Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Silver Threads and Golden Needles
2. Island of Dreams
3. I Only Want to Be with You
4. Stay Awhile
5. Wishin' and Hopin'
6. Anyone Who Had a Heart
7. Do Re Mi (Forget About the Do and Think About Me)
8. I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself
9. All Cried Out
10. Guess Who?
11. Live It Up
12. He's Got Something
13. Losing You
14. Your Hurtin' Kinda Love
15. Now That You're My Baby
16. In the Middle of Nowhere
17. Some of Your Lovin'
18. Oh No, Not My Baby
19. It Was Easier to Hurt Him
20. I've Been Wrong Before
21. Needle in a Haystack
22. I Had a Talk with My Man
23. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
24. Little by Little
25. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
26. Goin' Back
27. All I See Is You
28. I'll Try Anything
29. Corrupt Ones

Disc 2:

1. Look of Love
2. Give Me Time
3. What's It Gonna Be?
4. Chained to a Memory
5. If You Go Away
6. Don't Let Me Lose This Dream
7. I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten
8. Sweet Ride
9. Magic Garden
10. I Think It's Going to Rain Today
11. Son of a Preacher Man
12. Just One Smile
13. Don't Forget About Me
14. Breakfast in Bed
15. Windmills of Your Mind
16. Willie and Laura Mae Jones
17. Am I the Same Girl?
18. In the Land of Make Believe
19. Brand New Me
20. Goodbye
21. Silly, Silly Fool
22. I Wanna Be a Free Girl
23. How Can I Be Sure
24. Spooky
25. What Good Is I Love You?
26. Haunted
27. Yesterday, When I Was Young

Disc 3:

1. Who Gets Your Love
2. Tupelo Honey
3. Mama's Little Girl
4. Other Side of Life
5. Let Me Love You Once Before You Go
6. You Set My Dreams to Music
7. Give Me the Night
8. Sandra
9. Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)
10. I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love
11. Living Without Your Love
12. You've Really Got a Hold on Me
13. It Goes Like It Goes
14. Bits and Pieces
15. Don't Call It Love
16. Soft Core
17. Time and Time Again
18. What Have I Done to Deserve This?
19. Nothing Has Been Proved
20. In Private
21. Where Is a Woman to Go

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #161375 in Music
• Released on: 1997-09-23
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set

Amazon.com essential recording
Dusty Springfield is a pop singer in the sense that she's sung anything she wanted to, or that the market could grasp, over a 35-year-plus career. Unlike the often unconvincing genre hopping of a Cher, however, Springfield's shifts in style have always been of a piece: the apocalyptic balladry of "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me," the wistful Goffin-King "Goin' Back," the sultry soul of "Son of a Preacher Man," or the drama of her duet with the Pet Shop Boys, "What Have I Done to Deserve This?"--these are all Springfield's songs. This three-CD box set surveys all her changes, with promises of more to come that were sadly never fulfilled. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews

For those who want everything
I love Dusty and own an original copy of the "Dusty In Memphis" LP. The reason I give this anthology only 4 stars instead of 5 is because, to be blunt about it, not all of the material she recorded was prime (especially after about 1970), so I find myself wading through a bit too much filler in order to hear the gems. For me, having the entire "Dusty In Memphis" is more important than having much of the stuff on this anthology. So, if you want the really essential Dusty, my advice is to buy "The Very Best of Dusty Sringfield" (the 20-song hit collection) and "Dusty In Memphis".

Having said that, I would note that this is a wonderful collection for those who want everything, and there are some particularly nice cover songs on it ("Other Side of Life", "Tupelo Honey"). By any measure, one of the greats.

A great collection
Boy, Dusty Springfield's career was a hard one to figure out! She sang so great, had as wide a fan base as anyone could want and got so much critical acclaim from every corner---and still she never really sold many records after her mid-Sixties heyday. Reissues of her albums are just now starting to be released on CD, but some, like the great IT BEGINS AGAIN, are harder to find than Atlantis. So if you really want a lot of Dusty, this anthology can't be beat. It's got her "hits" ("I Only Want To Be With You," "Son Of A Preacher Man," "The Look Of Love"), it's got a lot of "shoulda-bin-hits" ("What Good Is I Love You?," "I'd Rather Leave When I'm In Love"), it's got a lot of surprises (a steamin' version of Smokey Robinson's "You've Really Got A Hold On Me," a really strange one called "Soft Core") and, yeah, it's got a few clinkers (not many!). You can argue about what ISN'T there, but overall this is a generous helping of tunes from one of the best singers of all time, maybe even THE best.

THE ESSENTIAL DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
I am a Dusty Springfield fan from England, and I have followed her career from way back in 1958 when she was with the Lana Sisters -- even before the Springfields. Many people do not realize that in Europe and England, Dusty is regarded with the same reverence that people in the US regard Aretha Franklin. This anthology does not do justice to Dusty Springfield's career at all! Dopey numbers like "Do Re Mi" and weirder numbers from later on in her career are included, while standards such as "My Colouring Book" "Summer Is Over" her cover of Marvin Gaye's "Can I Get A Witness" and great titles from the "Cameo" "Everything's Coming Up Dusty" "A Girl Called Dusty" and "It Begins Again" are overlooked. Many British B sides of her singles were classics, and not included here. Misses from the seventies are dwelt on in detail, while the famous "Reputation" album which revived the Springfield career in the mid-eighties is given short shrift. The whole anthology seems thrown together by someone who has little idea of Dusty Springfield. Fans will definetely be better served by buying "The Very Best Of Dusty Springfield." Hopefully, someone will eventually come up with a definitive anthology one of these days.