Spiritual Songs with SPRINGFIELD keep Revolving

Spring gets closer, but Dusty Springfield is already close to my ears. Here's her songs which I heard the most times, or returned to most often during life.

Dusty's last comeback "Reputation" was released when I was a teenager. But one of the very first pieces for grown-ups that I ever listened to, "You don't have to say you love me", frightened me a bit as a four year old boy. Well, almost everything she's sung is more cheerful than that, and contains less heavy, haunting orchestra. Anyhow it became her greatest hit, strangely enough composed by italian(?) persons, who never continued to fill her table like Bacharach, Goffin & King did.

Main part of these pieces are made 1966-73. Later it gets pretty hard to find pure sunlight, but there are some glimpses on every album you possibly could choose. All comes down to the fact that Dusty worked with several of the best songwriters in the world. Yet I don't prefer her versions in many cases, especially those early where girls groups and motown artists have made them more soulful.

My most intense Springfield-period turned up in summer of 2003 (inspired by a fiend and singer Iris). And still many are left to discover... In big lines this list mirrors how good I believe the songs are.




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YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME

[Pino Donaggio, Giuseppe Donaggio,
Vito Pallavicini, Vicki Wickham,
Simon Napier-Bell]


1

THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND

[Legrand, Bergman & Bergman]


2

THE OTHER SIDE OF LIFE

[David Gates]


3

REPUTATION (Who cares what they're whispeing?)

[Brian Spence]


4

DON'T FORGET ABOUT ME

[Gerry Goffin & Carol King]


5

(I can't remember) THE COLOUR OF YOUR EYES

[Norma Tanega]


6

IN PRIVATE

[Pet Shop Boys]


7

SON OF A PREACHER MAN

[Hurley, Wilkins]


8

WISHIN' AND HOPIN'

[Burt Bacharach & Hal David]


9

LEARN TO SAY GOODBYE

[Bradford Craig, Hugo Montenegro]


10

TURN ME AROUND

[Chi Coltrane]


11

I JUST WANNA BE THERE

[Nick Ashford, Valerie Simpson]


12

ANOTHER NIGHT

[Burt Bacharach & Hal David]


13

COME FOR A DREAM

[Norma Tanega, Dolores Duran, Antonio Carlos Jobim]


14

(if you can't love me forever) TAKE ME FOR A LITTLE WHILE

[Trade Martin]


15

(I AIN'T) MAMAS LITTLE GIRL

[Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter]


16

I JUST WANT TO STAY HERE (AND LOVE YOU)

[Goffin & King]


17

I'VE GOT A GOOD THING

[Mort Shuman]


18

IF IT DON'T WORK OUT

[Rod Argent]


19

I CAN'T GIVE BACK THE LOVE I FEEL FOR YOU

[Nick Ashford, Valerie Simpson, Brian Holland]


20

WHAT GOOD IS I LOVE YOU?

[Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Michael Rashkow, Phil Spector]


21

JUST A LITTLE LOVIN' (Early in the Mornin')

[Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil]


22

SUNNY

[Bobby Hebb]


23

I THINK IT'S GONNA RAIN TODAY

[Randy Newman]


24

BROKEN BLOSSOMS

[Tom Springfield]


25

DAYDREAMING

[Pet Shop Boys]


26

SANDRA

[Barry Manilow, Enoch Anderson]


27

WHERE AM I GOING?

[Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields]


28

I CLOSE MY EYES AND COUNT TO TEN
[Clive Westland]


29

WHAT ARE YOU DOING THE REST OF YOUR LIFE?

[Legrand, Bergman & Bergman]


30

IF YOU GO AWAY
[NE ME QUITTE PAS]

[Jacques Brel, Rod McKuen]


31

NO STRANGER AM I

[Norma Tanega]




Bonus growin'
which I only had heard with David Cassidy a hundred times...
...but now discover suits Dusty fantastic too!!


HOW CAN I BE SURE?

[Cavaliere, Brigati]



















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