What was Dusty Springfield's first No. 1 hit?
"music singer Jody Miller. Its English version, ""You Don't Have to Say You Love Me,"" featured lyrics newly written by Springfield's friend Vicki Wickham and her future manager, Simon Napier-Bell. It was released in March 1966 and reached No. 1 in April 1966 the UK and No. 4 in the US, where it was also No. 35 on the ""Billboard"" Top 100 for 1966. The song, which Springfield called ""good old schmaltz,"" was voted among the All Time Top 100 Songs by the listeners of BBC Radio 2 in 1999. Springfield introduced the Motown sound to a wider UK audience,"
"as ""Island of Dreams"", ""Bambino"" and ""Silver Threads And Golden Needles"" (a No. 16 US country hit), their style of music limited the wide range of material that Dusty Springfield wanted to sing. Therefore, in 1963, Springfield decided to begin a career as a solo singer. Her first single, ""I Only Want to Be with You"", was actually recorded while still a member of The Springfields, and was released one week after their final concert. The song was a success in both Britain and the US and led to the recording of ""A Girl Called Dusty"" which was released in"
"with a wide knowledge of folk music and the group had strong vocal harmonies as well as Dusty's powerful lead. Occupying a musical sphere comparable with that of the contemporary Peter, Paul and Mary they were signed to Philips Records and released their first single, ""Dear John,"" in 1961, followed by two UK chart hits with ""Breakaway"" and ""Bambino"" – like their other records, produced by Johnny Franz. The first recording contract the Springfields signed was offered by producer Johnny Franz at Philips Records in London. With early singles including ""Breakaway"" and ""Bambino"", and numerous television appearances, the trio soon"
"A Girl Called Dusty A Girl Called Dusty is the debut album by British singer Dusty Springfield. It was released in the UK on Philips Records in 1964. Dusty Springfield had been a member of the girl group The Lana Sisters from 1958 to 1960, and the folk-pop trio The Springfields from 1960–1963, in the latter case with her brother Tom Springfield. While on tour in the US in the early 1960s she was exposed to soul music, which was to have a profound impact on her subsequent life and career. Although The Springfields were moderately successful, with songs such"
"B-side, ""Once Upon a Time"", was written by Springfield. The release finished as No. 48 on New York's WABC radio Top 100 for 1964. On 1 January 1964 ""I Only Want to Be with You"" was one of the first songs played on ""Top of the Pops,"" BBC-TV's new music programme. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc in the UK. On 17 April 1964 Springfield issued her debut album ""A Girl Called Dusty"" which included mostly remakes of her favourite songs. Among the tracks were ""Mama Said,"" ""When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His"
"Dusty (album) Dusty is the second album of singer Dusty Springfield to be released in the USA. It was issued on the Philips Records label in 1964 and includes Springfield's hit singles ""All Cried Out"", ""I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself"" and the double A-side ""Guess Who?""/""Live It Up"". Just like the preceding ""Stay Awhile/I Only Want to Be with You"", ""Dusty"" comprises tracks from Springfield's UK debut album ""A Girl Called Dusty"" as well as recordings from UK singles and EP's. The album also includes tracks from the very first recordings Springfield made in the United"
"song was a Top 10 radio hit on stations KGB-AM, San Diego and KHJ-AM, Los Angeles, and earned Springfield her highest place in the year's music charts at No. 22. The second season of ""Dusty"", which featured her rendition of ""Get Ready"" and her UK No. 13 hit, ""I'll Try Anything"", was broadcast in 1967. It attracted a healthy audience but the series did not keep up with changes in pop music. The comparatively progressive album ""Where Am I Going?"" (October 1967) attempted to redress this by containing a ""jazzy"", orchestrated version of ""Sunny"" and Jacques Brel's ""If You Go"
"sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. ""Island of Dreams"" rose to the UK No. 5 at the beginning of 1963, and stayed in the charts for six months. The follow-up, ""Say I Won't Be There"", was also No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart. By this time, the Springfields were one of the most popular groups in the UK. The group had several chart hits and had recorded several foreign language records. However, Dusty Springfield felt limited by the group's folk act and Tom's lead role within the trio and, towards the end of 1963,"
"Westlake, which also reached the US Top 20. In August and September 1966, she hosted ""Dusty,"" a six-part music and talk show weekly BBC TV series. A compilation of her singles, ""Golden Hits"" released in November 1966, reached No. 2 in the UK. From the mid-1960s, Springfield would use the pseudonym ""Gladys Thong"" when recording backing vocals for other artists including Madeline Bell, Kiki Dee, Anne Murray and Elton John. Bell was a regular backing singer on early Springfield albums, and the pair co-wrote ""I'm Gonna Leave You"" with Lesley Duncan, which appeared as the B-side of ""Goin' Back."" Dusty"
"to have success with many groups and singers in the 1970s, among them Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, The O'Jays, MFSB and The Three Degrees. The title track was released as a single in the US in late 1969, peaking at No. 3 on the US Adult Contemporary chart and No. 24 on the Top 40 chart on December 20, 1969; Springfield would not earn another Top 40 hit for 17 years. ""From Dusty with Love"" was Springfield's last UK album to feature her name in the title; all but one of her previous five albums had done so."
"Dusty Springfield Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), professionally known as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. With her distinctive sensual mezzo-soprano sound, she was an important singer of blue-eyed soul and at her peak was one of the most successful British female performers, with six top 20 singles on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and sixteen on the UK Singles Chart from 1963 to 1989. She is a member of the US Rock and Roll and UK Music Halls"
"Ooooooweeee!!! Ooooooweeee!!! is the third album of singer Dusty Springfield to be released in the USA, issued on the Philips Records label in 1965 and including the hit single ""Losing You"". Even more so than Springfield's two first US albums, ""Ooooooweeee!!!"" can be considered as a compilation since it comprises tracks both from her British debut album ""A Girl Called Dusty"" as well as recordings originally issued on various A- and B-side singles and EP's - recorded and released in the UK over a period of some eighteen months. ""Ooooooweeee!!!"" also features tracks from Springfield's September 1964 sessions in New"
"debut release was also her debut album: ""Somebody's in My Orchard"". Her chart breakthrough came in the summer of 1967 with the single ""Just Loving You"", a Tom Springfield composition which singer Dusty Springfield had suggested that Tom (her brother) give to Harris after Dusty and Harris had performed on the same episode of ""Top of the Pops"". Recorded at Olympic Studios in a session produced by Margolis and featuring harmonica virtuoso Harry Pitch, ""Just Loving You"" had been released in January 1967 but did not reach the UK Top 50 until 29 June 1967. Even after peaking at No."
"To Be With You"". It was named after her first two singles, which had been Top 20 hits in the US. Later in 1964, Philips released ""Dusty"", a second version of ""A Girl Called Dusty"" with a different track listing and different tracks. ""A Girl Called Dusty"" was first released to CD in June 1990 by Philips Records/PolyGram, then a direct transfer from vinyl. In 1997, two years before Springfield's death, a digitally remastered and expanded edition was issued by Mercury Records/Universal Music, then including eight bonus tracks as well as a few alternate mixes. Because most of the original"
"Stay Awhile/I Only Want to Be with You Stay Awhile/I Only Want to Be with You is the first album of the singer Dusty Springfield to be released in the USA. It was issued on the Philips Records label in 1964 and includes Springfield's hit singles ""I Only Want To Be With You"", ""Stay Awhile"" and ""Wishin' and Hopin. Springfield's British debut album ""A Girl Called Dusty"" was released in April 1964. The US debut, issued some three months later, was technically a compilation of tracks from ""A Girl Called Dusty"", her first two UK singles, and other Springfield recordings."
"Love Turns to Blue"" ""Getting It Right"" Reputation and Rarities Reputation and Rarities is the name of a repackaged/re-released version of British singer Dusty Springfield's 1990 studio album, ""Reputation"". In late 1987, there was a resurgence of interest in Springfield's career, which was a direct result of her work with Pet Shop Boys on the duet ""What Have I Done to Deserve This?"", released in November of the same year. The single reached #2 in the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and #2 in the UK Singles Chart, Springfield's highest simultaneous charting single ever. Springfield then worked with Pet Shop Boys"
"No More"" (David L. Frishberg) – 1:53 Dusty... Definitely Dusty... Definitely is the fourth studio album by singer Dusty Springfield, recorded and released in the UK in 1968. Production credits go to both John Franz, and for the first time, Springfield herself. The songs on this album were chosen because Springfield ""liked them"", as stated in the liner notes. Like the vast majority of her LPs, the album shows a diverse range of styles ranging from soul (""Take Another Little Piece of my Heart""), pop (""This Girl's in Love With You""), folk (""Morning (Bom Dia)"") to lounge (""Who (Will Take"
"Dusty Springfield, on the singles ""Nothing Has Been Proved"" (which was a song written for their soundtrack for the film ""Scandal"" about the Profumo political scandal in Britain) and ""In Private"". The duo later went on to produce half of the tracks on her 1990 solo ""Reputation"" album. Pet Shop Boys were also asked to write and produce an album for Liza Minnelli, in 1989. The album, ""Results"", generated four singles, including the hit single ""Losing My Mind"", a cover version of the Stephen Sondheim song from the 1971 Broadway musical ""Follies"". The duo's own demo of this appeared on"
"signed a deal of $200,000 with them. At the time, that was the biggest deal of its kind for a new band. ""Dusty in Memphis"" was released by Atlantic Records on 31 March 1969 in the United States and 18 April in the United Kingdom. The album was a commercial failure in both countries, only reaching number 99 on the American album charts and failing to chart altogether on the British Top 40. According to music journalist Peter Robinson, its failure stalled Springfield's career rather than revive it, although the record eventually became ""a popcultural milestone [and] timeless emotional reference"
"Music in Me"" (written by Tobias Stephen Boshell), the latter credited to the Kiki Dee Band (1974). In addition to her burgeoning career as a lead vocalist, she could sometimes be heard singing backing vocals on various Elton John recordings, such as ""All the Girls Love Alice"" on ""Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"" and various tracks on ""Rock of the Westies"". Her biggest hit came in 1976 when she replaced an ailing Dusty Springfield for the recording of a duet with John, ""Don't Go Breaking My Heart"" (pseudonymously written by John and lyricist Bernie Taupin). The single reached No. 1 in"
"Dusty... Definitely Dusty... Definitely is the fourth studio album by singer Dusty Springfield, recorded and released in the UK in 1968. Production credits go to both John Franz, and for the first time, Springfield herself. The songs on this album were chosen because Springfield ""liked them"", as stated in the liner notes. Like the vast majority of her LPs, the album shows a diverse range of styles ranging from soul (""Take Another Little Piece of my Heart""), pop (""This Girl's in Love With You""), folk (""Morning (Bom Dia)"") to lounge (""Who (Will Take my Place?)""). The two sides of the"
"at the London listings magazine ""City Limits"". It was here that she interviewed Dusty Springfield, an interview which led to her being contacted by the publishers Sidgwick & Jackson, and to her being offered the chance to write Springfield's biography. By 1990, O'Brien had gone freelance, going on to write for ""The Guardian"" and ""The Independent"", and music magazines ""Q Magazine"" and ""MOJO"", amongst others. Her reputation as a writer and commentator was seriously established by the publication of her first book ""Dusty"" – a best-selling biography of British soul legend Dusty Springfield (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989). The book was"
"and Smoky Dawson. Dusty married singer-songwriter Joy McKean in 1951 and went on to become Australia's biggest selling domestic music artist with more than 7 million record sales. British-born country singer and yodeller, Frank Ifield, was one of the first Australian post-war performers to gain widespread international recognition. After returning to the UK in 1959 Ifield was successful in the early 1960s, becoming the first performer to have three consecutive number-one hits on the UK charts: ""I Remember You"", ""Lovesick Blues"" (both 1962) and ""The Wayward Wind"" (1963). ""I Remember You"" was also a Top 5 hit in the US."
"The Springfields The Springfields were a British pop-folk vocal trio who had success in the early 1960s in the UK, US and Ireland. They included singer Dusty Springfield and her brother, record producer Tom Springfield, along with Tim Feild, who was replaced by Mike Hurst. The trio formed in 1960, when Mary ""Dusty"" O'Brien, who had been a member of all-girl singing trio The Lana Sisters, joined her brother Dion O'Brien and Tim Feild, who had been working as a duo, ""The Kensington Squares"". Dion became Tom Springfield, and Mary became Dusty Springfield. Tom Springfield was a songwriter and arranger"
"four weeks and the first #1 single of the 1970s. It also spent seven weeks atop the U.S. adult contemporary chart. The song was recorded in seven takes, after Bacharach expressed dissatisfaction with the first six. The sudden changes of pop music in the mid-1960s left girl singers out of fashion. To boost her credibility as a soul artist, Dusty Springfield went to Memphis, Tennessee to record an album of pop and soul music at American Sound Studio. The LP ""Dusty in Memphis"" earned Springfield a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1970 and"
"Vicki Wickham to write an English lyric to an Italian song she'd heard at the Sanremo Festival, composed by Pino Donaggio. The result was ""You Don't Have to Say You Love Me"", which became Springfield's first number one hit. A friend, Vicki Wickham, who booked all the acts for the TV show ""Ready Steady Go!"", persuaded him to move into music management. He began by putting together an act himself; Nicky Scott & Diane Ferraz; a boy from London and a girl from the West Indies. The inter-racial mix was a first for the British music business. The Yardbirds asked"
"Where Am I Going? Where Am I Going? is the third studio album by singer Dusty Springfield, released on Philips Records in the UK in 1967. By now, firmly established as one of the most popular singers in Britain, with several hits in America as well, Springfield ventured into more varying styles than before and recorded a wide variety of material for this album. Rather than the straightforward pop of ""A Girl Called Dusty"" or the mix of pop and soul of ""Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty"", Springfield recorded a variety of styles from jazz to soul, to pop and even"
"performed by someone who was already well-known at the time of the Profumo affair; in 1963, Dusty was lead singer of the popular group the Springfields and was just about to launch her solo career. The lyrics of the song describe in roughly chronological order the actual course of events and mention, by first name only, the main characters involved: Mandy Rice-Davies, Christine Keeler and Stephen Ward, as well as Lucky Gordon, Johnny Edgecombe and Vickie Barrett. The song also references the popular culture of the time with the line """"Please Please Me's number one"""", a reference to The Beatles'"
"You Don't Have to Say You Love Me ""You Don't Have to Say You Love Me"" (originally a 1965 Italian song by Pino Donaggio and lyricist Vito Pallavicini: '""Io che non vivo (senza te)"") is a 1966 hit recorded by English singer Dusty Springfield that proved to be her most successful hit single, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart and number four on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100; the song subsequently charted in the UK via remakes by Elvis Presley (No. 9/1971), Guys 'n' Dolls (No. 5/1976) and Denise Welch (No. 23/1995), with Presley's version, released in 1970, also"
"all time and Springfield's best work. The album received a Grammy award in 2001. Hoping to reinvigorate her career and boost her credibility, Dusty Springfield turned to the roots of soul music. She signed with Atlantic Records, home label of one of her soul music idols, Aretha Franklin. Although she had sung R&B songs before, she had never released an entire album solely of R&B songs. She began recording an album in Memphis, Tennessee, where some notable blues musicians had grown up. The Memphis sessions at the American Sound Studios were recorded by the A team of Atlantic Records. It"
"comedian Tony Hancock in all of the comedian's first TV series in 1956. He moved on to Philips Records, where he worked as producer with Frankie Vaughan, Marty Wilde and the Springfields. When Dusty Springfield went solo in 1963, he played her a tune he had written, which became her first big hit, ""I Only Want To Be With You"" under producer Johnny Franz. It reached no.4 on the UK singles chart, and he and lyricist Mike Hawker followed it up with Dusty's second hit single, ""Stay Awhile"". Raymonde continued working with Dusty Springfield through the 1960s, as well as"
"Am I"", was co-written by Norma Tanega and Norma Kutzer. By late 1966, Springfield was in a domestic relationship with Tanega – a US-born singer-songwriter who had a UK Top 30 hit with the novelty song, ""Walkin' My Cat Named Dog"". Springfield's ITV series ""It Must Be Dusty"" was broadcast in May and June 1968, episode six featured a duet performance of ""Mockingbird"" with singer-guitarist Jimi Hendrix fronting his band, The Experience. By 1968 Carole King, a songwriter whom Springfield had frequently tapped for material, had embarked on a solo singing career, while her relationship with the chart-peaking Bacharach-David partnership"
"Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty is the second studio album by singer Dusty Springfield, released on Philips Records in the UK in 1965. Springfield's 1964 debut album, ""A Girl Called Dusty"", sold well enough to make her Philips Records' top-selling female artist. For this, her second album, Philips presented it in a gatefold sleeve and included extensive liner notes. While including a number of fairly standard ""pop"" songs, ""Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty"" also saw Springfield venturing more into show tunes like ""Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)?"" as well as the soul music for"