A Girl Called Dusty

Solid jukebox hits not an album. I’m likely to return to, but it gets a four because I am a sucker for Bacharach.

Dusty haa a great voice and the songs on this album are so familiar this almost feels like a greatest hits.
However the familiarity of the songs is also a weakness as some of the songs are not as good as in the hands of others.
Not something i could see myself putting on, but not something i would rush to turn off

I enjoyed this a lot, but it's sort of hard to rate because it's effectively a covers album (of great songs, I'm not saying they aren't) that sound like basically every other version of those songs from that era... just with Dusty singing them.

She has a lovely voice and I really enjoyed listening to her sing, but I don't really understand why this is a necessary album as it's nothing new. One of those occasions where I'd like to know what the actual book says about why it was included.

3/5

It's fine. Just fine.

Dusty is sui generis to the extent that she's the best blue-eyed soul singer the British Isles have e'er produced, bar none. Eric Burden - lead singer of The Animals - has the other claim to that title, but Dusty wins in the end b/c she's deeper, stranger, more marvelous, & more varied, an artistry that is a crucial component of the sixties experiment. I love her image, obviously, & I love how that dusty image is the perfect visual expression of her voice, a dusty & delicious vocal tendency that operates according to the logics of a whole lotta effort & none at all. My favorites from this expanded edition are really too many to enumerate, but 'Wishin' And Hopin'' is a song I can't get outta my head & thus deserves a special shoutout. Thanks Dusty - love ya.

When this popped up, I thought it was going to be country music. I don't know why, I guess the name Dusty just sounds country-ish to me. Which is funny, because apparently she's British.

All of that is more interesting than the album, which sounds like every 50s album ever, despite the fact that it was released in 1964. It's also apparently an album of covers. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why this is on the list. But it's not country, so it gets an extra star just for that.

Didn’t find anything impressive or worth relistening other than the first song. 5/10

pretty great debut album …if it was released 10 years earlier, but as this was released in the mid-60s it feels dated and more like something from the 50s for the most part

Admittedly Her voice is great but is overall the album is held back by being an album of covers.

Overall I am Not sure this album deserves to be here . And her success is related to the fact she is white , blonde and British - whitewashing the whitewashing

But She almost out shines Gene with here version of “24 hours” - that alone is worth the 3rd star

Favorite track(s): You Don't Own Me, Will You Love Me Tomorrow

This album is fine but it’s all covers where the originals are better. Surely Dusty Springfield has better albums than this

Much earlier than Dusty in Memphis, A Girl Called Dusty is still a really good rock and roll album (with some swing for good measure). And I know it's just like 5 years older, but the distance between music in 1964 and 1969 is *vast*. This is certainly more of a "rock and roll" album than Dusty In Memphis. But she's still a great performer, and the selection of songs here (largely covers) is really great, and there's even room for the odd production flourish. You don't Own Me, for example, sounds particularly lush, and is even an example of some early feminist content in rock. I also really like Mockingbird, Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa, Wishin' and Hopin' and more. Also, Dusty Sprimgfield has a great, dare I say quintessential voice. When I think of women singing in this era, I pretty much generate her voice in my mind. This carries many of the hallmarks of it's era, but A Girl Called Dusty is still an incredibly solid debut and a great example of this kind of rock music.

quite good although it dragged a bit toward the end. a solid 3 stars

will always love dustys voice, unsure why a cover album would be on here however. its beautiful but not exactly groundbreaking

4
She's got a great voice and some really good song choices here, I know she didn't write them herself but that's hardly unusual for the time to be fair

Perfectly fine album … but honestly, could have been anyone singing those songs.

Wow, there's so many iconic tracks on this album. Mama Said, You Don't Own Me, Wishin' and Hopin' are all so well known even after 60 years.

I really did enjoy this album

Really enjoyed this, lots of fun and what a voice!

Great voice, lots of bangers

I recognize a bunch of these tracks by title, but I've never listened to this album start-to-finish. Notably, I'm listening to the "Expanded Edition" which is about 55 minutes.

Yeah, it's hard to deny this collection of songs. So many classics.