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Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE (16 April 1939 - 2 March 1999), known professionally as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. With her distinctive sensual sound, she was an important blue-eyed soul singer and at her peak was one of the most successful British female performers, with six top 20 singles on the United States Billboard Hot 100 and sixteen on the United Kingdom Singles Chart from 1963 to 1989. She is a member of both the US Rock and Roll and UK Music Halls of Fame. International polls have named Springfield among the best female rock artists of all time. Her image, supported by a peroxide blonde bouffant hairstyle, evening gowns, and heavy make-up, made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties. 
Born in West Hampstead, London to a family that enjoyed music, Springfield learned to sing at home. In 1958 she joined her first professional group, The Lana Sisters, and two years later formed a pop-folk vocal trio, The Springfields, with her brother Tom. Her solo career began in 1963 with the upbeat pop hit, "I Only Want to Be with You". Among the hits that followed were "Wishin' and Hopin'" (1964), "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" (1964), "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (1966), and "Son of a Preacher Man" (1968).
As a fan of US pop music, she brought many little-known soul singers to the attention of a wider UK record-buying audience by hosting the first national TV performance of many top-selling Motown artists beginning in 1965. Although never considered a Northern Soul artist in her own right, Springfield's efforts contributed a great deal to the formation of the genre as a result.
Partly owing to these efforts, a year later she eventually became the best-selling female singer in the world and topped a number of popularity polls, including Melody Maker's Best International Vocalist. She was the first UK singer to top the New Musical Express readers' poll for Female Singer.
To boost her credibility as a soul artist, Springfield went to Memphis, Tennessee to record Dusty in Memphis, an album of pop and soul music with the Atlantic Records main production team. Released in 1969, it has been ranked among the greatest albums of all time by the US magazine Rolling Stone and in polls by VH1 artists, New Musical Express readers, and Channel 4 viewers. The album was also awarded a spot in the Grammy Hall of Fame. Despite its current recognition, the album did not sell well and after its release, Springfield experienced a career slump for several years. However, in collaboration with Pet Shop Boys, she returned to the Top 10 of the UK and US charts in 1987 with "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" Two years later, she had two other UK hits on her own with "Nothing Has Been Proved" and "In Private." Subsequently in the mid-1990s, owing to the inclusion of "Son of a Preacher Man" on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, interest in her early output was revived.

Tracklisting Disc 1:
01. I Only Want to Be with You
02. Stay Awhile
03. I Just Don't Know What to Do with Mysefl
04. Losing You
05. Your Hurtin' Kind of Love
06. In the Middle of Nowhere
07. Some of Your Lovin'
08. Little by Little
09. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
10. Goin' Back
11. All I See Is You
12. I'll Try Anything (To Get You)
13. Give Me Time
14. What's It Gonna Be
15. I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten
16. I Will Come to You
17. Son of a Preacher Man
18. Am I the Same Girl
19. Brand New Me
20. Morning Please Don't Come
21. How Can I Be Sure

Tracklisting Disc 2:
01. Once Upon a Time
02. Something Special
03. My Colouring Book
04. Summer Is Over
05. Don't Say It Baby
06. Baby Don't You Know
07. I'll Love You for a While
08. If It Hadn't Been for You
09. Every Ounce of Strength
10. I'm Gonna Leave You
11. Go Ahead On
12. Corrupt Ones
13. Look of Love
14. Small Town Girl
15. No Stranger Am I
16. Colour of Your Eyes
17. Just a Little Lovin'
18. Earthbound Gypsy
19. Bad Case of the Blues
20. Spooky

Extra Informatie:
Aantal Discs: 2xCD
Genre: R&B, Soul
Format: MP3 @ 320kbit
Year of Release: 2006
Speelduur: 111 minuten
Cover: Front, back en Insides zijn in de RARs verwerkt