Various Artists - NME Poll Winners' Concert, Empire Pool, London, Britain, 5-1-1966

I've already posted the NME Poll Winners' Concerts from 1964 and 1965. Here's the only other one known to be exist in the public sphere, the 1966 one.

This is arguably one of the greatest concerts of all time, just in terms of sheer star power. The last three acts were the Who, the Rolling Stones, and the Beatles, for crying out loud! That was probably the one and only time those three acts appeared on stage in a row like that.

Unfortunately though... we're missing most of the good stuff, including all of those three performances! So sorry. And worse, of the remaining concert, we are missing half of that too. This concert was at least two hours long. So, to broadcast it on TV, it was split it two, and the two parts were shown on TV a week apart. It's pretty clear to me that only the second part survives, because all of the first part is missing. 

Here are all the musical acts that played in the first part: the Overlanders, Small Faces, the Spencer Davis Group, Roy Orbison, the Walker Brothers, the Yardbirds, the Seekers, the Alan Price Set, the Shadows, and Cliff Richard. If you add all those acts together, plus the ones we do have below (Sounds Incorporated, the Fortunes, Herman's Hermits, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, the Yardbirds, Crispian St. Peters, Alan Price Set, and Dusty Springfield), plus the three acts finishing the second set (the Who, the Rolling Stones, and the Beatles), it's hard to argue this was the greatest collection of rock music talent ever on one stage in the 1960s. It's such a shame we don't have all of it!

Of course, the greatest loss is not getting to hear the Beatles' set. This would turn out to be the very last concert the Beatles performed in Britain, excepting the unannounced performance on top of Abbey Roads Studios in 1969. We do know the songs they played though: "I Feel Fine," "If I Needed Someone," "Day Tripper," "Nowhere Man," and "I'm Down."

To further frustrate you, these NME concerts continued until 1971. I couldn't find many details about the concerts after 1966. However, we know a bit more about the 1967 and 1968 concerts, because setlist.fm gives a list of the performers for each of those years.  

Here's a list of the known performers for the 1967 concert (in alphabetical order): Alan Price Set, Cat Stevens, Cliff Richard, Cream, Dusty Springfield, Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band, Lulu, Small Faces, the Beach Boys, the Dubliners, the Move, the Spencer Davis Group, the Troggs. 

And here are the known performers for the 1968 concert (also in alphabetical order): Amen Corner, Cliff Richard, Don Partridge, Dusty Springfield, Love Affair, Lulu, Procol Harum, Scott Walker, Status Quo, the Association, the Herd, the Move, the Paper Dolls, and the Rolling Stones. 

Man, what incredible concerts those would be to hear! Unfortunately though, no known recordings of any of the concerts after 1966 exist. I strongly suspect they weren't broadcast on TV, but I don't know for sure. Let's hope that the remainder of the 1966 concert and all of the 1967 to 1971 concerts are sitting in some vault and will be released to the public one day. 

Now, let's get to why we don't have the recordings of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Apparently, there was a big argument backstage. The popular version is that both Mick Jagger of the Stones and John Lennon of the Beatles argued that they were the biggest band in the world, and thus demanded to go on last. However, it appears this wasn't true. In fact, most of the members of the Beatles and the Stones were friends with each other. 

I found what appears to be the more accurate story at The Paul McCartney Project website. It has an impressive webpage dedicated to this concert, with lots of photos and text. You can find that here:

https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/concert/1966-05-01/

That webpage includes an excerpt from a book that extensively quotes Maurice Kinn, who was the owner of NME at the time. Here's what Kinn claims happened: 

"Halfway through the Stones' set, the four Beatles arrived at the foot of the stairs to the stage, with their guitars in hand. I told them they were 25 minutes early, but Lennon insisted that they were going on. I said they couldn't and John shouted, 'Didn't you hear me the first time? We're going on now, or we're not going on at all.' In a rapidly convened huddle with Brian Epstein, I outlined my dilemma, that I had promised the Stones, in writing, that the Beatles should not follow them immediately onto the stage. I had arranged for the awards presentation to come between the two acts and explained to Brian that if the Beatles did not come on at the previously arranged time, I would be left with no option but to send MC Jimmy Savile on stage to explain to 10,000 NME readers that the Beatles were in the stadium but they weren’t going to play. I explained to him very clearly what would happen then. There would be a riot! Half of Wembley would be destroyed and Wembley and the NME would both sue Epstein. Brian conveyed this to the Beatles and John exploded! He gave me abuse like you've never heard before in all of your life. You could hear him all over the backstage area. He said, 'We'll never play for you again!' But he knew that he had no choice. Fifteen minutes later, the Beatles went on stage, collected their awards and played the show."

So it seems it's true there was an argument involving Lennon, but not Jagger. Jagger was performing on stage at the time and was probably totally oblivious about the conflict going on nearby. While I think Lennon is one of the greatest musicians of all time, he could be an asshole sometimes, and it looks like this was one of those times. Probably the Beatles were sick and tired of giving concerts by this time, and Lennon had lost all patience and just wanted to get this obligation over with.

Be that as it may, the Beatles didn't even allow the cameras to roll when they took the stage, due to the conflict mentioned above. I'm not sure how it came to be that the Who and the Rolling Stones also didn't allowing their performances to be broadcast either, but that's what happened. 

So anyway, while we can lament all the missing music, what we're left with is still pretty damn impressive. And we're lucky to have anything at all, since very few live recordings from 1966 survive. As for the sound quality, it's reasonably good, but not great. Consider this was probably recorded off a TV in 1966, so one has to lower one's standards a bit. I tried to improve it, but there wasn't much I could do, since I couldn't successfully separate the vocals from the instruments, or the instruments from each other. In the end, I just kept it the same. 

In case you're curious about who won the poll awards this year, there's a list at the NME website, which you can see here:

https://www.nme.com/nme-awards/awards-history/1966-606221

Also, note that I found a review for this concert from NME, thanks to the Paul McCartney Project website mentioned above. I included an image of it in the download file. It has comments about all the performances, including all the missing ones.

This album is one hour long. 

01 talk (Sounds Incorporated)
02 In the Hall of the Mountain King [Instrumental] (Sounds Incorporated)
03 Zorba's Dance [Instrumental] (Sounds Incorporated)
04 talk (Fortunes)
05 This Golden Ring (Fortunes)
06 You've Got Your Troubles (Fortunes)
07 talk (Herman's Hermits)
08 A Must to Avoid (Herman's Hermits)
09 You Won't Be Leaving (Herman's Hermits)
10 talk (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)
11 You Make It Move (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)
12 Hold Tight (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)
13 talk (Yardbirds)
14 Train Kept A-Rollin' (Yardbirds)
15 Shapes of Things (Yardbirds)
16 talk (Crispian St. Peters)
17 Send Me Some Lovin' (Crispian St. Peters)
18 The Pied Piper (Crispian St. Peters)
19 talk (Alan Price Set)
20 Baby Workout (Alan Price Set)
21 I Put a Spell on You (Alan Price Set)
22 talk (Dusty Springfield)
23 In the Middle of Nowhere (Dusty Springfield)
24 You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (Dusty Springfield)
25 talk (Dusty Springfield)
26 Shake (Dusty Springfield)
27 talk (Beatles & emcee)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/L5VqhUHF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/GvbEFGJxuHwyVLp/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. Sorry if it's misleading to have a photo of the Beatles but no actual Beatles music on the album. At least we do have the recording of the Beatles accepting their awards. This photo was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program.

Dusty Springfield - Live in Concert: 1964-1966

Dusty Springfield was one of the most popular singers in Britain in the 1960s and early 1970s. For instance, in 1966, she won both the Melody Maker and N.M.E. polls for best female singer. But despite that popularity, there are shockingly few live recordings from her, even though she toured a fair amount. One official live album, "Live at the Royal Albert Hall," has been released. But, in my opinion, that was from the worst time in her career for a live album, 1979, at the height of the disco era and at a down era for her career. True, there are lots of recordings of TV and radio broadcasts, and I've compiled those as best I could. But in terms of actual concert recordings, there's almost nothing, especially from her 1960s and early 1970s peak era.

I decided to try to change there. When it comes to unreleased concert recordings, there also is very, very little. But I did find a few things from 1964 to 1966. Putting them together, it's just enough for a relatively short live album.

The first section of this concert comes from a concert in Melbourne, Australia, in 1964. She was part of a package tour of Australia with Johnny O'Keefe, Gene Pitney, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and Brian Poole and the Tremeloes. An hour long concert was filmed for Australian TV. Decades later, this has been released on DVD only, under the title "The Liverpool Sound." I was able to find most of that, but not quite all. I'm missing the first song, "I Only Want to Be with You." So, for that, I used a live performance of that song she did for the Ed Sullivan Show. This Australian concert makes up the first 13 minutes of this album, tracks one through eight. The last song, "When the Saints Go Marching In," was the finale, where each of the lead singers got to sing a verse.

The other two sections here come from annual N.M.E. concerts. "N.M.E." stands for "New Musical Express," one of the main music-centric publications in Britain in that era. They had a yearly poll winners concert that brought together the biggest names in music at the time. I've already posted the full 1965 concert, which you can get here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/01/various-artists-nme-poll-winners.html

I have all of what's available of the 1964 and 1966 concerts, and I'd like to post those soon. Springfield wasn't featured in the 1964 one. But I've included her 1965 and 1966 performances here. Tracks nine through 13 are from the 1965 concert, and tracks 14 to 18 are from the 1966 concert. All of these N.M.E. concerts remain unreleased. Springfield's short 1965 set is repeated on the N.M.E. concert I linked to above, but I think there's value in putting all her concert recordings from the era together here.

Luckily, there are no repeats of songs from these three sources. That's probably because they were about a year apart each, so she had different hits to promote each year. When it comes to sound quality, this isn't amazing, but it's about as good as you could expect for the era. Like the Australian concert, the N.M.E. concerts were broadcast on T.V., so that's why we have recordings that survive.

This album is 32 minutes long. 

001 I Only Want to Be with You (Dusty Springfield)
002 talk (Dusty Springfield)
003 Stay Awhile (Dusty Springfield)
004 The Love of a Boy (Dusty Springfield)
005 talk (Dusty Springfield)
006 Shake It Up (Dusty Springfield)
007 talk (Johnny O'Keefe, Gene Pitney, Brian Poole & Dusty Springfield)
008 When the Saints Go Marching In (Johnny O'Keefe, Gene Pitney, Brian Poole & Dusty Springfield)
009 talk (Dusty Springfield)
010 Dancing in the Street (Dusty Springfield)
011 talk (Dusty Springfield)
012 Mockingbird (Dusty Springfield)
013 I Can't Hear You [No More] (Dusty Springfield)
014 talk (Dusty Springfield)
015 In the Middle of Nowhere (Dusty Springfield)
016 You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (Dusty Springfield)
017 talk (Dusty Springfield)
018 Shake (Dusty Springfield)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PkcQGKmR

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/xmJw8otVzVvSA3I/file

The cover photo is from 1965, but I don't know the details beyond that.

Tom Jones - This Is Tom Jones, Volume 6 (1970-1972)

Thanks for your patience in my posting a bunch of Tom Jones albums in recent weeks. I know he's not everyone's cup of tea. If you're not into his music, you'll be glad to know this is the last album of his I plan on posting.

To be honest, I'm not that into his music myself, but I do like a lot of his 1960s stuff. And these albums of his TV show "This Is Tom Jones" have merit due to all of the guest stars he dueted with. This album is another example, with duets with: Ella Fitzgerald, John Denver, Shirley Basey, Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield, Billy Preston, and Englebert Humperdinck.

As usual in this series, all of the songs are officially unreleased, and come from either DVDs or YouTube videos. But this time around, not all of the songs are from his TV show. Most of them are, but his show ended in early 1971. The last four songs date to 1972, and are all appearances he did on other TV shows. 

Of course, he kept going with many more TV show appearances and concerts. He's still going as I write this in 2022. But my interest in his music drops drastically around 1972. He's started his music career in much more of a soul music style, but that had been slowly eroding. You can see that with his choice of guest stars on this album. After 1972 or so, he went even more in a show-biz direction away from his soul (and rock) roots. That said, I think this album is just as strong as most of the others in this series.

This album is 46 minutes long.

01 Vehicle (Tom Jones)
02 Mary's Boy Child (Tom Jones)
03 Patches (Tom Jones)
04 Sunny (Tom Jones & Ella Fitzgerald)
05 Silent Night (Tom Jones, Ella Fitzgerald & the Treorchy Male Choir)
06 All Right Now (Tom Jones)
07 Carolina in My Mind (Tom Jones & John Denver)
08 With a Little Help from My Friends (Tom Jones & Shirley Bassey)
09 This Guy's in Love with You (Tom Jones & Petula Clark)
10 She's a Lady (Tom Jones)
11 Sweet Sweetheart (Tom Jones & Dusty Springfield)
12 Ball of Confusion [That's What the World Is Today] (Tom Jones)
13 Tired of Being Alone (Tom Jones)
14 Games People Play (Tom Jones, Billy Preston & Engelbert Humperdinck)
15 Witch Queen of New Orleans (Tom Jones & Engelbert Humperdinck)
16 Baby, You've Got What It Takes (Tom Jones & Dusty Springfield)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16700849/TOMJNS1970-1972_ThisIsTmJnsVolum6_atse.zip.html

As with the other albums in this series, I chose a cover photo of Jones from one of his duets instead of him alone. This one features him and Dusty Springfield.

Various Artists - NME Poll Winners' Concert, Empire Pool, London, Britain, 4-11-1965

I read an interesting article today (in January 2022) about how the sale of new music is continually falling to all time lows every year, while interest in older music continues to rise. It's a good article. I suggest you check it out:

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/is-old-music-killing-new-music

As the article points out, there's still plenty of good new music, it's just that's not what gets promoted and makes it big, due to screwed-up record companies and other factors. Compare the artists on the top of the charts today to the quality of the mainstream artists at the time of this 1965 concert: the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Animals, Dusty Springfield, Them (with Van Morrison), the Moody Blues, Donovan, and many more, all sharing the same stage! Is it any wonder that lots of people (including me) are more interested in this kind of music than the generic, pre-packaged pop of today? The amount of sheer talent bursting up the charts in 1965 was staggering.

The reason so many big names played this one concert was because it was an awards show of sorts for NME - New Musical Express, a British music magazine. NME began giving out yearly poll winner awards in 1953, and continue to do it until this day (2022 as I write this). At least through 1971, there were annual concerts to celebrate the winners. But unlike most awards shows, this concert just focused on music instead of bogging things down with lots of speeches and award presentations (though there was a short section for that). 

I would love to hear the 1966, 1967, and 1968 shows in full, since music just got better and better as the 1960s went on, in my opinion, and all sorts of interesting artists played in those later shows, including Cream, the Small Faces, the Move, the Beach Boys, Cat Stevens, the Who, the Yardbirds, and lots more, including more appearances by big names in this concert, like the Beatles and Rolling Stones. It seems only the 1964, 1965 and 1966 shows are available on bootleg. I'm posting the 1965 one first as I think it's more interesting, with these mostly British Invasion acts more fully developed by then.

The sound quality is excellent throughout. This concert was professionally recorded in order to be broadcast on British TV a short time afterwards. The TV version was edited down, but somehow luckily a recording of the entire show has made its way to the public. You can watch the entire thing on YouTube, though it's only in black and white.

This concert took place before artists typically stretched out with lots of soloing and jamming and such. These songs don't differ that much from their studio versions (with a few exceptions, like Them and the Animals). But I still think this is a fascinating listen, as there aren't many quality concert recordings from this early in the 1960s. In particular, there were many artists who were pretty big back in the day but have little to no surviving audio or video of them in concert. Even for major names like the Animals and Dusty Springfield, there's very little from around this time period. And for the lesser known acts, this is often the only evidence of them in concert that seems to still exist.

I'm a big Kinks fan, so a minor disappointment for me is that the Kinks only played two songs. Even at this early stage in their career they were a big enough name to deserve more time. Apparently, this has to do with them being late to the show, as they had just got off a plane coming from another country. You can hear guitarist Dave Davies apologize about this between songs. According to some accounts, they actually played after the Beatles, as the very last act. However, the recording I used had them just before the Beatles, and that seems to fit in terms of the audience applause and announcement and such, so I'm keeping it that way.

As far as naming the artists for each song goes, technically I should have put the names of the emcee or emcees on many of the talk tracks. Some of those had band members talking, some had the emcees, and some where a mix. But rather than spend time dealing with all that, I just put the name of the act being introduced, for simplicity's sake. (Unfortunately, one of the emcees was DJ Jimmy Savile, who later was disgraced in a child molestation scandal. Thankfully, his role here is very minor.) I only put in the DJ names on the very first and last tracks, since those weren't linked to any particular artists.

A couple of the performers here are rather forgettable. I was tempted to cut out Freddie and the Dreamers and Sounds Incorporated in particular. But ultimately I decided it was best to present the entire thing unedited (although I cut out some annoying laughter by Freddie and the Dreamers between songs). Overall, I think the percentage of quality performers is quite high. 

The Beatles only got to do a 15 minute long set, but it's nice that you can actually hear them perform instead of being totally drowned out by screaming, as was typical of the time. Apparently, the arena (Empire Pool, later renamed Wembley Arena), held about 10,000 people. I'm sure that, by 1965, the Beatles could have filled up a much larger venue in London all on their own.

In case you're curious about who won the poll awards this year, there's a list at the NME website, which you can see here: 

https://www.nme.com/nme-awards/awards-history/1965-606223

It seems there were even more musical acts who performed but didn't make it to the recording for one reason or another. I'm not entirely sure if they actually performed, but these other names were included in the program given to the audience and were at least scheduled to perform: Tom Jones, the Bachelors, the Rockin' Berries, and Twinkle.  

This concert is two hours and 23 minutes long. I cut out some dead air between songs. But there was surprisingly little of that to begin with. Either this was already edited down, or this was a tightly run show.

01 talk (Keith Fordyce & Jimmy Savile)
02 Bo Diddley - Pretty Thing (Moody Blues)
03 Go Now (Moody Blues)
04 talk (Freddie & the Dreamers)
05 Little Bitty Pretty One (Freddie & the Dreamers)
06 talk (Freddie & the Dreamers)
07 A Little You (Freddie & the Dreamers)
08 talk (Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames)
09 Yeh Yeh (Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames)
10 talk (Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames)
11 Walking the Dog (Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames)
12 talk (Seekers)
13 I'll Never Find Another You (Seekers)
14 talk (Seekers)
15 A World of Our Own (Seekers)
16 talk (Herman's Hermits)
17 Wonderful World (Herman's Hermits)
18 talk (Herman's Hermits)
19 Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (Herman's Hermits)
20 talk (Ivy League)
21 Funny How Love Can Be (Ivy League)
22 talk (Ivy League)
23 Sweet and Tender Romance (Ivy League)
24 talk (Ivy League)
25 That's Why I'm Crying (Ivy League)
26 talk (Sounds Incorporated)
27 Time for You [Instrumental] (Sounds Incorporated)
28 talk (Sounds Incorporated)
29 In the Hall of the Mountain King [Instrumental] (Sounds Incorporated)
30 talk (Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders)
31 The Game of Love (Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders)
32 talk (Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders)
33 Just a Little Bit Too Late (Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders)
34 talk (Rolling Stones)
35 Everybody Needs Somebody to Love (Rolling Stones)
36 Pain in My Heart (Rolling Stones)
37 Around and Around (Rolling Stones)
38 The Last Time (Rolling Stones)
39 talk (Cilla Black with Sounds Incorporated)
40 Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah (Cilla Black with Sounds Incorporated)
41 talk (Cilla Black with Sounds Incorporated)
42 Going Out of My Head (Cilla Black with Sounds Incorporated)
43 talk (Donovan)
44 You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond (Donovan)
45 talk (Donovan)
46 Catch the Wind (Donovan)
47 talk (Them)
48 Here Comes the Night (Them)
49 Turn on Your Love Light (Them)
50 talk (Searchers)
51 Bumble Bee (Searchers)
52 talk (Searchers)
53 Let the Good Times Roll (Searchers)
54 talk (Dusty Springfield)
55 Dancing in the Street (Dusty Springfield)
56 talk (Dusty Springfield)
57 Mockingbird (Dusty Springfield)
58 I Can't Hear You [No More] (Dusty Springfield)
59 talk (Animals)
60 Boom Boom (Animals)
61 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (Animals)
62 Talkin' 'bout You (Animals)
63 talk (Kinks)
64 You Really Got Me (Kinks)
65 Tired of Waiting for You (Kinks)
66 talk (Beatles)
67 I Feel Fine (Beatles)
68 talk (Beatles)
69 She's a Woman (Beatles)
70 talk (Beatles)
71 Baby's in Black (Beatles)
72 talk (Beatles)
73 Ticket to Ride (Beatles)
74 talk (Beatles)
75 Long Tall Sally (Beatles)
76 talk (Keith Fordyce)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6niBfp48

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/RBH3ooSgczT5hrW/file

When I first posted this album in 2022, I used a black and white photo of the Beatles from the concert that I colorized. But looking at the cover again in 2026, I decided the photo wasn't very good. So I used a different photo of the Beatles from the concert that is zoomed in closer, and has more detail. This one also was black and white, and then colorized by me with the use of the Kolorize program.

I took most of the cover text from advertisements of the show, though I added in the list of some of the artists.

Dusty Springfield - Alternate TV and Radio Appearances, Volume 3: 1968

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dusty Springfield gave many performances on TV and radio, helped by the fact that she hosted her own British TV show for several years. I've divided them up into two series: one called "On TV and Radio" for all the songs she never put on record, and this series, "Alternate TV and Radio Appearances," for the songs she did put on record. 

There had been three albums in this series. But I did a little more digging and found some more songs. Many of them were from this time period. So I took a bunch of songs that had been on Volume 2 and moved them here, added some newly found songs, and created this album. What had been Volume 3 is now called Volume 4.

As I mentioned above, Springfield had her own TV show for several years. In 1968, it was called "It Must Be Dusty." All but the first two and last three songs here are from that show. The rest are from appearances on other TV shows. Every single song on this album is officially unreleased. 

The sound quality varies. I believe I found all of these songs from YouTube videos, and some of those sound better than others. But I have standards, and nothing here falls below what I'd call "good" (though there isn't much here that sounds "great").

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 Magic Garden (Dusty Springfield)
02 Meditation (Dusty Springfield)
03 [They Long to Be] Close to You (Dusty Springfield)
04 Where Am I Going [Edit] (Dusty Springfield)
05 All I See Is You (Dusty Springfield)
06 Another Night (Dusty Springfield)
07 Second Time Around (Dusty Springfield)
08 I Can't Wait until I See My Baby's Face (Dusty Springfield)
09 Who [Will Take My Place] (Dusty Springfield)
10 A House Is Not a Home (Dusty Springfield)
11 If You Go Away (Dusty Springfield)
12 I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten (Dusty Springfield)
13 I Will Come to You (Dusty Springfield)
14 Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone (Dusty Springfield)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/yfF4jXqL

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/waKpJBqIiQK4WtT/file

I don't know where or when the cover art photo is from. But this is roughly what she looked like around 1968. I had previously used this as the cover for Volume 2 in this series. But I moved it to better fit the time frame.

Dusty Springfield - On TV and Radio, Volume 8: 1971-1973

Here is the eighth and last of the Dusty Springfield albums that contains songs she only did on TV or the radio and never recorded in the studio. It's practically an entire alternate career for her in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Most of the previous albums in this series each covered one year. But this time, one album covers two years. That's because her popularity started to wane in the early 1970s, and she had fewer appearances on TV and radio. That would culminate in her recording an album in 1974 that her record company wouldn't release, and then her essentially going into retirement for a few years. So this marks the end of an era for her.

However, even though the number of her appearances was tapering off, what she did was still high quality. Luckily, this era ends before disco and other popular trends marred her music in the late 1970s.

Every song but one here is officially unreleased. That one is "Stepping Out with My Baby," which comes from the "Goin' Back" box set. The other songs are generally from Springfield's appearances on the TV shows of other stars, such as Tom Jones, Lulu, and Bobby Darin.

This album is 41 minutes long.

I created this album on November 22, 2021. Volume 7 grew so long that I split it in two. So I highly recommend you redownload that one too, if you have it already. I also made changes to a bunch of other Dusty Springfield albums at the same time, which I describe in a different post.

01 Up On the Roof (Dusty Springfield)
02 We Can Work It Out - The Long and Winding Road (Dusty Springfield)
03 Scarborough Fair (Dusty Springfield & Lulu)
04 I Wanna Be Where You Are (Dusty Springfield)
05 Since I Fell for You (Dusty Springfield)
06 I Am Woman (Dusty Springfield)
07 You've Got What It Takes (Dusty Springfield & Tom Jones)
08 Stepping Out with My Baby (Dusty Springfield)
09 Baby I Need Your Loving (Dusty Springfield & Bobby Darin)
10 Of All the Things (Dusty Springfield)
11 The Magnificent Sanctuary Band (Dusty Springfield)
12 Love the One You're With (Dusty Springfield)
13 But Alive (Dusty Springfield)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/34xdcJc1

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/nVIl7G6GoEiznHk/file

The cover photo dates from 1972.

In August 2025, I improved the cover detail with the help of the Krea AI program.

Dusty Springfield - Alternate TV and Radio Appearances, Volume 4: 1969-1973

This is the fourth and last of the albums dealing with Dusty Springfield performing songs on TV or radio that she'd released on record. I've posted an entire separate series of albums of her performing songs on TV and radio that she didn't release on record. So with this album, I'm finishing up posting all the stuff I've had from her on TV and radio.

As I said before, there never has been any official live album from her prime years in the 1960s and early 1970s, and not even any bootlegs from that time. So these TV and radio performances is probably all we're ever going to get in terms of hearing her perform live from that time period.

Like the last album in this series, only two of the songs have been officially released, "The Windmills of Your Mind," and "Son of a Preacher Man." The other ones generally are very good in terms of sound quality. But there are some that sound a little worse, mostly due to slightly muffled recording of her TV show appearances, taken from YouTube videos.

Unfortunately, the amount of performances peters out in the early 1970s. She was still popular in 1969 with her big hit "Son of a Preacher Man," but her popularity slid after that, which meant she had fewer opportunities to appear on TV or the radio. After about 1973, her career pretty much petered out altogether, apparently hindered by lots of drug use. Happily, she pulled herself together and had a career comeback in the late 1970s that continued through the end of her life. But I personally am far less interested in that phrase of her career. Her singing ability was still great, but I have issues with both the production and song choices (not just with her, but with musical trends in general).

Thus, this is where this series ends. 

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 Morning [Bom Dia] (Dusty Springfield)
02 Love Power (Dusty Springfield)
03 Am I the Same Girl (Dusty Springfield)
04 No Stranger Am I (Dusty Springfield)
05 The Windmills of Your Mind (Dusty Springfield)
06 A Brand New Me (Dusty Springfield)
07 Son of a Preacher Man (Dusty Springfield)
08 Silly, Silly Fool (Dusty Springfield)
09 How Can I Be Sure (Dusty Springfield)
10 I Wanna Be a Free Girl (Dusty Springfield)
11 Just a Little Lovin' (Dusty Springfield)
12 Won't Be Long (Dusty Springfield)
13 Packin' Up (Dusty Springfield)
14 Yesterday When I Was Young (Dusty Springfield)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/pNBwHLJ6

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/yFuzcTDY944HljP/file

I'm not sure when or where the photo for the cover art comes from, but my notes say it's probably from 1969.

In August 2025, I improved the cover detail with the help of the Krea AI program. 

Dusty Springfield - Alternate TV and Radio Appearances, Volume 2: 1966-1968

I previously posted a bunch of albums called "On TV and Radio" that are filled with songs Dusty Springfield sang on TV and radio in the 1960s and early 1970s that she didn't put on any records. This second series of four albums deals with the songs she performed on TV and radio that she did put on record.

All but five of the songs are officially unreleased. The five that have been released are: "Every Ounce of Strength," "Won'’t Be Long," "Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa," "Don't Let Me Lose This Dream," and "It Was Easier to Hurt Him."

The vast majority of songs are from a BBC show she hosted in 1966 and 1967, simply called "Dusty." These songs were performed live in front of an audience, but I've minimized the cheering after the songs.

As far as sound quality goes, some of the unreleased songs sound merely good instead of great. Sometimes, there's a bit of muffling or distance. 

This album is 41 minutes long.

01 Every Ounce of Strength (Dusty Springfield)
02 Goin' Back (Dusty Springfield)
03 Won'’t Be Long (Dusty Springfield)
04 Bring Him Back (Dusty Springfield)
05 Some of Your Lovin' (Dusty Springfield)
06 Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa (Dusty Springfield)
07 Live It Up (Dusty Springfield)
08 I'll Try Anything (Dusty Springfield)
09 I Only Wanna Laugh (Dusty Springfield)
10 Don't Let Me Lose This Dream (Dusty Springfield)
11 Sunny (Dusty Springfield)
12 Time After Time (Dusty Springfield)
13 It Was Easier to Hurt Him (Dusty Springfield)
14 Sweet Lover No More (Dusty Springfield)
15 It's Over (Dusty Springfield)
16 Come Back to Me (Dusty Springfield)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/cmW1EgE1

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/HRrUcMrbIdUZhrh/file

This cover photo dates from 1965. That's just outside the time frame of the music here, but the picture quality was so good for this one I decided to use it anyway. Besides, unlike most musicians during those fast-changing years, her appearance didn't change much.

Dusty Springfield - Alternate TV and Radio Appearances, Volume 1: 1963-1966

I previously posted a bunch of Dusty Springfield albums, all of which I called "On TV and Radio." Basically, she has an entire second discography in the 1960s and early 1970s composed on songs she performed on TV or radio but never put on any of her records. I've posted eight of those albums.

This is the start of a related but different series. It contains the songs she played on TV and radio that WERE also released on her records. There's no such thing as a live album from her peak years, not even a bootleg. Although these all are songs she'd released on singles and/or albums, they're different performances, and generally in front of a live audience, so this is as close to a live album of her famous songs as we're likely to get.

I had enough material for four such albums.

 It's surprising to me that she played songs she didn't record (eight albums' worth) on TV and radio more than the ones she did record (four albums' worth). But the ratio actually would be different if you consider that she tended to play some of her hit songs over and over again, such as "Son of a Preacher Man." I've only included one version of each. I tried to pick the ones that had the best sound quality and performance.

Five of the songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. That's because those are cases where BBC DJs spoke over some of the music. But I used the audio editing program X-Minus to remove their voices while keeping the underlying music.

This album is 40 minutes long.

01 Standing in the Need of Love (Dusty Springfield)
02 Stay Awhile - I Only Want to Be with You (Dusty Springfield)
03 I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself (Dusty Springfield)
04 La Bamba [Edit] (Dusty Springfield)
05 I Can't Hear You [No More] (Dusty Springfield)
06 Losing You [Edit] (Dusty Springfield)
07 Wishin' and Hopin' (Dusty Springfield)
08 All Cried Out (Dusty Springfield)
09 Mockingbird [Edit] (Dusty Springfield)
10 In the Middle of Nowhere (Dusty Springfield)
11 Who Can I Turn To [When Nobody Needs Me] [Edit] (Dusty Springfield)
12 Chained to a Memory [Edit] (Dusty Springfield)
13 Little by Little (Dusty Springfield)
14 You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (Dusty Springfield)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/5qT51Egi

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/7Rwj2BONpjv6lxh/file

The cover art photo comes from a TV performance in 1965.

In August 2025, I improved the cover detail with the help of the Krea AI program. 

Dusty Springfield - Dusty Sings Bacharach & David (1964-1970)

Here's something somewhat different, because it's mostly a repackaging of material I've posted already. Dusty Springfield was one of the best interpreters of songs written by the famous team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. She did enough of their songs to make an album-length compilation, yet no such album has ever been compiled... until now.

If you've been following this blog, you probably know that I've posted many Springfield albums already. She probably has as many unreleased songs from the 1960s and early 1970s as released songs, due to all the songs she did for TV and radio shows.

For this album, I've found 13 Bacharach and David songs she did (not counting the two bonus tracks, which I will get to in a minute). Eight of them included here were officially released. The other five are unreleased, and I've included those on my "On TV and Radio" series of albums for her. Two of the unreleased songs at the end of this album actually feature Burt Bacharach, with him playing piano, and the other a duet between Springfield and him. (Bacharach has done lots of recording and public perfomring while David, who wrote the lyrics, has not.) I didn't include Springfield's studio version of "The Look of Love" because I went with the version with Bacharach instead.

The sound quality is excellent for all the songs. There are two more unreleased songs that sound worse than that "The Love of a Boy" and "Wives and Lovers," so I've only included them as bonus tracks.

In conclusion, in my opinion, Bacharach and David were one of the great songwriting teams of all time, and their 1960s songs have a special charm. Dionne Warwick is the best known interpreter of their songs. But Springfield should be right up there with her. There really should be an official album like this, letting a listener hear all of her Bacharach and David covers together.

This album is 41 minutes long, not including the bonus tracks.

01 I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself (Dusty Springfield)
02 Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa (Dusty Springfield)
03 Anyone Who Had a Heart (Dusty Springfield)
04 Wishin' and Hopin' (Dusty Springfield)
05 [There's] Always Something There to Remind Me (Dusty Springfield)
06 Long After Tonight Is Over (Dusty Springfield)
07 [They Long to Be] Close to You (Dusty Springfield)
08 This Girl's in Love with You (Dusty Springfield)
09 Another Night (Dusty Springfield)
10 In the Land of Make Believe (Dusty Springfield)
11 I Say a Little Prayer (Dusty Springfield)
12 Knowing When to Leave (Dusty Springfield)
13 The Look of Love (Dusty Springfield with Burt Bacharach)
14 A House Is Not a Home (Dusty Springfield & Burt Bacharach)

The Love of a Boy (Dusty Springfield)
Wives and Lovers (Dusty Springfield)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/h45GkXLN

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/aULPFGYdNwIGW7N/file

The cover art photo comes from a TV appearance Springfield and Bacharach did together in 1970. The last two songs here come from that same appearance.

In August 2025, I improved the cover detail with the help of the Krea AI program. 

Dusty Springfield - Sweet Inspiration - Non-Album Tracks (1970-1974)

This is the last of my Dusty Springfield stray tracks albums.

I'm a really big fan of her music in the 1960s through the early 1970s. But in the mid-1970s, she moved to the US and lived several years with a very low profile. She apparently was depressed and used a lot of drugs. Her music career slowly petered out due to poor sales and her own distractions. She put out albums in 1972 and 1973, but she also had albums she finished in 1971 and 1974 ("Faithful" and "Longing" respectively) that didn't get released. (Both came out much later.)

In 1976, Elton John wanted to sing a duet with her, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart." But she wasn't up for it due to her problems, so Kiki Dee sang it instead. It went to number one in the US and Britain and pretty much everywhere else. However, in 1978 she started to come back with a new album. She regularly released music in the 1980s and 1990s, until her early death of cancer in 1999. She even had a few big hits, mostly with the help of the Pet Shop Boys.

Unfortunately, I don't like much of her later music. In my opinion, many great musicians of the 1960s and 1970s lost the plot due to disco in the late 1970s, followed by the bad production techniques of the 1980s. I think Springfield is a classic example. She might have still sung well, but I usually can't get past the production issues.

So this album is kind of a last hurrah for me. I recommend you get her four early 1970s albums ("Faithful," "See All Her Faces," "Cameo," and "Longing"). This is meant to scoop up whatever didn't get released on those.

The vast majority of the songs here are outtakes from various album sessions that didn't get released until much later. The only still-unreleased song is her theme to "The Six Million Dollar Man." Apparently, this was used for two made-for-TV movies that served as warm-ups for the hit TV show.

"Corner of the Sky" is also an interesting case. Springfield wanted to record this for her 1974 album "Longing." But she only did some of the vocals before giving up. Petula Clark came along many years later and sang the missing parts, turning it into a duet.

This album is only 33 minutes long.

01 Sweet Charlie (Dusty Springfield)
02 Something for Nothing (Dusty Springfield)
03 Sweet Inspiration (Dusty Springfield)
04 Go My Love (Dusty Springfield)
05 A Song for You (Dusty Springfield)
06 Nothing Is Forever (Dusty Springfield)
07 O-o-h Child (Dusty Springfield)
08 What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life (Dusty Springfield)
09 Sea and Sky (Dusty Springfield)
10 The Six Million Dollar Man (Dusty Springfield)
11 Corner of the Sky (Dusty Springfield & Petula Clark)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vXqPMbvV

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/XdAR76ZOMkWcSh7/file

For the cover art, I found a nice photo from late 1970. I also added in the record company logo, since her albums from that time period did that.

Dusty Springfield - Am I the Same Girl? - Non-Album Tracks (1969-1970)

I've said several times in this blog that Dusty Spingfield's 1960s discography is a confusing mess. And that's not even considering her parallel career of numerous TV and radio appearances, where she did a whole different set of songs (check out my "On TV and Radio" series for that).

This is the last of my 1960s stray tracks albums for her. If you download this, plus all my previously posted stray tracks albums for her, and you get all of her official British albums, you should have literally everything she recorded in the 1960s.

Just to be clear, these are the 1960s albums I have NOT posted here, since they're fine as they are:

Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty (1965)
Where Am I Going (1967)
Dusty ... Definitely (1968)
Dusty in Memphis (1969)

On top of that, I've posted six stray tracks collections, including this one. I posted the stray tracks albums out of order, so it's easy to get confused. Just download everything from her and you'll be fine. ;)

Now that's spelled out, let's get to the music on this album. The first eight songs are from singles, with six out of those eight being A-sides. The remaining five songs are songs that were officially released later, as bonus tracks or on archival releases.

Given the large number of A-sides, it's a safe bet this is a pretty solid album, even if a lot of her singles weren't big hits. (She was entering a period of commercial decline, with a few exceptions, probably because her musical style and looks became increasingly out of step with the more wild hippie trends of the time.) In fact, I'd go so far to say that there's usually little difference between the quality of her album tracks and non-album tracks, because she was a perfectionist with everything she did.

Anyway, note that this does not include all of her stray tracks from 1970. I have some more of those on the next stray tracks of hers that I'll be posting. 

This album is 36 minutes long.

01 Willie and Laura Mae Jones (Dusty Springfield)
02 That Old Sweet Roll [Hi-De-Ho] (Dusty Springfield)
03 Am I the Same Girl (Dusty Springfield)
04 Earthbound Gypsy (Dusty Springfield)
05 I Wanna Be a Free Girl (Dusty Springfield)
06 What Good Is I Love You (Dusty Springfield)
07 Morning Please Don't Come (Dusty Springfield)
08 How Can I Be Sure (Dusty Springfield)
09 What Do You Do When Love Dies (Dusty Springfield)
10 Cherished (Dusty Springfield)
11 Goodbye (Dusty Springfield)
12 Richest Girl Alive (Dusty Springfield)
13 Summer Love (Dusty Springfield)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15833911/DstySpr_1969-1970_AmISmeGirl_atse.zip.html

For the cover art, I chose the cover of one of the covers for her "Am I the Same Girl" single. I cleaned it up and removed some text on it, such as the name of the B-side.

Dusty Springfield - OoooooWeeee!!! - Alternate Version (1965)

As I've explained in other posts, Dusty Springfield's discography is very confusing for the first couple of years of her solo career, due to the haphazard way her songs were released. In short, the American and British albums were generally totally different, and some songs were released in the US and not Britain, and vice versa.

I'm considering her British albums the ones to get. So, if you want all of her 1965 studio recordings, you need to do two things. One, get her British album "Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty." I'm not posting that here because it's fine as it is. Two, get this collection of stray tracks. I'm calling it "OoooooWeeee!!!" because that was the title of an American album in 1965 that gathered up many of her stray tracks. But this goes beyond that, and adds the rest of her stray tracks from that year.

By chance, this album ends up being very similar to her "Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty." Both are 36 minutes long, and have 13 songs each. Both have some hit songs mixed in with lesser known album tracks. I'd say both are very comparable in terms of musical quality.

01 Some of Your Lovin' (Dusty Springfield)
02 Needle in a Haystack (Dusty Springfield)
03 Here She Comes (Dusty Springfield)
04 Now that You're My Baby (Dusty Springfield)
05 If Wishes Could Be Kisses (Dusty Springfield)
06 I'll Love You for a While (Dusty Springfield)
07 I Wanna Make You Happy (Dusty Springfield)
08 Your Hurtin' Kind of Love (Dusty Springfield)
09 I Want Your Love Tonight (Dusty Springfield)
10 Go Ahead On (Dusty Springfield)
11 I Will Always Want You (Dusty Springfield)
12 In the Middle of Nowhere (Dusty Springfield)
13 Heartbeat (Dusty Springfield)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/2JjaE1eR

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/z3IjhXJYDdYKUyq/file

For the cover art, I used the cover to the US album "OoooooWeeee!!!" However, there was a problem in that all the song titles were listed on the cover, and the song list here is very different. Luckily, the song list was in an unimportant background area (below the word "Dusty" and behind her head), so I airbrushed the words away.

In August 2025, I improved the cover detail with the help of the Krea AI program. 

Dusty Springfield - Dusty - Alternate Version (1964)

Now that I've posted Dusty Springfield's 1964 album "A Girl Called Dusty," I want to post this, to kind of explain the method to my madness.

As I mentioned in my last post, Springfield's discography is confusing for her first couple of years, due to some songs being released only in the US and other songs being released only in Britain. In 1964, "A Girl Called Dusty" was the only album released in Britain, while the albums "Stay Awhile / I Only Want to Be with You" and "Dusty" were released in the US. "Stay Awhile / I Only Want to Be with You" draws heavily from "A Girl Called Dusty." But there's no British parallel to "Dusty." So this album is largely based on that, but with lots of additional songs added.

Basically, everything on this album comes from British A-sides, B-sides, and EP tracks. A bunch of them were put on the US version of "Dusty." Plus, there are two songs that were released on US albums, but never were released in Britain until when they were made bonus tracks decades later. At the time British record companies generally figured that if a song came out on a single or EP, it wasn't fair to have the consumer buy it again on album, whereas American record companies didn't care. Springfield was putting out so many songs on singles and EPs that there would be yet another American album gathering them up before she would release another British album.

In terms of musical content, this is solid stuff, because Springfield was generally saving her best material for her singles.

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 Stay Awhile (Dusty Springfield)
02 Something Special (Dusty Springfield)
03 All Cried Out (Dusty Springfield)
04 I Wish I'd Never Loved You (Dusty Springfield)
05 Can I Get a Witness (Dusty Springfield)
06 Summer Is Over (Dusty Springfield)
07 Don't Say It Baby (Dusty Springfield)
08 Guess Who (Dusty Springfield)
09 Live It Up (Dusty Springfield)
10 I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself (Dusty Springfield)
11 Every Day I Have to Cry (Dusty Springfield)
12 Standing in the Need of Love (Dusty Springfield)
13 He's Got Something (Dusty Springfield)
14 If It Hadn't Been for You (Dusty Springfield)
15 Losing You (Dusty Springfield)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/h2bH3cBu

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/tgR9y6kRCZzrhes/file

For the cover art, I wanted to use the cover of the "Dusty" album. But there was a problem, in that the photo of Springfield used on it was the exact same photo as the one on the cover of "A Girl Called Dusty," only cropped and sized differently. So instead, I found a different photo of her from 1964, then copied over the exact text and fonts and record company logos from the "Dusty" album.

In August 2025, I improved the cover detail with the help of the Krea AI program. 

Dusty Springfield - A Girl Called Dusty - Alternate Version (1964)

I've been posting Dusty Springfield albums in a seemingly random order, and that trend continues here. My problem was that I wasn't sure how to organize the first couple of years of her career. But I've finally sorted that out, and I can post that stuff, starting with this, her first album.

Springfield's first few albums are a confusing mess to sort out, because not only where the American and British versions different, but there were songs only released in the US in the 1960s, and other songs only released in Britain in the 1960s. And later on, both American and British albums had unique bonus tracks added to them. Maybe the point was the get the consumer to buy albums from both countries, despite lots of overlap. I'm trying to fix that by treating the British albums seriously and using the US albums only as fodder for stray tracks.

I wasn't sure whether to post this particular album or not, because it doesn't actually differ that much from the British album "A Girl Called Dusty," which is included here in full. But I've added extra songs, and this time in her career is very confusing.

I've included "I Only Want to Be with You." That song was a number four hit in Britain and a top ten hit (or nearly so) in many other countries, including the US. Its success allowed her to have a prominent and successful solo career right from the get-go. I've also included its B-side, "Once upon a Time."

That's followed by all of the British" A Girl Called Dusty" album, in order.

The bonus tracks are my three favorite songs from the Springfields, the band Dusty Springfield was in before going solo. I could have added more, but the focus here is on her solo career, and I just wanted to include the bare minimum of Springfield songs to mark their place in her career. Plus, to be honest, I'm not that big of a fan of the Springfields ' music. I think Dusty was much better served singing solo than being part of a vocal harmony group.

This album is 37 minutes long, not including the bonus tracks.

01 I Only Want to Be with You (Dusty Springfield)
02 Once upon a Time (Dusty Springfield)
03 Mama Said (Dusty Springfield)
04 You Don't Own Me (Dusty Springfield)
05 Do Re Mi [Forget about the Do and Think about Me] (Dusty Springfield)
06 When the Lovelight Starts Shining through His Eyes (Dusty Springfield)
07 My Coloring Book (Dusty Springfield)
08 Mockingbird (Dusty Springfield)
09 Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa (Dusty Springfield)
10 Nothing (Dusty Springfield)
11 Anyone Who Had a Heart (Dusty Springfield)
12 Will You Love Me Tomorrow (Dusty Springfield)
13 Wishin' and Hopin' (Dusty Springfield)
14 Don't You Know (Dusty Springfield)

Breakaway (Springfields)
Island of Dreams (Springfields)
Silver Threads and Golden Needles (Springfields)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rdJdTyco

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/Rh239TVhREg50ee/file

The cover art is simply the cover of the "A Girl Called Dusty" album, unchanged.

In August 2025, I improved the cover detail with the help of the Krea AI program. 

Dusty Springfield - I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten - Non-Album Tracks (1968)

Dusty Springfield's statue has grown over the years, but her musical discography is still a mess. This is part of my effort to clean it up.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, she pretty much had a second career with all the songs she did on TV and radio. I made a seven album series on that called "On TV and Radio." I recommend you check it out if you haven't already, because almost all of it is still officially unreleased. But besides that, it turns out that many of her studio recordings never made it onto official albums at the time. There hasn't been any comprehensive archival releases to gather them all up either.

This album is a case in point. It gathers up all the stray tracks I could find from 1968. In my opinion, this album holds up with the official albums she put out around that time ("Dusty ... Definitely" in 1968 and the classic "Dusty in Memphis" in 1969). Seven of the 13 songs are A- or B-sides (plus an EP) that were released at the time, including the big hit "I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten." The rest came out years later on archival releases. You would have had to buy six different archival albums to get all the songs here!

This album is 36 minutes long.

01 Spooky (Dusty Springfield)
02 Sweet Ride (Dusty Springfield)
03 Meditation (Dusty Springfield)
04 Magic Garden (Dusty Springfield)
05 I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten (Dusty Springfield)
06 No Stranger Am I (Dusty Springfield)
07 I Will Come to You (Dusty Springfield)
08 The Colour of Your Eyes (Dusty Springfield)
09 Don't Speak of Love (Dusty Springfield)
10 Sweet Lover No More (Dusty Springfield)
11 It's Over (Dusty Springfield)
12 Wasn't Born to Follow (Dusty Springfield)
13 Midnight Sounds (Dusty Springfield)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15602636/DstySpr_1968_I_ClseMyEyesCounttoTn_atse.zip.html

The cover art this time is just the exact cover of the "I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten"singles cover. Actually, there were several different covers and I picked the one I liked the best.

Dusty Springfield - Goin' Back - Non-Album Tracks (1966-1967)

Dusty Springfield's studio recordings from the 1960s and 1970s are a mess. Generally, her British and American albums were very different, and there were all sorts of stray tracks, such as A- and B-sides of singles, and outtakes.

This particular album is made up almost entirely of A- and B-sides, with a couple of outtakes as the end. Strangely, there are eight A-sides compared to only four B-sides. (The other B-sides were also included on albums.) 

Springfield released an album in 1967, "Where Am I Going," and there's no overlap between that one and this one. As one can see here, the record company could have easily made another album just from all the A's and B's. And it's probably a stronger album, due to having so many A-side hits on it.

This album is 41 minutes long.

01 Little by Little (Dusty Springfield)
02 You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (Dusty Springfield)
03 Every Ounce of Strength (Dusty Springfield)
04 Goin' Back (Dusty Springfield)
05 I'm Gonna Leave You (Dusty Springfield)
06 All I See Is You (Dusty Springfield)
07 I'll Try Anything (Dusty Springfield)
08 The Corrupt Ones (Dusty Springfield)
09 Give Me Time (Dusty Springfield)
10 The Look of Love (Dusty Springfield)
11 What's It Gonna Be (Dusty Springfield)
12 Small Town Girl (Dusty Springfield)
13 I've Got a Good Thing (Dusty Springfield)
14 Time After Time (Dusty Springfield)
15 Don't Forget about Me [Unreleased 1967 Version] (Dusty Springfield)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15602647/DstySpr_1966-1967_GoinBck_atse.zip.html

I originally used the cover of the "Goin' Back" single for the album cover. I merely cleaned it up and removed some unnecessary text at the bottom. But I wasn't happy with it, and over a year later, I came up with a different cover that still used parts of the same green design as the single cover. I don't know where or when the photo was taken. 

I'm including the old cover here at the bottom, in case anyone prefers that one.

Dusty Springfield - On TV and Radio, Volume 7: 1970-1971

Here is the seventh of the Dusty Springfield albums that contains songs she only did on TV or the radio and never recorded in the studio. It's practically an entire alternate career for her in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Most of the previous albums in this series each covered one year, But this time, one album covers two years. That's because her popularity started to wane in the early 1970s, and she had fewer appearances on TV and radio. That would culminate in her recording an album in 1974 that her record company wouldn't release, and then her essentially going into retirement for a few years. So this marks the end of an era for her.

Every single song on this album is officially unreleased. By this time, her own series of British TV shows had come to an end. So these are generally appearances she made on the TV shows of other stars, such as Tom Jones, Lulu, Marty Feldman, and Englebert Humperdinck. 

The sound quality varies. It's not great, because these generally come from YouTube videos. But I didn't include anything I'd consider a tough listen.

This album is 41 minutes long.

01 Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Dusty Springfield & Engelbert Humperdinck)
02 Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon (Dusty Springfield)
03 I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (Dusty Springfield & Tom Jones)
04 Free the People (Dusty Springfield & Lulu)
05 Joy to the World (Dusty Springfield & Lulu)
06 A House Is Not a Home (Dusty Springfield & Burt Bacharach)
07 The Look of Love (Dusty Springfield with Burt Bacharach)
08 Rain (Dusty Springfield)
09 Sweet Sweetheart (Dusty Springfield & Tom Jones)
10 People Get Ready (Dusty Springfield)
11 It's Too Late (Dusty Springfield)
12 Take Me to the Pilot (Dusty Springfield)
13 Nothing Rhymed (Dusty Springfield)
14 Ain't No Sunshine (Dusty Springfield)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/bepCbbbR 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/4Bmw8FZxWikofD1/file

The cover photo is from an unknown 1972 TV show.

In August 2025, I improved the cover detail with the help of the Krea AI program.

Dusty Springfield - On TV and Radio, Volume 6: 1969-1970

Here's still more of Dusty Springfield's alternate career, playing songs on TV or the radio that she never put on any studio recording.

Dusty had soul! If you don't think so, just check out her cover of Jackie Wilson's "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher." And it took a lot of chutzpah to cover the Jackson Five's "I Want You Back." As usual, she nails it. She does show her more schmaltzy side here with some songs, such as her duets with Tom Jones and Burt Bacharach, but it's top notch schmaltz. ;)

The only officially released songs from this album are: "I Say a Little Prayer," "To Love Somebody," and "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher."

Note that one song here, "Those Blues - Goin' to Chicago" is a medley that was edited from an even longer medley. Right were Springfield stopped singing, the Osmond Brothers took over. The youngest Osmond at the time, who looked to be about five years old, had a solo spot that traumatized my ears. I've saved you from sharing that trauma, unless you think it's "cute" when little kids wail out of key. I edited this so the final chord rings out, hopefully giving the song a sense of completion.

This album is 41 minutes long.

01 Just Walk in My Shoes (Dusty Springfield)
02 Morning Please Don't Come (Dusty Springfield & Tom Springfield)
03 Ain't Nothin' but a House Party (Dusty Springfield)
04 I Say a Little Prayer (Dusty Springfield)
05 Love Is like an Itching in My Heart (Dusty Springfield)
06 You've Made Me So Very Happy (Dusty Springfield)
07 Those Blues - Goin' to Chicago [Edit] (Dusty Springfield & Andy Williams)
08 Melting Pot (Dusty Springfield & Cilla Black)
09 [Your Love Keeps Lifting Me] Higher and Higher (Dusty Springfield)
10 To Love Somebody (Dusty Springfield)
11 I'll Never Find Another You - Georgy Girl - A World of Our Own (Dusty Springfield)
12 I Want You Back (Dusty Springfield)
13 Knowing When to Leave (Dusty Springfield)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/e2mq6HCY 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/NuBlyc7huJ9Qh8i/file

I'm not sure exactly when the cover photo is from, but I'd guess around 1970.

In August 2025, I improved the cover detail with the help of the Krea AI program.

Dusty Springfield - On TV and Radio, Volume 5: 1969

This is the next in my series of Dusty Springfield's TV and radio appearances. As with the others in the series, I'm only including songs that she never did on any of her studio releases. (There are a couple exceptions when she did a song in a very different way, such as a duet.)

Yes, she does have a mainstream show biz streak, but I think what's most interesting about this album is how it highlights her ability to sing soul music. Probably just by chance, it's mostly made up of soul covers, including a long soul medley. Not a lot of people would dare cover a soul stomper like "25 Miles" by Edwin Starr, but she does. She even did a Sly and the Family Stone song this year - "Sing a Simple Song" - though unfortunately that was one of the few covers she did that I couldn't find.

Only four of the songs were officially released: "It's Your Thing," "Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Since You've Been Gone [Sweet Sweet Baby] - To Love Somebody - People Got to Be Free," "I Heard It through the Grapevine," and "Angel of the Morning." These all were on the "Goin' Back" box set.

This album is 39 minutes long.

01 A Banda - Going to the Zoo (Dusty Springfield, Tom Springfield & Julie Felix)
02 For Once in My Life (Dusty Springfield)
03 I'm a Believer (Dusty Springfield)
04 It's Your Thing (Dusty Springfield)
05 Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Since You’ve Been Gone [Sweet Sweet Baby] - To Love Somebody - People Got to Be Free (Dusty Springfield)
06 Reflections (Dusty Springfield)
07 Private Number (Dusty Springfield & Jimmy Ruffin)
08 Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' (Dusty Springfield)
09 I Heard It through the Grapevine (Dusty Springfield)
10 25 Miles (Dusty Springfield)
11 Why Don't You Do Right - Alright, Okay, You Win (Dusty Springfield)
12 Angel of the Morning (Dusty Springfield)
13 Games People Play (Dusty Springfield)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/kKByWPvQ

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/7PFuEpGkHCRqypU/file

I couldn't find a good color photo from 1969. This one comes from an appearance on Top of the Pops in early 1970. I changed the background from yellow to orange, because the yellow was too similar to the yellow of the text (which I've kept the same for all the albums in this series), as well as the yellow of her sweater.