Where Am I Going [Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered]

Dusty Springfield | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 4, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 2011
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Universal Int'l
• ASIN: B0000087ID
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,777 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bring Him Back

2. Don't Let Me Lose This Dream

3. I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face

4. Take Me For A Little While

5. Chained To A Memory

6. Sunny

7. (They Long To Be) Close To You

8. Welcome Home

9. Come Back To Me

10. If You Go Away

11. Broken Blossoms

12. Where Am I Going?

13. I've Got A Good Thing

14. Don't Forget About Me

15. Time After Time

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the 20 best records of '60s, July 18, 1998

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This review is from: Where Am I Going (Audio CD)

Certainly, to turn this disc into a wonder, one of its songs would be enough: "Broken Blossoms". No other song, that I've heard ever, condemns war in a stronger manner. Extraordinary verses, a master job by Tom Springfield, and Dusty's rendition of the song, as if she were on the battlefield herself, whilst recording, is superb. Versions normally distance the lyrics from the original, and "If You Go Away" is no exception. To compensate for that, Dusty lends it her entire being, and her interpretation is the most beautiful one of this unbeatable Brel classic. I've heard it in different languages, by a number of singers, including Jacques Brel. Dusty is the most honest and emotional performance the song has had. Dusty's eclecticism presents the listener with different rhythms, throughout the disc, her unique voice lending charm and feeling to all of them, even to the weak "Sunny". "Where Am I Going?" is a real VIP treat to anyone w! ho has got good taste, music wise.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars primo dusty!, May 23, 2007

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Darryl K. Clark "pywakkit" (springfield, missouri) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Where Am I Going (Audio CD)

of all the re-releases of dusty springfield's pre-memphis sessions, this is my favorite. it doesn't have the most inspired album art. that distinction would go to either 'see all her faces', 'ooowheee' or 'dusty--definitely'. but it has one of the widest ranges of material she would tackle on one album at this point in her career. and save her stuff-up on 'don't forget about me' she is spot on and utterly fabulous!

after getting the set off to a rollicking start with 'bring him back', she flirts with the pop stuff, british style, on 'take me for a little while'; then goes broadway with stunning renditions of 'come back to me' and 'where am i going'; covers aretha franklin on 'don't let me lose this dream' and gets her take on 'close to you' under the wire before the carpenters launched the bachrach-david tune in to the pop/easy listening stratosphere. there is even an exploration of jazz in 'time after time'. all she would have needed to record is rachmaninoff's 'vocalise' and she would have hit every musical base she could with one album.

this is the type of musicianship that i crave to hear from a christina aguilera or celine dion. but great material is no good if there is no restraint to temper the moments of abandon.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No big hits but still wonderful, May 11, 2003

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Where Am I Going (Audio CD)

The first twelve tracks here made up Dusty's third original album, while the three bonus tracks were recorded at around the same time.

Close to you was eventually recorded by the Carpenters, who had a massive worldwide hit with it, but their version isn't any better than Dusty's, recorded at least three (maybe five) years earlier. Sadly, Dusty's version wasn't released as a single, so we can only wonder at what might have been.

The album also includes stunning covers of Come back to me (from On a clear day you can see forever), Sunny (Bobby Hebb), Don't let me lose this dream (Aretha Franklin) and the often-covered If you go away (originally a French song by Jacques Brel), in which Dusty mixes English and French.

Among the other songs, Broken blossoms is a very emotional song about the futility of war. A lot of anti-war songs were written in the sixties, including Eve of destruction (Barry McGuire) or On the path of glory (Petula), but Broken blossoms is as good as any of tem.

This is certainly one of Dusty's best albums - all the songs are brilliant, including those I've not mentioned specifically - despite the absence of any of Dusty's big hits.