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Vor 2 Tagen · Sixty years after her debut album, we rate the pop singer’s best tracks, from a song recorded in a stairwell to a Pet Shop Boys collaboration by Alexis Petridis Fri 10 May 2024 05.00 EDT
Vor 2 Tagen · A solo debut released weeks after the Springfields’ final gig and a step away from the pop-folk that had made the trio’s name, I Only Want to Be With You offered a British take on Phil Spector’s sound and a killer melody: it was hugely striking, although Springfield would quickly transcend brash pop. 11. In the Middle of Nowhere (1965)
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Vor 2 Tagen · Two of their five 1961–63 top 40 UK hits – "Island of Dreams" and "Say I Won't Be There" – reached No. 5 on the charts, both in the spring of 1963. In 1962, they also hit big in the United States with their cover of "Silver Threads and Golden Needles".
Vor 2 Tagen · Amid the wilfully over-the-top arrangement, she sounds utterly believable. 9 Little By Little (1966) Written by the same team as In the Middle of Nowhere, Little By Little essentially does the same thing – swaggering brass-heavy music, in-yourface vocal, lyrical despair – but somehow improves the formula to a point of perfection: an awesome single on which misery sounds like an ...
Vor 2 Tagen · 'Full of secrets and promises': Dusty Springfield's 20 greatest songs - ranked! The Guardian - 10 May 2024 11:00 Sixty years after her debut album, we rate the pop singer's best tracks, from a song recorded in a stairwell to a Pet Shop Boys collaboration It's closer to a show tune than soul, but Dusty Springfield kept singing Quiet Please live during her wilderness years for a reason.
Vor einem Tag · In December 1962, Tom's composition "Island of Dreams", his first recording made with Mike Hurst, debuted on the UK Singles Chart, where it remained for 26 weeks. It peaked at No. 5 in its 16th week on the chart, in early April 1963, five weeks before the Springfields' follow-up hit "Say I Won't Be There" would also peak at No. 5.
