Gold

This is a bit of a cheat because of course I don't have this collection. But I have all the tracks and more. This is an excellent compilation. One of the best I would say. Dusty's catalogue is excellent and so there will always be gaps even on a 2 cd set like this (and because tracks are spread across different record labels) but the compilers have done a good job here. Every compilation should include Carole King's and Gerry Goffin's 'Some of your Lovin' and 'Going Back'; they are included here. The inclusion of `Live it Up' is inspired ( I would say this - just after she passed away, this is the track that made me say `Wow, she's got it' and go on to buy all her albums). You have here Dusty's greatest chart hits and a smaller selection of her great album tracks. You don't have a decent collection of her post Memphis USA tracks and pre-Pet Shop Boys `come back' albums - these are available on high price deleted CDs. This collection is a great place to hear Dusty's different voices and the high quality of her productions (some done by herself). If you're really interested buy yourself 'Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty' and 'Dusty in Memphis' both available here at bargain prices. Dusty really is the best singer artist this country has ever produced. She's a soul singer through and through - soul meaning emotional soul to soul contact. She can break your heart and then make you dance and then even make you love folk music. As Aretha Franklin once said to this Irish girl from Kentish Town... 'Go Girl!'

Beautiful music, wonderful voice.

Many of us have too many 'best of' albums of cherished artists, bought over time to catch the odd elusive track or to upgrade to yet another remastered version. This particular compilation really is the only one you need For Dusty. Full spread of career output properly remastered with informative booklet - and all at mid price! A gem.

Dusty Springfield is a vastly missed blue-eyed soul singer from the 60's throughout to the 90s. Ever since she passed too soon on March 2 1999 of breast cancer, she became UK queen of pop or whatever they call her. Also ever since she passed, the record companies keeps cashing in on Dusty's legacy almost every year. I am tired of it. But Dusty Springfield "GOLD" is basically an updated version of her GOLD released in 1970. This collection has almost all her singles. Missing ones are some in the 60's and some in Dusty's "Lost" years in the 70's and early 80's like Baby Blue. Nevertheless it is a great collection to get if you're just dabbling into Dusty Springfield or want to get the must have collection. "Just Dusty" is OK but not comprehensive enough for my interest, but this compilation is Creme de la crop of all compilations. I rate it a 4 star only because I am not a fan of compilation unless it offers something new (in this case I am a relatively new fan it is). And also it is "Near complete" missing some singles, but not to fret, I can search for them on YouTube. Doing up "Complete" Dusty Springfield compilation is hard because she went through many record companies and to get them to cooperate is difficult to do.

SUPERB....I never knew Dusty Springfield made such excellent music until i saw the documentary of her on BBC3. Man i wish i had listened to her music when she was alive. She sings with Soul. Glad i got this CD . Listen to it all the time. 100% quality music from a very talented lady.

A great double cd of such a 60's icon, she sings a good song even better, it's really good to relive & hear her great voice again, so anyone who wants to know & listen to Dusty, I would recommend this item!! Many thanks!!

A truly great Dusty collection; i can't find any of my personal favorites missing. Marvellous stuff from a 60's pop and SOUL icon. God rest her.A brilliant talent.

As above, but pity a few Springfield numbers weren't included, viz Silver threads, Island of dreams. Nevertheless, absolute confirmation that she was the greatest female singer & interpreter of mood songs, the UK ever produced, period.

Je suis entièrement satisfait de cet album composé de 51 chansons, réunies sur 2 CD. Dont 11 sont en version ‘’single’’. Vous y retrouverez des succès tels que : - ‘’ Wishin’ And Hoppin’ ’’ sorti en 1964 et qui c’est classé numéro 6 au Top Pop 10 Singles américain. - ‘’ You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me ‘’ sorti en 1965 et c’est classé numéro 4 au Top Pop 10 Singles américain. - ‘’ Son-Of-A-Preacher Man ‘’ sorti en 1968 et c’est classé numéro 10 au Top Pop 10 Singles américain. Et le succès : ‘’ What Have I Done To Deserve This? ‘’ Chanté en duo avec le groupe ‘’PET SHOP BOYS’’ sorti en 1987 et qui s’est classé au numéro 2 pendant 2 semaine du Top Pop 10 Singles américain. Et qui s’est classé au 2ième rang en U.K. Et qui a été un franc succès dans les discothèques au Québec. Et bien d’autres qui ont été popularisées par d’autres interprètes, mais ça fait bon à réentendent par cette voie charmante et chaleureuse qu’elle a. Il y a plusieurs de chansons qui ont connues beaucoup de succès en version francophones en France ou bien ici au Québec. À noter que le son est excellent, même si certaines chansons ont été rééditées en mono, car ces dernières datent quand même des années 1963 et les masters étaient en version mono. Je vous recommande fortement cet album. Cet album est sorti en 2008 sur étiquette Mercury Records Ltd. (EU.)

Dusty Springfield was the first artist of the British Invasion to chart in America after the Beatles. It was only a week after the Beatles' I Want To Hold Your Hand first appeared on Billboard's Hot 100 on January 25, 1964, that Dusty 's I Only Want To Be With You began its run at #75 as the Beatles made #1 their second week. (With all Billboard charts there was a lag time in collecting radio airplay and store sales data that made them two weeks late. In other words if you memory says all this was happening earlier in January, your memory is right). Dusty's song came on like gangbusters with a big and busy arrangement that included strings and double-tracked voice. It reached 3!2 in the U.S. and #4 i the U.K. Like almost all the artists of the British Invasion, Dusty had more hits and bigger ones that she did in the U.S. British artists below the Olympian heights of the Beatles and Rolling Stones tended to make more sporadic appearances on the American charts than they did in the U.K. Still, in the U.S. she was the only really significant female singer of the British Invasion besides Petula Clark. At the time, I never connected Dusty with The Springfields, a British group who had a country/folk hit in the late summer of 1962 with Silver Threads and Golden Needles. But that was indeed her with older brother and songwriter Tom Springfield (born, like Dusty, O'Brien). The group broke up, Tom wrote songs for The Seekers and won an Oscar for Georgy Girl. Dusty meanwhile changed her style completely and emerged a soul-influenced performer who could sing R&B or pop equally effectively. The booklet cites hearing Dionne Warwick being a major influence pointing her in this direction. Eventually she would share composer Burt Bacharach with Dionne. She had a unique visual style as well which went back to the Springfields era. Though at first she sported dark hair and countryish dresses, she soon peroxided her hair, which began to appear in ever-larger bouffants. By her solo career she added the signature heavy black eyeliner and fashionable dresses. Her bouffants became more elaborate, unusual in that the British Invasion started the trend of girls ironing their hair straight for the new look. But for Dusty it all seemed to fit and worked well, her look becoming her own personal trademark. When dusty appeared on television you immediately knew it was her and not Sandie Shaw or Cilla Black. Dusty followed up her first hit with the overtly Phil Spector girl group-styled,Stay Awhile, complete with big percussion and backup singers and had one of the major hits of the summer of '64 with Wishin' and Hopin' her first Bacharach song (which had already appeared on the album, Make Way For Dionne Warwick). After that she had a lull in America while her songs were regularly making the top 10 in Britain. I loved her rocking, In the Middle of Nowhere in the summer of '65, as well as the Jerry Goffin/Carole king Some of Your Lovin' with its slow girl-group sound but though both were Top 10's in the U.K. they weren't even top 100 in the U.S. Little By Little, a hot, minor keyed Motown-style number was just a B-side in America. But a visit to Italy's San Remo Pop Festival gave her You Don't Have To Say You Love Me, in a new-for-Dusty semi-classical Europop arrangement that was a major international hit everywhere including America. It's a tricky song, easy to overdo and make awful; Dusty had just the right balance between passion and restraint to sing it perfectly. Her follow-up in the U.K. was another Goffin/King song, Goin' Back, sung very expressively with a thrilling big-orchestral arrangement, one of her best performances, another British Top 10 that wasn't released in the U.S. Her final American hit before her 1969 comeback was The Look of Love, a song Burt Bacharach wrote expressly for her voice, which he obviously understood. Her slightly foggy sound, light whispery soprano tones and sultry delivery were all perfectly showcased in this song. Rarely has there been such a perfect match of voice and song. The Gold Collection wisely chose to use the single version rather than the movie soundtrack (one forgets this song came from a rather silly movie). For the single, producer Reg Guest added echo and strings that make the song unforgettable. The rest of the first disc (basically her Philips years) is made up mostly of interesting album cuts often featuring notable composers.. These include Jacque Brel's If You Go Away, with its sad yearning; Randy Newman's I Think Its Gonna Rain Today, which I had first heard on Judy Collins' In my Life LP; and Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin's Big Brother & the Holding Company hit which is a rare case where Dusty isn't a good match for the material or the original singer. A surprise for me was her taking on the Jimmy Webb song The Magic Garden, written for the Fifth Dimension album of the same name, and given a very Webb arrangement. The Fifth Dimension discovered Laura Nyro immediately after that album and I think Dusty would have been an excellent interpreter of some of Nyro's songs, though that pairing never happened. The second disc is good but can't really match the first, which has almost all Dusty's hits. It begins with her switch from Philips to Atlantic, one of the great R&B labels of all time.The highlight is six songs from Dusty In Memphis which gave her an even more soulful sound typified by the album's hit, Son of a Preacher Man. Though the song was a big hit, the album, the best of her career, floundered until word of mouth slowly made it the biggest of her career. At that time (early 1969) I was hoping this would begin a whole new hit period for dusty but that was not to be. Atlantic then sent her to Philadelphia to pick up on the newest emerging sound of soul, with Thom Bell, Kenny Gamble and Jerry Butler penning A Brand New Me. The song and album were both really good but did not create much of a response. The rest of the second disc is singles and album tracks mostly for Mercury (a part of Philips by that time) and some U.K. Parlophone and Columbia tracks. I'm thankful that Universal, who produces the Gold series did license all the Atlantic material, the most important of her later labels as well as some of her other material. Her surprise 80's hit with The Pet shop Boys, What Have I Done To Deserve This, is included. With 51 songs this is as good a Dusty Springfield collection as you will find. It may be a bit too much for some people, especially those interested mainly in her 1964 to 1969 hit period. But for those who really love Dusty, this is it.

*Single Version これがこのCDの価値です。コンピレーションに収録されている、よく聴く演奏とは微妙に異なり、古い演奏はモノラル録音で収録されています。代表曲の｢この胸のときめきを(You Don't Have To Say You Love Me)｣もモノラル録音だったりします。｢I Just Don't I Know What To Do With Myself｣｢Goin' Back｣｢Give Me Time｣みたいに出だしから違う！と思う曲もあります。ただ、*になっていない、普段はstereoで収録されている曲もモノラルで収録されているものもあり、その辺の意図は解りません。1枚目のCDはほとんどモノラル録音(25～27はステレオ)でした。2枚目も少しですがモノラル録音があります。 ダスティの代表曲を網羅した、レーベルを超えた素晴らしいベスト。既にコンピレーションを持っている人でも代表曲のシングルバージョンが聴けるので重ならない。Goldシリーズはリマスターされ音は良いです。 ヒットチャートはシングルバージョンでもたらされたわけですから、これをもって本命とするなら最高のベスト。一般的に収録されている録音こそ本命とするならマニア向け。

Jeder Liebhaber von guter alter Soulmusik , kennt diese ausnahme Künstlerin spätestens seit ihrer Interpretation von " Son of a Preacher Man "! Oder den Titel " The Look of Love " von 1967( from O.S.T. Casino Royal ),den ihr Burt Bacharach auf den Leib schrieb .Ich reihe Sie in die Liga von Aretha Franklin ein , die 1970 Son of a Preacher Man ,2 Jahre nach Dusty ,auch sang ,ihre Version aber nicht den Erfolg hatte !Dieses 2 CD-Set ist eine Bereicherung eines jeden Musikarchives !!!

E' da un po'che sto cercando i cd delle bravissime cantanti americane ed inglesi degli anni '60 e fra queste non poteva certo mancare Dusty Springfield. Questo doppio cd, è proprio quello che cercavo. Un'ottima antologia dei principali brani incisi dalla compianta artista. Uno spaccato della musica inglese degli anni '60 e 70, brani famosi accanto ad altri da scoprire. Soddisfattissimo. Anche la consegna è stata perfetta, come al solito molto veloce.