Dusty related snippets

[Corinna]

The things you find - amazing!

[SweMaria]

Whilst looking for something else entirely, I came across this little picture taken at the Casino Club in Bolton in April 1966. I actually met Dusty when she appeared there, I was waiting outside when she arrived and I congratulated her on getting to no. 1. She was wearing that very same trouser suit, so I guess it could even have been the same day This is the write up that accompanies the picture....

The final crunch for this line up of The Concords came on the 18th April 1966 when the group played support band to Dusty Springfield at Bolton Casino. Bill, the manager, had a list of songs which Dusty was to perform. On this list was ‘Dancing in the Street’. This song was on the usual repertoire of the Concords and Bill told the group not to perform this song and leave it for Dusty to sing. However, for some reason before Dusty came on stage, Bernard announced the next song would be ‘Dancing in the Street’, which meant Dusty would be one song short in her performance.

Very interesting to read this! Thanks Carol!

Casino Bolton.jpg

[Cardiff Bluesgirl]

just watching the one show on bbc and they did a feature on Motown. they went to the Colston Hall which had seating for 1200 people. they interviewed a man who was there in 65 when he saw the tour, Supremes, Stevie and Martha Reeves etc. he was thrilled to see them but there were only 200 seats bought. it was nicknamed the ghost tour due to poor attendance and sales but then the reporter said they came back later in the year when they were given the seal of approval by Dusty Springfield when they appeared on RSG. the rest is history but for the fans they already had the undersold tour had seen them first. thats two weeks in a row this programme has featured sixties music and the hairstyles and Dusty was mentioned.

[Sue]

Rats ! Missed it, Liz

It's great they're giving Dusty a few mentions on prime time t.v




Sue xx

[daydreamer]

Dusty's music was featured heavily in the Burberry show at London Fashion Week. Both "You Don't Own Me" (extended) and YDHTSYLM were used and I'll bet the audience went home humming them

[Cas19]

One of my very favs is YOu Don't Own Me Carole, nice its been used here. I can't get the bottom link up.

Casx

[karen]

Nice to see this , hooray for Dusty music lately....


Cas just click on the you tube bottom right...

[Cardiff Bluesgirl]

on radio 2 Ken Bruce popmaster quiz
one of the questions was this song was first offered to Aretha Franklin who turned it down until she heard it sung by this British female singer,he then played a snippet of Aretha singing SOAPM,and asked who was she??
the contestant then answered" The fabulous late great Dusty Springfield"

[paula]

I came across this NYTimes Magazine article...Great words for Dusty...I think Rob Hoerburger is right on the money. Try the link below as the web page includes Dusty video

http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/reborn-this-way/?src=twrhp

MARCH 3, 2011, 4:12 PM
Reborn This Way

By ROB HOERBURGER
Lady Gaga’s latest monster hit, “Born This Way,” has sold more than 1.2 million copies already, and there have been almost as many comparisons to Madonna’s 1989 hit “Express Yourself.” But the song had another progenitor, from another diva who did interesting things with hair and makeup: Dusty Springfield, the bouffanted and eye-linered British wonder who in the ’60s made half a dozen seminal singles, one critical lodestone of an album (“Dusty in Memphis”) and later lots of other great records that few who were not critics ever heard.

Springfield was a lesbian who only ever had a few toes out of the closet, and her “Born This Way,” recorded for a British comeback album, “Reputation,” in 1990, was as close as she came to publicly embracing her sexuality. The song, pulsed by a post-disco club beat and lots of self-help bromidal lyrics, never got very specific, but you can hear in Springfield’s voice the passion and the pride. Gaga most likely never heard Springfield’s “B.T.W.” — it never had an American release — but as her career progresses, she could do worse than to learn a few things about singing between the lines, which Springfield did without peer. It seemed somehow poetic that Gaga’s “Born This Way” was topping the charts on the anniversary of Springfield’s passing; she died of breast cancer 12 years ago yesterday, a few weeks before being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

In a bit of classic-diva confluence, yesterday also would have been the 61st birthday of Karen Carpenter. I was reminded of this last night as I sat in my neighborhood French cafe after a long day of work and heard, over the clink of wineglasses and the swoosh of salades niçoises, that clear, deep well of a voice. It was her first megahit, “(They Long to Be) Close to You,” from 1970, sounding as much at home in an artsy, downtown joint as Holiday or Piaf would. The connections between Springfield and Carpenter are obvious: both were classic pop singers from roughly the same era (Springfield even recorded an early version of “Close to You”), but there are some Carpenter/Gaga parallels as well: each was the most popular singer of her time, and each was adored by millions of young women and gay men. It’s too bad Carpenter never lived to enjoy her second act; she died in 1983, at age 32, after a protracted battle with anorexia nervosa. But we can still raise a glass to her, Springfield (and yes, even Gaga), women with the real vocal DNA.

[SweMaria]

Interesting to read this! Thanks Paula!

[paula]

I love the models strutting to Dusty songs...I often find myself thinking of many events (movies, skating) that would benefit from a Dusty soundtrack.

[Cardiff Bluesgirl]

Tony Blackburn on Sat pick of the pops, his first song was " I'll try anything" and then he said "she was wonderful wasnt she and she liked mascara,well didnt we all"

[Cardiff Bluesgirl]

steve Wright show now on radio 2 is playing Dusty ,"Goin' Back"

[Will]

Two Dusty items for sale on BBC2 this afternoon. Wondering what?

All is revealed on the "Let's Talk Dusty!" website, in the blog section..

[boztiggs]

Oh NO! How did i miss this, i had no idea, was this an older show or a new one i wonder. I would have bid for them, cant believe two jackets for £750, what a steal!!

Neil

[Corinna]

Hope they went to a good and loving home!

[john 1]

I saw the show as well, I think it was a new one, can't recall seeing it before. Someone got a bargain there.

[Cardiff Bluesgirl]

managed to catch this as I had been out today so recorded it. 2 jackets for £750 not bad I thought
I hope they went to a proper fan.

[daydreamer]

That's weird as only this morning I was talking to Simon about Bobby Crush and we were trying to remember what he bought at the Sotherby's auction! Maybe this programme can be seen again on the iPlayer, I'll have to check. He's such a fan, I wonder why he sold them? This photo is taken at the preview before the original auction at Sotherby's.

[Cas19]

Can't believe I missed this as I do watch this show from time to time.

Casx