Monday, May 28, 2018

Dusty Springfield - On TV and Radio, Volume 4: 1968

Here's the next Dusty Springfield. As with the others in this series, she played so many songs on TV and radio that were never recorded by her in the studio that it's enough for roughly one album per year in the late 1960s.

I think this is really good and interesting music. I mean, on this album alone, she does duets with Scott Walker and Jimi Hendrix! The rest is mostly very capable covers of big soul hits of the day.

Although I must say the cover of "Hold On, I'm Coming" is strange. The chorus is the same, but for some reason the verses were changed, including weird new lyrics.

Absolutely none of the songs here were officially released. All but one were from Springfield's 1967 British TV show, "It Must Be Dusty." That other one, "There Will Never Be Another You," is from an appearance she did on another TV show.

The album is 40 minutes long, which is an ideal length for that era. I didn't plan it that way, but it's neat how well the album lengths in this series all could have made these actual albums at the time.

01 You Keep Me Hangin' On (Dusty Springfield)
02 Come Back Baby (Dusty Springfield)
03 Let It Be Me (Dusty Springfield & Scott Walker)
04 Nikki Hoeky (Dusty Springfield)
05 There Will Never Be Another You (Dusty Springfield)
06 Don't Fight It (Dusty Springfield)
07 Sweet Soul Music (Dusty Springfield)
08 Hold On, I'm Coming (Dusty Springfield)
09 This Could Be the Start of Something Big (Dusty Springfield & Georgie Fame)
10 Mockingbird (Dusty Springfield & Jimi Hendrix)
11 As Long as I Live (Dusty Springfield)
12 Island of Dreams (Dusty Springfield)
13 Think (Dusty Springfield)
14 Cielito Lindo (Dusty Springfield & Tom Springfield)
15 [You Make Me Feel Like] A Natural Woman (Dusty Springfield)
16 Manha de Carnaval (Dusty Springfield with John Sangster)
17 Sneakin' Up on You (Dusty Springfield)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15328004/DstySpr_1968_OnTVRdioVolme4_atse.zip.html

I don't know where or when the cover photo comes from exactly, but I'd guess it's around 1968.

3 comments:

  1. Hi Paul, link doesn't work for this album, and neither for " Dusty Alternate TV and Radio Appearances" vol 1, vol 2 & vol 3.
    Should you reup please ?
    By the way congratulations and many thanks for all the fabulous music you post on this blog.

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    1. Thanks for pointing that out. I just fixed those. I also did a search and discovered about 20 more Imagenetz links mysteriously disappeared. I'm working on replacing those as well.

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  2. The four links are working now, thank you very mutch Paul.

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