Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Dusty Springfield - Blossom Dearie, Brian Gascoigne, Pete King
2. Ragtime Selection - Dion O'Brien, Mary Margeret O'Brien
3. (Seven Little Girls) Sitting On The Back Seat - Al Saxon, Jack Baverstock, The Lana Sisters
4. Far Away Places - John Franz, The Springfields
5. Island Of Dreams - John Franz, The Springfields
6. Say I Won't Be There - John Franz, Mike Gill, Roger Wake, The Springfields
7. No Sad Songs For Me - John Franz, The Springfields
8. I Only Want To Be With You - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
9. Once Upon A Time - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Mike Gill, Roger Wake
10. Stay Awhile - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
11. Will You Love Me Tomorrow? - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
12. Wishin' And Hopin' - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
13. I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
14. All Cried Out - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
15. Losing You - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
16. Summer Is Over - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
17. I Will Always Want You - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
18. Your Hurtin' Kinda Love - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
19. I Wanna Make You Happy - Dusty Springfield, Shelby S. Singleton
20. In The Middle Of Nowhere - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Mike Gill, Roger Wake
21. Baby Don't You Know - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Mike Gill, Roger Wake
22. Some Of Your Lovin' - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
23. Who Can I Turn To? (When Nobody Needs Me) - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
24. Doodlin' - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
25. I've Been Wrong Before - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
26. Little By Little - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
27. If It Hadn't Been For You - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Mike Gill, Roger Wake
28. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
29. Every Ounce Of Strength - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Mike Gill, Roger Wake

Disc 2:

1. Goin' Back - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
2. Poor Wayfaring Stranger - Dusty Springfield
3. All I See Is You - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
4. Go Ahead On - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Roger Wake, The Echoes, Mike Gill
5. I'll Try Anything (To Get You) - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Mike Gill, Roger Wake
6. Give Me Time - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
7. The Look Of Love - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
8. What's It Gonna Be? - Dusty Springfield, Jerry Ragovoy, Mike Gill, Roger Wake
9. Chained To A Memory - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
10. Welcome Home - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Reg Guest
11. Broken Blossoms - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
12. If You Go Away - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Johnny Spence, Peter Knight
13. Where Am I Going? - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
14. It's Over - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Mike Gill, Roger Wake
15. Magic Garden - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Keith Mansfield, Mike Gill, Roger Wake
16. I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
17. I Will Come To You - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Mike Gill, Roger Wake
18. Sweet Lover No More - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
19. Another Night - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Mike Gill, Roger Wake
20. I Can't Give Back The Love I Feel For You - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Keith Mansfield, Roger Wake, Mike Gill
21. I Think It's Gonna Rain Today - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Peter Knight
22. Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield, Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin
23. The Windmills Of Your Mind - Dusty Springfield, Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin
24. No Easy Way Down - Dusty Springfield, Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin
25. Am I The Same Girl - Bill Landis, Dusty Springfield

Disc 3:

1. Let Me Get In Your Way - Dusty Springfield, Eugene Dozier, Roland Chambers
2. Brand New Me - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Thom Bell
3. The Star Of My Show - Dusty Springfield, Eugene Dozier, Roland Chambers, Thom Bell
4. Someone Who Cares - Dusty Springfield, Jeff Barry
5. Live Here With You - Dusty Springfield, Jeff Barry
6. Make It With You - Dusty Springfield, Jeff Barry
7. You've Got A Friend - Dusty Springfield, Jeff Barry
8. Morning Please Don't Come - Dusty Springfield, Marcel Stellman
9. How Can I Be Sure - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
10. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
11. Mixed Up Girl - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
12. Crumbs Off The Table - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Derek Wadsworth
13. Yesterday When I Was Young - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Peter Knight
14. See All Her Faces - Dusty Springfield, John Franz, Jimmy Horowitz
15. Easy Evil - Dusty Springfield, Steve Barri, Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter, Phil Kaye, Howard Gale, Jim Lockert
16. Of All The Things - Dusty Springfield, Steve Barri, Brian Potter, Dennis Lambert, Phil Kaye, Howard Gale, Jim Lockert, Jimmie Haskell
17. Learn To Say Goodbye - Dusty Springfield, Steve Barri, Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter, Phil Kaye, Howard Gale, Jim Lockert, Jimmie Haskell
18. Sea And Sky - Dusty Springfield, Michel Legrand, Hal Shaper
19. In The Winter - Arthur Brooks, Ben Mitchell, Brooks Arthur, Dusty Springfield, Garry Sherman, Kevin Reeves, Larry Alexander, Paul Howes, Tony Heester
20. Home To Myself - Arthur Brooks, Ben Mitchell, Brooks Arthur, Dusty Springfield, Kevin Reeves, Larry Alexander, Paul Howes, Ron Frangipane, Tony Heester
21. Exclusively For Me - Arthur Brooks, Ben Mitchell, Brooks Arthur, Dusty Springfield, Kevin Reeves, Larry Alexander, Paul Howes, Ron Frangipane, Tony Heester
22. I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love - Dusty Springfield, Roy Thomas Baker
23. Turn Me Around - Dusty Springfield, Roy Thomas Baker
24. Love Me By Name - Dusty Springfield, Roy Thomas Baker
25. Hollywood Movie Girls - Dusty Springfield, Roy Thomas Baker

Disc 4:

1. That's The Kind Of Love I Got For You - Dusty Springfield, Reginald Burke, Roy Thomas Baker, Tom Moulton
2. Closet Man - David Wolfert, Dusty Springfield
3. I Just Fall In Love Again - David Wolfert, Dusty Springfield
4. I Wish That Love Would Last - Andre Fischer, Dusty Springfield
5. (But It's) Nice Dream - Dusty Springfield, Ralph Burns
6. I Don't Think We Could Ever Be Friends - Dusty Springfield, Howard Steele
7. Blind Sheep - Dusty Springfield, Howard Steele
8. Losing You - Dusty Springfield, John Franz
9. You'll Be Loving Me - Dusty Springfield, Howard Steele
10. What Have I Done To Deserve This - Pet Shop Boys, Dusty Springfield, Julian Mendelsohn
11. Nothing Has Been Proved - Dusty Springfield, Julian Mendelsohn, Pet Shop Boys
12. In Private - Dusty Springfield, Julian Mendelsohn, Pet Shop Boys
13. Daydreaming - Dusty Springfield, Julian Mendelsohn, Pet Shop Boys
14. Something In Your Eyes - Dusty Springfield, Richard Carpenter
15. Go Easy On Me - Dusty Springfield, Tom Shapiro
16. I Can't Help The Way I Don't Feel - Dusty Springfield, Tom Shapiro
17. Wherever Would I Be? - Dusty Springfield, Tom Shapiro
18. Quiet Please There's A Lady On Stage - Dusty Springfield, Mike Gill, Roger Wake
19. Someone To Watch Over Me - Dusty Springfield, Paul Hart

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74220 in Music
• Released on: 2006-10-23
• Number of discs: 4
• Format: Box set
• Running time: 310 minutes

Album Description
These lavish, 28cm x 28cm hard-back books from classic Universal artists feature around 100 pages of essays, beautiful photographs and memorabilia.

"Ear Books - a new dimension of entertainment".

Including 16 UK Top 20 singles, Simply Dusty provides the most comprehensive overview of Dusty Springfield's work and career. Although often reduced to a camp icon with her Kohl-eyes and her towering beehive hairdo, the former Mary O'Brien was not only Britain's greatest pop diva, but also unquestionably the finest white soul singer of her era.

With thorough notes - each of the 98 songs gets an individual history - and sumptuous photography, this lavishly-packaged set shows Springfield to be a performer of remarkable emotional resonance, consistency and purity as her work adapted effortlessly across the four decades in which she recorded.

Customer Reviews

Glorious Dusty!
This beautifully presented set should be in every fan's collection. It comes in the form of a hardcover book, with 4 CDs inlaid in the inside cover. The book is not only full of glorious photos of Dusty, but more importantly, it contains detailed notes on the recording circumstances, writers, chart-placings etc of the 98 tracks included [one sung by Blossom Dearie]. Dusty's whole career is covered, from the early Lana Sisters' and Springfields' recordings at the beginning of the 60s through to her collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys in the late 80s and successful album "Reputation" in the early 90s, and the songs are arranged chronologically.
There's the odd factual error - Dusty had 11 Top 10 hits in the UK, not 16, and many of the references to chart placings appear to have been made up. A number of the tracks have been remastered presumably to "clean them up", but for the most part ruining the mood of the originals in the process. The main thing I would take issue with though is what's been left off. I would have thought that, in compiling a set like this, the compilers would have the US and UK charts in front of them and start off by including every record that charted, without making value judgments. The Springfields' "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", a U.S. number 20 is not there, nor is "Reputation" or "Heart and Soul" [a duet with Cilla Black] from the 90s. Then we get onto the very subjective question of personal favourites. I would have dropped a number of the 70s and 80s album tracks in favour of some great 60s B-sides like, "I'm Gonna Leave You", "Small Town Girl" and "The Corrupt Ones". "24 Hours From Tulsa", and "Just One Smile" are missing, so Dusty fans would need to supplement this with one or two other CDs such as "Something Special". A great number of these "missing" tracks are referred to in the book, which makes their absence even more frustrating. However, all of the big hits are there, and if this is your first brush with Dusty, don't hesitate. "Goin' Back" and "Some of Your Lovin'" remain two of the most sublime performances ever committed to disc, but the set is jam-packed with wonderful things.

So, a couple of minor gripes, but given the price [I paid £15 at HMV online!] and the superb book, this is unmissable.

SIMPLY... DUSTY : I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU
This is a superb collection which includes tracks from all of Dusty's recordings (because of contractual difficulties you can't get this breadth on any other collection). Dusty authorised this box-set so presumably these tracks are her choices. That's totally fine by me. The 4 CDs make for an excellent and representative collection of hits and tracks from all of Dusty's albums. The fact that listeners like me can be disappointed by omissions is a testament to Dusty's excellent catalogue - the result of her hard work, perfectionism and disciplined professionalism. Dusty's 1970's albums are deleted although you can buy them at high prices from Amazon sellers. You'll find many of these great tracks here including the first outing of 3 tracks (19-21 CD 3) from the lost album 'Elements/Longing' which was finally released on the US CD 'Beautiful Soul'.

The first track is a sweet little tribute by Blossom Dearie (1970) followed by some precious Mary/Dusty teen-age home recordings - all in ragtime. Then we get to the Lana Sisters. The Springfields which included her gifted and successful brother Dion/Tom come next. I guess their parents did something right. Tom would re-create this kind of sound with 'The Seekers'. What is so great about these tracks, for me anyway, is the backdrop they provide for Dusty's fantastic pop transformation that is the brilliant rush of 'I Only Want To Be With You' and a little later 'Stay Awhile'. She'd come back changed from New York with a magic carpet woven with soul; the rest of the collection is a magic carpet ride around a magic garden with it's gates wide open...

What I like about Dusty is her humility. She doesn't re-work songs to make them her own. She always has respect for the original versions. On the lovely 'Some of Your Lovin' she doesn't stray much from the The Honeybees' original take. If you can listen to The Honeybees' track you'll hear a young singer doing a very good job. Dusty's husky timbre always adds gravitas and dignity to her songs but it's the combination of her intelligent interpretation, raw emotion (deep soul) and technical ability that always adds winning edge as she does here. Because of these qualities she could out compete her best competitors who were in the USA, not the UK. Dusty Springfield is in the canon of greatest modern artist singers. And, in her quiet unassuming way, she was also a radical and progressive fusion of her rainbow times; before her time and of this time and the future.

'Your Hurtin' Kinda Love' is one of my favourite earlier than 'Memphis' tracks (along with the lighter weight pop song 'I'll Try Anything'). I don't think she liked this as much as I do maybe because it wasn't a hit. This is a track that impressed me so much I played it to friends and made them listen to it all the way through and focus on the last repeated words 'Come on Baby, take this hurt off me'. Her voice cracks throughout the recording because she's singing so hard (and must have recorded many takes). It's a big gorgeous Phil Spectorish production. I'd never heard such intensity from a white singer before; on hearing 'Memphis' I gave up separating Dusty in such a stupid way.

I don't know why Dusty didn't put 'Live it Up' on this collection because that's such a great track but you can get that easily enough nowadays. Instead she includes rarer tracks like Madeline Bell's super groovy 'Go Ahead On', the northern soul hit 'What's it Gonna Be' ('Baby, believe me!') and the previously un-released 7 minutes plus 12" mix of 'That's the Kind of Love I've Got For You'. Many of these box-set tracks were deleted at the time of compilation (and are again now) and taking that into account this is a fantastic and generous collection. It's also in chronological order so it's an important historical record too.

At the very end we get Dusty's last recording. Just Dusty with piano. It's the lovely, now very poignant 'Someone to Watch Over Me'. This box-set is a beautiful gift from Dusty with love. It's worth far more than 5 stars. It's a treasure box.

A FANTASTIC COLLECTION OF THE BRITTISH LEGEND!!
I GOT THIS FOR £15 IN HMV WHAT A BARGAIN THE BOOK IS VERY GOOD AND THE MUSIC IS VARIED MAKES YOU REALISE THERES ONLT ONE DUSTY SPRINGFIELD VERY SOULFULL I HAVE HEARD PEOPLE SAY DUSTY SPRINGFIELD ISANT SOUL SHE IS HAVE YOU HEARD OF BLUE EYED SOUL JUST TO PUT HER INTO A GENRE BUT THE THING IS NO1 TO ME SOUNDS LIKE HER SHE WAS UNIQUE SHE HAD THAT SOMETHING AND SOME PEOPLE CANT GET THERE HEAD AROUND THE FACT A WHITE GIRL CAN BE SOULFULL!! HELLO AMY WINEHOUSE OR EVEN WILL YOUNG!! IF YOU SOUL YOU HAVE SOUL DOESANT MATTER ABOUT COLOUR DUSTY R.I.P I ALSO RECCOMMEND THE ALBUM A VERY FINE LOVE MASTERPIECE!!