Are there any Dusty Springfield fans out there
By sunshine007
@sunshine007 (100)
United States
July 30, 2012 1:55am CST
I just love Dusty Springfield she was a white R&B singer and boy could she sing. Her voice had a rhaspdy sound to it and when she she sings the look of love is on her face -- her voice sounds like the sax it is so good -- I loved her for her personality and her way of presenting herself playfully with the audience -- she sang from her heart -- I wish we would have heard her more on the radio -- I would definitely put Dusty under pop although some of her songs would definitely belong under R&B. Any thoughts or comments shoot them my way!
2 responses
@sunshine007 (100)
• United States
30 Jul 12
Oh yeah I love this song it was written by Richard Carpenter and he sings backup on this. This is one of my all time favorites the song just grows on you. Something in your eyes I see is all I ever wanted and something in your smile for me....her and Richard Carpenter I thought did quite well together it's too bad they didn't get together sooner -- I feel most of Dusty's life was waiting for her big break and she never took advantage of those small breaks to capitalize on them -- she could have had it all (is that Adele's line) if she had struck her chords in Nashville. They wanted her but Dusty just wasn't quite sure of what Dusty wanted --- she was always searching for the greener pastures and not quite finding them. Soul was right there in the South just within her grasp and she recorded there but somehow felt destiny pushing her back home to England and then she wanted to settle down in busy LA -- hoping to make it big there. Dusty I think wanted to be all over the place and just never could quite fit in. She was always on the outside looking in --
@Axai2012 (371)
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30 Jul 12
I did not realize that she sang the Son of the Preacher. I just looked her up and you are right, she can SANGG. I can listen to her all day.
@sunshine007 (100)
• United States
30 Jul 12
She did do Son of a Preacher Man but Aretha Franklin made it big and Dusty said she wished she had paused it the way Aretha did because that made the song -- Dusty had done so many cover songs each unique and she made them her own. Now the Son of the Preacher Man version that I remember when I was growing up was by Bobbie Gentry -- another great artist from the 60s..
