A Girl Called Dusty

Goes hard but not for me

I can see why she was so popular. Very powerful, emotive singer with a beautiful voice.

I'm looking forward to this, this is the sound of the AM\FM radio in my Dad's Barracuda with the permanently cracked back window as we drove through town with the windows down. I'm not sure that car even had air conditioning. Made in a time when it was about the LP and the singles. Lots of fast tracks. You Don't Own Me and Mama Said start things off with fireworks. Then a couple of throw away tracks that must have had some traction as I remember them being quoted when I was very young. Then onto Mockingbird that would live several lives in covers over the years. Anyone Who Had a Heart is another great song. The hits keep coming with Will You Love Me Tomorrow. Is this the album that really brought Burt Bacharach and Carole King to the fore. If so, this is a true milestone for music. Wishing and A Hopin' is next up and then I Only Want to be with You. A hit parade, for sure. Can I Get a Witness? I can't believe this album isn't listed as going gold\platinum\double platinum. Maybe the release predates such measurements. If you want to time travel to the more conservative side of the early 60's, this is a great option.

Never listened. Expectations: High - Verdict: Great - Mama Said is a phenomenal opener. The energy comes pouring out and it is so infectious. You Don't Own Me is beautiful and ominous. Do Re Mi rolls along with an almost slurred feeling that works so well. My Colouring Book soars at times and drops down so low, giving a great sense of contrast. Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa has a great momentum and Nothing is incredibly high octane. Will You Love Me Tomorrow is fantastic and Wishin' And Hopin' is fun. Don't You Know ends things with Dusty showing off her powerful vocals. A fantastic debut album that I personally prefer to later works of hers that received more acclaim.

A great debut for a great voice. There's a dated sound to these tracks that probably sounded that way for the time. But there's also a earnestness to these songs of longing love that it all plays out with heart.

All this time I thought dusty springfield was an american country singer and not a british blue eyed soul singer anyway this is fine. her voice is good, the songs are fine, it's just fine.

This was great. If my first child is a girl, her name will be Dusty. I won’t be taking feedback.

If this album was about half as long, easy 4 star rating

Better than I expected, but overly long.

Very nice soul songs, easy listening. I was surprised to hear a couple of songs that have remained culturally relevant in the modern era. Those are highlights but each song in this album is very listenable.

I never realized how many of these songs I already knew

Almost like a greatest hits but covers. Dusty has an awesome voice and this was a fun listen.

TEMAZOS. quina veu més xula i what you don't own me es seva FORT. afinada que te cagas quin merit. confirmat que abans les coses es feien molt millor. no lhe acabt pq too long pero gud

This is not really my vibe, but there are some cool horns.

Wasn’t expecting this to be as good as it was

Friday, 23 October, 2026 Some legendary tracks. In*hate* the mockingbird song.

A good album with some good songs. I understand why it’s here. Was familiar with many of the songs. Her voice is lovely

Fantastic, front to back. All killer no filler and much more soulful in the deeper cuts than I expected!

Simply enjoyable 60s music

The biggest issue is the homogenous sound dominates the album. Every track has the exact same drum drum, backing vocal echo, and heavy orchestration. When you string the MANY tracks together, the texture of each individual song is as interesting as a window pane. OK some odd classics but this is a indistinct blur of an album I did not enjoy.

She has a beautiful voice and style, like the Amy Winehouse of the 60s.

English 60's pop.

Man this is classic after classic, including an original that many Gen X and Elder millennials will know from the movie “Dumb and Dumber” 🤯

Really struggled with this one. In the same year Bob Dylan released "The Times They Are A-Changin'" and The Beatles released "A Hard day's Night", this came out. So, artists were releasing good quality, impactful music. It's not like that was impossible. Then this. I skipped the second half of most tracks that I listened to, and skipped the second half of the album. Not for me. A rare 1 star.

Turns out I was aware of more of these tracks than I thought I would be. I don't like the jangly, tin bath at the bottom of a well production sound so associated with that time, but her songs were well constructed. 2 seems harsh, but 3 seems generous.

dusty springfield bringt in ihrem album ihre ambitionen und ihr persöhnliche vibe positive energie etc.

This is everything great about 60s pop. My favourites were Mama Said, You Don't Own Me, When The Love Light Starts Shining, Anyone Who Had a Heart, I Only Want To Be With You, All Cried Out, ans I Wish I'd Never Loved you. It was quite long though I would've enjoyed it more of it was 40 mins.

Fav song was ‘you don’t own me’, also liked ‘summer is over’

Bangers front to back

Album #230: Dusty Springfield – A Girl Called Dusty ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Dusty my arse. Her name was Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien. She had two Irish immigrant parents. She was Irish as the day is long, and I think Ireland would be proud to claim this voice. This smoky (Dusty?), velvety, versatile voice that's just great on every song on this album. It's got that lovely late '50s, early '60s analogue sound, with this kind of ceiling on the recording where, when the volume goes into the red, you get this gorgeous, slightly distorted sound that I really, really like on old soul recordings like these. The songs are great throughout. There's a bit of schmaltz here and there, My Colouring Book, for example, but I'd take this schmaltz over Ray Charles's schmaltz earlier in the week any day of the week. Great album. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Agggh! 4x 60s albums in a row - randomiser you are testing me. At least it's a different genre and a female artist (From my sample of 120 they are rare!) --------------- Oh, so we found the female version of white boy blues - white girl motown! Dusty can sing, but this is essentially Karaoke. There's no themes or coherence, just Dusty singing other peoples songs without even a new angle or approach. This is not essential or historically important. I don't really see why it was here -just swap this out for any Martha and the Vandellas album. Not Dusty's fault of course - this is just how the music industry operates - recycle - remix- rebrand. Every day I have to cry indeed. 1*

This is perfectly fine and it has some really good stuff! Definitely dragged down by the amount of covers on here (though well done!) and i dunno, maybe the other Dusty record i got just hit me on the right day.

Would be 4 if I actuslly listened to any of them

Dusty haa a great voice and the songs on this album are so familiar this almost feels like a greatest hits. However the familiarity of the songs is also a weakness as some of the songs are not as good as in the hands of others. Not something i could see myself putting on, but not something i would rush to turn off

At first, I assumed this was a Greatest Hits due to the sheer amount of songs I recognised, but it’s just a (very of its era) album of standards of the 50s and 60s. Which is fine. A lot of these songs are classics for a reason, and Dusty Springfield has a really beautiful voice. Dusty’s version of “Anyone Who Had a Heart” has always been my favourite and I genuinely think it’s the best recording of the song (piss off, Cilla Black). I even stayed around to hear “I Only Want to be With You”, which wasn’t on the original listings, because it’s just so good. Am I likely to actively seek this out to listen to again? No. But it was perfectly lovely and acceptable and I’d never turn her off the radio.

I enjoyed this a lot, but it's sort of hard to rate because it's effectively a covers album (of great songs, I'm not saying they aren't) that sound like basically every other version of those songs from that era... just with Dusty singing them. She has a lovely voice and I really enjoyed listening to her sing, but I don't really understand why this is a necessary album as it's nothing new. One of those occasions where I'd like to know what the actual book says about why it was included. 3/5

Lovely voice and a solid bunch of covers!

A wonderful little record

holy shit Dusty. Wall to wall bangers, one of the best songs ever recorded, this album doesn't even have her biggest hit or Spooky. Classic from an all time powerhouse. Everything about her looks, vioce, style and name are so 60s American I still don't really believe she's from London.

This was pretty good! I wasn’t too sure about her voice at first but it definitely grew on me throughout the record. There were some pretty great instrumentals (horns) and catchy hooks and I also liked the backing vocals. The lyrics were nothing to really write home about but the whole album had a pretty nice vibe though it definitely felt like it came from a different era. I think I would listen to this at least one more time but other than that idk if I would really return to this. 3.4871/5

Oh ben écoute, encore un album plutôt osef. Je ne sais pas trop ce qu'il fait là, d'autant que j'ai déjà eu du Dusty Springfield et ça m'avait déjà pas trop marqué, même si j'en garde un assez bon souvenir. C'est là son premier album, sorti en 1964 et ma foi, il sonne comme n'importe quel album de cet époque. Je vois pas mal de gens vanter les qualités vocales de Dusty Springfield et je dois bien admettre que c'est l'une des grandes qualités de l'album. Mais en-dehors de ça, c'est un album essentiellement de reprises, dans un style pas du tout original pour l'époque. Alors oui, si on aime ce genre de pop des années 60, c'est sans doute un album très cool. Mais j'aimerais comprendre à quel moment ceci est un indispensable ? J'hésite franchement entre le 3 et le 2.

Boring to me. She’s a good singer and I’m sure this was influential but i wouldn’t come back to this.

7/10

Enjoyed this, more so than Dusty in Memphis. Really great songs, of course mostly covers, but still really enjoyable takes on very good songs.

Goes HARD

It was a fine listen. Neither good nor bad, just fine

Dusty has great vocals. Not sure she does much better than the originals on a good chunk of the tracks. 2.75/5.

Man, she’s a treasure

En hel drös aptitliga versioner av stråkbeklädda schlagers och Brick Buildingpop. Det är lättviktigt och absolut inget särskilt men ändå mer än okej. Man får ta det för vad det är. Och med Dustys fantastiska röst lyfter det ytterligare till en stabil trea.

Finfina versioner på många klassiska hits. Vet inte om någon av dem är originalen, men det spelar ingen roll för min del. Dustys fina beslöjade sångröst är på plats redan här. Den gör att den här mixen av schlager, girl pop och Motown får lite rökighet.

Klassisk brittisk soulpop när den är som bäst. Odödliga låtar (med You Don’t own me som den mest glänsande diamanten), snygga arrangemang och Dustys underbara röst som grädden på moset. Det räcker till en fyra, hur stabil som helst.

Mer schlager än soul. Dusty's röst är bra men det räcker inte för att lyfta dessa covers till några högre höjder. Mama said, you don't owe me och when the lovelight starts är klart lyssningsvärda. Stark tvåa.

Alright album. Some well known classics, but otherwise nothing more than a background playlist.

nothing special but enjoyable

It's Dustys debut album and it's very good even if a little stifled, it comes across as a production controlled album, but when allowed to let loose she's hits the heights. Can I get a witness

I can't help but cringe at this blue eyed soul shit. It would be unfair to lay the sins of the recording industry's politics of the time at Dusty's feet, but even with all that aside, I struggle to understand the justification for including this album on this list. At best, it's a competently made cover album that never rises above karaoke. She never re-interprets any of these songs. It just feels like repackaging Black music for a White audience.

Pretty big fan of this! I think she can only get so much credit for covers, but her taste in picking songs to cover is pretty good, and she nails all of them. It's sort of an interesting cultural exchange to have a white British woman singing both country and motown songs, but somehow the combination really works for me.

Fine

I’m wishing and hoping girls would follow those lyrics.

Really great. But it's appalling, sexist and racist that the Black girl groups who originally performed most of these songs are completely absent from this list.

She has and outstanding voice. Not sure I get this one since it is mostly just covers, but it was a good listen nonetheless. 7/10 Top song I only want to be with you

2.2/5 She has a great voice and a few nice songs but that's about it.

I'm not sure I'll rush back to listen to this, but some nice tunes and she has a great voice.

какая-то адель из прошлого слушается абсолютно так же плюс в момент прослушивания вообще не вайбило переслушивать как альбом не стану, может попадуться в миксе некоторые композиции 3

Cool name for a girl

✅️ STILL BANGS HARD fav track: Mama Said

Not for me but it's really good

It's fine. Just fine.

Dusty is sui generis to the extent that she's the best blue-eyed soul singer the British Isles have e'er produced, bar none. Eric Burden - lead singer of The Animals - has the other claim to that title, but Dusty wins in the end b/c she's deeper, stranger, more marvelous, & more varied, an artistry that is a crucial component of the sixties experiment. I love her image, obviously, & I love how that dusty image is the perfect visual expression of her voice, a dusty & delicious vocal tendency that operates according to the logics of a whole lotta effort & none at all. My favorites from this expanded edition are really too many to enumerate, but 'Wishin' And Hopin'' is a song I can't get outta my head & thus deserves a special shoutout. Thanks Dusty - love ya.

3.5

I assumed this was an album full of covers. Unfortunately, it missed the mark for me as I prefer the originals in this case. I’m also not a huge fan of Dusty’s voice.

DUSTY

It's an album of covers, and Dusty Springfield has a good voice... but there isn't anything particularly new here, and the originals were good enough... so why? Who is this album for, and why is it here?

cute...

So many hits, I had no idea. A really fun listen.

A very brief review A lot of strong songs. Finally know who sang Mockingbird. Upbeat songs appealled a lot more to me. Other songs felt like powerful songs that could appear in musicals.

Songs are not bad. But it's not something I'll constantly repeat.

Good covers? Sure, but I struggle to feel more for an album of entirely covers… the Jane McDonald effect for me I guess

beautiful voice

A pleasant listen

Really enjoyable - not remotely challenging but well-executed. Solid three stars, would revisit.

A great album, thank you RGP. 3 stars❤️❤️❤️ Tom.

Genuinely surprised by how well-made this was. A nice mix between heavy ballads and powerful songs. However, since most of these songs were between 2 and 3 minutes long, some of them ended before they could develop fully. And even though the topics seem genuine, I find the focus on these few topics a bit tiring considering how many songs there were. Still, a solid pick and better than a lot of other albums I have heard. Best songs are You Don't Own Me and When The Love Light Starts Shining Thru His Eyes. 7/10, surprisingly well-aged.

Pretty solid, not as good as her later album 'Dusty In Memphis', but still good. Definitely far more rudimentary and steeped in the sounds of mid-'60s pop and soul, which is far from a bad thing - it's a pretty great sound, especially on songs like 'Mama Said' and the sort of ominous cover of 'You Don't Own Me', which felt like a darker and moodier sound for Dusty, and is easily the best-sounding song here. Unfortunately, the record does peak really early on with those tracks; everything that follows was nice, but didn't immediately stick with me.

A gorgeous voice

A fine album by a fine singer.

Some classic jams on this one. She's the loveliest of all the Springfields.

dope

I don’t think I ever listened to an album first before Dusty in Memphis. Many of the songs were obviously hits for someone else first, but she does a great job with them.

De su época

4 1/2

I enjoyed this, very cute.

It was fine, I didn't hate it

I like Dusty Springfield. But, I couldn't help but notice that nearly all of the songs on this album are inferior covers of classic Motown and other R&B songs. I can imagine the author's thought process: On one hand, the Supremes, Shirelles, etc were important foundational artists and people should hear their songs. But, if too many of their albums are added to the list, there won't be space for the 6th best Radiohead album. What is one to do? The solution: how about an album of a British woman singing a bunch of those songs less well?...boom!

i loveeeeeee thisss

A Girl Named Dusty — Dusty Springfield Pre-Listening: all I know of her catalog is Son of a Preacher Man (thank you Pulp Fiction). Best: Anyone Who Had A Heart Runner-up: You Don’t Own Me Third: Will You Love Me Tomorrow Post-Listening: Definitely 60s. But two different sides of it in one album. The first half is a lot of boppy song that feature one verse/chorus in a stringendo (new word for me). But then the second half of the album take a real poetic style. I never realized that she was responsible for so many hits and a lot of them just on this album which is pretty amazing. I thought the album was enjoyable and real highlights Dusty’s voice. For an album of 20 songs it’s faster than two shakes of a lamb’s tail. Not something I’m gonna go looking for on my own, but glad I took the time to enjoy it. Rating: 8/10 Stars: 4/5

I just don't love these old albums where there are no original songs. She has a great voice, but this just doesn't do it for me Favorite Song: You Don't Own me

Really nice voice. Like the warmth in the arrangements too.

Wasn’t expecting 60’s dream sequence BS. However I see some talent around that so would be interested enough to check out her later things to see if it’s improved.

Actually surprised by how many songs I recognized. Good album from its era.