she was invited to record a duet with her former 1960s professional rival and friend, [[Cilla Black]]. The song "Heart and Soul" was released as a single and appeared on Black's ''Through the Years'' album.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cillablack.com/music-heartandsoul-single.htm | title=Cilla Black Discography: Heart and Soul (duet with Dusty Springfield) – Single |accessdate={{Start date|2009|5|21|df=yes}}}}</ref> In 1994, Springfield started recording the album ''[[A Very Fine Love]]'' for [[Sony]] Records. Some of the songs were written by well-known Nashville songwriters and were produced with a country feel. |
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[[File:Dusty Springfield niet op Grand Gala du Disque. Hier tijdens een bezoek in het S, Bestanddeelnr 921-1468.jpg|thumb|left|Springfield at the [[Stedelijk Museum]] in Amsterdam, 1968]] |
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By the beginning of the 1970s, Springfield was a major star, though her record sales were declining. Her partner, Norma Tanega, had returned to the US after their relationship had become stressful,<ref>Valentine and Wickham, p. 127.</ref> and Springfield was spending more time in the US herself.<ref>Gulla, [https://books.google.com/books?id=YNae0zmGow4C&pg=PA371 p. 371].</ref> In January 1970, her second and final album on Atlantic Records, ''[[A Brand New Me (Dusty Springfield album)|A Brand New Me]]'' (re-titled ''From Dusty... With Love'' in the UK), was released; it featured tracks written and produced by [[Gamble and Huff]].<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZ4L0Pv7QwUC&pg=PA65 |title=She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul |chapter=Stupid Cupid: 'I Only Want to Be with You' |pages=[https://archive.org/details/shebopiidefiniti0000obri/page/62 62–65] |first=Lucy |last=O'Brien |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-8264-7208-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/shebopiidefiniti0000obri/page/62}}</ref> The album and related singles only sold moderately;<ref>Valentine and Wickham, p. 126.</ref> Springfield was unhappy with both her management and record company.<ref name=Bernard>O'Brien, pp. 142–144.</ref> She sang backing vocals with her friend Madeline Bell on two tracks on Elton John's 1971 hit album ''[[Tumbleweed Connection]]''. Springfield recorded some songs with producer [[Jeff Barry]] in early 1971, which were intended for an album to be released by Atlantic Records.<ref>Leeson, [https://archive.org/details/dustyspringfield0000lees <!-- quote=Jeff Barry. --> p. 118].</ref> However, her new manager Alan Bernard negotiated her out of the Atlantic contract; some of the tracks were used on the UK-only album ''[[See All Her Faces]]'' (November 1972) and the 1999 release ''[[Dusty in Memphis]]-Deluxe Edition''.<ref name=Bernard /> She signed a contract with [[ABC Dunhill Records]] in 1972, and ''[[Cameo (album)|Cameo]]'' was issued in February 1973 to respectable reviews, though poor sales.<ref>O'Brien, pp. 148–151.</ref> |
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In 1973, Springfield recorded the theme song for the TV series ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]'', which was used for two of its film-length episodes: "Wine, Women & War" and "The Solid Gold Kidnapping".<ref name="SixMillion">{{cite web |url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Six-Million-Dollar-Man-The-Complete-Series/14457 |title=''The Six Million Dollar Man'' DVD News |last=Lambert |first=David |publisher=TVShowsOnDVD (Gord Lace) |access-date=3 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100928083744/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Six-Million-Dollar-Man-The-Complete-Series/14457 |archive-date=28 September 2010}}</ref> Her second ABC Dunhill album was given the working title ''Elements'' and was then scheduled for release in late 1974 as ''[[Longing (Dusty Springfield album)|Longing]]''. However, the recording sessions were abandoned, although part of the material, including tentative and incomplete vocals, was issued on the 2001 posthumous compilation ''Beautiful Soul''. In the mid-1970s she sang background vocals on Elton John's album ''[[Caribou (album)|Caribou]]'' (June 1974), including his single "[[The Bitch Is Back]]"; and on Anne Murray's album ''[[Together (Anne Murray album)|Together]]'' (November 1975).<ref name=rolling /> By 1974, Springfield put her solo musical career on hold and lived as a recluse in the US avoiding scrutiny by UK tabloids. In the 1960s and early 1970s, gay or bisexual performers "knew that being 'out' would lead to prurient media attention, loss of record contracts... the tabloids became obsessively interested in the contents of celebrity closets".<ref name="musicianguide" /><ref>Randall, (2009), [https://books.google.com/books?id=O4kFsOnFQqMC&q=tabloids p. 107].</ref> Springfield would not record again until the Summer of 1977, when she began recording ''[[It Begins Again]]''. |
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While recording her final album, ''A Very Fine Love'', in January 1994 in Nashville, Tennessee, Springfield felt ill. When she returned to England a few months later, her physicians diagnosed her with [[breast cancer]]. She received months of radiation treatment and for a time, the cancer was in remission.<ref name=allmusic/> In 1995, in apparent good health, Springfield set about promoting the album. She gave a live performance of "Where Is a Woman to Go?" on the BBC-TV music show ''Later With [[Jools Holland]]'', backed up by [[Alison Moyet]] and [[Sinéad O'Connor]]. The last song Springfield recorded in studio was the [[George Gershwin|George]] and [[Ira Gershwin]] song "[[Someone To Watch Over Me (song)|Someone To Watch Over Me]]". The song was recorded in London in 1995 for an insurance company television advertisement. It was included on ''Simply Dusty'' (2000), the extensive anthology that Springfield had helped plan, but did not live to see released. Her final live performance was in ''The Christmas with [[Michael Ball (singer)|Michael Ball]]'' in December 1995.<ref>[http://www.michaelball.co.uk/bio/ Biography] Michael Ball Official Website</ref> Cancer was detected again during the summer of 1996. In spite of vigorous treatments, she succumbed on March 2, 1999. She died in [[Henley-on-Thames]] on the day she had been scheduled to go to [[Buckingham Palace]] to receive her award of Officer, [[Order of the British Empire]]. Before her death, officials of the [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen]] had given permission for the medal to be collected by Springfield's manager, [[Vicki Wickham]], and it was presented to the singer in the hospital in the company of a small party of friends and relatives. Her induction into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in [[Cleveland, Ohio]], had been scheduled for 10 days after her death. Her friend Sir [[Elton John]] helped induct her into the Hall of Fame, stating:<ref>[http://www.rockonthenet.com/artists-j/eltonjohn_main.htm Elton John] Rock On The Net</ref> {{cquote|I think she is the greatest white singer that there ever has been.}} |
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In the late 1970s, Springfield released two albums on [[United Artists Records]]. The first was ''It Begins Again'', issued in 1978 and produced by [[Roy Thomas Baker]]. The album peaked in the UK top 50 and was well received by critics.<ref name=everyhit /> Her next album, ''[[Living Without Your Love]]'' (1979), did not reach the top 50.<ref name=everyhit /><ref name=rolling /> In early 1979, Springfield played club dates in New York City.<ref name=everyhit /><ref name=rolling /> In London, she recorded two singles with [[David Mackay (producer)|David Mackay]] for her UK label, [[Mercury Records]] (formerly [[Philips Records]]). The first was the disco-influenced "Baby Blue", co-written by [[Trevor Horn]] and [[Geoff Downes]], which reached no. 61 in the UK.<ref name=everyhit /> The second, "Your Love Still Brings Me to My Knees", released in January 1980, was Springfield's final single for Mercury Records; she had been with the label for nearly 20 years. On 3 December 1979, Springfield performed a charity concert for a full house at the [[Royal Albert Hall]], in the presence of [[Princess Margaret]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Two - Dusty Springfield at the Royal Albert Hall |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k3s5 |access-date=24 November 2023 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref> |
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Springfield's funeral service was attended by hundreds of fans and people from the music business, including [[Elvis Costello]], [[Lulu (singer)|Lulu]] and the [[Pet Shop Boys]]. It took place in [[Oxfordshire]], at the ancient parish church of [[St Mary the Virgin]], in [[Henley-on-Thames]], the town where Springfield had lived during her last years. A marker dedicated to her memory was placed in the church graveyard.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7144619 |title=Dusty Springfield (1939 - 1999) - Find A Grave Memorial |publisher=www.findagrave.com |accessdate=2010-08-10 }}</ref> Some of Springfield's ashes were buried at Henley, while the rest were scattered by her brother, Tom Springfield, at the [[Cliffs of Moher]], [[County Clare]], [[Ireland]]. In what was considered a rare departure from royal protocol, [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth]] announced that she was "saddened" to learn of Springfield's death.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} |
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=== 1980s === |
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In 1980, Springfield sang "Bits and Pieces", the theme song from the movie ''[[The Stunt Man]]''. She signed a US deal with [[20th Century Records]], which resulted in the single "[[It Goes Like It Goes]]", a cover of the Oscar-winning song from the film ''[[Norma Rae]]''. Springfield was uncharacteristically proud of her 1982 album ''[[White Heat (Dusty Springfield album)|White Heat]]'', which was influenced by [[new wave music]].<ref name=musicianguide /> She tried to revive her career in 1985 by returning to the UK and signing to [[Peter Stringfellow]]'s Hippodrome Records label. This resulted in the single "Sometimes Like Butterflies" and an appearance on [[Terry Wogan]]'s TV chat show ''[[Wogan]]''. None of Springfield's singles from 1971 to 1986 charted on the UK Top 40 or ''Billboard'' Hot 100.<ref name=everyhit /><ref name=allmusic2 /> |
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Springfield's biographers and journalists have suggested she had two personalities: shy, quiet, Mary O'Brien—and the public face she created in Dusty Springfield. In the 1970s and early 1980s, during a time when her career had slowed down, she succumbed to alcoholism and drug dependency (which she later battled successfully). She was hospitalised several times for self-harming (by cutting herself) and was diagnosed as suffering from manic depression.<ref name=demons/> During this period of psychological and professional instability, Springfield's involvement in some intimate relationships influenced by addiction resulted in episodes of personal injury. An incident in early 1983 led to her brief hospitalisation at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, where she was admitted under her real name and received medical attention from hospital staff who were unaware of who she was. In her early career, much of her odd behaviour was carried out more or less in fun and was treated as such (as, for example, her noted food fights and hurling a box of crockery down a flight of stairs). Springfield had a "wicked" sense of humour and a great love for animals (particularly cats). She was an advocate for several animal-protection groups.<ref name =active/> She enjoyed maps, and would intentionally get lost and navigate her way out.<ref name=secret/> |
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In 1987, she accepted an invitation from [[Pet Shop Boys]] to duet with their lead singer, [[Neil Tennant]], on the single "[[What Have I Done to Deserve This? (song)|What Have I Done to Deserve This?]]".<ref name="Gulla375" /><ref name="AMGPet">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/what-have-i-done-to-deserve-this-mt0004830409 |title='What Have I Done to Deserve This?' – Pet Shop Boys |first=Ned |last=Raggett |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=3 July 2012}}</ref> Tennant cites ''Dusty in Memphis'' as one of his favourite albums, and he leapt at the suggestion of using Springfield's vocals for "What Have I Done To Deserve This?".<ref name="Sweeting">{{cite web |url=http://www.cpinternet.com/~mbayly/article7.htm |title=Lusty Dusty |last=Sweeting |first=Adam |work=The Guardian |publisher=Woman of Repute |date=7 June 1990 |access-date=4 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306144706/http://www.cpinternet.com/~mbayly/article7.htm |archive-date=6 March 2014}}</ref> She also appeared on the promotional video. The single rose to no. 2 on both the US and UK charts.<ref name=everyhit /><ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Feldman |editor-first=Christopher G. |title=The Billboard Book of Number Two Singles |date=1 January 2000 |page=288 |publisher=Billboard Books |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-LgXlQnsDK4C&q=dusty%20springfield&pg=PA213 |isbn=0-8230-7695-4 |access-date=27 August 2010}}</ref> It appeared on the Pet Shop Boys album ''[[Actually (album)|Actually]]'',<ref name="AMGPet" /> and on both artists' greatest-hits collections. Springfield sang lead vocals on the [[Richard Carpenter (musician)|Richard Carpenter]] song "[[Something in Your Eyes (Richard Carpenter song)|Something in Your Eyes]]". "Something in Your Eyes" was featured on Carpenter's first solo album, ''[[Time (Richard Carpenter album)|Time]]'' (October 1987); released as a single, it became a US no. 12 [[Adult contemporary music|adult contemporary]] hit.<ref name="AMGSomething">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/time-mw0000192657/awards |title=''Time'' – Richard Carpenter |publisher=Allmusic. Rovi Corporation |access-date=3 July 2012}}</ref> Springfield recorded a duet with [[B. J. Thomas]], "As Long as We Got Each Other", which was used as the opening theme for the US sitcom ''[[Growing Pains]]'' in season 4 (1988–89). (Thomas had collaborated with [[Jennifer Warnes]] on the original version, which was neither re-recorded with Warnes nor released as a single.) It was issued as a single and reached no. 7 on the Adult Contemporary Singles Chart. In 1988, a new compilation, ''The Silver Collection'', was issued. Springfield returned to the studio with the Pet Shop Boys, who produced her recording of their song "[[Nothing Has Been Proved]]", commissioned for the soundtrack of the 1989 drama film ''[[Scandal (1989 film)|Scandal]]''. Released as a single in February 1989, it gave Springfield her fifteenth UK Top 20 hit.<ref name="everyhit" /> In November its follow-up, the upbeat "[[In Private]]", also written and produced by Pet Shop Boys, peaked at no. 14.<ref name="everyhit" /> |
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The fact that Springfield was never reported to be in a relationship recognised by the public meant that the issue of her being "bisexual" was raised continually throughout her life.<ref name=repute/> In 1970, Springfield told the ''[[Evening Standard]]'':<ref name=repute>{{cite web|url=http://www.cpinternet.com/mbayly/article38.htm|title=The Invention of Dusty Springfield. Woman of Repute site}}</ref> {{cquote|A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it....I know I'm perfectly as capable of being swayed by a girl as by a boy. More and more people feel that way and I don't see why I shouldn't.}} By the standards of 1970, that was a very bold statement.<ref name=repute/> Three years later, she explained to the ''[[Los Angeles Free Press]]'': |
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{{cquote|I mean, people say that I'm gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay. I'm not anything. I'm just ... People are people.... I basically want to be straight.... The catchphrase is: I can't love a man. Now, that's my hang-up. To love, to go to bed, fantastic; but to love a man is my prime ambition.... They frighten me.<ref name=secret/>}} |
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=== 1990s === |
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In the 1970s and 1980s, Springfield became involved in several romantic relationships with women in the U.S. and in Canada that were not kept secret from the gay and lesbian community. Her love affair with singer-musician [[Carole Pope]]<ref name=demons/> of the rock band [[Rough Trade (band)|Rough Trade]] was known within the homosexual community and by music industry insiders.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} |
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Springfield's 1990 album, ''[[Reputation (Dusty Springfield album)|Reputation]]'', was her third UK Top 20 studio album.<ref name=everyhit /> The writing and production credits for half the album, which included the two recent hit singles, went to Pet Shop Boys, while the album's other producers included [[Dan Hartman]]. By 1988 Springfield had left [[California]] and other than when recording tracks for ''Reputation'', she returned to the UK to live. In 1993, she recorded a duet with her former 1960s professional rival and friend, Cilla Black. In October, "Heart and Soul" was released as a single and, in September it had appeared on Black's album, ''[[Through the Years (Cilla Black album)|Through the Years]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cillablack.com/music-heartandsoul-single.htm |title=Cilla Black Discography: 'Heart and Soul' (Duet with Dusty Springfield) – Single |access-date=4 July 2012 |archive-date=18 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218050440/http://www.cillablack.com/music-heartandsoul-single.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Springfield's next album, provisionally titled ''Dusty in Nashville'', was started in 1993 with producer, [[Tom Shapiro]], but was issued as ''[[A Very Fine Love]]'' in June 1995. Though originally intended by Shapiro as a country music album, the track selection by Springfield pushed the album into pop music with an occasional country feel.<ref>O'Brien, pp. 227–229.</ref> |
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The last studio track Springfield recorded was [[George Gershwin|George]] and [[Ira Gershwin]]'s song "[[Someone to Watch Over Me (song)|Someone to Watch Over Me]]"–in London in 1995 for an insurance company TV ad. It was included on ''Simply Dusty'' (2000), an anthology that she had helped plan. Her final live performance was on ''The Christmas with [[Michael Ball (singer)|Michael Ball]]'' special in December 1995.<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020628142523/http://www.michaelball.co.uk/bio/ |url=http://www.michaelball.co.uk/bio/ |title=Biography |publisher=Michael Ball Official Website |archive-date=28 June 2002 |access-date=4 July 2012}}</ref> |
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==Artistry== |
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Influenced by American pop music,<ref name=rolling>{{cite book|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/dusty-springfield/news/artists/8828/64489/64506?method=method.fetch.album&title=Scream&artist=Ozzy+Osbourne&page=1&pagesize=1|chapter=Dusty Springfield|title=The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll|year=2001|publisher=Rolling Stone Press}}</ref> Dusty Springfield created a distinctive [[white soul]] sound.<ref name=observer/><ref name=marcus1>{{cite web|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/dustyspringfield/albums/album/230620/review/5945017/dusty_in_memphis|title=Greil Marcus. Dusty in Memphis. The Rolling Stone magazine site}}</ref> Most responses to her voice emphasise her breathy sensuality.<ref name=britannica/><ref name=topia>{{cite journal|url=https://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/topia/article/viewFile/113/105|journal=Topia. Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies|last=Mitchell|first=Tony|title=Memorializing Dusty Springfield: Millennia, Mourning, Whiteness, |
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Fandom, and the Seductive Voice|volume=6|year=2001|pages=83–97}}</ref> Another powerful feature was the sense of longing, in songs such as "[[I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself]]" and "[[Goin' Back]]".<ref name=topia/><ref name=rnb356/> The uniqueness of Springfield's voice<ref name=rnb356/> was described by [[Burt Bacharach]] when he said: "You could hear just three notes and you knew it was Dusty."<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/295552.stm Entertainment Fans' farewell to Dusty] BBC News site</ref> [[Greil Marcus]] of ''[[Rolling Stone magazine|Rolling Stone]]'' captured Springfield's technique as "a soft, sensual box (voice) that allowed her to combine syllables until they turned into pure cream."<ref name=marcus1/> She had a finely tuned musical ear and extraordinary control of tone.<ref name=rnb356/> She sang in a variety of styles, mostly pop, soul, folk, Latin and rock'n'roll.<ref name=musicianguide/> Being able to wrap her voice around difficult material,<ref name=rnb356>{{cite book|title=Icons of R&B and Soul: An Encyclopedia of the Artists Who Revolutionized Rhythm |page=356|author=Bob Gulla|publisher=Greenwood Icons|year=2008}}</ref> her repertoire included songs that their writers ordinarily would have offered to black vocalists.<ref name=marcus1/> She performed as the only white singer on all-black bills on several occasions in the 1960s.<ref name=musicianguide /> Her soul orientation was so convincing that early in her solo career, U.S. listeners who had only heard her music on radio or records sometimes assumed that Springfield was [[African American]].<ref name=topia/><ref name=randall/> Later, a considerable number of observers have either thought she sounded black and American or made a point of saying she did not.<ref name="cole13">{{cite book|author=Laurense Cole|page=13|title=Dusty Springfield: in the middle of nowhere|publisher=Middlesex University Press|year=2008}}</ref> Springfield constantly used her voice to upend commonly held beliefs on the expression of [[social identity]] through music. She did this by referencing a number of styles and singers, including [[Martha Reeves]], [[Carole King]], [[Aretha Franklin]], [[Peggy Lee]], [[Astrud Gilberto]], [[Mina (singer)|Mina]], and many others.<ref name=queen>Annie Janeiro Randall, {{cite book |url=http://books.google.ee/books?id=D2mCQpLstCkC&pg=PA3&dq=her+iconic+look+and+her+landmark&hl=en&ei=KTBETP-_FuCM4gbjsYmRDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=her%20iconic%20look%20and%20her%20landmark&f=false |title=''Dusty!: Queen of the Postmods'', page 3|publisher=Oxford University Press US, 2009| ISBN=0195329430 |accessdate=2010-07-19 }}</ref> |
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=== Musical style === |
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Springfield implored her white British backup musicians to capture the spirit of the black American musicians and copy their instrumental playing styles.<ref name=musicianguide/><ref name=randall/> In the studio, she was a perfectionist.<ref name="taylor">{{cite journal|journal=Boston Phoenix |
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Influenced by US pop music,<ref name=rolling>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstoneency00holl |url-access=registration |quote=dusty springfield. |chapter=Dusty Springfield |title=The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll |publisher=Touchstone |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-7432-0120-9 |first1=Holly |last1=George-Warren |first2=Patricia |last2=Romanowski |first3=Patricia |last3=Romanowski Bashe |first4=Jon |last4=Pareles}}</ref> Dusty Springfield created a distinctive [[blue-eyed soul]] sound.<ref name="Napier-Bell" /><ref name=marcus1>{{cite magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414080323/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/dustyspringfield/albums/album/230620/review/5945017/dusty_in_memphis |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/dustyspringfield/albums/album/230620/review/5945017/dusty_in_memphis |first=Greil |last=Marcus |title=Dusty Springfield: ''Dusty in Memphis'' |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=1 November 1969 |archive-date=14 April 2009 |url-status=dead |access-date=29 June 2012}}</ref> [[BBC News]] noted "[h]er soulful voice, at once strident and vulnerable, set her apart from her contemporaries... She was equally at home singing [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] standards, blues, country or even techno-pop".<ref name="BBCObit" /> Allmusic's Jason Ankeny described her:{{blockquote|[T]he 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 [her] voice transcended image and fashion, embracing everything from lushly orchestrated pop to gritty R&B to disco with unparalleled sophistication and depth.<ref name=allmusic>{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p5503/biography|pure_url=yes}} |title=Dusty Springfield |last=Ankeny |first=Jason |publisher=Allmusic. Rovi Corporation |access-date=2 July 2012}}</ref>}} |
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| year=1997 | author=Charles Taylor | title=Mission Impossible: The perfectionist rock and soul of Dusty Springfield. }}</ref> The fact that she could neither read nor write music made it hard for her to communicate with her session musicians.<ref name="fyne">{{cite magazine | title=Fyne Times |
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Most responses to her voice emphasise her breathy sensuality.<ref name="britannica" /><ref name=topia>{{cite journal |url=https://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/topia/article/viewFile/113/105 |journal=Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies |last=Mitchell |first=Tony |title=Memorializing Dusty Springfield: Millennia, Mourning, Whiteness, Fandom, and the Seductive Voice |volume=6 |year=2001 |pages=83–97 |format=PDF |access-date=4 July 2012 |doi=10.3138/topia.6.83 |doi-access=|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Another powerful feature was the sense of longing, in songs such as "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" and "Goin' Back".<ref name=topia /><ref name=rnb356 /> The uniqueness of Springfield's voice<ref name=rnb356 /> was described by Bacharach: "You could hear just three notes and you knew it was Dusty".<ref name="BBCFarewell" /> Wexler declared, "[h]er particular hallmark was a haunting sexual vulnerability in her voice, and she may have had the most impeccable intonation of any singer I ever heard".<ref name="Sexton">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.cpinternet.com/~mbayly/tribute6.htm |title=Springfield Remembered |last=Sexton |first=Paul |magazine=Billboard |publisher=Woman of Repute |date=19 March 1999 |access-date=5 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923210852/http://www.cpinternet.com/~mbayly/tribute6.htm |archive-date=23 September 2015}}</ref> Greil Marcus of ''Rolling Stone'' captured Springfield's technique as "a soft, sensual box (voice) that allowed her to combine syllables until they turned into pure cream."<ref name=marcus1 /> She had a finely tuned musical ear and extraordinary control of tone.<ref name=rnb356 /> She sang in a variety of styles, mostly pop, soul, folk, Latin, and rock'n'roll.<ref name=musicianguide /> Being able to wrap her voice around difficult material,<ref name=rnb356>Gulla, p. 356.</ref> her repertoire included songs that their writers ordinarily would have offered to black vocalists.<ref name=marcus1 /> In the 1960s, on several occasions, she performed as the only white singer on all-black bills.<ref name=musicianguide /> Her soul orientation was so convincing that early in her solo career, US listeners who had only heard her music on radio or records sometimes assumed that she was black.<ref name="Randall2005" /><ref name=topia /> Later, a considerable number of critics observed that she sounded black and American or made a point of saying she did not.<ref name="cole13">{{cite book |first=Laurence |last=Cole |page=13 |title=Dusty Springfield: in the Middle of Nowhere |chapter=Chapter Two: White Soul Queen |publisher=Middlesex University Press |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-904750-41-3}}</ref> |
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| year=1999 | author=Michele Kort | pages= Issue 16 }}</ref> During her extensive vocal sessions, she repeatedly recorded short phrases and single words.<ref name=active>{{cite web|url=http://www.activemusician.com/Dusty-Springfield-Biography--t8i936|title=Dusty Springfield. activemusician site}}</ref><ref name=randall>{{cite journal|journal=Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter|year=2005|author=Annie J. Randall|title= Dusty Springfield and the Motown Invasion| volume = 35 | url =http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/isam/NewsletF05/RandallF05.htm}}</ref> She often produced her songs, but did not take credit for doing so.<ref name=liner/> On stage, as the opposite of the character she was in the studio,<ref name=taylor/> Springfield developed a joyful image supported by her peroxide blonde [[beehive (hairstyle)|beehive hairstyle]], [[evening gown]]s, and heavy makeup that included her much-copied "panda eye" mascara.<ref name=britannica/><ref name=randall/><ref name="cole13"/><ref>[http://www.glbtq.com/arts/springfield_d.html Patricia Juliana Smith, "Springfield, Dusty (1939–1999)"]</ref> Springfield borrowed elements of her look from blonde glamour queens of the [[1950s]]—[[Brigitte Bardot]], [[Kim Novak]], [[Monica Vitti]], [[Catherine Deneuve]]—and pasted them together according to her own taste.<ref name=Randall16>{{cite book |author=Annie Janeiro Randall|url=http://books.google.ee/books?id=D2mCQpLstCkC&pg=PA3&dq=her+iconic+look+and+her+landmark&hl=en&ei=KTBETP-_FuCM4gbjsYmRDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=her%20iconic%20look%20and%20her%20landmark&f=false |title=''Dusty!: Queen of the Postmods'', page 16|publisher=Oxford University Press US, 2009, ISBN 0195329430 |accessdate=2010-07-19 }}</ref><ref name=rnb361>{{cite book|title=Icons of R&B and Soul: An Encyclopedia of the Artists Who Revolutionized Rhythm |page=361|author=Bob Gulla|publisher=Greenwood Icons|year=2008}}</ref> Her ultra-glamorous look made her a [[Camp (style)|camp]] icon and this, combined with her emotive vocal performances, won her a powerful and enduring following in the gay community.<ref name=rnb356/><ref>[http://www.glbtq.com/arts/springfield_d.html Springfield, Dusty (1939-1999)] QLBTQ arts</ref> Besides the prototypical female [[drag queen]], she presented herself in the roles of the 'Great White Lady' of pop and soul and the 'Queen of [[Mod (subculture)|Mods]]'.<ref name=smith>{{cite book|year=1999|author=Patricia Juliana Smith|title=The Queer Sixties|chapter="You Don't Have to Say You Love Me": The Camp Masquerades of Dusty Springfield|pp=105–126|publisher=[[Routledge]]|location=London}}</ref><ref name="cole13"/> |
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Springfield consistently used her voice to upend commonly held beliefs on the expression of [[social identity]] through music. She did this by referencing a number of styles and singers, including [[Martha Reeves]], Carole King, Aretha Franklin, Peggy Lee, [[Astrud Gilberto]], and [[Mina (Italian singer)|Mina]].<ref name="Randall3">Randall, (2009), [https://books.google.com/books?id=O4kFsOnFQqMC p. 3].</ref> Springfield instructed UK backup musicians to capture the spirit of US musicians and copy their instrumental playing styles.<ref name=musicianguide /><ref name="Randall2005" /> However, the fact that she could neither read nor write music made it hard to communicate with session musicians.<ref name="Leeson49">Leeson, [https://archive.org/details/dustyspringfield0000lees <!-- quote="read music". --> p. 49].</ref><ref name="fyne">{{cite journal |title=Fyne Times |year=1999 |first=Michele |last=Kort |issue=16}}</ref> In the studio she was a perfectionist.<ref name="taylor">{{cite journal |last=Taylor |first=Charles |date=12 January 1997 |title=Mission Impossible: The Perfectionist Rock and Soul of Dusty Springfield |url=http://weeklywire.com/ww/12-01-97/boston_music_2.html |journal=[[The Phoenix (newspaper)|The Boston Phoenix]] |access-date=29 June 2012 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025519/http://weeklywire.com/ww/12-01-97/boston_music_2.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Despite producing many tracks, she did not take credit for doing so.<ref name=liner /> During extensive vocal sessions, she repeatedly recorded short phrases and single words.<ref name="Randall2005" /> When recording songs, headphones were typically set as high in volume as possible–at a [[decibel]] level "on the threshold of pain".<ref name="mojoref"/> |
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The Philips Record company's studio was slated as "an extremely dead studio", where it felt as though it had turned the treble down: "There was no [[wikt:ambiance|ambience]] and it was like singing in a padded cell. I had to get out of there".<ref name="Mojo" /><ref name="mojoref">{{cite news |work=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |date=May 1999 |issue=66 |title=Real Gone – Dusty Springfield, England's Lady Soul |first=Lucy |last=O'Brien |page=34}}</ref> Springfield wound up recording in the ladies' toilets because of superior [[acoustics]].<ref name="mojoref"/> Another example of refusal to use the studio is "I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten"–recorded at the end of a corridor.<ref name="mojoref"/> |
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== Personal life == |
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Springfield's parents, Catherine and Gerard, lived in [[Hove]], East Sussex from 1962. Catherine died in a nursing home there in 1974 of [[lung cancer]].<ref name="Brighton">{{cite news |title=Dusty Springfield |work=Brighton Ourstory |url=http://www.brightonourstory.co.uk/newsletters/springfield.html |year=2000 |access-date=1 July 2012 |archive-date=21 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021002132/http://www.brightonourstory.co.uk/newsletters/springfield.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1979, Gerard died of a [[heart attack]] in [[Rottingdean]], East Sussex.<ref name="Brighton" /> |
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A recurring theme amongst journalists and Springfield's biographers {{who|date=January 2023}} is that she had two personalities: shy, quiet Mary O'Brien and the public face she had created as Dusty Springfield. An editorial review at ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' of Valentine and Wickham's 2001 biography, ''Dancing with Demons'', finds that "the confidence [Springfield] exuded on vinyl was a façade masking severe insecurities, [[Substance dependence|addictions to drink and drugs]], bouts of [[self-harm]] and fear of losing her career if exposed as a lesbian".<ref name="Cahners">{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Demons-Authorized-Biography-Springfield/dp/product-description/0312304994 |title=''Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography of Dusty Springfield'' – Penny Valentine, Vicki Wickham – Editorial Review – Cahners Business Information, Inc. |website=Amazon |year=2001 |access-date=30 June 2012}}</ref> Simon Bell, one of Springfield's session singers, disputed the twin personality description: "It's very easy to decide there are two people, Mary and Dusty, but they were the one person. Dusty was most definitely Dusty right to the end."<ref name="Randall129">Randall, (2009), [https://books.google.com/books?id=O4kFsOnFQqMC&q=%22two+people%22 p. 129].</ref> In her early career, much of her odd behaviour was seen as more or less in fun, described as a "wicked" sense of humour, including her [[food fight]]s and hurling crockery down stairs. She had a great love for animals, particularly cats, and became an advocate for [[Animal ethics|animal protection groups]]. She enjoyed reading maps and would intentionally get lost to navigate her way out.<ref name="secret" /> In the 1970s and early 1980s, Springfield's alcoholism and drug addiction affected her musical career.<ref name="BBCObit" /> She was hospitalised several times for self-harm and was diagnosed with [[bipolar disorder]].<ref name="demons" /><ref name="Randall128">Randall, (2009), [https://books.google.com/books?id=O4kFsOnFQqMC&q=bipolar p. 128].</ref> |
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Springfield was never reported to be in a [[Heterosexuality|heterosexual]] relationship; it meant the issue of her [[sexual orientation]] was raised frequently during her life.<ref name="repute" /> From mid-1966 to the early 1970s, Springfield lived in a domestic partnership with fellow singer [[Norma Tanega]]. In September 1970, Springfield told [[Ray Connolly]] of the ''[[Evening Standard]]'': |
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{{blockquote|Many other people say I'm bent and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it ... I know I'm perfectly as capable of being swayed by a girl as by a boy. More and more people feel that way and I don't see why I shouldn't.<ref name=repute>{{cite web |url=http://www.cpinternet.com/mbayly/article38.htm |title=The Invention of Dusty Springfield |last=Sweeting |first=Adam |work=The Independent |publisher=Woman of Repute |date=26 March 2006 |access-date=1 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100502064348/http://www.cpinternet.com/mbayly/article38.htm |archive-date=2 May 2010 |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="Connolly">{{cite web |url=http://www.rayconnolly.co.uk/pages/journalism_01/journalism_01_item.asp?journalism_01ID=78 |title=Dusty Springfield |last=Connolly |first=Ray |author-link=Ray Connolly |work=London Evening Standard |date=September 1970 |access-date=1 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004212559/http://www.rayconnolly.co.uk/pages/journalism_01/journalism_01_item.asp?journalism_01ID=78 |archive-date=4 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>}} |
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By the standards of 1970, that was a bold statement.<ref name=repute /> Three years later, she told Chris Van Ness of the ''[[Los Angeles Free Press]]'': |
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{{blockquote|People are people ... I basically want to be straight ... I go from men to women, I don't give a s__. The catchphrase is: I can't love a man. Now, that's my hang-up. To love, to go to bed, fantastic but to love a man is my prime ambition ... They frighten me.<ref name=secret />}} |
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In the 1970s and 1980s, Springfield became involved in several romantic relationships with women in Canada and the United States that were not kept secret from the gay and lesbian community. From 1972 to 1978, she had an "off and on" domestic relationship with Faye Harris, an American photojournalist.<ref name="Gulla372">Gulla, [https://books.google.com/books?id=YNae0zmGow4C&pg=PA364&q=i+only+want+to+be+with+you+phil+spector#v=onepage&q=%22Faye%20Harris} p. 372].</ref> In 1981, Springfield had a six-month relationship with singer-musician [[Carole Pope]] of the rock band [[Rough Trade (band)|Rough Trade]].<ref name="demons" /> During periods of psychological and professional instability, Springfield's involvement in some intimate relationships, influenced by addiction, resulted in episodes of personal injury. She met an American actress, Teda Bracci, at an [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] meeting in 1982 and they moved in together in April 1983. Seven months later they exchanged vows at a wedding ceremony, which was not recognised under California law.<ref name="holics" /> The pair had a "tempestuous" relationship which led to an altercation with both hospitalised. Bracci hit Springfield in the mouth with a saucepan and knocked out her teeth, necessitating plastic surgery.<ref name="Gulla375">Gulla, [https://books.google.com/books?id=pLgqFaYmgw8C&q=Dusty+was+hospitalized&pg=PA376 p. 375].</ref> The pair separated within two years.<ref name="holics">{{cite web |url=https://www.musicoholics.com/backstage-stories/dusty-springfields-untold-story-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-repressed-pop-icon/21.html?br_t=ch |title=Dusty Springfields' Untold Story: The Rise and Fall of a Repressed Pop Icon |website=Musicoholics |date=20 February 2020 |access-date=23 April 2021}}</ref> |
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== Death== |
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In January 1994, while recording her album, ''A Very Fine Love'', in Nashville, Springfield began to feel ill. When she returned to England a few months later, her physicians diagnosed her with [[breast cancer]].<ref name="BBCFarewell">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/295552.stm |title=Fans' Farewell to Dusty |work=BBC News |access-date=29 June 2012 |date=12 March 1999}}</ref> She received months of chemotherapy and radiation treatment, and the cancer was found to be in remission.<ref name=allmusic /> In 1995, in apparent good health, she set about to promote the album, which was released that year.<ref>DeCurtis, Anthony. "Rock & Roll: Dusty Springfield: 1939–1999." ''Rolling Stone'' 15 April 1999: 31–2. ''ProQuest''. Web. 5 October 2015</ref> By mid-1996, the cancer had returned, and despite vigorous treatments, Springfield died on 2 March 1999, aged 59, in [[Henley-on-Thames]], Oxfordshire.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-dusty-springfield-1078196.html |title=Obituary: Dusty Springfield |newspaper=The Independent |date=4 March 1999 |access-date=1 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/04/arts/dusty-springfield-59-pop-star-of-the-60-s-dies.html |title=Dusty Springfield, 59, Pop Star of the 60's, Dies |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=4 March 1999 |author=Holden, Stephen |access-date=1 March 2019}}</ref> |
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Springfield's funeral service was attended by hundreds of fans and people from the music business, including [[Elvis Costello]], [[Lulu (singer)|Lulu]] and the [[Pet Shop Boys]]. It was held at the Anglican St Mary the Virgin church in Henley-on-Thames.<ref name="BBC_3/10/1999">{{cite web | title=Dusty's funeral on Friday | website=[[BBC News]] | date=10 March 1999 | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/294271.stm | access-date=5 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Who we are |url=https://www.oxford.anglican.org/who-we-are/ |website=The Diocese of Oxford |access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Find a church |url=https://www.oxford.anglican.org/acny/henley/627170/henley-on--thames-st-mary-the-virgin |website=The Diocese of Oxford |access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref> A marker dedicated to her memory was placed in the church graveyard.<ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3rd ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 44542). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref> In accordance with Springfield's wishes, she was cremated and some of her ashes were buried at Henley, while the rest were scattered by her brother, [[Tom Springfield]], at the [[Cliffs of Moher]] in [[Ireland]]. |
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==Legacy== |
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She was inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] two weeks after her death. Her friend [[Elton John]] helped induct her into the Hall of Fame declaring, "I'm biased but I just think she was the greatest white singer there ever has been... every song she sang, she claimed as her own."<ref>[http://www.rockonthenet.com/artists-j/eltonjohn_main.htm Elton John] Rock on The Net</ref><ref name="McMahon">{{cite web |url=http://www.cpinternet.com/~mbayly/article26.htm |title=Dusty Joins the Greats of Rock & Roll |last=McMahon |first=Barbara |work=[[London Evening Standard]] |date=16 March 1999 |access-date=1 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923210846/http://www.cpinternet.com/~mbayly/article26.htm |archive-date=23 September 2015}}</ref> |
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Dusty Springfield was one of the best-selling British singers of the 1960s.<ref name=rolling/> She was voted the Top British Female Artist by the readers of the ''[[New Musical Express]]'' in 1964, 1965,<ref name="musicianguide"/> and 1968.<ref name="nme68"/> Of the female singers of the [[British Invasion]], Springfield made one of the biggest impressions on the American market,<ref name=harmony>{{cite book|title= The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, Sixth Edition|publisher= Harmony Books|year= 1988|page= 162}}</ref> scoring 18 singles in the [[Billboard Hot 100]] from 1964 to 1970. The music press considers her as an iconic figure of the [[Swinging Sixties]].<ref name=Randall3>Annie Janeiro Randall, {{cite book |url=http://books.google.ee/books?id=D2mCQpLstCkC&pg=PA3&dq=her+iconic+look+and+her+landmark&hl=en&ei=KTBETP-_FuCM4gbjsYmRDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=her%20iconic%20look%20and%20her%20landmark&f=false |title=''Dusty!: Queen of the Postmods'', page 3|publisher=Oxford University Press US, 2009, ISBN 0195329430 |accessdate=2010-07-19 }}</ref> [[Quentin Tarantino]] caused a revival of interest in her music in 1994 by including "Son of a Preacher Man" in the ''[[Pulp Fiction soundtrack]]'', which sold over three million copies.<ref name=pulp>{{cite web|url=http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=6223|title=Pulp Fiction: 10th Anniversary 2-Disc Collector's Edition (1994). Rob Giles, 2005}}</ref><ref name=martinkelner>{{cite web|author=Martin Kelner|title=Dusty Springfield|url=http://www.martinkelner.com/accidental_heroes/Dusty_Springfield_31.shtml|date=21 November 2001|publisher=MartinKelner.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.xfm.co.uk/article.asp?id=4799|title = Pulp Fiction Soundtrack Expanded|author=Matt Everitt}}</ref> In that same year, in the documentary ''Dusty Springfield. Full Circle'', guests of her 1965 ''Sound of Motown'' show credited Springfield's efforts with popularising American soul music in the UK.<ref>''Dusty Springfield. Full Circle'' Documentary film. Vision Records, 1994</ref> She was known all over Europe, and performed at the [[Sanremo Music Festival]]. She released a number of singles in [[French language|French]], [[German language|German]] and [[Italian language|Italian]]. |
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Of the female singers of the [[British Invasion]], Springfield made one of the biggest impressions on the US market,<ref name="harmony">{{cite book |title=The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock |url=https://archive.org/details/harmonyillustrat00mike |url-access=registration |last=Clifford |first=Mike |edition=6th |publisher=Harmony Books |date=13 November 1988 |page=[https://archive.org/details/harmonyillustrat00mike/page/162 162] |isbn=978-0-517-57164-4}}</ref> scoring 18 singles in the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 from 1964 to 1970 including six in the top 20.<ref name=allmusic2 /><ref name="Randall3" /> [[Quentin Tarantino]] caused a revival of interest in her music in 1994 by including "Son of a Preacher Man" on the ''[[Pulp Fiction (soundtrack)|Pulp Fiction]]'' soundtrack, which sold over three million copies.<ref name=pulp>{{cite web |url=http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=6223 |title=Pulp Fiction: 10th Anniversary 2-Disc Collector's Edition (1994) |first=Rob |last=Giles |date=11 August 2005 |access-date=29 June 2012 |publisher=Michael D's Region 4 DVD (Michael Demtschyna)}}</ref><ref name=martinkelner>{{cite web |first=Martin |last=Kelner |title=Accidental Heroes: Dusty Springfield |url=http://www.martinkelner.com/accidental_heroes/Dusty_Springfield_31.shtml |date=21 November 2001 |publisher=Martin Kelner |access-date=29 June 2012}}</ref> In the same year in the documentary ''Dusty Springfield: Full Circle'', guests of her 1965 ''Sound of Motown'' show credited her efforts with helping to popularise US soul music in the UK.<ref>''Dusty Springfield. Full Circle'' Documentary film. Vision Records, 1994</ref><ref name="FullCircle">{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dusty-Springfield-Full-Circle-VHS-Springfield/dp/B00004SX8K |title=''Dusty Springfield – Full Circle'' [VHS]: Dusty Springfield |last=Sutherland |first=Sam |website=Amazon UK |date=15 May 2000 |access-date=5 July 2012}}</ref> In 2008, country/blues singer-songwriter [[Shelby Lynne]] recorded a tribute album featuring ten of Springfield's songs as well as one original. The album, titled ''[[Just a Little Lovin']]'', featured two tracks selected from Springfield's debut, four from ''Dusty in Memphis'' and four from her back catalogue. Lynne's album received critical acclaim, charted at number 41 on the US Billboard Charts and was nominated for a [[Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical|Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical)]]. |
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Dusty Springfield was a [[camp (style)|camp]] icon.<ref name=britannica/> She is an [[List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees|inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] and the [[UK Music Hall of Fame]]. She was placed among the 25 female rock artists of all time by the readers of ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]'' magazine (1999),<ref name=mojolist>{{cite website|title=Mojo|url= http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/mojo_p3.htm#May|publisher= Rocklist.net}}</ref> editors of ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' magazine (2002),<ref name=q>{{cite web|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlistspage2.html#Women|title=The lists of the Q magazine}}</ref> and a panel of artists by [[VH1]] TV channel (2007).<ref name=VH1>{{cite web|url=http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_greatest/62165/episode_wildcard.jhtml?wildcard=/shows/dynamic/includes/wildcards/the_greatest/women_list_full.jhtml&event_id=862764&start=61|title=100 Women of Rock & Roll. vh1.com site}}</ref> In 2008, Dusty appeared at #35 on the ''[[Rolling Stone]]'''s "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". Various films and stage musicals continue to commemorate her. [[Universal Pictures]] has scheduled a [[biographical film]] to be released in 2011 with [[Kristin Chenoweth]] playing Springfield.<ref>[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/92479-Wickeds-Kristin-Chenoweth-to-Play-Dusty-Springfield-in-New-Biopic Wicked's Kristin Chenoweth to Play Dusty Springfield in New Biopic] Playbill</ref> |
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Springfield was popular in Europe and performed at the [[Sanremo Music Festival]]. Recordings were released in French, German, and Italian. Her French works include a 1964 four-track extended play with "Demain tu peux changer" (also known as "[[Will You Love Me Tomorrow|Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow]]"), "Je ne peux pas t'en vouloir" ("Losing You"), "L'été est fini" ("[[Summer Is Over (Dusty Springfield song)|Summer is Over]]"), and "Reste encore un instant" ("Stay Awhile").<ref name="French">{{cite web |title=Dusty Springfield's French Recordings |publisher=Ready Steady Girls! (Graham Welch) |url=http://www.readysteadygirls.eu/#/dusty-springfield/4522748722}}</ref> German recordings include the July 1964 single, "Warten und hoffen" ("Wishin' and Hopin{{'"}}) backed with "Auf dich nur wart' ich immerzu" ("I Only Want to Be with You").<ref name="German">{{cite web |title=Dusty Springfield's German Recordings |publisher=Ready Steady Girls! (Graham Welch) |url=http://www.readysteadygirls.eu/#/dusty-springfield/4522716847}}</ref> Italian recordings include "Tanto so che poi mi passa" ("Every Day I Have to Cry") issued as a single.<ref name="Italian" /> Her entries at the Sanremo festival were "Tu che ne sai" and "Di fronte all'amore" ("I Will Always Want You").<ref name="Italian">{{cite web |title=Dusty Springfield's Italian Recordings |publisher=Ready Steady Girls! (Graham Welch) |url=http://www.readysteadygirls.eu/#/dusty-springfield/4523960669}}</ref> Springfield is known to have brought many little-known [[Soul music|soul]] singers to the attention of a wider UK record-buying audience. In April 1965, she hosted a special [[Motown Records|Motown]] edition of the hugely popular British TV music series ''[[Ready Steady Go!]]'', featuring the first national TV performances of many top-selling Motown artists.<ref name="queen">Randall, (2009), [https://books.google.com/books?id=O4kFsOnFQqMC p. 51].</ref> Although her music was not directly associated with the British music/dance movement [[northern soul]], her efforts were seen as a contributing factor in the formation of the genre.<ref name="Classic" /> |
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==Discography== |
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Springfield is a cultural icon of the [[Swinging Sixties]], where she "was an instantly recognisable celebrity".<ref name="Welch" /><ref name="BBCObit">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/67646.stm |title=Obituary: Cancer Claims 'White Queen of Soul' |work=BBC News |access-date=2 July 2012 |date=3 March 1999}}</ref> In public and on stage, she developed a joyful image supported by her peroxide-blonde bouffant hairstyle, [[evening gown]]s and heavy make-up that included her much-copied "panda eye" mascara. She borrowed elements of her look from blonde glamour queens such as [[Brigitte Bardot]] and [[Catherine Deneuve]] and pasted them together according to her own taste.<ref name="Randall16">Randall, (2009), [https://books.google.com/books?id=D2mCQpLstCkC&pg=PA3 p. 16].</ref><ref name="rnb361">Gulla, p.361.</ref> By the 1990s, she had become a [[camp (style)|camp]] icon,<ref name="britannica" /> especially with her ultra-glamorous look and this, combined with her emotive vocal performances, won her a powerful and enduring following in the gay community.<ref name="rnb356" /><ref name="Smith" /> Besides being a prototypical female for [[drag queens]], she was presented in the roles of the 'Great White Lady' of pop and soul and the 'Queen of [[Mod (subculture)|Mods]]'.<ref name="cole13" /><ref name="Smith2">{{cite book |year=1999 |first=Patricia Juliana |last=Smith |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4bxltKXsftIC&q=%22Dusty+Springfield%22 |title=The Queer Sixties |chapter='You Don't Have to Say You Love Me': The Camp Masquerades of Dusty Springfield |pages=105–126 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |location=London |isbn=978-0-415-92168-8}}</ref> |
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*1964: ''[[A Girl Called Dusty]]'' |
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*1965: ''[[Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty]]'' |
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*1967: ''[[Where Am I Going?]]'' |
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*1968: ''[[Dusty... Definitely]]'' |
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*1969: ''[[Dusty in Memphis]]'' |
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*1970: ''[[A Brand New Me]]'' |
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*1971: ''[[Faithful (Dusty Springfield album)|Faithful]]'' <small>(Unreleased)</small> |
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*1972: ''[[See All Her Faces]]'' |
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*1973: ''[[Cameo (album)|Cameo]]'' |
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*1974: ''[[Longing (album)|Longing]]'' <small>(Unreleased)</small> |
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*1978: ''[[It Begins Again]]'' |
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*1979: ''[[Living Without Your Love]]'' |
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*1982: ''[[White Heat (album)|White Heat]]'' |
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*1990: ''[[Reputation (album)|Reputation]]'' |
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*1995: ''[[A Very Fine Love]]'' |
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== Awards and tributes == |
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==References== |
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Springfield is an inductee of the US [[List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees|Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] (1999), the [[UK Music Hall of Fame]] (2006), and the [[National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame]] (2023). She was named among the top 25 female artists of all time by readers of ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]'' magazine (May 1999),<ref name=mojolist>{{cite web |title=''Mojo'' Readers Top 100 Singers of All Time |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/mojo_p3.htm#May |publisher=Rock List Music (Julian White) |access-date=30 June 2012}}</ref> editors of ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' magazine (January 2002),<ref name=q>{{cite web |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlistspage2.html#Women |title=''Q'' – 100 Women Who Rock the World – Rock List Music (Julian White) |access-date=30 June 2012}}</ref> and a panel of artists on [[VH1]] TV channel (August 2007).<ref name=VH1>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106212320/http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_greatest/62165/episode_wildcard.jhtml?wildcard=%2Fshows%2Fdynamic%2Fincludes%2Fwildcards%2Fthe_greatest%2Fwomen_list_full.jhtml&event_id=862764&start=61 |url=http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_greatest/62165/episode_wildcard.jhtml?wildcard=/shows/dynamic/includes/wildcards/the_greatest/women_list_full.jhtml&event_id=862764&start=61 |title=100 Women of Rock & Roll (40–21) |publisher=[[VH1]] |date=8 August 2007 |archive-date=6 January 2009 |access-date=30 June 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2008, she appeared at No. 35 on the ''Rolling Stone''{{'}}s "100 Greatest Singers of All Time".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-singers-of-all-time-147019/dusty-springfield-222356/|title=100 Greatest Singers of All Time (2008)|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=3 December 2010|access-date=14 September 2023}}</ref> In the 1960s she topped a number of popularity polls, including ''[[Melody Maker]]''{{'}}s Best International Vocalist for 1966; in 1965 she was the first British singer to top the ''New Musical Express'' readers' polls for Female Singer topping that poll again in 1966, 1967, and 1969 as well as getting the most votes in the British Singer category from 1964 to 1966.<ref name=Classic>O'Brien, pp. 93–100.</ref><ref name="www.rocklistmusic.co.uk" /> Her album ''Dusty in Memphis'' has been listed among the greatest albums of all time by ''Rolling Stone'' and in polls by [[VH1]] artists, ''New Musical Express'' readers, and the [[Channel 4]] viewers;<ref name=bestever /> in 2001 she received the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]] award.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/b896aa8c-2761-40ce-b485-0e1fffd26167 |title=BBC – Music – Dusty Springfield |work=bbc.co.uk |access-date=27 September 2010}}</ref> |
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In March 1999, Springfield was scheduled to receive her award at [[Buckingham Palace]] as an officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]], given for "services to popular music".<ref name=obe /> Due to the recurrence of the singer's breast cancer, officials of Queen [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]] gave permission for the medal to be collected earlier in January, by Wickham and it was presented to Springfield in hospital with a small group of friends and relatives attending. She died on the day that she would otherwise have collected her award from the Palace.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dusty dies on her Royal day |url=http://www.cpinternet.com/~mbayly/passing1.htm |date=3 March 1999 |access-date=5 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214070201/http://www.cpinternet.com/~mbayly/passing1.htm |archive-date=14 February 2015}}</ref> Various films and stage musicals have been created or proposed to commemorate her life. On 12 January 2006 an Australian stage musical, ''[[Dusty – The Original Pop Diva]]'', received its world premiere at the State Theatre of the [[Arts Centre Melbourne|Victorian Arts Centre]] in Melbourne. In May 2008, actress [[Nicole Kidman]] was announced as the star and producer of a biographical film,<ref name="Tribute" /> but in July 2012 it had yet to surface. Another reported candidate for a role as Springfield was [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] in a TV film project.<ref name="Tribute">{{cite news |url=https://www.nme.com/news/dusty-springfield/36375 |title=Nicole Kidman set to play Dusty Springfield |work=[[NME]] |publisher=[[IPC Media]] ([[Time Inc.]]) |date=2 May 2008 |access-date=30 June 2012}}</ref> [[Universal Pictures]] scheduled a biopic with [[Kristin Chenoweth]] in the starring role.<ref name="Tribute" /><ref>[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/92479-Wickeds-Kristin-Chenoweth-to-Play-Dusty-Springfield-in-New-Biopic Wicked's Kristin Chenoweth to Play Dusty Springfield in New Biopic] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100122045346/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/92479-Wickeds-Kristin-Chenoweth-to-Play-Dusty-Springfield-in-New-Biopic |date=22 January 2010}} Playbill</ref> However, according to Chenoweth in January 2012, the project's status was in limbo and the "script… needed a lot of work".<ref name="Biopic">{{cite web |url=http://www.afterellen.com/TV/kerry-washington-talks-scandal-she-hate-me-and-that-dusty-springfield-biopic |title=Kerry Washington Talks ''Scandal'', ''She Hate Me'' and That Dusty Springfield Biopic |last=Bendix |first=Trish |publisher=[[AfterEllen#AfterEllen.com|AfterEllen]] |date=26 January 2012 |access-date=30 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120625104823/http://www.afterellen.com/TV/kerry-washington-talks-scandal-she-hate-me-and-that-dusty-springfield-biopic |archive-date=25 June 2012}}</ref> |
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*[[Penny Valentine]] and [[Vicki Wickham]]. ''Dancing with Demons: The Authorised Biography of Dusty Springfield''. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, August 2000, ISBN 0340766735 |
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In 1970, US jazz singer-pianist [[Blossom Dearie]] recorded a tribute song, "Dusty Springfield", on her album ''[[That's Just the Way I Want to Be]]''–it was co-written by Dearie, Tanega (Springfield's then-partner), and Jim Council.<ref name="APRADusty">{{cite web | publisher = Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | title = 'Dusty Springfield' at APRA search engine | url = http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=Dusty%20Springfield | access-date =30 June 2012 }}</ref> UK singer-songwriter [[David Westlake]] on his 2002 release, ''[[Play Dusty for Me]]'', "fêted [Springfield] in both the album title and opening title track".<ref name="Rabid">{{cite web |url=http://www.bigtakeover.com/recordings/david-westlake-play-dusty-for-me-angular/ |title=David Westlake – ''Play Dusty for Me'' (Angular) |last=Rabid |first=Jack |work=The Big Takeover |publisher=Jack Rabid |date= 17 January 2011 |access-date=5 July 2012 }}</ref> US singer-songwriter [[Shelby Lynne]]'s tenth studio album, ''[[Just a Little Lovin' (Shelby Lynne album)|Just a Little Lovin'<nowiki/>]]'' (2008), was issued as a tribute.<ref name="JustLittle">{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Just-Little-Lovin-Shelby-Lynne/dp/B000ZK53CA |title=''Just a Little Lovin{{'}}'': Shelby Lynne |last=Heege |first=Ben |website=Amazon |access-date=5 July 2012}}</ref> In 2012, a biographical [[jukebox musical]] titled ''[[Forever Dusty]]'' opened [[Off-Broadway]] in New York City at [[New World Stages]]. The production starred [[Kirsten Holly Smith]] as Springfield; Smith also co-wrote the book of the musical.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.out.com/entertainment/popnography/2012/12/19/forever-dusty-kirsten-holly-smith-christina-sajous |title=Catching Up With Kirsten Holly Smith for 'Forever Dusty' |date=11 December 2012 |access-date=5 January 2013}}</ref> In 2015, Springfield was named by Equality Forum as being one of their 31 Icons of the 2015 [[LGBT History Month]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Malcolm Lazin |url=http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/08/20/op-ed-here-are-31-icons-2015s-gay-history-month |title=Op-ed: Here Are the 31 Icons of 2015's Gay History Month |publisher=Advocate.com |date=20 August 2015 |access-date=21 August 2015}}</ref> On 8 November 2022, she was honoured with a [[Google Doodle]] to celebrate her life and career.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Celebrating Dusty Springfield |url=https://doodles.google/doodle/celebrating-dusty-springfield/ |website=Google| access-date=7 November 2022}}</ref> |
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*Annie J. Randall, associate professor of musicology at [[Bucknell University]]. ''Dusty! Queen of the Postmods''. [[Oxford University Press]] 17 November 2008 p. 240 ISBN 9780195329438 |
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== Discography == |
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* ''[[A Girl Called Dusty]]'' (1964) |
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* ''[[Stay Awhile/I Only Want To Be With You]]'' (1964) |
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* ''[[Dusty (Dusty Springfield album)]]'' (1964) |
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* ''[[Ooooooweeee!!!]] (1965) |
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* ''[[Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty]]'' (1965) |
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* ''[[You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (album)]]'' (1966) |
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* ''[[Where Am I Going?]]'' (1967) |
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* ''[[The Look of Love (Dusty Springfield album)|The Look Of Love (album)]]'' (1967) |
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* ''[[Dusty... Definitely]]'' (1968) |
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* ''[[Dusty in Memphis]]'' (1969) |
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* ''[[A Brand New Me (Dusty Springfield album)|A Brand New Me]]'' (1970) |
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* ''[[See All Her Faces]]'' (1972) |
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* ''[[Cameo (album)|Cameo]]'' (1973) |
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* ''[[It Begins Again]]'' (1978) |
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* ''[[Living Without Your Love]]'' (1979) |
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* ''[[White Heat (Dusty Springfield album)|White Heat]]'' (1982) |
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* ''[[Reputation (Dusty Springfield album)|Reputation]]'' (1990) |
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* ''[[A Very Fine Love]]'' (1995) |
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* ''[[Faithful (Dusty Springfield album)|Faithful]]'' (2015, recorded in 1971) |
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* ''[[Longing (Dusty Springfield album)]]'' (Unreleased, recorded in 1974) |
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== Filmography == |
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Springfield was the presenter or host of several TV musical series: |
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| 1965 |
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| ''The Sound of Motown'' |
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| Special episode of ''[[Ready Steady Go!]]''<ref name=queen /> |
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| 1966–67 |
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| ''Dusty'' |
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| Two seasons each of six weekly parts<ref name="Bell" /><ref name="Saul">{{cite web |url=http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/dusty.htm |title=Dusty |last=Saul |first=Marc |publisher=Television Heaven |access-date=2 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120919235140/http://televisionheaven.co.uk/dusty.htm |archive-date=19 September 2012}}</ref> |
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| 1968 |
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| ''It Must Be Dusty'' |
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| Eight regular weekly episodes and followed by a Christmas special, ''All Kinds of Music''<ref name="Bell" /> |
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| 1969 |
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| ''Decidedly Dusty'' |
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| Eight weekly episodes<ref name="Bell" /> |
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=== UK TV Series === |
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==== ''Dusty'' – Series 1 (1966) ==== |
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Produced by [[Stanley Dorfman]]. Musical director: [[Johnny Pearson]]. Broadcast Thursdays on [[BBC1]] at 9:00 pm (Except Episode 4 at 9:05 pm) |
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|Aux2=[[Madeline Bell]], [[Lesley Duncan]] and [[The Ladybirds|Maggie Stredder]] |
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|Aux1=The [[Dudley Moore]] Trio with Chris Karan on drums and Pete McGurk on bass |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1966|8|18|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/fd07f6996b3b4c72a7db8ea3024d8791 |title=Dusty |date=18 August 1966 |issue=2231 |pages=43 |via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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}} |
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|EpisodeNumber=2 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=2 |
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|Aux2=Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan and Maggie Stredder |
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|Aux1=[[Milt Kamen]] |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1966|8|25|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2dbb803bcb3b44a783e75c65a5df4a03 |title=Dusty |date=25 August 1966 |issue=2232 |pages=43 |via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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}} |
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{{Episode List |
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|LineColor=CED343 |
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|EpisodeNumber=3 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=3 |
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|Aux2=Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan and Maggie Stredder |
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|Aux1=[[Woody Allen]] |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1966|9|1|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1c86e9650ddc4e579a7705ed224283f1 |title=Dusty |date=1 September 1966 |issue=2233 |pages=43 |via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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}} |
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{{Episode List |
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|LineColor=CED343 |
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|EpisodeNumber=4 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=4 |
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|Aux2=Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan and [[Barbara Moore (composer)|Barbara Moore]] |
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|Aux1=[[The Four Freshmen]] |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1966|9|8|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/815213b04bea40999a82766f455da717 |title=Dusty |date=8 September 1966 |issue=2234 |pages=47 |via=BBC Genome}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0494595/fullcredits |title=Dusty (TV Series 1966–1967) – Full Cast & Crew|website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref> |
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}} |
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{{Episode List |
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|EpisodeNumber=5 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=5 |
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|Aux2=Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan and Barbara Moore |
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|Aux1=[[Peter Cook]] |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1966|9|15|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/896bf0c547794bc5bc89454f330a4b26 |title=Dusty |date=15 September 1966 |issue=2235 |pages=47 |via=BBC Genome}}</ref><ref name="auto"/> |
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}} |
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{{Episode List |
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|EpisodeNumber=6 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=6 |
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|Aux2=Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan and Maggie Stredder |
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|Aux1=[[Señor Wences]] |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1966|9|22|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d44cd35a9b984bb7bc3271f6850ba6aa |title=Dusty |date=22 September 1966 |issue=2236 |pages=51 |via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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==== ''Dusty'' – Series 2 (1967) ==== |
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Produced by [[Stanley Dorfman]]. Backing vocals: Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan and Maggie Stredder. Musical director: [[Johnny Pearson]]. Broadcast Tuesdays on BBC1 at 9:05 pm |
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|EpisodeNumber=7 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=1 |
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|Aux1=[[Warren Mitchell]] and [[Ken Campbell]] |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|8|15|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3f54a98b896f4258804e9fe81d06d446 |title=Dusty |date=15 August 1967 |issue=2283 |pages=25 |via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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}} |
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{{Episode List |
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|LineColor=CED343 |
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|EpisodeNumber=8 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=2 |
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|Aux1=[[Mel Tormé]] |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|8|22|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/46d762e967794e289ac122d0a4cb942b |title=Dusty |date=22 August 1967 |issue=2284 |pages=25 |via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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}} |
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{{Episode List |
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|LineColor=CED343 |
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|EpisodeNumber=9 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=3 |
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|Aux1=[[Jose Feliciano]] |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|8|29|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/aee3447085aa424181831340459562db |title=Dusty |date=29 August 1967 |issue=2285 |pages=27 |via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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}} |
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{{Episode List |
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|LineColor=CED343 |
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|EpisodeNumber=10 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=4 |
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|Aux1=[[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]] |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|9|5|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d13ac31bcf584aee92f71eb5f9f085e7 |title=Dusty |date=5 September 1967 |issue=2286 |pages=27 |via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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}} |
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{{Episode List |
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|LineColor=CED343 |
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|EpisodeNumber=11 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=5 |
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|Aux1=[[Los Machucambos]] |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|9|12|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e80b6c93e8ea46cd8ea8a7c88b99b555 |title=Dusty |date=12 September 1967 |issue=2287 |pages=35 |via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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}} |
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{{Episode List |
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|LineColor=CED343 |
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|EpisodeNumber=12 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=6 |
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|Aux1=[[Scott Walker (singer)|Scott Walker]] |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1967|9|19|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f8bee194970b4ec49535f820e299e62f |title=Dusty |date=19 September 1967 |issue=2288 |pages=38 |via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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}} |
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==== ''It Must Be Dusty'' – Series 1 (1968) ==== |
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Produced by [[Associated Television|ATV]]. Broadcast on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]. Producer Colin Clews. |
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|EpisodeNumber=1 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=1 |
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|Aux1= Scott Walker |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|5|10|df=y}} |
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|ShortSummary= |
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{{Episode list |
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|LineColor=B30D0F |
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|EpisodeNumber=2 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=2 |
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|Aux1=Mark Murphy. Esther & Abi Ofarim were billed to appear, but were not in the broadcast. |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|5|17|df=y}} |
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|ShortSummary= |
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}} |
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{{Episode list |
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|EpisodeNumber=3 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=3 |
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|Aux1=Donovan |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|5|24|df=y}} |
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|ShortSummary= |
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}} |
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|EpisodeNumber=4 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=4 |
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|Aux1=Georgie Fame |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|5|31|df=y}} |
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|ShortSummary= Postponed until Monday 24 June by London ITV station Rediffusion. |
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}} |
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|EpisodeNumber=5 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=5 |
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|Aux1=Tom Springfield & Julie Felix |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|6|7|df=y}} |
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|ShortSummary= |
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|EpisodeNumber=6 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=6 |
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|Aux1=The Jimi Hendrix Experience |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|6|14|df=y}} |
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|ShortSummary= |
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|EpisodeNumber=7 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=7 |
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|Aux1=Manfred Mann |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|6|21|df=y}} |
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|ShortSummary= |
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==== Show of the Week: ''Dusty at [[Hippodrome, London|The Talk of the Town]]'' ==== |
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|EpisodeNumber2=1 |
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|Title=Dusty at the Talk of the Town<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9201b12c34cd4072bb7b16ca5e24cb3b|title=Show of the Week presenting: Dusty at The Talk of the Town|date=15 September 1968|issue=2340|pages=15|via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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|WrittenBy= |
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|DirectedBy=Stanley Dorfman |
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|OriginalAirDate=Sunday {{Start date|1968|9|15|df=y}} at 7:25 pm on [[BBC2]] |
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|ShortSummary=Dusty Springfield returns to the scene of her recent cabaret triumph. Orchestra directed by Johnny Pearson. Vocal backing: Lesley Duncan, Kay Garner & Sue Weetman. Choreography by Tommy Tucker. |
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==== Christmas Special ==== |
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|EpisodeNumber=-- |
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|EpisodeNumber2=1 |
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|Title=All Kinds Of Music |
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|DirectedBy= |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1968|12|25|df=y}} ITV |
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|ShortSummary=Dusty's Christmas Special with guests Trio Athénée, The Tremeloes, Malcolm Roberts, Kiki Dee, [[The Spinners (American group)|The Spinners]], David Snell and Des Ryan. Produced by ATV for ITV. Broadcast 2:00 - 3:00 pm |
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==== ''Decidedly Dusty'' – Series 1 (1969) ==== |
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Produced by [[Mel Cornish]]. Introduced by [[Valentine Dyall]]. Dancers: Cassandra Mahon & Peter Newton. Choreographer: [[Pan's People|Ruth Pearson]]. Vocal backing: [[The Ladybirds|Kay Garner]], Lesley Duncan & Madeline Bell. Musical associate: Larry Ashmore. Musical Director: Johnny Pearson. Broadcast Tuesdays on BBC1 at 7:30 pm |
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|EpisodeNumber=13 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=1 |
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|WrittenBy=Joe Steeples & [[Spike Mullins]] |
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|Aux1=[[Spike Milligan]] |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|9|9|df=y}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f58d9595d51a47a48b8c16efc95c491f|title=Decidedly Dusty|date=9 September 1969|issue=2391|pages=32|via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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}} |
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{{Episode List |
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|LineColor=F781D8 |
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|EpisodeNumber=14 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=2 |
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|WrittenBy=Joe Steeples & Spike Mullins |
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|Aux1=[[Jimmy Ruffin]] |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|9|16|df=y}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/5a44f4c789e1447d8820a0bcbedf6e9a|title=Decidedly Dusty|date=16 September 1969|issue=2392|pages=32|via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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}} |
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{{Episode List |
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|LineColor=F781D8 |
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|EpisodeNumber=15 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=3 |
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|WrittenBy=Joe Steeples & Spike Mullins |
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|Aux1=[[Danny La Rue]] |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|9|23|df=y}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/755952f2d55146df978cadf1490ce59e|title=Decidedly Dusty|date=23 September 1969|issue=2393|pages=31|via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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}} |
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{{Episode List |
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|LineColor=F781D8 |
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|EpisodeNumber=16 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=4 |
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|WrittenBy=Joe Steeples & Spike Mullins |
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|Aux1=[[The Bee Gees]] |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|9|30|df=y}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a44e96c8e47d44b783a97b001d318624|title=Decidedly Dusty|date=30 September 1969|issue=2394|pages=33|via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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}} |
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{{Episode List |
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|LineColor=F781D8 |
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|EpisodeNumber=17 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=5 |
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|WrittenBy=Joe Steeples & Spike Mullins |
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|Aux1=Dr. Murray Banks |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|10|7|df=y}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9d6954c4cbd34e97ae47df86b9cafb69|title=Decidedly Dusty|date=7 October 1969|issue=2395|pages=37|via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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}} |
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{{Episode List |
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|LineColor=F781D8 |
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|EpisodeNumber=18 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=6 |
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|WrittenBy=Joe Steeples & Spike Mullins |
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|Aux1=[[Frida Boccara]] & [[Percy Edwards]] |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|10|14|df=y}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8ca2787a86964d3d86bd8f3979f9e370|title=Decidedly Dusty|date=21 October 1969|issue=2397|pages=39|via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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}} |
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{{Episode List |
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|LineColor=F781D8 |
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|EpisodeNumber=19 |
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|EpisodeNumber2=7 |
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|WrittenBy=Joe Steeples & Spike Mullins |
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|Aux1=[[Shari Lewis]] |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1969|10|21|df=y}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/6abd36864683453d9240341ec29e4a6e|title=Decidedly Dusty|date=28 October 1969|issue=2398|pages=37|via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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=== TV Specials === |
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|EpisodeNumber2=1 |
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|Title=Music My Way |
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|DirectedBy=Colin Charman |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1973|7|18|df=y}} BBC1 |
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|ShortSummary=The first in a series of eight shows starring singers from Britain and the Continent. Tonight Dusty Springfield gives a concert performance featuring some of her biggest hits. Musical direction Johnny Pearson.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/6fd3d60b979a4539bff9a6f9b3144a0b|title=Music My Way|date=18 July 1973|issue=2592|pages=35|via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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}} |
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|EpisodeNumber=-- |
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|EpisodeNumber2=1 |
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|Title=Dusty |
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|DirectedBy=Roger Pomphrey |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1994|5|2|df=y}} BBC1 |
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|ShortSummary=In this film biography of Dusty Springfield, she is interviewed – and frequently interrupted – by [[Dawn French]] and [[Jennifer Saunders]], but she still manages to talk about her life and her music.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a8820bf602a949c9a7ccc04bdbf827e5|title=Dusty|date=2 May 1994|issue=3668|pages=70|via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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}} |
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|EpisodeNumber=-- |
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|EpisodeNumber2=1 |
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|Title=Definitely Dusty |
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|DirectedBy=Serena Cross |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1999|12|26|df=y}} BBC2 |
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|ShortSummary=Documentary charting the career of diva Dusty Springfield, who died in March, from Catholic schoolgirl to superstar.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9e59e75261a74a79b9dc7c7cd20ce254|title=Definitely Dusty|date=26 December 1999|issue=3957|pages=134|via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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|EpisodeNumber2=1 |
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|Title=Dusty Springfield's Rock Shrine |
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|DirectedBy= |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2000|10|15|df=y}} BBC Choice |
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|ShortSummary=Repeated multiple times on BBC Choice and BBC Three.<ref name="genome.ch.bbc.co.uk">{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/638d46824a9349d79710ec337be47ce7|title=Dusty Springfield's Rock Shrine|date=15 August 2000|issue=3990|pages=82|via=BBC Genome}}</ref> |
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|EpisodeNumber=-- |
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|EpisodeNumber2=1 |
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|Title=Celebrity Relics: Dusty Springfield's Dresses |
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|DirectedBy= |
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2001|6|7|df=y}} BBC Choice |
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|ShortSummary=Repeated multiple times on BBC Choice and BBC Three.<ref name="genome.ch.bbc.co.uk"/> |
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== References == |
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===Notes=== |
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<li id="noteFoot01a" |
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>'''[[#nbFoot01a|^]]''' Different sources use either Isobel or Isabel as the spelling of her second name. For Isobel see Gulla, here.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YNae0zmGow4C&q=Isobel |title=Icons of R&B and Soul: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles; The Temptations ... – Bob Gulla – Google Boeken |access-date=10 August 2012|isbn=9780313340468 |last1=Gulla |first1=Bob |year=2008 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing }}</ref> For Isabel see [[Encyclopædia Britannica#Optical disc, online, and mobile versions|Britannica Online Encyclopedia]].<ref name="britannica">{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/561395/Dusty-Springfield |title=Dusty Springfield (British singer) |last=Silverton |first=Peter |publisher=[[Encyclopædia Britannica#Optical disc, online, and mobile versions|Britannica Online Encyclopedia]] ([[Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.]]) |access-date=29 June 2012 }}</ref> |
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>'''[[#nbFoot02a|^]]''' |
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* For blonde beehive hair-dos and "Panda" eye make-up, see Welch.<ref name="Welch" /> |
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* For peroxide hair and heavy make-up, see Silverton.<ref name="britannica" /> |
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* For public and on-stage image, see Cole.<ref name="cole13" /> |
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* For hairstyle and eye make-up described as "blonde bouffant and thick black Cleopatra eyeliner", see Taylor.<ref name=taylor /> |
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* For image, hairstyle and make-up, see Smith.<ref name="Smith">{{cite web |url=http://www.glbtq.com/arts/springfield_d.html |first=Patricia Juliana |last=Smith |title=Springfield, Dusty (1939–1999) |publisher=An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture |year=2002 |access-date=30 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715000630/http://www.glbtq.com/arts/springfield_d.html |archive-date=15 July 2012 }}</ref> |
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===Specific=== |
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* {{cite book |title=Dusty Springfield: A Life in Music |last=Leeson |first=Edward |publisher=[[Anova Books|Robson Books]] |location=Michigan |isbn=978-1-86105-343-5 |date=1 May 2001 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/dustyspringfield0000lees }} |
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* {{cite book |first=Lucy |last=O'Brien |title=Dusty: A Biography of Dusty Springfield |publisher=[[Sidgwick & Jackson]] |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-330-39343-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/dustybiographyof00obri }} |
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* {{cite journal |quote=Springfield acquired the title 'White Queen of Soul' as a result of her many hit cover versions of songs by African American artists such as [[the Shirelles]], [[Inez and Charlie Foxx]], and [[Baby Washington]] |journal=Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter |publisher=Conservatory of Music, [[Brooklyn College]], [[City University of New York]] (CUNY) |date=Fall 2005 |last=Randall |first=Annie Janeiro |title=Dusty Springfield and the Motown Invasion |volume=35 |url=http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/isam/NewsletF05/RandallF05.htm |access-date=27 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120625073452/http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/isam/NewsletF05/RandallF05.htm |archive-date=25 June 2012 }}. |
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* {{cite book |first=Annie Janeiro |last=Randall |title=Dusty! Queen of the Postmods |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=New York |year=2009 | isbn = 978-0-19-532943-8 }} |
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* Cole, Laurence (2008). ''Dusty Springfield in the middle of nowhere''. Middlesex University Press. ISBN 978-1- 904750413 |
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* [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6023649.ece The legacy of Dusty Springfield] By Bob Stanley for [[The Times]] 3 April 2009 |
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Born | Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien 16 April 1939 London, England |
Died | 2 March 1999 Henley-on-Thames, England | (aged 59)
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Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE[2] (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), better known by her stage name Dusty Springfield, was an English singer. With her distinctive mezzo-soprano sound, she was a popular singer of blue-eyed soul, pop and dramatic ballads, with French chanson, country, and jazz in her repertoire. During her 1960s peak, she ranked among the most successful British female performers on both sides of the Atlantic. Her image–marked by a peroxide blonde bouffant/beehive hairstyle, heavy makeup (thick black eyeliner and eye shadow) and evening gowns, as well as stylised, gestural performances–made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties.[3]
Born in West Hampstead in London into a family that enjoyed music, Springfield learned to sing at home. In 1958, she joined her first professional group, the Lana Sisters. Two years later, with her brother Dion O'Brien ("Tom Springfield") and Tim Feild, she formed the folk-pop vocal trio the Springfields. Two of their five 1961–63 Top 40 UK hits – "Island of Dreams" and "Say I Won't Be There"–reached no. 5 on the charts, both in the spring of 1963. In 1962, they also hit big in the United States with their cover of "Silver Threads and Golden Needles". Her solo career began in late 1963 with the upbeat pop record "I Only Want to Be with You"—a UK no. 4 hit, and the first of her six transatlantic Top 40 hits in the 1960s, along with "Stay Awhile" (1964), "All I See Is You" (1966), "I'll Try Anything" (1967), and two releases which are now considered her signature songs: "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (1966 UK no. 1/US no. 4) and "Son of a Preacher Man" (1968/69 UK no. 9/US no. 10). The latter is featured on the 1968 pop and soul album Dusty in Memphis, one of Springfield's defining works. In March 2020, the US Library of Congress added the album to the National Recording Registry, which preserves audio recordings considered to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Between 1964 and 1969 Springfield hit big in her native Britain with several singles which in America either failed to chart or were not released, among them "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" (the biggest of her many Bacharach/David covers), "In the Middle of Nowhere", "Some of Your Lovin'", "Goin' Back", and "I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten". Conversely, she charted in the US (but not in the UK) with hits including "Wishin' and Hopin'", "The Look of Love", and "The Windmills of Your Mind". From 1971 to 1986, she failed to register a hit from five album releases (aside from a minor 1979 UK chart appearance), but her 1987 collaboration with UK synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, "What Have I Done to Deserve This?", took her back near the top of the charts, reaching no. 2 on both the UK Singles Chart and Billboard Hot 100. The collaboration yielded two 1989 UK top 20 hits: "Nothing Has Been Proved" and "In Private". In 1990, Springfield charted with "Reputation"–the last of 25 UK Top 40 hits in which she features.
A fixture on British television, Springfield presented many episodes of the hip 1963–66 British TV music series Ready Steady Go! and, between 1966 and '69, hosted her own series on the BBC and ITV. In 1966, she topped the popularity polls, including Melody Maker's Best International Vocalist,[4] and was the first UK singer to top the New Musical Express readers' poll for Female Singer. She is part of the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and the UK Music Hall of Fame. International polls have lauded Springfield saying she is considered to have been one of the finest female popular singers of all time.
Early life
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Springfield was born Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien on 16 April 1939 in West Hampstead,[5] the second child of Gerard Anthony 'OB' O'Brien (1904–1979) and Catherine Anne 'Kay' O'Brien (née Ryle; 1900–1974), both Irish immigrants.[6] Springfield's elder brother, Dionysius Patrick O'Brien (2 July 1934 – 27 July 2022) was later known as Tom Springfield.[7] Her father grew up in British India and worked as a tax accountant and consultant.[8] Her mother came from an Irish family originally from Tralee, County Kerry, that included a number of journalists.[9]
Dusty Springfield grew up in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire living there until the early 1950s and later in Ealing in West London.[8] She attended St Anne's Convent School in Northfields, a traditional all-girl school in London. The comfortable middle-class upbringing was disturbed by dysfunctional tendencies in the family: her father's perfectionism and her mother's frustrations sometimes resulted in food-throwing incidents.[10] Springfield and her brother were both prone to food-throwing as adults.[8] She was given the nickname "Dusty" because she played football with boys in the street; she was described as being a tomboy.[11]
Springfield grew up in a music-loving family. Her father tapped out rhythms on the back of her hand and encouraged her to guess which musical piece had the beat.[12] She listened to a wide range of music including George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Glenn Miller.[12][13][14] A fan of American jazz and the vocalists Peggy Lee and Jo Stafford, she wished to sound like them. At age 12 she recorded herself performing the Irving Berlin song "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabama" at a record shop in Ealing.[12][13][14]
Career
[edit]1958–1963: Career beginnings
[edit]After leaving school, Springfield sang with Tom, her brother, in local folk clubs.[15] In 1957, the pair worked together at holiday camps.[15] The next year, Springfield responded to an advertisement in The Stage to join The Lana Sisters, an "established sister act", with Iris 'Riss' Long (also known as Riss Lana, Riss Chantelle) and Lynne Abrams (a.k.a. Lynne Lana), who were not actually sisters.[16] Dusty adopted the stage name "Shann Lana" and "cut her hair, lost the glasses, experimented with makeup, (and) fashion" becoming one of the 'sisters'.[17]
As a member of the pop vocal trio, Dusty Springfield developed skills in harmonizing and microphone technique; she recorded, performed on television, and played at live shows in the United Kingdom and at United States Air Force bases in continental Europe.[14][16] In 1960, she left the Lana Sisters and formed a folk-pop trio, The Springfields, with Tom and Reshad Feild (both had been in The Kensington Squares), the latter of whom Mike Hurst replaced in 1962. The trio chose their name while rehearsing in a field in Somerset in the springtime and took the stage names Dusty, Tom, and Tim Springfield.[18] Intending to make an authentic US album, the group travelled to Nashville to record Folk Songs from the Hills. The music Springfield heard during their visit–but particularly the Exciters' "Tell Him", while in New York City–influenced her shift from folk and country towards pop rooted in rhythm and blues.[18] The band was voted the Top British Vocal Group in a New Musical Express poll in 1961 and 1962,[19] although their two biggest hits were in 1963: "Island of Dreams" and "Say I Won't Be There", both peaking at number five within five weeks of each other. The group appeared on the hip ITV music series Ready Steady Go!, which Springfield often presented in the earlier days of its run.[20]
Dusty left the band after their final concert in October 1963.[18] After the break-up of the Springfields, Tom continued songwriting and producing for other artists, notably Australian folk-pop group The Seekers, producing, writing, and/or co-writing their four defining mid-1960s hits "I'll Never Find Another You", "A World of Our Own", "The Carnival is Over", and "Georgy Girl". He also wrote additional songs for Dusty–most famously her 1964 UK hit "Losing You", with Clive Westlake–and released his own solo material.[21]
1963–1966: Early solo career
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Dusty Springfield released her first solo single, "I Only Want to Be with You", co-written and arranged by Ivor Raymonde, in November 1963.[22][23] The record was produced by Johnny Franz in a manner similar to Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound";[24] it included rhythm-and-blues features like horn sections, backing singers, and double-tracked vocals along with strings, recalling Springfield's influences such as the Exciters and the Shirelles.[25] In January 1964, the single peaked at no. 4 on the UK charts during a lengthy (for the time) 18-week run.[26] In December 1963, New York disc jockey "Dandy" Dan Daniel of WMCA nominated the single as a "Sure Shot" pick of records not yet charted, preceding Beatlemania. The single debuted on Billboard's Hot 100 on the chart dated 25 January 1964, a week after the debut of the Beatles' first hit "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and in the same week as the debut of "She Loves You", positioning Springfield at the forefront of the British Invasion. "I Only Want to Be with You" peaked at no. 12 during its ten-week chart run,[27][28] and ranked 48 in the year-end Top 100 of New York radio station WABC.[29] The BBC's 1964–2006 weekly chart-based music programme Top of the Pops debuted on 1 January 1964, with "I Only Want to Be with You" as the show's kick-off record.[30] The single was certified gold in the UK,[31] and its B-side, "Once Upon a Time", was written by Springfield.[32][30]
Springfield's debut solo album A Girl Called Dusty–featuring mostly covers of her favourite songs–was released on 17 April 1964 in the UK (but not in America).[33] Tracks included "Mama Said", "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes", "You Don't Own Me", and "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa".[30] In May 1964, the album reached no. 6 in the UK–one of only two of her Top Ten non-hits albums.[26] After "I Only Want to Be with You", she had five more singles chart in 1964, with just "Stay Awhile" registering as a transatlantic success (UK no. 13/US no. 38). Its B-side, "Somethin' Special", was written by Springfield, later described as "a first-rate Springfield original" by AllMusic's Richie Unterberger.[34][35] She was quoted as saying "I don't really see myself as a songwriter. I don't really like writing... I just don't get any good ideas and the ones I do get are pinched from other records. The only reason I write is for the money–oh mercenary creature!"[36] The highest-charting of Springfield's 1964 releases were both Burt Bacharach-Hal David songs: "Wishin' and Hopin'"–a US no. 6 hit which featured on A Girl Called Dusty–and "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself",[30] which in July peaked at no. 3 on the UK singles chart (behind the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" and the Rolling Stones' "It's All Over Now").[26] The dramatic and emotive "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" set the standard for much of her later material.[30] In the autumn of 1964, Springfield peaked at no. 41 in the United States with "All Cried Out", but in her native Britain she hit big with "Losing You" (UK no. 9/US no. 91), which peaked in December–the same month in which the singer's tour of South Africa, with her group The Echoes, was terminated following a controversial performance before an integrated audience at a theatre near Cape Town, in defiance of the government's segregation policy. Springfield was deported.[30][37] Her contract specifically excluded segregated performances, making her one of the first British artists to do so.[38] In the same year, she was voted the year's top British Female Singer in the New Musical Express readers' poll, ahead of Lulu, Sandie Shaw, and Cilla Black.[33] Springfield received the award again for the next three years.[30]
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In 1965, Springfield reached the UK Top 40 with three hit singles: "Your Hurtin' Kinda Love" (no. 37), "In the Middle of Nowhere" (no. 8) and the Gerry Goffin/Carole King-penned "Some of Your Lovin'" (no. 8),[26] though none was included on her next UK album recorded with The Echoes, Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty. Released in October 1965, the LP featured songs by Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley, Rod Argent and Randy Newman, and a cover of the traditional Mexican song "La Bamba".[39] In November 1965, the album peaked at no. 6 on the UK chart.[26] Springfield's one appearance on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1965 was "Losing You", which stalled at 91.
From 28 to 30 January 1965, Springfield took part in the Italian Song Festival in San Remo, reaching a semi-final with "Tu che ne sai?" (English: "What Do You Know?") while failing to qualify for the final.[40] During the competition, she heard the song "Io Che Non Vivo (Senza Te)", performed by one of its composers, Pino Donaggio, and separately by US country music singer Jody Miller.[41] An English-language version, "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me", would feature lyrics newly written by Springfield's friend (and future manager) Vicki Wickham and another future manager, Simon Napier-Bell.[41][42] Springfield's dramatic recording of the ballad was released in March 1966 and reached number one in the UK in its fifth week on the singles chart.[26][42] Success followed in the US,[27] where in July it reached no. 4 on Billboard's Hot 100, ranking 21 for the year.[43] Springfield called it "good old schmaltz",[42] and it became her signature song. In 1967, Springfield was nominated for the Best Contemporary (R&R) Solo Vocal Performance – Male or Female award at the 9th Annual Grammy Awards, losing to Paul McCartney for "Eleanor Rigby". In 1999, "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" featured in an all-time Top 100 of songs as voted for by listeners of BBC Radio 2.
There, standing on the staircase at Philips studio, singing into the stairwell, Dusty gave her greatest ever performance – perfection from first breath to last, as great as anything by Aretha Franklin or Sinatra or Pavarotti. Great singers can take mundane lyrics and fill them with their own meaning. This can help a listener's own ill-defined feelings come clearly into focus. Vicki [Wickham] and I had thought our lyric was about avoiding emotional commitment. Dusty stood it on its head and made it a passionate lament of loneliness and love.
In 1966, Springfield scored with three other UK hits, all varying in style: the snappy "Little By Little" (no. 17), a cover of Gerry Goffin and Carole King's poignant and reflective "Goin' Back" (no. 10), and the sweeping dramatic ballad "All I See Is You" (no. 9), co-written by Ben Weisman and Clive Westlake. The last peaked at no. 20 in the United States.[26] In August and September 1966, she hosted Dusty, a six-part BBC TV music/talk show series.[45] A compilation of her singles, Golden Hits, released in November 1966, peaked at no. 2 in the UK (behind the soundtrack to The Sound of Music).[26] From the mid-1960s onward Springfield used the pseudonym "Gladys Thong" when recording backing vocals for other artists including Madeline Bell, Kiki Dee, Anne Murray and Elton John.[36][46] Bell was a regular backing singer on early Springfield albums, and the pair, together with Lesley Duncan, co-wrote "I'm Gonna Leave You" ,[47] the B-side of "Goin' Back".
During this period, Springfield was also known for her love of Motown. She introduced the Motown sound to a wider UK audience, both with her covers of Motown songs and by facilitating the first UK TV appearance for the Temptations, the Supremes, Martha & The Vandellas, the Miracles and Stevie Wonder in a special edition of the 1963–66 British TV music series Ready Steady Go!, produced by Vicki Wickham.[48] The Sound of Motown was broadcast by Associated-Rediffusion/ITV on 28 April 1965, with Springfield opening each half accompanied by Martha and the Vandellas and Motown's in-house band, the Funk Brothers.[48][49] The associated touring Tamla-Motown Revue–featuring the Supremes, the Miracles and Stevie Wonder–had started in London in March and was, according to the Supremes' Mary Wilson, a flop: "It's always... disheartening when you go out there and you see the house is half-full... but once you're on stage... You perform as well for five as you do for 500."[50] Wickham, a fan of the Motown artists, booked them for the Ready Steady Go! special and enlisted Springfield to host it.[50]
1967–68
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As with Springfield's chart success in the previous three years, there was minimal agreement in 1967 and 1968 between UK and US releases. The closest Springfield got to a transatlantic hit during this period was the spirited "I'll Try Anything", which charted in the spring of 1967 (UK no. 13/US no. 40). The follow-up single, "Give Me Time"–the singer's last traditional-sounding sweeping ballad–peaked outside the UK Top 20 (no. 24) and stalled at 76 in the United States. However, the single's B-side – the smokey-sultry Bacharach-David song "The Look of Love", recorded for the James Bond parody film Casino Royale–emerged as one of Springfield's five defining US 1960s hits.[51][52] For "one of the slowest-tempo hits" of the sixties, Bacharach created the "sultry" feel by the use of "minor-seventh and major-seventh chord changes", while Hal David's lyrics "epitomised longing and, yes, lust."[51] The song was recorded in two versions at the Philips Studios in London. The soundtrack version was released on 29 January 1967. The single version charted briefly in July, then re-entered Billboard's Hot 100 in early September, peaking at no. 22. However, it reached the Top Ten in several markets across the US, reaching number one in San Francisco (KFRC and KYA) and San Jose, California (KLIV) as well as no. 2 in Boston (WBZ), among other cities.[53] "The Look of Love" received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song.[54]
In August and September 1967, Springfield headlined the second season of her BBC TV series Dusty (also known as The Dusty Springfield Show), in which she welcomed guests and performed songs, among them a rendition of "Get Ready" and her then-recent hit "I'll Try Anything".[26][45] The series attracted a healthy audience but was seen as not keeping up with changes in pop music.[33] Springfield's next LP Where Am I Going? (October 1967)–her first album of new material since 1965–experimented with various styles including a "jazzy", orchestrated version of "Sunny" and an acclaimed cover of Jacques Brel's "Ne me quitte pas" ("If You Go Away").[55] Though critically appreciated, the album peaked at 40 in the UK and failed to chart in the US.[33][55] In November 1968, a similar fate befell Dusty... Definitely,[33][56] which was not issued in the US, though it reached no. 30 in the UK during a six-week chart run.[26] Material ranged from the rolling "Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone" to the achingly emotive cover of Randy Newman's "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today".[33][56] Also in 1968, Springfield scored with one of her biggest UK hits of the decade: the dramatic "I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten",[26] written by Clive Westlake.[57] The single peaked at no. 4 in August 1968. Its flip side, "No Stranger Am I", was co-written by American singer-songwriter Norma Tanega–known for her transatlantic 1966 Top 30 folk-pop hit "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog"[58]–and Norma Kutzer.[30][59] By late 1966, Springfield was in a domestic "relationship" with Tanega.[60] Springfield's 1968 TV series It Must Be Dusty was broadcast on ITV in May and June; episode six featured a duet performance of "Mockingbird" with singer-guitarist Jimi Hendrix, fronting his band the Experience.[45]
1968–69: Dusty in Memphis
[edit]By the late 1960s, Carole King–who with Gerry Goffin co-wrote "Some of Your Lovin'", "Goin' Back" and four songs on the Dusty in Memphis album–had embarked on a solo singing career. At the same time, Springfield's relationship with the high-charting Bacharach-David partnership was floundering. Her status in the music industry was further complicated by a "progressive" music revolution which dictated an uncomfortable dichotomy: underground/"fashionable" vs. pop/"unfashionable".[33] Her performing career was limited to the UK touring circuit of working men's clubs, hotels and cabarets.[33] Hoping to reinvigorate her career and boost her credibility, she signed with Atlantic Records,[33] the label of her idol Aretha Franklin. (She signed with the label only in the United States; in her native United Kingdom she remained under contract with Philips.)
The Memphis sessions at the American Sound Studio were produced by Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, and Arif Mardin;[61] the back-up vocal band Sweet Inspirations; and the instrumental band Memphis Boys.[62] They were led by guitarist Reggie Young and bass guitarist Tommy Cogbill.[61] The producers recognized that Springfield's natural soul voice should be placed at the forefront, rather than competing with full string arrangements. At first, she felt anxious when compared with the soul greats who had recorded in the same studios.[63] She had never worked with just a rhythm track, and it was her first time with outside producers; many of her previous recordings had been self-produced, while not being credited.[64] Wexler felt Springfield had a "gigantic inferiority complex", and due to her pursuit of perfection, her vocals were re-recorded later, in New York.[30][65] In November 1968, during the Memphis sessions, Springfield suggested to Wexler (one of the heads of Atlantic Records) that he should sign the newly formed UK band Led Zeppelin. She knew their bass guitarist, John Paul Jones, from his session work on her earlier albums.[66] Without ever having seen them and partly on her advice,[66] Wexler signed Led Zeppelin to a $200,000 deal with Atlantic–the biggest such contract for a new band until then.[66][67]
The album Dusty in Memphis received excellent reviews on its initial releases both in the UK and US.[68] Greil Marcus of Rolling Stone magazine wrote: "most of the songs... have a great deal of depth while presenting extremely direct and simple statements about love... Dusty sings around her material, creating music that's evocative rather than overwhelming... Dusty is not searching–she just shows up, and she, and we, are better for it."[69]
Commercial and chart success did not follow.[68] The album failed to chart in the UK, and in April 1969 it stalled at no. 99 on Billboard's Top LP's chart,[26][27] with sales of 100,000 copies.[18][70] However, by 2001, the album had received the Grammy Hall of Fame award and was listed among the greatest albums of all time by US music magazine Rolling Stone[65] and in polls conducted by VH1, New Musical Express and UK TV network Channel 4.[71] In November 1968, the album's lead single, "Son of a Preacher Man", was issued. It was written by John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins.[72] Credited as "Son-of-a Preacher Man" on UK, US and other releases, it became an international hit, reaching no. 9 in the UK singles chart and no. 10 on Billboard's Hot 100 in January 1969. In continental Europe, the single reached the Top Ten in the Austrian, Dutch and Swiss charts.[73] In 1970, Springfield was nominated for the Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Female award at the 24th Annual Grammy Awards, losing to "Is That All There Is?" by Peggy Lee, whom Springfield often cited as an influence.[74] In 1987, Rolling Stone magazine placed the single at no. 77 in its critics' list The 100 Best Singles of the Last 25 Years. In 2002, the record ranked 43 in the 100 Greatest Singles of All Time, as voted for by New Musical Express critics. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked it 240 in its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[75] "Son of a Preacher Man" found a new audience when it was included on the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film Pulp Fiction. The soundtrack reached no. 21 on Billboard's Billboard 200 album chart and at the time went platinum (100,000 units) in Canada alone.[76] It is thought that "Son of a Preacher Man" contributed to the sales of the soundtrack album, which sold more than 2 million copies in the US.[77][78]
During September and October 1969, Springfield hosted her third and final BBC musical variety series (her fourth variety series overall), Decidedly Dusty (co-hosted by Valentine Dyall).[45] All eight episodes were later wiped from the BBC archives, and to date the only surviving footage consists of domestic audio recordings.
Until her 1987 comeback with Pet Shop Boys, 1969 marked the last year in which Springfield achieved any notable singles chart presence. In Britain, following "Son of a Preacher Man", she charted with only "Am I the Same Girl" (no. 43), while on the US Hot 100 she charted with the double A-side "Don't Forget About Me" (no. 64)/"Breakfast in Bed" (no. 91), a cover of "The Windmills of Your Mind" (no. 31), "Willie & Laura Mae Jones" (no. 78) and A Brand New Me (no. 24). Springfield's 1960s repertoire also is noted for interpretations of songs associated primarily with other artists. Those which have appeared on Springfield EPs and compilations include "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa", "You Don't Own Me", "La Bamba", "If You Go Away" (released on the 1968 Philips EP If You Go Away, which also featured tracks such as "Magic Garden" and "Sunny"), "Piece of My Heart" (released as "Take Another Little Piece of My Heart"), "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today", "Spooky" and "Yesterday When I Was Young".
Springfield was one of the best-selling UK singers of the 1960s.[79] She was voted the Top Female Singer (UK) by the readers of the New Musical Express in 1964 to 1966 and Top Female Singer in 1965 to 1967 and 1969.[19]
1970s
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By the beginning of the 1970s, Springfield was a major star, though her record sales were declining. Her partner, Norma Tanega, had returned to the US after their relationship had become stressful,[80] and Springfield was spending more time in the US herself.[81] In January 1970, her second and final album on Atlantic Records, A Brand New Me (re-titled From Dusty... With Love in the UK), was released; it featured tracks written and produced by Gamble and Huff.[82] The album and related singles only sold moderately;[83] Springfield was unhappy with both her management and record company.[84] She sang backing vocals with her friend Madeline Bell on two tracks on Elton John's 1971 hit album Tumbleweed Connection. Springfield recorded some songs with producer Jeff Barry in early 1971, which were intended for an album to be released by Atlantic Records.[85] However, her new manager Alan Bernard negotiated her out of the Atlantic contract; some of the tracks were used on the UK-only album See All Her Faces (November 1972) and the 1999 release Dusty in Memphis-Deluxe Edition.[84] She signed a contract with ABC Dunhill Records in 1972, and Cameo was issued in February 1973 to respectable reviews, though poor sales.[86]
In 1973, Springfield recorded the theme song for the TV series The Six Million Dollar Man, which was used for two of its film-length episodes: "Wine, Women & War" and "The Solid Gold Kidnapping".[87] Her second ABC Dunhill album was given the working title Elements and was then scheduled for release in late 1974 as Longing. However, the recording sessions were abandoned, although part of the material, including tentative and incomplete vocals, was issued on the 2001 posthumous compilation Beautiful Soul. In the mid-1970s she sang background vocals on Elton John's album Caribou (June 1974), including his single "The Bitch Is Back"; and on Anne Murray's album Together (November 1975).[79] By 1974, Springfield put her solo musical career on hold and lived as a recluse in the US avoiding scrutiny by UK tabloids. In the 1960s and early 1970s, gay or bisexual performers "knew that being 'out' would lead to prurient media attention, loss of record contracts... the tabloids became obsessively interested in the contents of celebrity closets".[30][88] Springfield would not record again until the Summer of 1977, when she began recording It Begins Again.
In the late 1970s, Springfield released two albums on United Artists Records. The first was It Begins Again, issued in 1978 and produced by Roy Thomas Baker. The album peaked in the UK top 50 and was well received by critics.[26] Her next album, Living Without Your Love (1979), did not reach the top 50.[26][79] In early 1979, Springfield played club dates in New York City.[26][79] In London, she recorded two singles with David Mackay for her UK label, Mercury Records (formerly Philips Records). The first was the disco-influenced "Baby Blue", co-written by Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes, which reached no. 61 in the UK.[26] The second, "Your Love Still Brings Me to My Knees", released in January 1980, was Springfield's final single for Mercury Records; she had been with the label for nearly 20 years. On 3 December 1979, Springfield performed a charity concert for a full house at the Royal Albert Hall, in the presence of Princess Margaret.[89]
1980s
[edit]In 1980, Springfield sang "Bits and Pieces", the theme song from the movie The Stunt Man. She signed a US deal with 20th Century Records, which resulted in the single "It Goes Like It Goes", a cover of the Oscar-winning song from the film Norma Rae. Springfield was uncharacteristically proud of her 1982 album White Heat, which was influenced by new wave music.[30] She tried to revive her career in 1985 by returning to the UK and signing to Peter Stringfellow's Hippodrome Records label. This resulted in the single "Sometimes Like Butterflies" and an appearance on Terry Wogan's TV chat show Wogan. None of Springfield's singles from 1971 to 1986 charted on the UK Top 40 or Billboard Hot 100.[26][27]
In 1987, she accepted an invitation from Pet Shop Boys to duet with their lead singer, Neil Tennant, on the single "What Have I Done to Deserve This?".[90][91] Tennant cites Dusty in Memphis as one of his favourite albums, and he leapt at the suggestion of using Springfield's vocals for "What Have I Done To Deserve This?".[92] She also appeared on the promotional video. The single rose to no. 2 on both the US and UK charts.[26][93] It appeared on the Pet Shop Boys album Actually,[91] and on both artists' greatest-hits collections. Springfield sang lead vocals on the Richard Carpenter song "Something in Your Eyes". "Something in Your Eyes" was featured on Carpenter's first solo album, Time (October 1987); released as a single, it became a US no. 12 adult contemporary hit.[94] Springfield recorded a duet with B. J. Thomas, "As Long as We Got Each Other", which was used as the opening theme for the US sitcom Growing Pains in season 4 (1988–89). (Thomas had collaborated with Jennifer Warnes on the original version, which was neither re-recorded with Warnes nor released as a single.) It was issued as a single and reached no. 7 on the Adult Contemporary Singles Chart. In 1988, a new compilation, The Silver Collection, was issued. Springfield returned to the studio with the Pet Shop Boys, who produced her recording of their song "Nothing Has Been Proved", commissioned for the soundtrack of the 1989 drama film Scandal. Released as a single in February 1989, it gave Springfield her fifteenth UK Top 20 hit.[26] In November its follow-up, the upbeat "In Private", also written and produced by Pet Shop Boys, peaked at no. 14.[26]
1990s
[edit]Springfield's 1990 album, Reputation, was her third UK Top 20 studio album.[26] The writing and production credits for half the album, which included the two recent hit singles, went to Pet Shop Boys, while the album's other producers included Dan Hartman. By 1988 Springfield had left California and other than when recording tracks for Reputation, she returned to the UK to live. In 1993, she recorded a duet with her former 1960s professional rival and friend, Cilla Black. In October, "Heart and Soul" was released as a single and, in September it had appeared on Black's album, Through the Years.[95] Springfield's next album, provisionally titled Dusty in Nashville, was started in 1993 with producer, Tom Shapiro, but was issued as A Very Fine Love in June 1995. Though originally intended by Shapiro as a country music album, the track selection by Springfield pushed the album into pop music with an occasional country feel.[96]
The last studio track Springfield recorded was George and Ira Gershwin's song "Someone to Watch Over Me"–in London in 1995 for an insurance company TV ad. It was included on Simply Dusty (2000), an anthology that she had helped plan. Her final live performance was on The Christmas with Michael Ball special in December 1995.[97]
Musical style
[edit]Influenced by US pop music,[79] Dusty Springfield created a distinctive blue-eyed soul sound.[44][69] BBC News noted "[h]er soulful voice, at once strident and vulnerable, set her apart from her contemporaries... She was equally at home singing Broadway standards, blues, country or even techno-pop".[98] Allmusic's Jason Ankeny described her:
[T]he 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 [her] voice transcended image and fashion, embracing everything from lushly orchestrated pop to gritty R&B to disco with unparalleled sophistication and depth.[99]
Most responses to her voice emphasise her breathy sensuality.[100][101] Another powerful feature was the sense of longing, in songs such as "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" and "Goin' Back".[101][102] The uniqueness of Springfield's voice[102] was described by Bacharach: "You could hear just three notes and you knew it was Dusty".[103] Wexler declared, "[h]er particular hallmark was a haunting sexual vulnerability in her voice, and she may have had the most impeccable intonation of any singer I ever heard".[104] Greil Marcus of Rolling Stone captured Springfield's technique as "a soft, sensual box (voice) that allowed her to combine syllables until they turned into pure cream."[69] She had a finely tuned musical ear and extraordinary control of tone.[102] She sang in a variety of styles, mostly pop, soul, folk, Latin, and rock'n'roll.[30] Being able to wrap her voice around difficult material,[102] her repertoire included songs that their writers ordinarily would have offered to black vocalists.[69] In the 1960s, on several occasions, she performed as the only white singer on all-black bills.[30] Her soul orientation was so convincing that early in her solo career, US listeners who had only heard her music on radio or records sometimes assumed that she was black.[48][101] Later, a considerable number of critics observed that she sounded black and American or made a point of saying she did not.[105]
Springfield consistently used her voice to upend commonly held beliefs on the expression of social identity through music. She did this by referencing a number of styles and singers, including Martha Reeves, Carole King, Aretha Franklin, Peggy Lee, Astrud Gilberto, and Mina.[106] Springfield instructed UK backup musicians to capture the spirit of US musicians and copy their instrumental playing styles.[30][48] However, the fact that she could neither read nor write music made it hard to communicate with session musicians.[107][108] In the studio she was a perfectionist.[109] Despite producing many tracks, she did not take credit for doing so.[64] During extensive vocal sessions, she repeatedly recorded short phrases and single words.[48] When recording songs, headphones were typically set as high in volume as possible–at a decibel level "on the threshold of pain".[110]
The Philips Record company's studio was slated as "an extremely dead studio", where it felt as though it had turned the treble down: "There was no ambience and it was like singing in a padded cell. I had to get out of there".[67][110] Springfield wound up recording in the ladies' toilets because of superior acoustics.[110] Another example of refusal to use the studio is "I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten"–recorded at the end of a corridor.[110]
Personal life
[edit]Springfield's parents, Catherine and Gerard, lived in Hove, East Sussex from 1962. Catherine died in a nursing home there in 1974 of lung cancer.[111] In 1979, Gerard died of a heart attack in Rottingdean, East Sussex.[111]
A recurring theme amongst journalists and Springfield's biographers [who?] is that she had two personalities: shy, quiet Mary O'Brien and the public face she had created as Dusty Springfield. An editorial review at Publishers Weekly of Valentine and Wickham's 2001 biography, Dancing with Demons, finds that "the confidence [Springfield] exuded on vinyl was a façade masking severe insecurities, addictions to drink and drugs, bouts of self-harm and fear of losing her career if exposed as a lesbian".[112] Simon Bell, one of Springfield's session singers, disputed the twin personality description: "It's very easy to decide there are two people, Mary and Dusty, but they were the one person. Dusty was most definitely Dusty right to the end."[113] In her early career, much of her odd behaviour was seen as more or less in fun, described as a "wicked" sense of humour, including her food fights and hurling crockery down stairs. She had a great love for animals, particularly cats, and became an advocate for animal protection groups. She enjoyed reading maps and would intentionally get lost to navigate her way out.[12] In the 1970s and early 1980s, Springfield's alcoholism and drug addiction affected her musical career.[98] She was hospitalised several times for self-harm and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.[18][114]
Springfield was never reported to be in a heterosexual relationship; it meant the issue of her sexual orientation was raised frequently during her life.[115] From mid-1966 to the early 1970s, Springfield lived in a domestic partnership with fellow singer Norma Tanega. In September 1970, Springfield told Ray Connolly of the Evening Standard:
Many other people say I'm bent and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it ... I know I'm perfectly as capable of being swayed by a girl as by a boy. More and more people feel that way and I don't see why I shouldn't.[115][116]
By the standards of 1970, that was a bold statement.[115] Three years later, she told Chris Van Ness of the Los Angeles Free Press:
People are people ... I basically want to be straight ... I go from men to women, I don't give a s__. The catchphrase is: I can't love a man. Now, that's my hang-up. To love, to go to bed, fantastic but to love a man is my prime ambition ... They frighten me.[12]
In the 1970s and 1980s, Springfield became involved in several romantic relationships with women in Canada and the United States that were not kept secret from the gay and lesbian community. From 1972 to 1978, she had an "off and on" domestic relationship with Faye Harris, an American photojournalist.[117] In 1981, Springfield had a six-month relationship with singer-musician Carole Pope of the rock band Rough Trade.[18] During periods of psychological and professional instability, Springfield's involvement in some intimate relationships, influenced by addiction, resulted in episodes of personal injury. She met an American actress, Teda Bracci, at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in 1982 and they moved in together in April 1983. Seven months later they exchanged vows at a wedding ceremony, which was not recognised under California law.[118] The pair had a "tempestuous" relationship which led to an altercation with both hospitalised. Bracci hit Springfield in the mouth with a saucepan and knocked out her teeth, necessitating plastic surgery.[90] The pair separated within two years.[118]
Death
[edit]In January 1994, while recording her album, A Very Fine Love, in Nashville, Springfield began to feel ill. When she returned to England a few months later, her physicians diagnosed her with breast cancer.[103] She received months of chemotherapy and radiation treatment, and the cancer was found to be in remission.[99] In 1995, in apparent good health, she set about to promote the album, which was released that year.[119] By mid-1996, the cancer had returned, and despite vigorous treatments, Springfield died on 2 March 1999, aged 59, in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.[120][121]
Springfield's funeral service was attended by hundreds of fans and people from the music business, including Elvis Costello, Lulu and the Pet Shop Boys. It was held at the Anglican St Mary the Virgin church in Henley-on-Thames.[122][123][124] A marker dedicated to her memory was placed in the church graveyard.[125] In accordance with Springfield's wishes, she was cremated and some of her ashes were buried at Henley, while the rest were scattered by her brother, Tom Springfield, at the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland.
Legacy
[edit]She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame two weeks after her death. Her friend Elton John helped induct her into the Hall of Fame declaring, "I'm biased but I just think she was the greatest white singer there ever has been... every song she sang, she claimed as her own."[126][127]
Of the female singers of the British Invasion, Springfield made one of the biggest impressions on the US market,[128] scoring 18 singles in the Billboard Hot 100 from 1964 to 1970 including six in the top 20.[27][106] Quentin Tarantino caused a revival of interest in her music in 1994 by including "Son of a Preacher Man" on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, which sold over three million copies.[129][130] In the same year in the documentary Dusty Springfield: Full Circle, guests of her 1965 Sound of Motown show credited her efforts with helping to popularise US soul music in the UK.[131][132] In 2008, country/blues singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne recorded a tribute album featuring ten of Springfield's songs as well as one original. The album, titled Just a Little Lovin', featured two tracks selected from Springfield's debut, four from Dusty in Memphis and four from her back catalogue. Lynne's album received critical acclaim, charted at number 41 on the US Billboard Charts and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical).
Springfield was popular in Europe and performed at the Sanremo Music Festival. Recordings were released in French, German, and Italian. Her French works include a 1964 four-track extended play with "Demain tu peux changer" (also known as "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"), "Je ne peux pas t'en vouloir" ("Losing You"), "L'été est fini" ("Summer is Over"), and "Reste encore un instant" ("Stay Awhile").[133] German recordings include the July 1964 single, "Warten und hoffen" ("Wishin' and Hopin'") backed with "Auf dich nur wart' ich immerzu" ("I Only Want to Be with You").[134] Italian recordings include "Tanto so che poi mi passa" ("Every Day I Have to Cry") issued as a single.[40] Her entries at the Sanremo festival were "Tu che ne sai" and "Di fronte all'amore" ("I Will Always Want You").[40] Springfield is known to have brought many little-known soul singers to the attention of a wider UK record-buying audience. In April 1965, she hosted a special Motown edition of the hugely popular British TV music series Ready Steady Go!, featuring the first national TV performances of many top-selling Motown artists.[3] Although her music was not directly associated with the British music/dance movement northern soul, her efforts were seen as a contributing factor in the formation of the genre.[135]
Springfield is a cultural icon of the Swinging Sixties, where she "was an instantly recognisable celebrity".[15][98] In public and on stage, she developed a joyful image supported by her peroxide-blonde bouffant hairstyle, evening gowns and heavy make-up that included her much-copied "panda eye" mascara. She borrowed elements of her look from blonde glamour queens such as Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve and pasted them together according to her own taste.[136][137] By the 1990s, she had become a camp icon,[100] especially with her ultra-glamorous look and this, combined with her emotive vocal performances, won her a powerful and enduring following in the gay community.[102][138] Besides being a prototypical female for drag queens, she was presented in the roles of the 'Great White Lady' of pop and soul and the 'Queen of Mods'.[105][139]
Awards and tributes
[edit]Springfield is an inductee of the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1999), the UK Music Hall of Fame (2006), and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame (2023). She was named among the top 25 female artists of all time by readers of Mojo magazine (May 1999),[140] editors of Q magazine (January 2002),[141] and a panel of artists on VH1 TV channel (August 2007).[142] In 2008, she appeared at No. 35 on the Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time".[143] In the 1960s she topped a number of popularity polls, including Melody Maker's Best International Vocalist for 1966; in 1965 she was the first British singer to top the New Musical Express readers' polls for Female Singer topping that poll again in 1966, 1967, and 1969 as well as getting the most votes in the British Singer category from 1964 to 1966.[135][19] Her album Dusty in Memphis has been listed among the greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone and in polls by VH1 artists, New Musical Express readers, and the Channel 4 viewers;[71] in 2001 she received the Grammy Hall of Fame award.[144]
In March 1999, Springfield was scheduled to receive her award at Buckingham Palace as an officer of the Order of the British Empire, given for "services to popular music".[2] Due to the recurrence of the singer's breast cancer, officials of Queen Elizabeth II gave permission for the medal to be collected earlier in January, by Wickham and it was presented to Springfield in hospital with a small group of friends and relatives attending. She died on the day that she would otherwise have collected her award from the Palace.[145] Various films and stage musicals have been created or proposed to commemorate her life. On 12 January 2006 an Australian stage musical, Dusty – The Original Pop Diva, received its world premiere at the State Theatre of the Victorian Arts Centre in Melbourne. In May 2008, actress Nicole Kidman was announced as the star and producer of a biographical film,[146] but in July 2012 it had yet to surface. Another reported candidate for a role as Springfield was Madonna in a TV film project.[146] Universal Pictures scheduled a biopic with Kristin Chenoweth in the starring role.[146][147] However, according to Chenoweth in January 2012, the project's status was in limbo and the "script… needed a lot of work".[148]
In 1970, US jazz singer-pianist Blossom Dearie recorded a tribute song, "Dusty Springfield", on her album That's Just the Way I Want to Be–it was co-written by Dearie, Tanega (Springfield's then-partner), and Jim Council.[149] UK singer-songwriter David Westlake on his 2002 release, Play Dusty for Me, "fêted [Springfield] in both the album title and opening title track".[150] US singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne's tenth studio album, Just a Little Lovin' (2008), was issued as a tribute.[151] In 2012, a biographical jukebox musical titled Forever Dusty opened Off-Broadway in New York City at New World Stages. The production starred Kirsten Holly Smith as Springfield; Smith also co-wrote the book of the musical.[152] In 2015, Springfield was named by Equality Forum as being one of their 31 Icons of the 2015 LGBT History Month.[153] On 8 November 2022, she was honoured with a Google Doodle to celebrate her life and career.[154]
Discography
[edit]- A Girl Called Dusty (1964)
- Stay Awhile/I Only Want To Be With You (1964)
- Dusty (Dusty Springfield album) (1964)
- Ooooooweeee!!! (1965)
- Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty (1965)
- You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (album) (1966)
- Where Am I Going? (1967)
- The Look Of Love (album) (1967)
- Dusty... Definitely (1968)
- Dusty in Memphis (1969)
- A Brand New Me (1970)
- See All Her Faces (1972)
- Cameo (1973)
- It Begins Again (1978)
- Living Without Your Love (1979)
- White Heat (1982)
- Reputation (1990)
- A Very Fine Love (1995)
- Faithful (2015, recorded in 1971)
- Longing (Dusty Springfield album) (Unreleased, recorded in 1974)
Filmography
[edit]Springfield was the presenter or host of several TV musical series:
Television | ||
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Year | Title | Notes |
1965 | The Sound of Motown | Special episode of Ready Steady Go![3] |
1966–67 | Dusty | Two seasons each of six weekly parts[45][155] |
1968 | It Must Be Dusty | Eight regular weekly episodes and followed by a Christmas special, All Kinds of Music[45] |
1969 | Decidedly Dusty | Eight weekly episodes[45] |
UK TV Series
[edit]Dusty – Series 1 (1966)
[edit]Produced by Stanley Dorfman. Musical director: Johnny Pearson. Broadcast Thursdays on BBC1 at 9:00 pm (Except Episode 4 at 9:05 pm)
Total # |
Series # |
Special guests | Backing vocals | First broadcast |
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1 | 1 | The Dudley Moore Trio with Chris Karan on drums and Pete McGurk on bass | Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan and Maggie Stredder | 18 August 1966[156] |
2 | 2 | Milt Kamen | Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan and Maggie Stredder | 25 August 1966[157] |
3 | 3 | Woody Allen | Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan and Maggie Stredder | 1 September 1966[158] |
4 | 4 | The Four Freshmen | Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan and Barbara Moore | 8 September 1966[159][160] |
5 | 5 | Peter Cook | Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan and Barbara Moore | 15 September 1966[161][160] |
6 | 6 | Señor Wences | Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan and Maggie Stredder | 22 September 1966[162] |
Dusty – Series 2 (1967)
[edit]Produced by Stanley Dorfman. Backing vocals: Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan and Maggie Stredder. Musical director: Johnny Pearson. Broadcast Tuesdays on BBC1 at 9:05 pm
Total # |
Series # |
Special guests | Original airdate |
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7 | 1 | Warren Mitchell and Ken Campbell | 15 August 1967[163] |
8 | 2 | Mel Tormé | 22 August 1967[164] |
9 | 3 | Jose Feliciano | 29 August 1967[165] |
10 | 4 | Tom Jones | 5 September 1967[166] |
11 | 5 | Los Machucambos | 12 September 1967[167] |
12 | 6 | Scott Walker | 19 September 1967[168] |
It Must Be Dusty – Series 1 (1968)
[edit]Produced by ATV. Broadcast on ITV. Producer Colin Clews.
Total # |
Series # |
Guest | Original airdate | |
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1 | 1 | Scott Walker | 10 May 1968 | |
2 | 2 | Mark Murphy. Esther & Abi Ofarim were billed to appear, but were not in the broadcast. | 17 May 1968 | |
3 | 3 | Donovan | 24 May 1968 | |
4 | 4 | Georgie Fame | 31 May 1968 | |
Postponed until Monday 24 June by London ITV station Rediffusion. | ||||
5 | 5 | Tom Springfield & Julie Felix | 7 June 1968 | |
6 | 6 | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 14 June 1968 | |
7 | 7 | Manfred Mann | 21 June 1968 |
Show of the Week: Dusty at The Talk of the Town
[edit]Total # |
Series # |
Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original airdate | |
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-- | 1 | "Dusty at the Talk of the Town[169]" | Stanley Dorfman | Unknown | Sunday 15 September 1968BBC2 | at 7:25 pm on|
Dusty Springfield returns to the scene of her recent cabaret triumph. Orchestra directed by Johnny Pearson. Vocal backing: Lesley Duncan, Kay Garner & Sue Weetman. Choreography by Tommy Tucker. |
Christmas Special
[edit]Total # |
Series # |
Title | Director | Original airdate | |
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-- | 1 | "All Kinds Of Music" | Unknown | 25 December 1968 | ITV|
Dusty's Christmas Special with guests Trio Athénée, The Tremeloes, Malcolm Roberts, Kiki Dee, The Spinners, David Snell and Des Ryan. Produced by ATV for ITV. Broadcast 2:00 - 3:00 pm |
Decidedly Dusty – Series 1 (1969)
[edit]Produced by Mel Cornish. Introduced by Valentine Dyall. Dancers: Cassandra Mahon & Peter Newton. Choreographer: Ruth Pearson. Vocal backing: Kay Garner, Lesley Duncan & Madeline Bell. Musical associate: Larry Ashmore. Musical Director: Johnny Pearson. Broadcast Tuesdays on BBC1 at 7:30 pm
Total # |
Series # |
Special guests | Writer(s) | Original airdate |
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13 | 1 | Spike Milligan | Joe Steeples & Spike Mullins | 9 September 1969[170] |
14 | 2 | Jimmy Ruffin | Joe Steeples & Spike Mullins | 16 September 1969[171] |
15 | 3 | Danny La Rue | Joe Steeples & Spike Mullins | 23 September 1969[172] |
16 | 4 | The Bee Gees | Joe Steeples & Spike Mullins | 30 September 1969[173] |
17 | 5 | Dr. Murray Banks | Joe Steeples & Spike Mullins | 7 October 1969[174] |
18 | 6 | Frida Boccara & Percy Edwards | Joe Steeples & Spike Mullins | 14 October 1969[175] |
19 | 7 | Shari Lewis | Joe Steeples & Spike Mullins | 21 October 1969[176] |
TV Specials
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Title | Director | Original airdate | |
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-- | 1 | "Music My Way" | Colin Charman | 18 July 1973 | BBC1|
The first in a series of eight shows starring singers from Britain and the Continent. Tonight Dusty Springfield gives a concert performance featuring some of her biggest hits. Musical direction Johnny Pearson.[177] | |||||
-- | 1 | "Dusty" | Roger Pomphrey | 2 May 1994 | BBC1|
In this film biography of Dusty Springfield, she is interviewed – and frequently interrupted – by Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, but she still manages to talk about her life and her music.[178] | |||||
-- | 1 | "Definitely Dusty" | Serena Cross | 26 December 1999 | BBC2|
Documentary charting the career of diva Dusty Springfield, who died in March, from Catholic schoolgirl to superstar.[179] | |||||
-- | 1 | "Dusty Springfield's Rock Shrine" | Unknown | 15 October 2000 | BBC Choice|
Repeated multiple times on BBC Choice and BBC Three.[180] | |||||
-- | 1 | "Celebrity Relics: Dusty Springfield's Dresses" | Unknown | 7 June 2001 | BBC Choice|
Repeated multiple times on BBC Choice and BBC Three.[180] |
References
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Different sources use either Isobel or Isabel as the spelling of her second name. For Isobel see Gulla, here.[181] For Isabel see Britannica Online Encyclopedia.[100]
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- For blonde beehive hair-dos and "Panda" eye make-up, see Welch.[15]
- For peroxide hair and heavy make-up, see Silverton.[100]
- For public and on-stage image, see Cole.[105]
- For hairstyle and eye make-up described as "blonde bouffant and thick black Cleopatra eyeliner", see Taylor.[109]
- For image, hairstyle and make-up, see Smith.[138]
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External links
[edit]- Dusty Springfield Fan Website
- Dusty Springfield TV biography
- Dusty Springfield at Curlie
- Dusty Springfield discography at Discogs
- Dusty Springfield at IMDb
- The legacy of Dusty Springfield By Bob Stanley for The Times 3 April 2009
- Dusty Springfield at Find a Grave
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