Friday, May 25, 2018

Dusty Springfield - On TV and Radio, Volume 1: 1964-1966

I've got a lot of Dusty Springfield to post here. I know that at times she could be very cheesy in a mainstream show biz way, but most of the time she was just a really great singer performing quality songs. She's undoubtedly the only person to ever sing duets with Engelbert Humperdink AND Jimi Hendrix! ;)

One thing I've discovered about Springfield is that there essentially is an entire secret second discography of her prime 1960s and early 1970s material, if you dig deep enough. That's because she performed live on TV and radio a lot, and she just as often performed songs that she never put on record as she promoted her own records. It helped that she hosted her own British TV shows for several years in the late 1960s, and she did lots of covers of hits of the day and not just her own stuff.

I've searched all over and found so much material that I've created a series of albums containing nothing but songs that were NOT recorded on any studio track by her. Remarkably, I was able to create eight such albums, pretty much one per year in the late 1960s-early 1970s period.

I have no idea why this material remains so obscure. There is one album that has some popularity called "The Complete BBC Sessions." But that title is a joke, because it represents just a small portion of what she did for the BBC, especially if you include her many BBC TV show appearances. And I don't see a difference between what's on that and the rest, although sometimes the sound quality on the unreleased material isn't quite as good. 

Only three songs here are officially released: "Tossin' and Turnin'," "Uptight (Everything's Alright," and "Good Lovin'." Two of those songs have "[Edit]" in the title, because BBC DJs talked over the intros, but I was able to edit their voices out using X-Minus audio software.

Two songs are merely bonus tracks due to lesser sound quality.

This album is 44 minutes long, not including the two bonus tracks.

01 You're No Good (Dusty Springfield)
02 Deep Purple (Dusty Springfield)
03 The Love of a Boy (Dusty Springfield)
04 The House of the Rising Sun (Dusty Springfield)
05 Tossin' and Turnin' [Edit] (Dusty Springfield)
06 [There's] Always Something There to Remind Me (Dusty Springfield)
07 Baby I Need Your Loving (Dusty Springfield)
08 New Orleans (Dusty Springfield)
09 Nobody but You (Dusty Springfield)
10 Dancing in the Street (Dusty Springfield)
11 Can't You Hear My Heartbeat (Dusty Springfield)
12 Wishin' and Hopin' (Dusty Springfield & Martha Reeves)
13 Round Every Corner (Marvin Gaye, Dusty Springfield & Bruce Scott)
14 Uptight [Everything's Alright] [Edit] (Dusty Springfield)
15 Rescue Me (Dusty Springfield)
16 Wives and Lovers (Dusty Springfield)
17 Good Lovin' (Dusty Springfield)

It's All Right (Dusty Springfield)
Turn On Your Lovelight (Dusty Springfield)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16066666/DstySpr_1964-1966_OnTVRdioVolme1_atse.zip.html

I don't know the exact where or when of the cover photo, but I'm guessing it's from about 1965.

2 comments:

  1. Paul,
    Just discovered this brilliant site...thanks a million, great work. Quick request - any chance of re-upping 'Dusty Springfield - On TV and Radio, 1964-1965'. The links lead to 'file not found'. Thanks again.

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