A Girl Called Dusty

She has a great voice, and it's a fun album/easy listening, but it's also a 60s covers album and kind of run-of-the-mill.

3.0/5.0: Good

i have a similar problem with this album that i did with the willie nelson stardust album; none of the songs are hers. she has a great voice and did a good job with these songs but i wish there was some original material here. its a fun album that id happily listen to again but i cant give it a 5.

I love Dusty... this isnt the album that you NEED to hear from her. This on its best day is the 3rd best album in her catalog.

some cool tracks, but overall a boring compilation album

Dusty's voice is so powerful and there are a great variety of tracks here that show how great she is. I had never heard her before (and truthfully I thought that a debut of covers from the early 60s wouldn't be so interesting) but I adored this one.

Music that transports you to the era it was made. Dusty sure could belt 'er!

I was falling in and out of sleep for unrelated reasons to this album so my review is not very solid but I enjoyed this album whenever I was awake. Lots of fadeouts. Last song was banging

I've only ever listened to Dusty In Memphis. That was a mistake. This is a half hour of brilliant 60s pop.

Sorprendentemente divertente. Lei una gran voce e i pezzi sono coinvolgenti

This one is a very weird addition to 1001 albums, like really? Nothing against her at all, she definitely has pipes, however this seems already very outdated in terms of when this was released and lacking any authenticity or originality. Are you telling me Dusty's debut is on par with what Nina Simone was dropping at the same time? I don't think so… However, production is alright there are some nice songs, but I don't see wanting to go back to this record or even re-listen to it after I did once this morning, currently thinking 2.5/5.0 - a very average record, not bad at all but nothing to die for either.

Solid but almost entirely a cover album

3.75 so many hits!

This was pretty pleasant and fun to listen to. Nothing groundbreaking since it's all covers. Makes me want to jump in a convertible and go pick up my date who's wearing a poodle skirt

⭐⭐⭐

It's pretty good, nothing crazy. Sometimes her covers were noticeably weaker than other big name covers which is a shame

Of course, I already knew Dusty Springfield, but not her debut album “A Girl Called Dusty.” But even here, she already offers what she is still known for today, namely the classic swinging 60s sound, which can be placed somewhere between Broadway, Motown, soul, and European pop and folk music, with interpretations that are characterized by her unmistakable voice. In addition to “Mama Said” and “Don't You Know,” I like “Nothing” — Dusty's only (!) original composition on this album. Not bad!

This was good. In the same way most white British women pretending to be black woman from the Mississippi Delta are. Its one of those albums where I know I've heard the name and the music is good then the single hits and I'm like ooohhh. This is why it's on here.

Some great singing on here, and great songwriting too. But at the end of the day, it's a covers album. Not really sure if it's innovative enough to be on here.

An iconic voice, an iconic persona, giving her definitive take on an exciting selection of soul standards. She really understands and unlocks the potential of the material. When it's good, it's good, but on the several occasions that it's great, it is truly something else.

Heavenly. Dusty definitely up there when it comes to artists I wish I had the chance to see.

Sort of just had this in the background, so perhaps that wasn't the best environment for this album, but this thing took a WHILE before it got even somewhat interesting, and ended pretty soon after that. For a majority of the album, my main thought was shock that the voice was coming from a British white girl, and that it sounded nothing like Dusty's later albums, but otherwise the songs themselves were forgettable and repetitive. It finally started to either shape up or click in the final stretch, but the songs zoomed by so quick I didn't really process what I was listening to. Perhaps a more proper re-listen would give it the credit it deserves from me, but I don't get anything from this that I wouldn't most likely get from a different version of the songs here.