[4] Although she was never considered a Northern Soul artist in her own right, her efforts contributed a great deal to the formation of the genre as a result. [37] Among the tracks were "Mama Said", "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes", "You Don't Own Me", and "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa". [94][95] Tennant cites Dusty in Memphis as one of his favourite albums, and he leapt at the suggestion of using Springfield's vocals for "What Have I Done To Deserve This?". photojournalist. Choreographer: Ruth Pearson. In the 1960s she had a hit with the single "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog" and wrote songs for Dusty Springfield and other prominent musicians. [30] In November 1968, a similar fate befell Dusty... Definitely,[37][60] which was not issued in the US, though it reached the UK top 30. [121][122] In that same year, in the documentary, Dusty Springfield: Full Circle, guests of her 1965 Sound of Motown show credited Springfield's efforts with popularising US soul music in the UK.[123][124]. In 1988 a new compilation, The Silver Collection, was issued. Wearing a meringue dress, with her trademark panda eyes gleaming, this is Dusty Springfield on her ' wedding' day. [13], She was brought up in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire until the early 1950s, and later lived in Ealing. [142], In 2015, Springfield was named by Equality Forum as one of their 31 Icons of the 2015 LGBT History Month. This page was last edited on 20 December 2020, at 15:19. The song has a comforting, consoling lyric, sung with a soulful compassion in a definitive version by Dusty Springfield on her legendary 1969 LP Dusty in Memphis. 12. The first was 1978's It Begins Again, produced by Roy Thomas Baker. None of Springfield's recordings from 1971 to 1986 charted on the UK Top 40 or Billboard Hot 100.[30][31]. The beginning of 2017 brought another revival of interest in Springfield's music by the inclusion of the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" in Andy Wilman's The Grand Tour, featuring Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond. That part wasn’t particularly shocking—she’s one of the great gay icons, though I assumed it was more due to her drag-ready femininity. When her husband comes home And she changes from mother to wife 'Til she feels the words hanging between them And she hangs by her words to her life In the 1960s and early 1970s gay or bisexual performers "knew that being 'out' would lead to prurient media attention, loss of record contracts ... the tabloids became obsessively interested in the contents of celebrity closets". 14. It was written by, DeCurtis, Anthony. Her final live performance was on The Christmas with Michael Ball special in December 1995. [77] It earned Springfield a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1970. Alison Moyet's marital life has been full of ups and downs. Her friend Elton John helped induct her into the Hall of Fame, declaring, "I'm biased, but I just think she was the greatest white singer there ever has been ... every song she sang, she claimed as her own."[107][108]. 35 on the Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". 7 on the Adult Contemporary Singles Chart. (Thomas had collaborated with Jennifer Warnes on the original version, which was neither re-recorded with Warnes nor released as a single.) [37] Her performing career was limited to the UK touring circuit of working men's clubs, hotels and cabarets. [56] In the western US, the song was a Top 10 radio hit on stations KGB-AM, San Diego and KHJ-AM, Los Angeles, and earned Springfield her highest place in the year's music charts at No. She left behind her twelve year old pet cat, Nicholas. Dusty stood it on its head and made it a passionate lament of loneliness and love. Her zodiac sign is Aries. 3 on the UK chart. Copyright © 2020 Farlex, Inc. | Springfield brought many little-known soul singers to the attention of a wider UK record-buying audience by hosting the first national TV performance of many top-selling Motown artists beginning in 1965. Despite its current recognition, the album did not sell well and after relocating to America following its release, she experienced a career slump which lasted several years. Catherine died in a nursing home there in 1974 of lung cancer. She has been placed among the top 25 female artists of all time by readers of Mojo magazine (May 1999),[131] editors of Q magazine (January 2002),[132] and a panel of artists on VH1 TV channel (August 2007). [22], During periods of psychological and professional instability, Springfield's involvement in some intimate relationships, influenced by addiction, resulted in episodes of personal injury. [127][128] By the 1990s she had also become a camp icon,[111] with her ultra-glamorous look and this, combined with her emotive vocal performances, won her a powerful and enduring following in the gay community. Springfield was uncharacteristically proud of her 1982 album White Heat, which was influenced by new wave music. They became the UK's top selling act. They were popular in Britain in the 1960s and had a hit in the US, "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" in 1962. 2 on both the US and UK charts. [30] However, these were not included on her next UK album recorded with The Echoes, Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty, which was released in October 1965 and featured songs by Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley, Rod Argent, and Randy Newman, and a cover of the traditional Mexican song "La Bamba". [37] Hoping to reinvigorate her career and boost her credibility, she signed with Atlantic Records,[37] the label of her idol Aretha Franklin. 22. [36], On 17 April 1964 Springfield issued her debut album A Girl Called Dusty which included mostly covers of her favourite songs. 13 hit "I'll Try Anything", was broadcast in 1967. [42] The album peaked at No. [136] Universal Pictures scheduled another biopic with The West Wing's Kristin Chenoweth in the starring role,[136][137] however, according to Chenoweth, in January 2012, "[w]e had a script that needed a lot of work" and she did not know where the project was up to. Dusty in Memphis was a tremendous success. [35] On 1 January 1964, "I Only Want to Be with You" was one of the first songs played on Top of the Pops, BBC TV's new music programme. In the 1960s she topped a number of popularity polls, including Melody Maker's Best International Vocalist for 1966; in 1965 she was the first British singer to top the New Musical Express readers' polls for Female Singer, and topped that poll again in 1966, 1967, and 1969 as well as gaining the most votes in the British Singer category from 1964 to 1966. To boost her credibility as a soul artist, Springfield went to Memphis, Tennessee, to record Dusty in Memphis, an album of pop and soul music with the Atlantic Records main production team. ), The Memphis sessions at the American Sound Studio were produced by Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, and Arif Mardin;[65] with the back-up vocal band Sweet Inspirations; and the instrumental band Memphis Boys,[66] led by guitarist Reggie Young and bass guitarist Tommy Cogbill. Broadcast Thursdays on BBC1 at 9:00 pm (Except Episode 4 at 9:05 pm), Produced by Stanley Dorfman. [61] Its flip side, "No Stranger Am I", was co-written by Norma Tanega (an American-born singer-songwriter, who had a UK Top 30 hit with the novelty song "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog")[62] and Norma Kutzer. 4 hit with "I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten",[30] which was written by Clive Westlake. [88] She sang backing vocals with her friend Madeline Bell on two tracks on Elton John's 1971 hit album Tumbleweed Connection. For hairstyle and eye make-up described as "blonde bouffant and thick black Cleopatra eyeliner", see Taylor. Springfield returned to the studio with Pet Shop Boys, who produced her recording of their song "Nothing Has Been Proved", commissioned for the soundtrack of the 1989 drama film Scandal. [113][129] Besides the prototypical female for drag queens, she was presented in the roles of the 'Great White Lady' of pop and soul and the 'Queen of Mods'. Vocal backing: Lesley Duncan, Kay Garner & Sue Weetman. [68] Wexler felt Springfield had a "gigantic inferiority complex", and due to her pursuit of perfection, her vocals were re-recorded later in New York. Dusty Springfield’s biography has been revised and re-released two decades after the famous British singer’s death. [116] Quentin Tarantino caused a revival of interest in her music in 1994 by including "Son of a Preacher Man" on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, which sold over three million copies. [43], Dusty Springfield is a cultural icon of the Swinging Sixties where she "was an instantly recognisable celebrity". I simply cannot wait to play her." The single rose to No. During September and October 1969, Springfield hosted her third and final BBC musical variety series (her fourth variety series overall), Decidedly Dusty (co-hosted by Valentine Dyall). [143], Springfield's parents, Catherine and Gerard, lived in Hove, East Sussex from 1962. Among the hits that followed were "Wishin' and Hopin' " (1964), "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" (1964), "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (1966), and "Son of a Preacher Man" (1968). Directed by Robert Mulligan. [88] Springfield signed a contract with ABC Dunhill Records in 1972, and Cameo was issued in February 1973 to respectable reviews, though poor sales. [140] US singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne's tenth studio album Just a Little Lovin' (2008) was issued as a tribute. [24], Springfield left the band after their final concert in October 1963. Dusty Springfield was one of the greatest female singers Britain has ever produced, the voice of her generation – and a woman always ahead of her time. For image, hairstyle and make-up, see Smith. 6 in the UK in May 1964. [18][20], In 1960, Springfield left The Lana Sisters and formed a pop-folk trio, The Springfields, with Tom and Reshad Feild (both ex-The Kensington Squares), the latter of whom was replaced by Mike Hurst in 1962. From 28 to 30 January 1965, Springfield took part in the Italian Song Festival in San Remo, and reached a semi-final with "Tu che ne sai?" I had to get out of there". Broadcast Tuesdays on BBC1 at 9:05 pm. 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This resulted in the single "Sometimes Like Butterflies" and an appearance on Terry Wogan's TV chat show Wogan. [16] In the 1970s and early 1980s, Springfield's alcoholism and drug addiction affected her musical career. An editorial review at Publishers Weekly of Valentine and Wickham's 2001 biography, Dancing with Demons, finds that "the confidence [Springfield] exuded on vinyl was a facade masking severe insecurities, addictions to drink and drugs, bouts of self-harm and fear of losing her career if exposed as a lesbian". [101], In January 1994, while recording her penultimate album, A Very Fine Love, in Nashville, Tennessee, Springfield began feeling ill. Copyright 2000 Gale, Cengage Learning. [25], Dusty released her first solo single, "I Only Want to Be with You", which was co-written and arranged by Ivor Raymonde, in November 1963. Her mother Kay was born in Dublin, and grew up in Tralee, and Dusty’s grandfather, Maurice Patrick Ryle was a prominent journalist who edited the Irish Independent and Evening Herald in the 1920s. [40][53] Bell was a regular backing singer on early Springfield albums, and the pair co-wrote "I'm Gonna Leave You" with Lesley Duncan,[54] which appeared as the B-side of "Goin' Back". The catchphrase is: I can't love a man. The soundtrack version was released on 29 January 1967, the single version on 14 April. [11] Springfield's father, who had been raised in British India, worked as a tax accountant and consultant. Musical direction Johnny Pearson. 1 professional tennis player.King won 39 Grand Slam titles: 12 in singles, 16 in women's doubles, and 11 in mixed doubles. In May 2008, actress Nicole Kidman was announced as star and producer of a biographical film,[136] but, as of July 2012[update], it was yet to surface. CD Dusty Springfield’s Sessions for the Atlantic Label Rank as Some of the Greatest Pop-Soul Recordings of All Time In 1971, Dusty Recorded a Full Album and a Single Side for the Label with Famed Producer/Songwriter Jeff Barry, Husband and Songwriting Partner to Ellie Greenwich and Author [144] In 1979, Gerard died of a heart attack in Rottingdean, East Sussex. [31][32] The B-side, "Once Upon a Time", was written by Springfield. In 1987, she accepted an invitation from Pet Shop Boys to duet with their lead singer, Neil Tennant, on the single "What Have I Done to Deserve This?". [22][74] However, by 2001, the album had received the Grammy Hall of Fame award, and was listed among the greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone,[69] and in polls by VH1 artists, New Musical Express readers, and Channel 4 viewers. 'House of Mirrors' trial of porn star pal. [22] After the Springfields disbanded, Tom continued songwriting and producing for other artists, including Australian folk-pop group The Seekers, mid-1960s hits "I'll Never Find Another You" and "The Carnival is Over" (lyrics only), and he co-wrote their "Georgy Girl". The widow of gay DJ Kenny Everett has revealed for the first time how pop star Dusty was left disfigured and needing plastic surgery after a fight with her lesbian lover. The cut version can be heard in the fifth episode of the show. [96] She also appeared on the promotional video. A marker dedicated to her memory was placed in the church graveyard. Springfield recorded the Bacharach-David composition "The Look of Love" for the James Bond parody film Casino Royale. [113] She sang in a variety of styles, mostly pop, soul, folk, Latin, and rock'n'roll. [150] In 1981 she had a six-month love affair with singer-musician Carole Pope of the rock band Rough Trade. [45][46] It was released in March 1966 and reached No. Repeated multiple times on BBC Choice and BBC Three. It was announced by BBC TV that the greatest female artist to ever come out of Britain died March 2, 1999. On 12 January 2006 an Australian stage musical, Dusty – The Original Pop Diva, received its world premiere at the State Theatre of the Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne. Recordings were released in French, German, and Italian: her French works include a 1964 four-track extended play with "Demain tu peux changer" (aka "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"), "Je ne peux pas t'en vouloir" ("Losing You"), "L'été est fini" ("Summer is Over") and "Reste encore un instant" ("Stay Awhile");[125] German recordings include the July 1964 single, "Warten und hoffen" ("Wishin' and Hopin' ") backed with "Auf dich nur wart' ich immerzu" ("I Only Want to Be with You");[126] Italian recordings include "Tanto so che poi mi passa" ("Every Day I Have to Cry") issued as a single. [30] The second, "Your Love Still Brings Me to My Knees", released in January 1980, was Springfield's final single for Mercury Records; she had been with them for nearly 20 years. [103], Most responses to her voice emphasise her breathy sensuality. [116] Springfield instructed UK backup musicians to capture the spirit of US musicians and copy their instrumental playing styles. Since her death, Springfield has been widely commended as the leading British soul singer of the twentieth century. Springfield's funeral service was attended by hundreds of fans and people from the music business, including Elvis Costello, Lulu and the Pet Shop Boys. [14] Springfield and her brother were both prone to food-throwing as adults. [30] The writing and production credits for half the album, which included the two recent hit singles, went to Pet Shop Boys, while the album's other producers included Dan Hartman. At the same time, Springfield's relationship with the high-charting Bacharach-David partnership was floundering. [19] In 1957 the pair worked together at holiday camps. [citation needed] In the same year she was voted the Top Female British Artist of the year in the New Musical Express poll, outdoing Lulu, Sandie Shaw, and Cilla Black. So let’s talk about love, with which the name Dusty Springfield is practically synonymous, and, well, Dusty. The ghost of a dead husband haunts his wife as she moves back to their house in NYC. In 1958 she joined her first professional group, The Lana Sisters, and two years later formed a pop-folk vocal trio, The Springfields, with her brother Tom Springfield, and Tim Feild. [59] Though it was critically appreciated, it did not sell well in the US,[37][59] but it reached the top 40 in the UK. The trio chose their name while rehearsing in a field in Somerset in the springtime, and took the stage names of Dusty, Tom, and Tim Springfield. Dusty Springfield was born Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien in West Hampstead, London on April 16, 1939 and was an English singer, songwriter and record producer. [102] She received months of chemotherapy and radiation treatment, and the cancer was found to be in remission. Broadcast Tuesdays on BBC1 at 7:30 pm, 20th-century English singer and record producer, Sample from "The Look of Love" (single version), released in April 1967. [141] In 2012, a biographical jukebox musical titled Forever Dusty opened Off-Broadway in New York City at New World Stages. [1] Due to the recurrence of the singer's breast cancer, officials of Queen Elizabeth II gave permission for the medal to be collected earlier, in January, by Wickham and it was presented to Springfield in hospital with a small group of friends and relatives attending. [114] Greil Marcus of Rolling Stone captured Springfield's technique as "a soft, sensual box (voice) that allowed her to combine syllables until they turned into pure cream. [30] From the mid-1960s onward Springfield would use the pseudonym "Gladys Thong" when recording backing vocals for other artists, including Madeline Bell, Kiki Dee, Anne Murray and Elton John. AN IRISH woman facing her first Christmas without her husband and children has urged people to cherish their time with loved ones. [49] It was broadcast by Associated-Rediffusion on 28 April 1965, with Springfield opening each half of the show accompanied by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas and Motown's in-house band, The Funk Brothers. Dusty Springfield 20 years on: Remembering the British soul star who defined a decade. [31] The music press considers her an iconic figure of the Swinging Sixties. [22] Intending to make an authentic US album, the group travelled to Nashville, Tennessee, to record Folk Songs from the Hills. International polls have named Springfield among the best female rock artists of all time. special and enlisted Springfield to host it. However, they separated as she has an affair with Kim McCarthy at that time. [148] Three years later, she explained to Chris Van Ness of the Los Angeles Free Press: I mean, people say that I'm gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay. (She signed with the label only in the United States; in her native United Kingdom, she was still under contract with Philips. [30] In November its follow-up, the upbeat "In Private", also written and produced by Pet Shop Boys, peaked at No. Starring Dusty Springfield with special guests. Though none of the LP's four Goffin/King compositions were written specifically for her, Springfield has noted that: "Goffin and King, to me, are the most singable of writers. [52] A compilation of her singles, Golden Hits, released in November 1966, reached No. [117][118] In the studio, she was a perfectionist. The comfortable middle-class upbringing was disturbed by dysfunctional tendencies in the family; her father's perfectionism and her mother's frustrations would sometimes result in food-throwing incidents. [109] In accordance with Springfield's wishes, she was cremated and some of her ashes were buried at Henley, while the rest were scattered by her brother, Tom Springfield, at the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland. I just don't get any good ideas and the ones I do get are pinched from other records. [89] However, her new manager Alan Bernard negotiated her out of the Atlantic contract; some of the tracks were used on the UK-only album See All Her Faces (November 1972) and the 1999 release Dusty in Memphis-Deluxe Edition. [37][60] That same year Springfield had a UK No. [30] Springfield's choice of material ranged from the rolling "Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone" to the aching emotion of "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today". Though originally intended by Shapiro as a country music album, the track selection by Springfield pushed the album into pop music with an occasional country feel. [135], Various films and stage musicals have been created or proposed to commemorate her life. [78][79] The writers of Rolling Stone magazine placed Springfield's release at No. [106], Her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame occurred two weeks after her death. 10 on the U.S. charts. Her father would tap out rhythms on the back of her hand and encourage her to guess the musical piece. Dusty Springfield was born as Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien in 1939, the ‘dumpy red-headed’ daughter of Irish immigrants in Ealing. She was generous, witty, mercurial, shy, extroverted and a true English eccentric. A wonderful new map has recently been published demonstrating top-selling artists from each London borough. [16] She listened to a wide range of music, including George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Glenn Miller. "Celebrity Relics: Dusty Springfield's Dresses". "[51] Wickham, a fan of the Motown artists, booked them for the Ready Steady Go! However, the recording sessions were abandoned, although part of the material, including tentative and incomplete vocals, was issued on the 2001 posthumous compilation Beautiful Soul. Norma Cecilia Tanega (January 30, 1939 - December 29, 2019) was an American folk and pop singer-songwriter, painter, and experimental musician. [93] She was voted the Top Female Singer (UK) by the readers of the New Musical Express in 1964 to 1966 and Top Female Singer in 1965 to 1967 and 1969. When she returned to England a few months later, her physicians diagnosed her with breast cancer. "Dusty was ahead of her time in many ways and inspired so many future artists. She died on the day that she would otherwise have collected her award from the Palace. In 2008, country/blues singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne recorded a tribute album featuring ten of Springfield's songs as well as one original. 35 on the Billboard Top 100 for 1966. [6], In November 1968 the lead single from the album, "Son of a Preacher Man", was issued. In 1993, she recorded a duet with her former 1960s professional rival and friend, Cilla Black. By 1988 Springfield had left California and, other than when recording tracks for Reputation, she returned to the UK to live. [91] Her second ABC Dunhill album was given the working title Elements and was then scheduled for release in late 1974 as Longing. "Rock & Roll: Dusty Springfield: 1939–1999. 21 on the charts.[83]. She signed a US deal with 20th Century Records, which resulted in the single "It Goes Like It Goes", a cover of the Oscar-winning song from the film Norma Rae. 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