Sunday, March 26, 2017

There I Was

Indulgence requested.

I have been thinking of doing a weekly music post featuring an artist or band I have seen live. I'm trying out the first one tonight.

Please feel free to tell me to stop if it gets too boring.

Herewith, the first of the series, The Springfields (featuring the incomparable, Miss Dusty Springfield).

As awful as this recording is, anyone who is a Dusty fan can still hear the potential in her voice.



Seeing her live was a fluke.  My mother had met a gentleman who worked for a British comedian and singer called Ken Dodd.  This gentleman asked my mother if she would like tickets to see the recording of one of Ken Dodd's shows and my mother accepted.

So there we were, mother and me, sitting in the theatre, waiting, waiting, and waiting. Then we see musicians setting up onstage and a fabulous blonde creature came swanning down the aisle.  She was unkempt, back combed hair every where, black eyeliner and laddered tights...Dusty!

But, OMG, when she opened her mouth and sang I was transposed.  From that moment I was a lifelong Dusty fan.



If you are not  a Dusty fan, I would encourage you to familiarize yourself with her music.  She was an incredible artist.





10 comments:

  1. Fay, she has a dreamy voice. The audio production is limited by the era of course; it really takes me back... to a place... where I'm about 8 or 9, and in the back seat, and very impatient... ;)

    Dusty Springfield is also a name I recall seeing on the billboards for the summer stock theatre that my parents went to.

    When i was a bit older they took (dragged) me to some shows - my mother was especially insistent that I see Dionne Warwick, and she did not disappoint.

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    1. Dreamy voice indeed lewy.

      And bravo to Mr. & Mrs. lewy Snr. for making you look and listen!

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  2. Oh, and Fay - pssst - I don't want to jinx it but I think I found a new torch singer that we both might like. Maxine Ashley.

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    1. Hmmmm, not so much for me...but maybe I need to see a couple more videos...

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    2. Cool - she's got a few - but hey at least I'm in the ballpark, eh? ;)

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  3. I love this Fay; a great idea for a series of posts. Hearing Dusty sweeps me back to younger days...I never saw her in concert though.

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  4. I should find a recording of that edition of the Ken Dodd show. I know it is out there somewhere.

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  5. Oddly enough, on Twitter I was just followed by a woman named Cynthia Johnson.

    This means nothing to you all, of course, but a different woman (girl, then) named Cynthia Johnson was my first sexual experience.

    This relates, because her very favorite singer was Dusty Springfield.

    How many degrees of separation?

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    1. How do you know it's not the same girl/woman, Dances?

      Either way that's a pretty neat story.

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    2. I am pretty sure, based on the picture of herself at the top of her Twitter timeline. Assuming it is a picture of her, that is, and she did not hijack someone else's face

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