A Girl Called Dusty

two dusty springfield albums in three days is too much. also not as good as the other one

Nice energy

A collection of great classic pop songs, well performed with some powerful vocals. The fact that it's mostly a covers album until you get to the bonus tracks from the reissue makes it so I can't really justify a higher rating, but I thoroughly enjoyed this album. A few more interesting original compositions like Summer Is Over could've made this a real classic.

Favourite tracks: Summer Is Over, You Don't Own Me, All Cried Out

Hot damn this white girl has a blaccent. Like a legitimately insane blaccent. It's not that big of a deal, I mean it's a 1960s pop soul album, of course she has a blaccent. It's just very noticeable, y'know? Anyway "Mama Said" is a pretty great song, and the rest of the album follows suit. The only problem is the “suit” is pretty okay covers of songs of varying quality. She has a pretty cool voice but not much further, and as the songs’ qualities begin to decline as the album progresses, it begins to get pretty old. The highlights (mama said, nothing, pretty much any of the straight-up rhythm and blues cuts) are enough to give this a tentative passing score but it’s certainly not anything special.
6.6/10

Fuck this shit, I'm putting the new Neurosis album on again

Helt straight 60-tallspop det her vel

Dusty Springfield had such a great voice, but I don't think the production and choice of songs here always play to her strengths. (She had to wait for Dusty in Memphis for an album that did that.)

Pitch Meeting:

Let’s take hit soul songs by black Motown artists and give them to a pretty soulless white hot blonde British women and make a ton of money!

Würde

Love Dusty, no absolute classics on here but some great renditions.

2/12/26 - Listened during work. So many classics, its hard not to enjoy this one. Can't bring myself to go full 5 stars when most (all?) of these are covers but its an easy 4 star with a number of timeless classics.

Best Song - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (reminds me of Police Academy)

I will not include the bonus tracks from the 1997 CD reissue in this review.

It's been a little over 300 albums since I listened to Dusty in Memphis, and I remember enjoying that record and recognizing how influential Dusty Springfield was in blue-eyed soul. I wish I had the same sentiments for A Girl Called Dusty.

I can really boil this review down to, "It's a solid debut record of covers of R&B, pop, and soul standards." For sure, Dusty did a decent job with her voice, carrying some of these renditions like Lesley Gore's "You Don't Own Me", Sandy Stewart's "My Coloring Book", and the Shirelles' "Will You Love Me Tomorrow". But that's the most glowing praise I could give, considering the instrumentation is rather rote in going through the motions with these songs. Also not helping matters is not only listening to this album after Dusty in Memphis took more deviations in the styles emulated, but also after hearing both Aretha Franklin albums included in the book, and how transformative and powerful Aretha's voice was in taking ownership of her covers. I can't quite say the same for Dusty Springfield this early in her solo career.

Again, A Girl Called Dusty is a fine enough collection of covers, but not much more than that.

What a great album. Dusty sounds amazing and she picked a perfect set of songs for her voice. Very hip and mod for 1964.

Felt like a pretty average Dusty Springfield album. This means that it was good and that most people will probably like it.

It's full of covers, which was the standard way to go for a pop album for a long time. Dusty Springfield delivers them soulfully with her great and clear voice. I don't think it's quite as good as some of her later albums and it's a bit of a weird one to pick, but it does show off this era of pop really well. Full of classic songs, good voice, strings and band in the background. Bonus points for the bonus track Summer is Over.

Dusty Springfield – A Girl called Dusty 3 STARS
I was tempted to give this four stars. All lovely songs sung beautifully, many of them among my favourite songs – Anyone Who had a Heart, for example. But while it enriched my morning, it didn’t rock my boat.

I didn’t love or hate this, it’s a pretty forgettable 60’s cover album. I’m aware that Dusty has another album on the list, and I expect I’ll like that one better.

Not my favorite. Felt like an album full of covers. Not sure if there were any originals.

Good voice but terribly boring songs. Not great.

I love Dusty — what a voice, and what an icon. I was really looking forward to giving A Girl Called Dusty a listen today.

I have to admit, I’m not entirely sure how an album made up mostly of covers makes this list, but then again, when every song Dusty touches sounds this good, it’s easy to see why. Her voice is outstanding throughout, and the sound and production are excellent for the time. Her versions of Mama Said and You Don’t Own Me are particularly strong and full of character.

Favourite track: Anyone Who Had a Heart is beautiful, and Mama Said is a classic.
Least favourite track: Every track is worth a listen — all sung and performed brilliantly.
Album artwork: Double denim! A cool and confident cover that suits Dusty perfectly.