Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. I Only Want To Be With You
2. Stay Awhile
3. I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
4. Losing You
5. Your Hurtin' Kinda Love
6. In The Middle Of Nowhere - Mono
7. Some Of Your Lovin'
8. Little By Little
9. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
10. Goin' Back
11. All I See Is You
12. I'll Try Anything (To Get You)
13. Give Me Time - Dusty Springfield
14. What's It Gonna Be? - Remix - Mono - Dusty Springfield, Jerry Ragovoy, Mike Gill, Roger Wake
15. I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten
16. I Will Come To You
17. Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield, Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin
18. Am I The Same Girl - Mono - Bill Landis, Dusty Springfield
19. Brand New Me - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Thom Bell
20. Morning Please Don't Come - Dusty Springfield, Marcel Stellman
21. How Can I Be Sure

Disc 2:

1. Once Upon A Time - Mono
2. Something Special - Mono
3. My Colouring Book - Mono
4. Summer Is Over
5. Don't Say It Baby - Mono
6. Baby Don't You Know
7. I'll Love You For A While - Mono
8. If It Hadn't Been For You - Mono
9. Every Ounce Of Strength - Mono
10. I'm Gonna Leave You - Mono
11. Go Ahead On - Mono - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, The Echoes
12. The Corrupt Ones - Mono
13. The Look Of Love
14. Small Town Girl - Mono
15. No Stranger Am I - Mono
16. The Colour Of Your Eyes - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Mike Gill, Roger Wake
17. Just A Little Lovin' - Dusty Springfield, Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin
18. Earthbound Gypsy - Bill Landis, Dusty Springfield
19. Bad Case Of The Blues - Dusty Springfield, Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, Roland Chambers
20. Spooky - Mono

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29110 in Music
• Released on: 2006-07-27
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set
• Running time: 110 minutes

Customer Reviews

Finally....an ESSENTIAL Dusty compilation
Do we need yet another Dusty compilation when the market is already flooded with them ? Well, the short answer is a resounding YES because Mercury finally gets it right by putting out a truly essential compilation with a theme - her Complete A & B sides released in the UK between 1963 and 1970 and the result is simply smashing. Strictly no messing about. The singles are in strict chronological order with the A sides on one disc and the B sides on another. They are also in rare mono - the original singles mix - unless the tapes are unavailable, in which case the familiar stereo mixes are used (eg, Losing You and Little By Little). Some of the hits (eg. Goin' Back) are aurally very different in mono and a special treat. Some of the fades also run on longer than usual (eg, In The Middle Of Nowhere and Some Of Your Lovin').

The non-stop run of hits (plus a couple of unconscionable misses like the funky Northern Soul classic What's It Gonna Be and Clive Westlake's excellent I Will Come To You) on Disc 1 simply leaves you breathless and giddy with joy and admiration at how in the 60s Dusty was faultless in her selection of original material for singles. Songs tucked away on the B sides were almost as good. Four were even written or co-written by her (eg, Once Upon A Time, Something Special, I'm Gonna Leave You and Go Ahead On). My own personal favourite is the little known Goffin & King girl group beat song I'll Love You For Awhile, given a real punchy treatment here.

And you can't ask for more in terms of packaging. Eclipse has used a gorgeous photo of a sooty-eyed Dusty circa 1965 for the front cover and it's just fab ! Complete A & B Sides is truly an essential buy. Hurry, grab yourself a copy.

All other comps are null & void
Via the Springfields Dusty was one of a select few who made the American top 20 before the British Invasion-this was Silver threads & Golden Needles. As a result she did a Helen Shapiro and went to Nashville for the new album.
For 5 minutes Dusty became a singer songwriter with 4 B sides-not bad songs especially Go Ahead On.She then concentrated on what she did best-cover versions.
In fact when Dusty covered Every ounce of strength the original Carla Thomas version was not even on release here.
I'll love you for a while-the original Jill Jackson version flopped in the States so never came out here.
Her version of I've been wrong before was on her first album and I reckon is as good as Cilla Black's original (which came via a Randy Newman demo)
Dusty was also fortunate in being able to record Goin' back.For some reason the first version by Goldie Gingerbread had been withdrawn.
Son of a Preacherman became her property after the Peggy Little original only made the country charts-the song had been offered to Aretha Franklin and Skeeter Davis who recorded it on an album.
I just don't know what to do with myself -had a few previous versions including one Tommy Hunt on the Scepter label but this is the superior version