She's great. I saw some old footage on TV just the other evening (Soul Britannia) which, as well as reminding me how fantastic her voice was, also emphasized how important she was in popularizing Motown and paving way for mass acceptance of the sound of American soul here in the UK.

I've always found 'Son of a Preacherman' a bit overwrought but I can forgive her that. A truly fine pop singer. NC.

Certainly not crap.

Not crap. The Look Of Love from the Casino Royal soundrack is still one of my favorite female vocal tracks. Yeah, I know it's a nerd stereo guy song.

I don't care!

Amazing voice, and the taste to know what to do with it. Maybe the best white soul singer to ever come out of the UK. Not Crap.

Her version of "Spooky" is sex personified.

Not crap in any way shape or form.

Dusty Springfield is absolutely not crap. However, the othe week I got hold of her 'White Heat' album from the early eighties. I had convinced myself that I might have found a lesser known classic due to reading a dubious report that it represented Dusty going New Wave. Yes, I know. Imbecile. I think I might have envisaged some Frankensteinian 'Blondie in Memphis.' Idiocy. I have tried listening to it twice, the second time with a friend in the minute hope that I had missed something. His wince was enough.

glynnisjohns wrote:Her version of "Spooky" is sex personified.

I was just listening to that earlier, and it occurred to me that there's a smokey quality to Dusty's voice that she shares with Astrud Gilberto. Never noticed that before.

There's a new two-disc set of Dusty Springfield's singles that I highly recommend. The A-sides are on one disc, the B's on another. There is no discernible difference in quality between them.

Who says white people don't have soul? NC

BUMP.

NC. I'm prepared to extend this as far as her work in the Eighties too.