Track Listing

1. Won't Be Long
2. Oh No! Not My Baby
3. Long After Tonight Is Over
4. La Bamba
5. Who Can I Turn To? (When Nobody Needs Me)
6. Doodlin'
7. If It Don't Work Out
8. That's How Heartaches Are Made
9. It Was Easier To Hurt Him
10. I've Been Wrong Before
11. I Can't Hear You
12. I Had A Talk With My Man Last Night
13. Packin' Up
14. Live It Up
15. I Wanna Make You Happy
16. I Want Your Love Tonight
17. Now That You're My Baby
18. Guess Who?
19. If Wishes Could Be Kisses
20. Don't Say It Baby
21. Here She Comes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31900 in Music
• Released on: 2004-09-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 54 minutes

Customer Reviews

EV'RYTHING'S COMIN' UP DUSTY : LET'S LIVE IT UP
This extended CD is one of the best Dusty bargains available right now. You have here the original album of 13 tracks recorded in 1965 plus 8 tracks from her 1964 New York sessions. The original album set confirms the pattern Dusty had already set with her first album. It's a varied set of songs including Randy Newman's `I've Been Wrong Before' (covered to good effect by Cilla Black too) and there's a strong leaning towards the USA soul pop and r'n'b that she collected. Dusty covers her favourite singer Baby Washington (That's How Heartaches are Made and Doodlin') as well as Garnet Mimms (It Was Easier to Hurt Her) and Betty Everett ( I Can't Hear You No More') amongst others. She is backed up by the great Madeline Bell and Doris Troy. At this time Dusty was a favourite of the Mod crowd and you can hear why here.

The New York tracks are a revelation and first released in the UK on this CD (apart from a collectible 4 track 1965 EP). A great orchestra with brass often to the fore and great backing vocals as usual. As soon as `Live It Up' kicks in you know you're at a pretty special recording session. I imagine Dusty going into the control booth and turning everything UP! It's a lovely loud big beat sound. Turn it up and it can make walls shake! Dusty sounds like she's done a few takes already. She's giving it all it she's got and her voice is cracking by the end. I love this track. It really, really moves me, yeah! Then we get to the double bill of `I Wanna Make You Happy' (a bit forward for a first meeting but polite) and `I Want Your Love Tonight' (demanding satisfaction - `Come on and love me, Baby!') - I love these tracks. ` Don't Say It Baby' is sublime. `Guess Who' and `If Wishes Could Be Kisses' are strong tracks. The most novel track here for me (along with `Now That You're My Baby') is `Here She Comes' - this is straight out of Brill Building girl group teen drama land but with a luxury production; Dusty never recorded anything like this again.

I love this CD album. It made me buy all of Dusty's pre- Memphis albums because, after having her greatest hits, Memphis and post Memphis albums and thinking I knew Dusty's music, I was amazed. Again. On this CD Dusty is young, strong, powerful and ambitious - she's the sound of talented Young Britain. She's going to the top. She's going to champion Motown on `Ready Steady Go'. She's going to be deported from South Africa for singing to integrated audiences. And, she's going to live it up...

Second album is full of quality
In the sixties, it was normal to leave hit singles off original albums, it being assumed that anybody who bought the album already had the singles, which sold in fat bigger quantities in those days. With eight bonus tracks added to the thirteen on the original vinyl release, hits could have been included but weren't - it presumably being assumed that anybody now buying this already has a greatest hits collection of Dusty's music. (If you don't have one, buy one of those before worrying about this - there are plenty to choose from.) So this album contains no hits but has plenty to offer sixties pop fans generally and Dusty fans in particular.

Of the eight bonus tracks (all recorded in New York), four were released as an EP in the UK while Don't say it baby was a UK B-side. The other three tracks are making their UK debut here. In America, Live it up and Guess who were the two sides of an American single. Both sides in turn bubbled under the top 100 without making the main chart - that's the nearest you get to a Dusty hit in this collection. Here she comes was another American B-side.

Among the tracks here are Dusty's covers of Oh no not my baby (originally an American hit for Maxine Brown, it was a UK hit in 1965 for Manfred Mann and a bigger UK hit in 1973 for Rod Stewart), La Bamba (originally an American hit for Ritchie Valens, it didn't make the UK charts until 1987, when Los Lobos took it all the way to number one), Who can I turn to (a theatrical song that was an American hit for Tony Bennett), Doodling (another theatrical song), It was easier to hurt him (a minor UK hit for Wayne Fontana), I've been wrong before (a UK hit for Cilla Black).

There are many other great songs here, some of which are also covers, but it really doesn't matter whether they are or not. Won't be long (a brilliant up-tempo song), Long after tonight is over (a Bacharach-David song) and That's how heartaches are made (a superb ballad) are among the other highlights.

If you enjoy Dusty's music and want to go beyond her hit singles, you will love this.