in memoriam--dusty springfield

[niyad]

[hlthe2b]

1. Nice.. I was just thinking about her the other day... such a beautiful, yet unique voice

A sad loss to breast cancer all too early...

RIP, Ms. Springfield. You are missed.

[In_The_Wind]

2. May she rest in peace.

[dipsydoodle]

3. My wife Morag 1963 mimicing a Dusty Springfield album cover.

Morag died January 1990.

[msongs]

6. lovely pic, thanks for sharing nt

[malaise]

10. Lovely

We used to sing all her songs but this was my favourite

[HughBeaumont]

18. Ever heard this version?

This whole album is amazing.

[malaise]

22. Hubby has that album

Issac Hayes was and is loved here in Jamaica.

[CTyankee]

29. His theme from Shaft continues to impress me...

IIRC, he passed a few years ago...

[Eleanors38]

40. Yes! An excellent version. That song demands you stretch your range, musically and emotionally.

He more than meets the challenge.

[PearliePoo2]

4. Dusty!

This song is one of my all time favs:

"Son Of A Preacher Man"

Wish I knew how to embed a video of her singing this song...

[ColumbusLib]

5. Yep

That is one great tune!

[smokey775]

7. Here she is.

[PearliePoo2]

15. Hey...THANKS!

What a blast from the past and my youth long ago.
She is a beautiful woman with a voice I'll always love.
Her songs take me back to another lifetime indeed!

[classof56]

24. Another BIG THANKS for this, Smokey775

Boy, does this take me back. Can't count the number of times I sang along with Dusty and her incomparable version of Son of a Preacher Man. Loved her other songs, as well, but this one rose straight to the top of my list.

Thanks again and welcome to DU

[CTyankee]

27. My kids used to think that song was "Son of a Pizza Man."

They used to sing it loudly in the car...always cracked me up...kinda makes sense, we used to have pizza delivered a lot in those days...Dobbs Ferry had a terrific pizza place in town...

[Unrepentant Fenian]

8. That's sad, just her name brings back happy memories. R.I.P. nt

[KT2000]

9. How sad.

Loved singing along with her - we shared the same range.
RIP Dusty

[flygal]

11. Oh heck yes Dusty!

I loved her and even the stuff she did in the late eighties (with Pet Shop Boys and Richard Carpenter).

[malaise]

12. That brings back so many memories

She sure had a lovely voice

[Are_grits_groceries]

13. Sigh...Another voice from my past who sang part of the soundtrack of my life is gone.

Miss her always!
In memoriam:

[shenmue]

14. She is awesome!

I love her.

[avaistheone1]

16. LOved her!

[Samantha]

17. I always loved Dusty's music and am so sad to hear we lost her

What a beautiful woman, amazing voice.

Sam

[frazzled]

19. Dusty in Memphis: one of best albums evah

All of her great hits, but backed by the best Memphis studio musicians:

The Memphis sessions at the American Sound Studios were recorded by the A team of Atlantic Records. It included producers Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin, the back-up singers Sweet Inspirations and the instrumental band Memphis Cats, led by guitarist Reggie Young and bassist Tommy Cogbill. The Memphis Cats had previously backed Wilson Pickett, King Curtis and Elvis Presley.

For pure camp, "Breakfast in Bed"

[Little_Wing]

20. If there is a sexier love song than The Look of Love

i don't know what it could be :::fans self:::

Love and miss her so much.

[CTyankee]

30. Oh, yes! OMG, that was one helluva sexy song...steamy...

[Drew Richards]

32. So true one of the most romantic of all times its now playing in my head...

[calimary]

34. "The Look of Love" !!!

Oh yeah - pretty damn sizzling if you ask me! Her voice was really something. Kinda like a thick cashmere throw for your eardrums.

[FailureToCommunicate]

36. So true, so true! I first heard it in the Bond send-up "Casino Royale"

in a scene with Peter Sellers and Ursalla Andress...

[Little_Wing]

39. I love that scene (& movie!)

[Eleanors38]

47. A Bacharach/David song. A lot of versions were popular.

[Drew Richards]

21. Rule #11 on how to know when you've hit the point of being old...

All the music you listen to is from dead artists....

RIP DUSTY...

Are-grits-groceries said it best...she was part of the sound track of our lives....

[HomerRamone]

25. You think Madonna will be remembered as fondly by the next generation?

Sometimes it isn't just nostalgia, things really *were* better before...

[Lifelong Protester]

26. I'm in your camp on this

some things just WERE better.

[Drew Richards]

31. I agree but then we grew up with artists that could sing with or without accompanyment.

[Eleanors38]

42. Springfield was great. Madonna will be right up there...

You can put both artists' "best hits," open the windows, and blast right across West Texas at night and never skip a selection.

[dhill926]

23. such a sense of longing in her voice...

loved her...

[llmart]

28. Oh, my does that bring back a vivid memory for me......

I'm 18 and the very first love of my life drove me home from work and stood in my kitchen and told me he was breaking up with me because I was "too mature" for him. (He was three years older than I was.) He left and I turned on the radio in the kitchen and that song came on.

Every time I hear this I think of how awfully young I was and how devastated I was (well, at least until the next guy came along

[CherokeeDem]

33. Loved Dusty....

She and Patsy Cline will always be my favorite female singers...

My favorite of Dusty's songs was "I Only Want To Be With You." Remains one of my top five songs to this day....

She was an amazing talent we loss way too soon.

RIP Dusty and thanks for the music...


BTW.... Anyone remember Cilla Black? I loved her "You're My World." She went on to be a presenter on British TV. Those were some great times... and some great artist and music came from those days.

[calimary]

37. OMG - Cilla Black!

And Dusty Springfield. And Petula Clark.

GREAT times. Back when you were spotting them on TV and in "A Hard Day's Night" and in fan magazines and ads for Yardley of London… Back when the other role models were Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton and Patti Boyd, and fashion was all about Mary Quant… DAYUM! Loved those times!

[CherokeeDem]

38. The best memories ever...

I had a dress that was so Mary Quant, loved it and wore it out... I only wore Yardley of London (my first perfume), and to this day, use Yardley lavender soap. Was a major, major Beatles fan... saw them in Atlanta... still one of the highlights of my life.... and the fan magazines.... they were the holy grail.

My father loves Petula Clark to this day.. Downtown his favorite record.

Good, good times indeed...

[Eleanors38]

44. Pet Clark's "Don't Sleep in the Subway" was one tough song.

[calimary]

53. Shit - I used to keep a running count of how many different Beatles pictures I owned.

Every page of every "16" and "Tiger Beat" and "Dig" magazine! I gave up after a couple of thousand.

Saw the Beatles in Vegas and at the Hollywood Bowl. Didn't hear a thing! Too busy screaming my lungs out! But who cared? Even brought jelly babies!

Do you remember that little eye-shadow/highlighter thingie that Yardley of London sold - less than two inches high, with that white and horizontal striped design. There was this little hinged top that you could flick open with your thumb, and it had a teeny little mirror in the lid. And the top compartment was a cream highlighter. THEN - even cooler - there were one or two little bitty "drawers" underneath it that you could slide open with another flick of your thumb, and one would be black or dark brown - that was the eyeliner, and then another one would be some color of cake eye shadow.

HEAVENLY!!!! Whoever came up with that obscenely-clever design was a GENIUS!!!! It was such a neat little thing - like a toy for makeup lovers! And with it you could have brow bones like Jean Shrimpton! Sigh… Wonder whatever happened to mine? Probably somewhere in my stuff. I know for sure I did NOT throw it out. MUCH too cool to toss! Even when you'd used up the stuff the mirror still worked and you could still play with it.

Thinking about it here - now I want another one! Wonder if they have 'em on Ebay?

[CherokeeDem]

55. I had everything...

Belonged to the Beatles Fan Club (VP of our local chapter here!) and had those little floppy vinyl 45s they sent to fans. Couldn't get enough stuff. My friends and I even took a movie camera and made films like we were the Beatles. Embarrassed here, but we formed a cover band and performed at various functions and parties as the Beatles... lip-synching their songs. I had to be John, because my friend Jane was left-handed, so she got to be Paul. We were young, foolish and had a blast!

I remember that makeup container!!! I had one, but my mom wouldn't let me wear the makeup outside the house... said I was too young. I bought it shopping with some friends... oh those days!!!

I'm like you... I want one again!!!

[calimary]

57. In grade school I had this very special bit of luck -

I was CRAAAAAZEEEEEEEEE for Paul McCartney. Annie was nuts for Ringo. Tara was into John Lennon and Kate loved George. And we were all close friends. So naturally we addressed each other as Mrs. Starkey, Mrs. Lennon, and Mrs. Harrison. And of course for moi - Mrs. McCartney.

Oh those days!!!! I bet you had white go-go boots, too. I sure did. Hell, we all did. They were EVERYWHERE (remember Lada Edmund Junior? The girl with the long crazy blonde pony-tail who danced in the cage on "Hullabaloo"?)! They wouldn't let you wear them to Cotillion, though. My friend Julie actually got sent home!

[Little_Wing]

56. Don't forget "Beatles Monthly"!

Have you seen "Good Ol' Freda"? It's a documentary all about the girl (woman) who ran the Beatles' fan club in England. Get it immediately! It is out on DVD and will bring back so many great memories about those days. (Do you remember the Christmas messages that came on a plastic record? Highly coveted among my sister fans, but sadly not that durable, especially since they got played a gazillion times )

I saw the Beatles three times: '64 and '66 in Detroit and '67 in Toronto (when they skipped Detroit). How I managed to convince my dad to drive me and three of my gfs to Toronto was one of the great achievements of my 16-year-old life. I have photos of Brian and Neil (Aspinal) who I ran into in the parking lot of the Maple Leaf Gardens.

Sadly I do not remember that particular Yardley product, but of course I owned and used most of them. Yardley was da bomb.

Good times, sister, good times!

[calimary]

58. "…deep and crisp and crispy!" I LOVED those Beatles Christmas Messages!

The GREATEST!!! Some record stores (remember when we had a lot of those?) had a "cut out" bin with bootlegs and other outlaw stuff in it. Somebody compiled all the Christmas messages into a bootleg album and a lot of those record stores had it. They were so funny!

[Little_Wing]

41. Oh yeah... the Mod look!

I used to make my sister iron my hair stick straight (especially my way too long bangs... now that is trust). England was the holy land for we Beatle People. Sigh. Such rich and wonderful memories.

[calimary]

54. And remember in "A Hard Day's Night" when Ringo was being interviewed at some

press reception, and was asked - "are you a Mod or a Rocker?" And he answered - "I'm a Mocker"!

I remember it so well! England really was the holy land for us Beatlemaniacs. And Liverpool was Mecca and Medina all rolled into one. My kid's band does a WICKED cover of "Come Together" - in my honor, I think. Both our kids grew up knowing and appreciating the Beatles. My son was the only one in his 4th grade class who knew about the Traveling Wilburys, and everyone who was in it, and why they were important. Blew his teacher away, and she fancied herself an expert on rock history.

[life long demo]

35. Thanks for the remembrance

Loved her singing and music. I will always believe that the best music ever was from the late 50's, 60's and 70's. EVER!

I checked Dusty's pictures that are on the internet, the hair styles. I kept saying I wore my hair like that. LOL. Gone but definitely not forgotten.

[Eleanors38]

46. I don't think social critics have begun to plumb the 60s...

This is not to say that these were the best of times, or even that it was a more creative era. It does mean to say that the dream that everyone would have dignity and control over their lives was a universal belief, from which the rest flowed. Perhaps this dream and belief is what is most missing, now.

[Eleanors38]

45. She died 15 years ago, this date.

[Kingofalldems]

48. This is her best song:

[PearliePoo2]

49. Well shoot, I'd forgotten about this one!

Yes, It is GREAT!

OK...off to Amazon to order what looks like the best compilation: "Just Dusty".
When it comes, I'll get a good bottle of red and sit back and remember!
Oh yeah, 1968 playing in the school jazz band, a blond boy named "Rick" right behind me in the horn section...all that trumpet playing gave him great lips....Oh my! LOL!

[pacalo]

50. One of the best voices ever!

My favorite Dusty Springfield song was "I Only Want to be With You" until I heard this one that was used in one of Oprah's book-of-the-month, made-for-tv movies:

[spanone]

51. she was an incredible performer.

thanks!!!

[niyad]

52. my deepest thanks to all of you who shared your memories with all of us. "the soundtrack of our

lives", indeed.