Dusty Springfield’s ‘Dusty, The BBC Sessions’ Coming To Vinyl For The First Time
The 2LP set presents recordings from 1962-1970 by the British blue-eyed soul singer.
Dusty Springfield’s Dusty, The BBC Sessions will soon be available on vinyl for the first time. First released on CD in 2007, the compilation is set for release on Nov. 8 as a 2LP set through Universal Music Recordings, remastered at Abbey Road from the archive session tapes.
Dusty, The BBC Sessions traces the British singer’s career via radio recordings from 1962-1970, starting with three tracks as a member of singing group The Springfields (alongside her brother Tom Springfield and Tim Field) and continuing into her legendary solo career. The tracklist also charts Springfield’s stylistic evolution from folk and country into the development of the blue-eyed soul that became her signature sound — an aesthetic that, decades later, remains more closely associated with Dusty Springfield than arguably any other singer.
Some of the biggest hits of Springfield’s career are accounted for here, including BBC performances of “Wishin’ and Hopin’,” “Little by Little,” “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me,” “Son of a Preacher Man,” and “I Just Don’t Know What to with Myself.” The album also features Springfield putting her stamp on classic covers such as Stevie Wonder’s “Uptight (Everything’s Alright),” The Rascals’ “Good Lovin’,” Jackie Wilson’s “Higher and Higher (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me),” and The Bee Gees’ “To Love Somebody.”
Springfield was one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of her generation as well as an enduring style icon. Born Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien in London in 1939, she helped to define the look and sound of London’s Swinging Sixties, then remained a global hitmaker for many years to come. In January 1999, just a few weeks before her death, she was awarded an OBE for services to popular music by Queen Elizabeth II. Later that year, not long after her death, she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame followed in 2006.
