A Girl Called Dusty

3.5

Ніколи не слухав її альбомами, а насправді доволі класна музика. Сподобалось.

This girl likes to belt it out with full energy every time. Don’t be looking for subtlety or chill out vibes from this one! Nothing real deep to distinguish it from any other pop album.

Roughly the same rating as Dusty In Memphis; good delivery of songs that are mostly somewhat unmemorable songs, or exist in other equally good or better versions by other artists (e.g. Anyone Who Had a Heart, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow)

Her voice is great and makes listening to this 60s era pop a fine listen.

Nothing unpleasant about this, but nothing that wowed me either. I thought it wore out its welcome just a touch, although as I write that I’m enjoying the final song. Maybe cut 2-3 just before this final one.

I’m at a 5.

This is the second time we’ve gotten a Dusty Springfield album – after “Dusty in Memphis”, I thought of her as more of a rock girl, with a little bit of soul influence. Going into this one, I was sort of expecting more of the same, even with a decade gap. Obviously, I was a bit wrong – this is much more doo-wop / R&B oriented than “Dusty in Memphis” was, and it’s a style that I honestly think worked better here, at least for my tastes. Once again, it should be quickly noted to say “give black artists their due”, as this is an album entirely comprised of covers. It’s not all from black artists, but a good chunk of it is. The parts that aren’t lean a little closer to that fabled “Great American Songbook” style, which I think works really well with her vocals.

If anything, my biggest compliment I can give to this album is that despite this being a 60s album, so much of this, at least production-wise & in the structure of each track, feels pretty modern. Sure, not everyone nowadays is crooning R&B to grand bombastic orchestration, but the core of the album, in her vocals, the choruses & the melodies, feels like a blueprint for what would become the pop music of the 70s & 80s. Not all of that credit can go to Dusty, obviously, but her voice really opens up a lot of the tracks for me. The power in her vocals, which was already present on “Dusty in Memphis”, simply feels bigger here, in part because of the instrumentals, which do a much better job of working in conjunction with her as opposed to sort of stealing her shine like they did on “Dusty in Memphis”.

That improved harmony is why I’m at a 5 – this album just glides to a really smooth 32 minutes, and while it’s not quite the same feeling as hearing Aretha Franklin absolutely belt out a track, there is something in the air when her voice & the instrumentation blend wonderfully, which happens enough times for me to feel like I'm justified in giving this a 5. It’s a fun album, and I don’t think there’s a single dud (well, maybe Mockingbird). It might hit a little less if I had heard most of the original versions of these tracks, but I think Dusty Springfield & the band performed them with pretty good justice. I think it’s no less than a 4 (or a 2, if you really hate cover albums being on the list), and for my tastes, I have no problems giving it a 5. I liked it a lot, what can I say?

genérico até o cu fazer biquinho, mas num eh ruim não.
tem umas bem sessentistas, bem divertidinhas, mas é isso. num fede nem chera

At first I wasn't enjoying this. A bit twee, dated. Not my thing. But the version of Will You Love Me Tomorrow saves it from total disgrace. Great version of a great song.

An incredible voice. Great R&B with a mid sixties Motown feel. Amazing she was not more popular in the US.

Voice of an angel

After giving Dusty In Memphis a low score - I wasn't expecting much from this. I really enjoyed it though!!

I knew pretty much every song on here. Absolute classics!!! Sadly though, I don't think Dusty's covers are doing the originals justice. So much potential and they just felt a bit flat? Kinda lifeless

The tracklist in itself would be a solid 5 but the songs themselves bring the score down. Still a good album that I would listen to again!

4 ⭐️

Classic 60's

Peppy! Still not really that interesting, or more than just a kinda OK album.

3/5

Happy to listen to but I wouldn’t say it’s revolutionary

Quite nice

Recognized a lot of these songs from working in a retail environment 20 years ago. 2.1

Not bad, Dusty is a great singer, but I feel like I've heard most of these songs done better by other people.

Starkes Album, das den soliden Sound der Mitte der 60er Jahre perfekt einfängt. Dusty Springfield bringt mit ihrer markanten Stimme und dem prägnanten Soulcharakter eine besondere Note in jedes Lied.
Das Album bietet durchweg brauchbare Songs, die alle ihre eigene Geschichte erzählen. Besonders hervorzuheben ist der Evergreen “Will You Love Me Tomorrow”, der mit seiner emotionalen Tiefe überzeugt. Das humorvolle “Wishing and Hoping” bringt eine leichte, beschwingte Stimmung, während “I Only Want to Be with You” als echter Goldie glänzt. Mein persönlicher Geheimtipp ist “The Summer Is Over”, ein Lied, das mit seiner melancholischen Melodie und tiefgründigen Texten berührt.
Insgesamt ist A Girl Called Dusty ein starkes Album der 60er-Jahre-Souls das mit Dusty Springfields einzigartiger Stimme veredelt wird. Wiederhören gestattet.

Classic 60s sound. No auto-tune, just a woman singing along to some music.

It's okay, but not something that would catch me for a longer time.

I gotta say, I was legitimately not expecting A Girl Called Dusty to be this good. When i was first exposed to Dusty Springfield with Dusty In Memphis, she seemed pretty good but this album truly brought out what she is capable of. The music was very good for a lot of these tracks and of course, the vocals and lyrics were incredibly top notch, the album also ran at a good pace so it never got tedious at all. I guess some of the ideas that Dusty tried didn't always pay off but for the most part, the album succeeded in what it was trying to do.
Best Song: Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa
Worst Song: Wishin' And Hopin'