From Dusty With Love [Original recording remastered, Import]

Dusty Springfield | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 28, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: Universal/Philips
• ASIN: B00005NOTH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #564,170 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lost

2. Bad Case Of The Blues

3. Never Love Again

4. Let Me Get In Your Way

5. Let's Get Together Soon

6. Brand New Me

7. Joe

8. Silly Silly Fool

9. The Star Of My Show

10. Let's Talk It Over

11. Richest Girl Alive

12. Summer Love

13. I Want To Be A Free Girl

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From Dusty...With Love, November 5, 2001

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S. Sittig "Divawatch" (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: From Dusty With Love (Audio CD)

If this is the very first time you've heard FROM DUSTY WITH LOVE (A BRAND NEW ME in the US), hold on to your hat...cause it grows on you..like a bad fungus! When I first heard this album I thought it was rather bland actually (and my Amazon.com review under the US Rhino Release "A Brand New Me" reflects that) but now it's one of my favorites.

Like a good wine, you really can't appreciate all the complexities of this album until you've gotten used to it and know what to look/listen for.

Dusty's vocal work on this album is perhaps her best ever, perhaps even better than DUSTY IN MEMPHIS (sacrilege!). The intensity of "Lost", the sheer longing in "Never Love Again" (especially the opener), the funk/soul of "Let's
Talk It Over" (and the expert use of amazing vocal riffs towards the end) the tenderness of "Let's Get Together Soon" (the "wrong or right, day and night, I miss you, and all my heart seems to do" section gets me where I live every single time!), this is Dusty at her laid-back soulful best.

Vocally she was at her peak and it shows. The 3 bonus tracks are wonderful, especially the alternate takes of "The Richest Girl Alive" and "Summer Love"..(2 tracks cut from the original pressing but then released on the compilation LOVE SONGS last year). Vocally, these takes sound better,but the tempo in the arrangements is a bit dirge-like.

Less formal than DUSTY IN MEMPHIS, less eclectic than her other work, this album really is a work of art that I usually don't
recommend to Dusty beginners,it has to grow on you,and it will. Believe me, it will.

Like Dusty once sang..."If you only give me time..."

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SILK 'N SOUL VOCAL MASTERPIECE~BRAVO DUSTY!!!, July 23, 2005

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Bradly Briggs (TOLUCA LAKE, CALIFORNIA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: From Dusty With Love (Audio CD)

From Dusty....With Love is the ground-breaking Philly-Soul masterpiece that is one of the very finest to come from the Gamble & Huff classic period that really got started with this awesome release and Gamble & Huff made the right selection by starting off their superb vocal lp productions with the masterful Dusty Springfield who remains to this day at the top of the heap of the all time greatest blue-eyed soul singers...this stunning collection of great originals with smoldering and magnificent vocal performances is the ultimate!!!
Dusty goes deep inside of each song in a way that is unsurpassed and never was this peerless singer finer...opening with a hot cooking bass, "Lost" would have easily gone to #1 if programmed and promoted so that people could hear this engrossing classic...after a few listens all of these great songs grab the listener in a way that is rare...such amazing greatness and the interplay between Dusty and the musicians is totally awesome but again commercial radio programmers missed the boat and The Grammy Award foundation must have been tired and zoned out!!! "Bad Case Of The Blues" is a velvety smooth vocal that becomes a soulful classic while the bluesy and hypnotic athem "Never Love Again" aches with longing and yearning of lost love with a vocal so completely magnificent that it demands repeated listens...it is that moving and riveting! Standouts abound in this incomparable collection with "Let Me In Your Way" being very smooth and unique while the inviting "Let's Get Together Soon" is soulfully infectious. "A Brand New Me" was a hit featuring a stellar Dusty vocal supported by a great rhythm track and throughout this brilliantly arranged collection are great musicians at their peak and tremendous background vocals! "Joe" is hauntingly beautiful with a smoldering vocal full of pathos and drama then "Silly, Silly Fool" is bright and breezy hit single with a cooking rhythm track that should have been a much bigger hit..."The Star Of The Show" is a smooth silk & soul elegant winner and the closing stirring and riveting classic "Let's Talk It Over" features Dusty at her soulful best in a collection that shows that Dusty deserved far greater success with this collection as it doesn't get any better than this...bonus tracks flow well with the original album and feature Dusty at her peak. Dusty you are truly missed and thank you for all of the wonderous gems that you left for us to savor and enjoy!!!

5.0 out of 5 stars A cute and catchy little album, you'll want to hear it time after time., January 6, 2009

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S. J. Edwards - See all my reviews
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This review is from: From Dusty With Love (Audio CD)

Tucked away, almost hidden, behind the shining lights of 'Dusty In Memphis' is Dusty Springfield's sixth album, 'From Dusty....With Love', perfectly packaged and labelled it feels almost like a special present from the lady herself, and in many ways it is. This is the second album of what was supposed to have been a three album deal in the U.S (third unreleased), we've already had the sound of Memphis, and next up is the wonderful sound of Philadelphia with a great deal of help from the talented songwriters Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, who, as we now know, went on to become much bigger in the seventies. Nearly all the songs on this album are written by the two of them, sometimes accompanied by Butler/Chambers, and where Huff does not feature in the credits, it is always Gamble with someone else, and boy, what a team!
From the moment the sizzling strings of the opening track "Lost" kicks in, you know, absolutely just KNOW, you're in for a real treat. As with much of the album Dusty weaves her way through a range of emotions; we have the regret of "Bad Case Of The Blues", the broken heart of "Never Love Again", and in "Silly, Silly Fool" she never stops berating herself for her mistakes, we have the soft pleading of "Joe" where Dusty asks;'does anybody know, where i can get in touch with Joe?' which makes you feel as though you would happily like to dedicate an entire day, or three, in helping her find him. One track that i'm sure will be familiar to many fans is the hugely evocative and stirring "I Wanna Be A Free Girl", with it's sensationally yearning lyrics and delivery, this is a true show stopper.
It's not all heartbreak though; "The Star Of My Show" and "Richest Girl Alive" show an emphatically positive side, while "A Brand New Me" with it's soft and sparkly start then the erupting chorus will surely blow you clean away. Dusty caresses us through "Let Me Get In Your Way" and "Let's Get Together Soon", hopefully, it's fairly safe to say that she must have done the Gamble/Huff songwriting team proud.
The first time i played this album was on the car stereo in a traffic jam lasting over forty minutes and, as it clocks up at just under 34 minutes on the stereo counter, i didn't mind a bit, it was sorely tempting to turn around and do the whole journey again.
On the whole this is a cute and catchy little album, and i for one, just can't stop playing it....now, where are those car keys?