Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield (born Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien on 16 Apri… Read Full Bio ↴Dusty Springfield (born Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien on 16 April 1939 β died 2 March 1999) was a British pop singer. Of the female artists of the British Invasion, Springfield made the biggest impression on the U.S. market. From 1963 to 1970, she scored 18 singles in the Billboard Hot 100. She was voted the Top British Female Artist by readers of New Musical Express in 1964, 1965, and 1968. Springfield is an inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the UK Music Hall of Fame. She was named among the 25 female rock artists of all time by readers of Mojo magazine (1999), editors of Q magazine (2002), and a panel of artists on the TV channel VH1 (2007).
Dusty was born in West Hampstead, England to an Irish family and was raised in the West London borough of Ealing. The name "Dusty" was given to her when she was a child, as she had been a tomboy in her early years. Dusty was brought up listening to a wide range of music, including George Gershwin, Rogers and Hart, Rogers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Glenn Miller. She was a fan of American Jazz and the music of Peggy Lee, with a desire to sound like her. Her tax consultant father used to tap out rhythms on the back of her hand, encouraging young Dusty to guess the musical piece. At age 11, Dusty went into a local record shop in Ealing and made her first record, the Irving Berlin song "When The Midnight Choo Choo Leaves For Alabam".
After finishing school in 1958, Dusty responded to the advertisement to join an "established sister act" Lana Sisters. With the vocal group, she developed the art of harmonising, learned microphone technique, recorded, did some television and played live in the U.K. and at American Air Bases.
In 1960 she left the band and formed a pop-folk trio with her brother Dion O'Brien and Reshad Feild (who was later replaced by Mike Hurst). The new trio changed their names to Dusty, Tom, and Tim Springfield and chose The Springfields as their name during a rehearsal in a field in Somerset in spring. Intending to make an authentic American album, the Springfields travelled to Nashville to record the album Folk Songs from the Hills. The American pop tunes she heard during her stay helped to turn Springfield's career from the folk and country sounds of the Springfields towards pop music rooted in rhythm and blues. In the spring of 1963, the Springfields recorded their last U.K. Top 5 hit, "Say I Won't Be There", before disbanding. They played their last concert in October 1963.
Dusty Springfield's first single, the soul-tinged "I Only Want to Be with You", was released in November 1963. The song, Springfield's first flirtation with American soul, was arranged by Ivor Raymonde and paid homage to Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" production style. The single rose to #4 in the British charts and #12 on Billboard Hot 100. The song was actually a "sure shot" pick on influential New York pop music station WMCA in December 1963, even before the station started playing the Beatles. The release eventually charted into the top 10 on WMCA's weekly top 25 countdown survey. It was #48 of the year 1964 of the Musicradio WABC Top. The song was also the first record played on the BBC's Top of the Pops.
Her debut album A Girl Called Dusty included mostly covers of her favorite songs by other performers. Among the tracks were "Mama Said", "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes", "You Don't Own Me", and "Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa". The album reached #6 in the U.K. in May 1964. The chart hits "Stay Awhile", "All Cried Out", and "Losing You" followed the same year. In 1964, Springfield recorded two Burt Bacharach songs: "Wishin' and Hopin'", a U.S. Top 10 hit, and "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself", which reached U.K. #3.
Springfield's tour of South Africa was interrupted in December 1964, after she performed before an integrated audience at a theater near Cape Town. Her flouting of government segregation policy resulted in her deportation from the country. The same year, she was voted Top Female British Artist in the New Musical Express poll of the year, beating Lulu, Sandie Shaw, and Cilla Black. Springfield received the award again the following year.
In 1965 Springfield took part in the Italian Song Festival in Sanremo, failing to qualify to the final with two songs. In the competition, she heard the song "Io Che Non Vivo (Senza Te)". The English version of the song, "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me", featured lyrics written by Springfield's friend and future manager, Vicki Wickham, and Simon Napier-Bell. It reached U.K. #1 and U.S. #4 on the weekly Billboard Hot 100, and was #35 on the Billboard Top for 1966. The song, which Springfield called "good old schmaltz", was voted among the All Time Top 100 Songs by the listeners of BBC Radio 2 in 1999.
In 1965, she released three more U.K. Top 40 hits: "Your Hurtin' Kinda Love", "In the Middle of Nowhere" and Carole King's "Some of Your Lovin'". These were not included on the album Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty, featuring songs by Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley, Rod Argent, and Randy Newman, and a cover of the traditional Mexican song, "La Bamba". The LP peaked at #6 in the U.K.
Because of her enthusiasm for Motown music, Springfield campaigned to get the little known American soul singers a better audience in the UK. She hosted The Sound Of Motown, a Ready Steady Go! special edition, on April 28, 1965. The show was broadcast by Rediffusion TV from their Wembley Studios. Springfield opened the two parts of the show, performing "Wishin' and Hopin'" and "Can't Hear You No More", accompanied by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas and Motown's in-house band The Funk Brothers. Other guests included The Temptations, The Supremes, The Miracles, Stevie Wonder. In 1994, guests of the 1965 show credited Dusty's championing of their music for popularizing American soul music in the U.K. in the documentary, Dusty Springfield. Full Circle.[19] Springfield released three additional U.K. Top 20 hits in 1966: "Little By Little", Carole King's "Going Back" and "All I See Is You". In fall 1966, she hosted Dusty, a series of 6 BBC TV music and talk shows. A compilation of her singles, Golden Hits, released in November 1966, reached #2 in the U.K.
The Bacharach-David composition "The Look of Love" was designed as a centerpiece for the spoof Bond movie Casino Royale. For one of the slowest-tempo hits of the sixties, Bacharach created the sultry by minor-seventh and major-seventh chord changes, while Hal David's lyrics epitomized longing and lust. The track was recorded in two versions at the Philips Studios of London. The soundtrack version was recorded on January, 29, and the single release version on April 14. The song is featured in the scene of Ursula Andress as Vesper Lynd persuading Peter Sellers as Evelyn Tremble, seen through a man-size aquarium. "The Look of Love" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song of 1967. The song was a Top 10 radio hit at the KGB and KHJ radio stations. As in 1967 Dusty had trouble with charting hits in the United States, the song earned her highest place in the year's charts, #22.
By the end of 1967, Dusty was becoming disillusioned with the show-business carousel on which she found herself trapped. She appeared out of step with the Summer of Love and its attendant psychedelic music. The second season of the BBC Dusty TV shows,[20] featuring performances of "Get Ready" and "I'll Try Anything", attracted a healthy audience, but was anathema to the sudden changes in pop music. The comparatively progressive and prophetically titled Where Am I Going? attempted to redress this. Containing a jazzy, orchestrated version of "Sunny", and Jacques Brel's "If You Go Away", it was an artistic success, but flopped commercially. In 1968 a similar fate awaited Dusty... Definitely. On this her choice of material ranged from the rolling "Ain't No Sunshine" to the aching emotion of "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today". In the same year Dusty had a U.K. Top 5 hit "I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten". Her personal TV shows continued with the ITV series of It Must Be Dusty,[20] including a duet with Jimi Hendrix on the song "Mockingbird". In the same year, Roger Moore presented her third Top British Female Artist award, voted by the readers of New Musical Express.
In 1968, Carole King, one of Springfield's songwriters, embarked on a singing career of her own, while the chart-busting Bacharach-David partnership was foundering. Springfield's status in the music industry was further complicated by the progressive music revolution and the uncomfortable split between what was underground and fashionable, and what was pop and unfashionable. In addition, her performing career was becoming bogged down on the U.K. touring circuit, which at that time largely consisted of working men's clubs and the hotel and cabaret circuit. Hoping to reinvigorate her career and boost her credibility, Springfield signed with Atlantic Records, home label of an idol of hers, Aretha Franklin. The Memphis sessions at the American Sound Studios were recorded by the A team of Atlantic Records: producers Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, the back-up vocal band Sweet Inspirations and the instrumental band Memphis Cats, led by guitarist Reggie Young and bass player Tommy Cogbill. The producers were the first to recognize that Springfield's natural soul voice should be placed at the fore, rather than competing with full string arrangements. Due to Springfield's pursuit of perfection and what Jerry Wexler called, a 'gigantic inferiority complex', her vocals were recorded later in New York.
The LP Dusty in Memphis received a positive review from Greil Marcus of Rolling Stone magazine saying:"...most of the songs...have a great deal of depth while presenting extremely direct and simple statements about love....Dusty sings around her material, creating music that's evocative rather than overwhelming... Dusty is not searchingβshe just shows up, and she, and we, are better for it." The LP fell short of the U.K. Top 15 and peaked at #99 on the Billboard Top 200, selling a dissappointing 100,000 copies in the U.S. However in 1970, the album earned Springfield a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. In 2001, Dusty in Memphis received the Grammy Hall of Fame award. The album was listed among the 100 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone and VH1 artists, New Musical Express readers, and Channel 4 viewers polls. The standout track of the album, "Son of a Preacher Man", reached #10 on the U.K., U.S. and international charts. Its continental success peaked at #10 on the Austrian charts and at #3 on the Swiss charts. The song was the 96th most popular song of 1969 in the United States.
In September and October 1969, Dusty Springfield hosted eight episodes of the BBC TV show Decidedly Dusty. In 1970, Springfield released her second album for Atlantic Records, A Brand New Me, featuring songs written and produced by Gamble and Huff. The album yielded a Billboard Top 25 single, "A Brand New Me". In 2007, its British counterpart, From Dusty With Love was listed among the 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die by the Guardian newspaper. A third album for the Atlantic label, titled Faithful and produced by Jeff Barry, was abandoned because of poor sales of singles slated for the LP. Most of the material recorded for the aborted album was released on the 1999 reissue of Dusty in Memphis on Rhino Records. Her next album, See All Her Faces, was released only in Britain, having none of the cohesion of her previous two albums. In 1972, Springfield signed a contract with ABC Dunhill Records, and the resulting album, Cameo, was released in 1973 with little publicity.
In 1974, Springfield recorded the theme song for the TV series The Six Million Dollar Man. Her second ABC Dunhill album was given the working title Elements and scheduled for release as Longing. The sessions were soon abandoned. A part of the material, including tentative and incomplete vocals, was released on the 2001 compilation Beautiful Soul. She put her career on hold in 1974, living reclusively in the United States to avoid scrutiny by British tabloids. During this time she provided background vocals for Anne Murray's LP Together and Elton John's LP Caribou, including the single "The Bitch is Back". Springfield released two albums on United Artists Records in the late '70s. The first was 1978's It Begins Again, produced by Roy Thomas Baker. The LP charted on both sides of the Atlantic and was well received by critics, but was not a commercial success. The 1979 album Living Without Your Love did slightly better. In London, she recorded two singles with David Mackay for her British label, Mercury Records. The first was the disco-influenced "Baby Blue", which reached #61 in Britain. The second, "Your Love Still Brings Me to My Knees", was Springfield's final single for Philips Records. In autumn 1979, Springfield played club dates in New York. On 3 December 1979, she performed a charity concert for a full house at the Royal Albert Hall, in the presence of Princess Margaret. She signed a U.S. deal with 20th Century Records, which resulted in the single "It Goes Like It Goes". Springfield was uncharacteristically proud of her 1982 album White Heat, influenced by the New Wave genre. She tried to revive her career again in 1985 by returning to the United Kingdom and signing to Peter Stringfellow's Hippodrome Records label. This resulted in the single "Sometimes Like Butterflies" and an appearance on Stringfellow's live television show. None of Dusty Springfield's recordings from 1971 to 1986 charted on the U.K. or U.S. Top 40.
In 1987, she accepted an invitation from the Pet Shop Boys to sing with the duo's Neil Tennant on their single "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" and appear on the promotional video. The record rose to #2 on both the U.K. and U.S. charts. The song subsequently appeared on the Pet Shop Boys' album Actually, and both of their greatest hits collections. Springfield sang lead vocals on the Richard Carpenter track "Something in Your Eyes", recorded for Carpenter's album Time. Released as a single, it became a #12 Adult Contemporary hit in the United States. Springfield recorded a duet with B.J. Thomas, "As Long as We Got Each Other", which was used as the theme song for the U.S. sitcom Growing Pains.
A new compilation of Springfield's greatest hits, The Silver Collection, was issued in 1988. Springfield returned to the studio with the Pet Shop Boys, who produced her recording of their song "Nothing Has Been Proved", commissioned for the soundtrack of the film Scandal. Released as a single in early 1989, the song gave Springfield a U.K. Top 20 hit. So did its follow-up, the upbeat "In Private", written and produced by the Pet Shop Boys. She capitalised on this by recording the 1990 album Reputation, another U.K. Top 20 success. The writing and production credits for half the album, which included the two recent hit singles, went to the Pet Shop Boys, while the album's other producers included Dan Hartman. Before recording the Reputation album, Springfield decided to leave California for good, and by 1988, she had returned to Britain. In 1993, she was invited to record a duet with her former 1960s professional rival and friend, Cilla Black. The song, "Heart and Soul", was released as a single and also appeared on Black's Through the Years album. In 1994, Springfield started recording the album A Very Fine Love for Sony Records. Some of the songs were written by well-known Nashville songwriters and produced with a typical country feel.
While recording her final album, A Very Fine Love, in January 1994 in Nashville, Springfield felt unwell. Upon returning to England a few months later, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She received months of radiation treatment and, for a time, the cancer was in remission. In 1995, in apparent good health again, Springfield set about promoting the album and gave a live performance of "Where Is a Woman to Go?" on the BBC television music show Later With Jools Holland, backed by Alison Moyet and SinΓ©ad O'Connor. The last song Springfield recorded was the George and Ira Gershwin standard "Someone To Watch Over Me". The song was recorded in London in 1995 for an insurance company television advertisement. It was included on Simply Dusty (2000), the extensive anthology the singer had helped plan but did not live to see released. Cancer was detected again in the summer of 1996. After a fight, she was defeated by the illness in 1999. She died in Henley-on-Thames on the day she had been due to go to Buckingham Palace to receive her Order of the British Empire insignia. Before her death, officials of St James's Palace gave permission for the medal to be collected by Springfield's manager, Vicki Wickham. She duly presented it to the singer in hospital, where they had been joined by a small party of friends and relatives. Her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame had been scheduled for 10 days after her death. Elton John helped induct Springfield into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, stating: "I think she is the greatest white singer that there ever has been."
The singer's funeral service was attended by hundreds of fans and people from the music business, including Elvis Costello, Lulu, and the Pet Shop Boys. It took place in Oxfordshire, at the ancient parish church of St Mary the Virgin, in Henley-on-Thames, where Springfield had lived during her last years. A marker dedicated to her memory was placed in the church graveyard. Some of Springfield's ashes were buried at Henley, while the rest were scattered by her brother, Tom Springfield, at the Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland. In what was considered a very rare departure from royal protocol, Queen Elizabeth said she was 'saddened' to learn of Springfield's death.
Dusty Springfield's will provided care for her cat, Nicholas, including a marriage to the five-year-old female cat of a friend in a private ceremony later that spring.
Dusty was born in West Hampstead, England to an Irish family and was raised in the West London borough of Ealing. The name "Dusty" was given to her when she was a child, as she had been a tomboy in her early years. Dusty was brought up listening to a wide range of music, including George Gershwin, Rogers and Hart, Rogers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Glenn Miller. She was a fan of American Jazz and the music of Peggy Lee, with a desire to sound like her. Her tax consultant father used to tap out rhythms on the back of her hand, encouraging young Dusty to guess the musical piece. At age 11, Dusty went into a local record shop in Ealing and made her first record, the Irving Berlin song "When The Midnight Choo Choo Leaves For Alabam".
After finishing school in 1958, Dusty responded to the advertisement to join an "established sister act" Lana Sisters. With the vocal group, she developed the art of harmonising, learned microphone technique, recorded, did some television and played live in the U.K. and at American Air Bases.
In 1960 she left the band and formed a pop-folk trio with her brother Dion O'Brien and Reshad Feild (who was later replaced by Mike Hurst). The new trio changed their names to Dusty, Tom, and Tim Springfield and chose The Springfields as their name during a rehearsal in a field in Somerset in spring. Intending to make an authentic American album, the Springfields travelled to Nashville to record the album Folk Songs from the Hills. The American pop tunes she heard during her stay helped to turn Springfield's career from the folk and country sounds of the Springfields towards pop music rooted in rhythm and blues. In the spring of 1963, the Springfields recorded their last U.K. Top 5 hit, "Say I Won't Be There", before disbanding. They played their last concert in October 1963.
Dusty Springfield's first single, the soul-tinged "I Only Want to Be with You", was released in November 1963. The song, Springfield's first flirtation with American soul, was arranged by Ivor Raymonde and paid homage to Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" production style. The single rose to #4 in the British charts and #12 on Billboard Hot 100. The song was actually a "sure shot" pick on influential New York pop music station WMCA in December 1963, even before the station started playing the Beatles. The release eventually charted into the top 10 on WMCA's weekly top 25 countdown survey. It was #48 of the year 1964 of the Musicradio WABC Top. The song was also the first record played on the BBC's Top of the Pops.
Her debut album A Girl Called Dusty included mostly covers of her favorite songs by other performers. Among the tracks were "Mama Said", "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes", "You Don't Own Me", and "Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa". The album reached #6 in the U.K. in May 1964. The chart hits "Stay Awhile", "All Cried Out", and "Losing You" followed the same year. In 1964, Springfield recorded two Burt Bacharach songs: "Wishin' and Hopin'", a U.S. Top 10 hit, and "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself", which reached U.K. #3.
Springfield's tour of South Africa was interrupted in December 1964, after she performed before an integrated audience at a theater near Cape Town. Her flouting of government segregation policy resulted in her deportation from the country. The same year, she was voted Top Female British Artist in the New Musical Express poll of the year, beating Lulu, Sandie Shaw, and Cilla Black. Springfield received the award again the following year.
In 1965 Springfield took part in the Italian Song Festival in Sanremo, failing to qualify to the final with two songs. In the competition, she heard the song "Io Che Non Vivo (Senza Te)". The English version of the song, "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me", featured lyrics written by Springfield's friend and future manager, Vicki Wickham, and Simon Napier-Bell. It reached U.K. #1 and U.S. #4 on the weekly Billboard Hot 100, and was #35 on the Billboard Top for 1966. The song, which Springfield called "good old schmaltz", was voted among the All Time Top 100 Songs by the listeners of BBC Radio 2 in 1999.
In 1965, she released three more U.K. Top 40 hits: "Your Hurtin' Kinda Love", "In the Middle of Nowhere" and Carole King's "Some of Your Lovin'". These were not included on the album Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty, featuring songs by Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley, Rod Argent, and Randy Newman, and a cover of the traditional Mexican song, "La Bamba". The LP peaked at #6 in the U.K.
Because of her enthusiasm for Motown music, Springfield campaigned to get the little known American soul singers a better audience in the UK. She hosted The Sound Of Motown, a Ready Steady Go! special edition, on April 28, 1965. The show was broadcast by Rediffusion TV from their Wembley Studios. Springfield opened the two parts of the show, performing "Wishin' and Hopin'" and "Can't Hear You No More", accompanied by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas and Motown's in-house band The Funk Brothers. Other guests included The Temptations, The Supremes, The Miracles, Stevie Wonder. In 1994, guests of the 1965 show credited Dusty's championing of their music for popularizing American soul music in the U.K. in the documentary, Dusty Springfield. Full Circle.[19] Springfield released three additional U.K. Top 20 hits in 1966: "Little By Little", Carole King's "Going Back" and "All I See Is You". In fall 1966, she hosted Dusty, a series of 6 BBC TV music and talk shows. A compilation of her singles, Golden Hits, released in November 1966, reached #2 in the U.K.
The Bacharach-David composition "The Look of Love" was designed as a centerpiece for the spoof Bond movie Casino Royale. For one of the slowest-tempo hits of the sixties, Bacharach created the sultry by minor-seventh and major-seventh chord changes, while Hal David's lyrics epitomized longing and lust. The track was recorded in two versions at the Philips Studios of London. The soundtrack version was recorded on January, 29, and the single release version on April 14. The song is featured in the scene of Ursula Andress as Vesper Lynd persuading Peter Sellers as Evelyn Tremble, seen through a man-size aquarium. "The Look of Love" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song of 1967. The song was a Top 10 radio hit at the KGB and KHJ radio stations. As in 1967 Dusty had trouble with charting hits in the United States, the song earned her highest place in the year's charts, #22.
By the end of 1967, Dusty was becoming disillusioned with the show-business carousel on which she found herself trapped. She appeared out of step with the Summer of Love and its attendant psychedelic music. The second season of the BBC Dusty TV shows,[20] featuring performances of "Get Ready" and "I'll Try Anything", attracted a healthy audience, but was anathema to the sudden changes in pop music. The comparatively progressive and prophetically titled Where Am I Going? attempted to redress this. Containing a jazzy, orchestrated version of "Sunny", and Jacques Brel's "If You Go Away", it was an artistic success, but flopped commercially. In 1968 a similar fate awaited Dusty... Definitely. On this her choice of material ranged from the rolling "Ain't No Sunshine" to the aching emotion of "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today". In the same year Dusty had a U.K. Top 5 hit "I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten". Her personal TV shows continued with the ITV series of It Must Be Dusty,[20] including a duet with Jimi Hendrix on the song "Mockingbird". In the same year, Roger Moore presented her third Top British Female Artist award, voted by the readers of New Musical Express.
In 1968, Carole King, one of Springfield's songwriters, embarked on a singing career of her own, while the chart-busting Bacharach-David partnership was foundering. Springfield's status in the music industry was further complicated by the progressive music revolution and the uncomfortable split between what was underground and fashionable, and what was pop and unfashionable. In addition, her performing career was becoming bogged down on the U.K. touring circuit, which at that time largely consisted of working men's clubs and the hotel and cabaret circuit. Hoping to reinvigorate her career and boost her credibility, Springfield signed with Atlantic Records, home label of an idol of hers, Aretha Franklin. The Memphis sessions at the American Sound Studios were recorded by the A team of Atlantic Records: producers Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, the back-up vocal band Sweet Inspirations and the instrumental band Memphis Cats, led by guitarist Reggie Young and bass player Tommy Cogbill. The producers were the first to recognize that Springfield's natural soul voice should be placed at the fore, rather than competing with full string arrangements. Due to Springfield's pursuit of perfection and what Jerry Wexler called, a 'gigantic inferiority complex', her vocals were recorded later in New York.
The LP Dusty in Memphis received a positive review from Greil Marcus of Rolling Stone magazine saying:"...most of the songs...have a great deal of depth while presenting extremely direct and simple statements about love....Dusty sings around her material, creating music that's evocative rather than overwhelming... Dusty is not searchingβshe just shows up, and she, and we, are better for it." The LP fell short of the U.K. Top 15 and peaked at #99 on the Billboard Top 200, selling a dissappointing 100,000 copies in the U.S. However in 1970, the album earned Springfield a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. In 2001, Dusty in Memphis received the Grammy Hall of Fame award. The album was listed among the 100 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone and VH1 artists, New Musical Express readers, and Channel 4 viewers polls. The standout track of the album, "Son of a Preacher Man", reached #10 on the U.K., U.S. and international charts. Its continental success peaked at #10 on the Austrian charts and at #3 on the Swiss charts. The song was the 96th most popular song of 1969 in the United States.
In September and October 1969, Dusty Springfield hosted eight episodes of the BBC TV show Decidedly Dusty. In 1970, Springfield released her second album for Atlantic Records, A Brand New Me, featuring songs written and produced by Gamble and Huff. The album yielded a Billboard Top 25 single, "A Brand New Me". In 2007, its British counterpart, From Dusty With Love was listed among the 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die by the Guardian newspaper. A third album for the Atlantic label, titled Faithful and produced by Jeff Barry, was abandoned because of poor sales of singles slated for the LP. Most of the material recorded for the aborted album was released on the 1999 reissue of Dusty in Memphis on Rhino Records. Her next album, See All Her Faces, was released only in Britain, having none of the cohesion of her previous two albums. In 1972, Springfield signed a contract with ABC Dunhill Records, and the resulting album, Cameo, was released in 1973 with little publicity.
In 1974, Springfield recorded the theme song for the TV series The Six Million Dollar Man. Her second ABC Dunhill album was given the working title Elements and scheduled for release as Longing. The sessions were soon abandoned. A part of the material, including tentative and incomplete vocals, was released on the 2001 compilation Beautiful Soul. She put her career on hold in 1974, living reclusively in the United States to avoid scrutiny by British tabloids. During this time she provided background vocals for Anne Murray's LP Together and Elton John's LP Caribou, including the single "The Bitch is Back". Springfield released two albums on United Artists Records in the late '70s. The first was 1978's It Begins Again, produced by Roy Thomas Baker. The LP charted on both sides of the Atlantic and was well received by critics, but was not a commercial success. The 1979 album Living Without Your Love did slightly better. In London, she recorded two singles with David Mackay for her British label, Mercury Records. The first was the disco-influenced "Baby Blue", which reached #61 in Britain. The second, "Your Love Still Brings Me to My Knees", was Springfield's final single for Philips Records. In autumn 1979, Springfield played club dates in New York. On 3 December 1979, she performed a charity concert for a full house at the Royal Albert Hall, in the presence of Princess Margaret. She signed a U.S. deal with 20th Century Records, which resulted in the single "It Goes Like It Goes". Springfield was uncharacteristically proud of her 1982 album White Heat, influenced by the New Wave genre. She tried to revive her career again in 1985 by returning to the United Kingdom and signing to Peter Stringfellow's Hippodrome Records label. This resulted in the single "Sometimes Like Butterflies" and an appearance on Stringfellow's live television show. None of Dusty Springfield's recordings from 1971 to 1986 charted on the U.K. or U.S. Top 40.
In 1987, she accepted an invitation from the Pet Shop Boys to sing with the duo's Neil Tennant on their single "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" and appear on the promotional video. The record rose to #2 on both the U.K. and U.S. charts. The song subsequently appeared on the Pet Shop Boys' album Actually, and both of their greatest hits collections. Springfield sang lead vocals on the Richard Carpenter track "Something in Your Eyes", recorded for Carpenter's album Time. Released as a single, it became a #12 Adult Contemporary hit in the United States. Springfield recorded a duet with B.J. Thomas, "As Long as We Got Each Other", which was used as the theme song for the U.S. sitcom Growing Pains.
A new compilation of Springfield's greatest hits, The Silver Collection, was issued in 1988. Springfield returned to the studio with the Pet Shop Boys, who produced her recording of their song "Nothing Has Been Proved", commissioned for the soundtrack of the film Scandal. Released as a single in early 1989, the song gave Springfield a U.K. Top 20 hit. So did its follow-up, the upbeat "In Private", written and produced by the Pet Shop Boys. She capitalised on this by recording the 1990 album Reputation, another U.K. Top 20 success. The writing and production credits for half the album, which included the two recent hit singles, went to the Pet Shop Boys, while the album's other producers included Dan Hartman. Before recording the Reputation album, Springfield decided to leave California for good, and by 1988, she had returned to Britain. In 1993, she was invited to record a duet with her former 1960s professional rival and friend, Cilla Black. The song, "Heart and Soul", was released as a single and also appeared on Black's Through the Years album. In 1994, Springfield started recording the album A Very Fine Love for Sony Records. Some of the songs were written by well-known Nashville songwriters and produced with a typical country feel.
While recording her final album, A Very Fine Love, in January 1994 in Nashville, Springfield felt unwell. Upon returning to England a few months later, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She received months of radiation treatment and, for a time, the cancer was in remission. In 1995, in apparent good health again, Springfield set about promoting the album and gave a live performance of "Where Is a Woman to Go?" on the BBC television music show Later With Jools Holland, backed by Alison Moyet and SinΓ©ad O'Connor. The last song Springfield recorded was the George and Ira Gershwin standard "Someone To Watch Over Me". The song was recorded in London in 1995 for an insurance company television advertisement. It was included on Simply Dusty (2000), the extensive anthology the singer had helped plan but did not live to see released. Cancer was detected again in the summer of 1996. After a fight, she was defeated by the illness in 1999. She died in Henley-on-Thames on the day she had been due to go to Buckingham Palace to receive her Order of the British Empire insignia. Before her death, officials of St James's Palace gave permission for the medal to be collected by Springfield's manager, Vicki Wickham. She duly presented it to the singer in hospital, where they had been joined by a small party of friends and relatives. Her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame had been scheduled for 10 days after her death. Elton John helped induct Springfield into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, stating: "I think she is the greatest white singer that there ever has been."
The singer's funeral service was attended by hundreds of fans and people from the music business, including Elvis Costello, Lulu, and the Pet Shop Boys. It took place in Oxfordshire, at the ancient parish church of St Mary the Virgin, in Henley-on-Thames, where Springfield had lived during her last years. A marker dedicated to her memory was placed in the church graveyard. Some of Springfield's ashes were buried at Henley, while the rest were scattered by her brother, Tom Springfield, at the Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland. In what was considered a very rare departure from royal protocol, Queen Elizabeth said she was 'saddened' to learn of Springfield's death.
Dusty Springfield's will provided care for her cat, Nicholas, including a marriage to the five-year-old female cat of a friend in a private ceremony later that spring.
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(They long to Be) Close to You (Burt Bacharach / Hal David) Why do birds suddenly appear E…
24 Hours From Tulsa Dearest, darlin' I had to write to say that I won't…
A Brand New Me This is my same old coat And my same old shoes I…
A House Is Not A Home A chair is still a chair Even though thereβs no-one sitting…
A Love Like Yours I broke your heart And I made you blue Instead of hurting…
A Song For You I've been so many places In my life and time I've…
Ain Yeah, it ain't easy Girls it ain't easy To keep the man…
Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone Into my life You brought a glowing love Like a ray of…
Ain't No Sunshine Since You've Been Gone Into my life You brought a glowing love Like a ray…
All Cried Out I stayed up crying all night (all night) I knew the…
All I Have to Offer is Love If all you want's a good time, baby There's a party…
All I See Is You I tried so hard All summer through Not to think too much…
All the King's Horses Mmm, my friends keep telling me to pull myself together They…
Alone with You Ah, ha, have you ever tried Really reaching out for the…
Am I The Same Girl Why don't you stop And look me over? Am I the same…
Angels The further you get, the better you see Ooh yeah,…
Annyone Who Had a Heart Anyone who ever loved Could look at me And know that I…
Another Night Find me a rose that never fades and dies And I'll…
Any Other Fool I couldn't see paradise right before my eyes When I had…
Anyone Who Had A Heart Anyone who ever loved Could look at me And know that I…
Arrested By You What is this strange elation? Taking my train of thought to…
Auf dich nur wart' ich immerzu Wir sehen uns alle tage in vorΓΌber gehen Und immer denk…
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Baby Blue (ooh, ooh, baby blue) (what's wrong with you?) Ooh, yeah Get…
Baby Don't You Know (Baby don't you know?) Tonight you'll take away my sorrow (B…
Bad Case Of The Blues Such a bad case of the blues I thought that you…
Be Somebody I can tell by lookin' in your eyes, yea man There…
Beautiful Soul I wonder where you are, lovable lady I wonder what you're…
Bits And Pieces Out of nowhere into sight Out of darkness into light You com…
Blind Sheep Hey! Just stop your domination You can't move on my personal…
Born This Way Some people know what they want to be Some people…
Brand New Me This is my same old coat And my same old shoes I…
Breakaway Breakaway, my heart is cryin' Breakaway, the time is flyin'…
Breakfast In Bed You've been cryin' Your face is a mess Come in baby You can…
Breakin' Up A Happy Home If we fuss and we fight Why do we have to…
Bring Him Back Oh, bring him back If he's too much for you And you…
Broken Blossoms I walk where once the grass was green And mourn the…
Can I Get A Witness Ah ah listen everybody (body), specially you girls (girls) I…
Can I Get A Witness? Ah ah listen everybody (body), specially you girls (girls) …
Chained To A Memory Why am I chained to a memory? Why does the thought…
Cherished I said love ain't no good unless it's cherished, mmm I…
Close To You Why do birds suddenly appear Every time you are near? Just l…
Closet Man Your secret's safe inside me Closet man Safe under lock and …
Come Back To Me Hear my voice Where you are Take a train Steal a car Hop a…
Come For A Dream Come for a dream Come and love in the sun Come and…
Comin' And Goin' Stay at home Phone that should be ringin' Quiet as a picture…
Crumbs Off The Table Ooh, hoo Get up in the morning 'Bout a quarter to nine Get…
Cry Cry Baby Everyday I have to cry some Everyday I have to cry…
Daydreaming (You gotta wake up) You don't commit to me You won't make…
Di Fronte All'Amore Eri il ragazzo di un'altra E non potevo parlarti Ma tu sapes…
Do Re Mi Do re me fa so la ti This little creature was…
Don't Call It Love Nobody believes that I really care for you They don't think…
Don't Forget About Me Baby, I know you've got to go I have no right To…
Don't Let Me Lose This Dream If I lose this dream I don't know what I'm gonna…
Don't Say It Baby (Don't say it, baby) (Don't say it, baby) Don't say it, ba…
Don't Speak Of Love Life never seems to get you down You always seem so…
Don't You Know I just don't know what to do with myself Don't know…
Donnez Moi I'm goin' down for the first time I can't see, it's…
Doodlin' Drop me off in Harlem Any place in Harlem There's someone wa…
DoβReβMi Do re me fa so la ti This little creature was…
Dream On I wander the streets And the gay crowded places Trying to fo…
Dusty Springfield Dusty springfield, that's a pretty name It even sounds like …
Earthbound Gypsy Trees that grow without ground Young leaves that fall in spr…
Easy Evil Well you are Such an easy evil You're such a sensuous sin So…
Every Day I Have To Cry Everyday I have to cry some Everyday I have to cry…
Every Ounce Of Strength I'll put your pictures all around my wall I'll build a…
Everyday I Have to Cry Everyday I have to cry some Everyday I have to cry…
Exclusively For Me This is a song written exclusively for me Something to warm…
Far Away Places Far away places with strange sounding names Far away over th…
Fine Fine Very Fine Day I never knew how good love could be All I'd ever…
Get Yourself To Love Isn't it time all of love's bad debts got paid? Don't…
Getting It Right Hey boy, don't be shy Waiting all alone Think about what you…
Girls Can't Do What The Guys Do Ooh, ooh Guys are gonna want to go out and play…
Girls It Ain't Easy Yeah, it ain't easy Girls it ain't easy To keep the man…
Give Me The Night If you'll only give me time All the heartache that he…
Go Ahead On If you're gonna break my heart Go ahead on Guess you think…
Go Easy On Me hear you baby, I know how you feel We're both hungry…
Go My Love Go my love Go softly goodbye Life is like an empty dream …
Goin' Back I think I'm goin' back To the things I learned so…
Goodbye (roland chambers / leonard pakula) Goodbye, bye, bye, bye I…
Gotta Get Used To You Who d'you think you're kidding? You walk out on my life Now,…
Growing Pains (As Long As We G Show me that smile again Oh, show me that smile…
Guess Who (Guess who?) Where's the girl who hurt herself last night? (…
Haunted Ooh, hoo I can't eat right I can't sleep nights Oh, honey lo…
Have A Good Life Baby If we knew a way to go back through time To…
He He's got something I don't know what but it's grand I can…
Heartbeat I feel heartbeat You feel heartbeat Keeping time Oh, yeah…
Here She Comes Here she comes A girl who has everything Here she comes A gi…
Hollywood Movie Girls Today I went out on a movie call I saw a…
Home To Myself I wake up and see The light of the day Shinin' on…
How Can I Be Sure How can I be sure in a world that's constantly…
How Can I Be Sure - Remastered Version How can I be sure? In a world that's constantly changing How…
How Can I Be Sure? How can I be sure in a world that's constantly…
I In my life I have known many sorrows In my time Troubles hav…
I Am Curious I'm curious, I want to know I'm an idealist, I'll let…
I Am Your Child And I am your child Wherever you go You take me…
I Believe In You It's gone way beyond just lovin' And for a long time…
I Can Now you know me You know how proud I am And what…
I Can't Give Back the Love Here's a tear For a souvenir And a dream Torn at…
I Can't Hear You Here you are again Tellin' me you're sorry, baby Tellin' me …
I Can't Help The Way I Don't Feel You want me to say I love you too There's nothing…
I Can't Make It Alone Now you know me You know how proud I am And what…
I Can't Wait To See My Baby's Face I can't wait until I see my, my baby's face When…
I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten It isn't the way that you look And it isn't the…
I Don't Think We Could Ever Be Friends It's the end of our journey What can I do? Lonely together W…
I Don't Wanna Hear It Anymore In my neighborhood We don't live so good The rooms are small…
I Don't Want To Go On Without You I don't want to go on without you Oh, it's so…
I Don't Want to Hear it Anymor In my neighborhood We don't live so good The rooms are small…
I Found My Way In my life I have known many sorrows In my time Troubles …
I Had A Talk With My Man I had a talk with my man last night He reassured…
I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself I just don't know what to do with myself Don't know…
I Just Fall In Love Again Dreamin', I must be dreamin' Or am I really lying here…
I Just Wanna Be There Now when the storm of life is rushing in on…
I Only Wanna Laugh Change the mood I'm in For a little while Let me…
I Only Want To Be With You I don't know what it is that makes me love…
I Start Counting This year, next year Sometime never Paper dreams tied up Wi…
I Think It Broken windows In empty hallways Pale dead moon And the sky …
I Think It's Gonna Rain Today Broken windows In empty hallways Pale dead moon And the s…
I Wanna Be a Free Girl I was there when dreams came true Stuck around when they…
I Wanna Control You What a nice party And I know just why I'm feeling…
I Want To Be A Free Girl I was there when dreams came true Stuck around when they…
I Want To Stay Here I don't wanna go to the party with you I don't…
I Want Your Love Tonight Oh, love is like a flame, now Upon a candle Get it…
I Will Always Want You Don't go There's so much left to tell you You just don't…
I Will Come To You Just like a ship sailing out, on a mornin' tide Sailing…
I Wish I'd Never Loved You I wish I'd never loved you I wish I'd never wanted…
I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love I'd rather leave while I'm in love While I still believe…
I'll Be Faithful I would be your water when your thirsty mouth was…
I'll Love You For A While Yeah, I will love you for a while Just how long…
I'll Try Anything You belong To somebody else and not to me Right or wrong Tha…
I'm Coming Home Again I'm not as crazy as I used to be Some of…
I'm Gonna Leave You I've been trying hard to see Just what you want of…
I've Been Wrong Before The night we met The night that I won't forget You seemed…
I've Got A Good Thing (I got a good thing) I got a good thing (I got…
If It Don't Work Out When he loved me nothing in this world Could touch his…
If It Hadn't Been For You I would be through with love Have nothing to do with…
If Wishes Could Be Kisses Baby, if wishes could be kisses And dreams could make you…
If You Go Away If you go away on this summer day Then you might…
In Private Take your time and tell me Where you lie I realize That…
In The Land Of Make Believe In the land of make believe You're mine tonight Although you…
In The Middle Of Nowhere Where does our love lie In the middle of nowhere Will it…
In The Winter The days are okay I watch the T.V. in the afternoon If…
Island Of Dreams I wander the streets And the gay crowded places Trying to fo…
It Goes Like It Goes Ain't no miracle being born People doin' it everyday It ain'…
It Was Easier To Hurt Him I should have told him that I needed him When I…
It's Over If time were not a moving thing And I could make…
Je Ne Peux Pas T'en Vouloir (springfield / westlake / gerald) French version of losing …
Joe (Hey, does anybody know) (How I can get in touch with…
Just A Little Lovin Just a little lovin' Early in the mornin' Beats a cup of…
Just A Little Lovin' - Stereo version Just a little lovin' Early in the morning Beats a cup of…
Just One Smile Can't I cry a little bit? There's nobody to notice it Can't…
La Bamba Para bailar la bamba Para bailar la bamba Se necesita una po…
Learn To Say Goodbye When I close my eyes I can see your face Tho'…
Let Me Down Easy Ahh-haa Now, if you're gonna let me down Let me down easy So…
Let Me Get In Your Way (Please) (Let me get in your way) Call me sad and blue All…
Let Me In Your Way (Please) (Let me get in your way) Call me sad and blue Al…
Let Me Love You Once Before You Go It's like looking in the window of a fine boutique Knowing…
Let's Get Together Soon When I'm away from you, boy All I seem to do…
Let's Talk It Over Talk it over Talk it over You seem to think That everything…
Little By Little Little by little, by little, by little, by little Little by…
Live Here With You You ask me to live here with you If I could,…
Live It Up Now, you work all week just to make that money,…
Living Without Your Love If I passed you on the street Would you look the…
Long After Tonight Is All Over Tonight will be for the first time I have learned what…
Look of Love The look of love Is in your eyes The look your heart Can't…
Lose Again Dusty Springfield Miscellaneous Lose Again (karla bonoff) H…
Losing You How many tears do you cry If love should break your…
Lost I was a sad and lonely girl All alone in this…
Lost - Remastered Version I was a sad and lonely girl All alone in this…
Love Me By Name I tried so hard to be carefree Rolling out of someone's…
Love Power When we walk Down the street We don't care Who we see Or…
Love Shine Down Ooh, hoo, once love was a fire That came and lit…
love theme The look of love Is in your eyes The look your heart Can't…
Lovin' Proof I know some lovers would be satisfied With sweet, 'I love…
Magic Garden There is a garden Something like the shadow of a butterfly A…
Make It With You Ah, ha, have you ever tried Really reaching out for the…
Mama Said [Chorus] Mama said there'll be days like this There'll be da…
Mama's Little Girl Took the ribbon from my hair And I'm letting it all…
Meditation In my loneliness When you're gone and I'm all by myself And…
Mixed Up Girl Ah, ha, ah Gonna let you go, my angel Though I could…
Mocking Bird Everybody have you heard? He's gonna buy me a mockingbird …
Mockingbird Everybody have you heard? He's gonna buy me a mockingbird An…
Morning The morning it is sad The morning so beautiful The sunshine …
Morning Please Don't Come Morning please don't come Surely you see that my lover is…
Mr Dream Merchant Hey, Mr. Dream Merchant Everything depends on you Oh, hey, M…
Mr. Dream Merchant Hey, Mr. Dream Merchant Everything depends on you Oh, hey,…
My Coloring Book For those who fancy coloring books And lots of people do Her…
My Lagan Love Where Lagan stream sings lullaby There grows a young man fa…
Natchez Trace Oh, ho He rode into Virginia Rollin' thunder, ridin' high I …
Needle In A Haystack Well, well, I once believed All fellas were nice But girls, …
Never Love Again Dreamin', I must be dreamin' Or am I really lying here…
Nice Dream We'll go away Make love all day You'll never stay But it's a…
No Easy Way Down Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky, love But now…
No Sad Songs For Me No sad songs for me Soon our love will be Just a…
No Stranger Am I No stranger am I You enter my world I hear flowers…
Nothing Baby, if a wall of stone were built around your…
Nothing Has Been Proved Mandy's in the papers 'cause she tried to go to…
Nothing Is Forever Nothing is forever Always is a dream Life goes by so fast Yo…
Now That You're My Baby (Now that you're my baby) (Now that you're my baby) You're n…
O Holy Child Ooh child Things are gonna get easier Ooh child Things'll ge…
Occupy Your Mind Satisfy your reason It will occupy your mind Even when you'r…
Of All The Things Of all the things I've ever done Finding you will prove…
oh no not my baby When my friends told me you had someone new I didn't…
Old Habits Die Hard It's my decision You look my way With innocent expression Ju…
Once Upon A Time When you passed my way It seemed my lucky day The world…
Only want to be with you I don't know what it is that makes me love…
Packin' Up So if I give up (yes, I'm packin' up) Movin' out…
Poor Wayfaring Stranger I am a poor, wayfaring stranger Wandering o'er this world of…
Put Your Hands Together Come On, Come On Come On, Y'all Now Put Your Hands Together …
Quiet Please Quiet please, there's a lady on stage She may not be…
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Reputation (Reputation) (Repeat x 12) They're going to want you They'r…
Reste Encore Un Instant Reste encore un instant Reste encore, je voudrais te parler…
Roll Away Everyday when I look in the mirror I try to see…
Sandra She's a great little housewife Though sometimes she talks li…
save me I can't stand the morning light Now you've gone there ain't…
Say I Won't Be There Call the boys and tell them Say I won't be there You…
Sea and Sky The sea goes on forever The sky goes on forever It's all…
Second Time Around Love is lovelier the second time around Just as wonderful wi…
See All Her Faces Here she comes Here she comes Ribbons flying from her half-f…
Send It To Me Somebody got a magic touch Somebody just can't get enough Yo…
Silly Silly Fool Such a silly, silly, silly, silly fool am I Oh, I,…
SILVER THREADS & GOLDEN NEEDLES I don't want your lonely mansion With a tear in every…
Small Town Girl Am I just a small town girl With big town dreams That…
So Much Love In the midst of all my darkness, baby You came along…
Soft Core You brush by me and my whole facade just melts You…
Some Of Your Lovin You gotta give me some, give me some of your…
someone to watch over me There's a saying old says that love is blind Still were…
Someone Who Cares Someone who cares Someone who dares to love you Someone wh…
Something In Your Eyes There was a certain face That filled a thousand nights With …
Something Special The first time we met It was so plain to see I…
Sometimes Like Butterflies Well, I told you not to fall in love I ain't…
Son of a Preacher Man Billy Ray was a preacher's son And when his daddy would…
Son of a Preacherman Billy Ray was a preacher's son And when his daddy would…
Son-Of-A Preacher Man Billy Ray was a preacher's son And when his daddy would…
Sooner Or Later The way you walked in the room Kindled a fire And if…
Spooky In the cool of the evening When everything is gettin'…
Standing In The Need Of Love It's me, it's me, oh, baby, it's me Standing in the…
Star Of My Show Used to be a time When I wasn't doin' so good But…
Stay Awhile Stay awhile, let me hold you Stay awhile, 'til I've told…
Summer Is Over The night runs away with the day The grass that was…
Sunny Sunny, yesterday my life was filled with rain Sunny, you smi…
Sweet Inspiration Ahh, yeah, baby Just a-listen to me now You may not bring…
Sweet Lover No More You ain't my sweet lover no more You'd better never knock…
Sweet Ride Sweet ride Give up, you won't survive You'll never get out a…
Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart Didn't I make you feel Like you were the only man? Didn't…
Take Me For A Little While I've been trying To make you love me But everything I…
That Old Sweet Roll Hi-de-ho, hi-de-hi Gonna find me a piece of the sky Gonna fi…
That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho) (Gerry Goffin / Carole King) Hi-de-ho, hi-de-hi Gonna find …
That's How Heartachees Are Made (That's how heartaches are made) (That's how heartaches are …
That's the Kind of Love I Got for You From a mountain high to a valley low Stronger than the…
The Colour Of Your Eyes Who am I To say you didn't love me? When I can't…
The Corrupt Ones Here in this town of dirt and greed Playground where devils…
The Green Leaves of Summer A time to be reaping A time to be sowing The green…
The Look Of Love The look of love Is in your eyes The look your heart Can't…
The Look of Love (from Casino Royale) The look of love Is in your eyes The look your heart…
The Old Sweet Roll Hi-de-ho, hi-de-hi Gonna find me a piece of the sky Gonna fi…
The Other Side Of Life So, as you go to find yourself Don't look too hard You…
The Second Time Around Love is lovelier the second time around Just as wonderful wi…
The Son Of A Preacher Man Billy Ray was a preacher's son And when his daddy would…
The Star Of My Show Used to be a time When I wasn't doin' so good But…
The Summer Is Over The night runs away with the day The grass that was…
The Windmills of Your Mind Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel…
They Long to Be Close to You Why do birds suddenly appear Every time you are near? Just l…
This Girl's In Love With You You see this girl, this girl's in love with you Yes,…
Time After Time Time after time I tell myself I'm so lucky To be loving…
Time And Time Again Here we are again Off and on again Every year just slips…
Time Waits For No One Loneliness can lock you up Like prison walls around your hea…
Tu Che Ne Sai Tu che ne sai Delle volte che ho pianto per te Un…
Tupelo Honey You can take all the tea in China Put it in…
Turn Me Around I know I've hurt you And I wonder if you know…
Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa Dearest, darlin' I had to write to say that I won't…
Up On The Roof When this old world starts getting me down And people are…
Wasn't Born To Follow Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky, love But now…
Welcome Home We acted like children Now, don't tell me that you're sorry…
What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life I want to see your face in every kind of…
What Are You Doing With the Rest of Your Life? What are you doing the rest of your life? North and…
What Do You Do When Love Dies I wake up in the morning crying I reach out for…
What Good Is I Love You? You say you love me More than you could ever love…
What Have I Done To Deserve Th You always wanted a lover I only wanted a job I've always…
What Have I Done to Deserve This? You always wanted a lover I only wanted a job I've always…
What's It Gonna Be What's it gonna be? Please tell me Is it really me? Please t…
When Love Turns Blue Train whistles blowing Whispers your name I lie awake cryi…
When The Love Light Starts Shining Thru His Eyes He gave me the eye But I just passed him by I…
When The Lovelight Starts Shings Through His Eyes He gave me the eye But I just passed him by I…
When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes He gave me the eye But I just passed him by I…
When The Lovelight Starts Shining Thru His Eyes He gave me the eye But I just passed him by I…
Where Am I Going Where am I going? And what will I find? What's in this…
Where Is A Woman To Go Do, da, do, da, do, da, do, da, day Ahh, do,…
Wherever Would I Be When my world is turning When it's turning upside down Whe…
Who (Guess who?) Where's the girl who hurt herself last night? (…
Who ? Who, when my life is through? Who will know the…
Who Can I Turn To Who can I turn to When nobody needs me? My heart wants…
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Who Gets Your Love In your sleep you've been talkin' Callin' every other name b…
will you love me When I said I needed you You said you would always…
Will You Love Me Tomorrow Tonight you're mine, completely You give your soul so sweet…
Willie & Laura Mae Jones Willie and Laura Mae Jones were our neighbors a long…
Wimoweh Mambo In the jungle the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight In…
Windmills of Your Mind Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel…
Wish I'd Never Loved You I wish Id never loved you I wish Id never wanted…
Wishin and Hopin Wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin' Plannin' and dre…
Wishin' And Hopin' Wishing and hoping and thinking and praying Planning and dr…
Wishin' And Hopin' Wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin' Plannin' and dre…
Wishing and Hoping Wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin' Plannin' and dr…
Won't Be Long Baby, here I am A-by the railroad track Oh, waitin' for my…
Yesterday When I Was Young Spoken : Somehow, it seems the love I knew was…
You When I said I needed you You said you would always…
You Are The Storm I see you standing there Outside the windows of my heart So…
You Can Do It Take your shoes off Let your hair down Time for you to…
You Don When I said I needed you You said you would always…
You Don't Own Me You don't own me I'm not just one of your many…
You Dont Have To Say You Love Me When I said I needed you You said you would always…
You Really Got A Hold On Me I don't like you but I love you Seems that I'm…
You Set My Dreams To Music Oh, I'm loving what I see Each time you smile at…
You'll Be Loving Me Though you hold me the same old way Your tenderness, oh,…
You've Got A Friend When you're down and troubled And you need some love and…
You've Really Got a Hold on Me I don't like you, but I love you, Seems that I'm…
Your Hurtin Kind Of Love I wanted you so Wanted you to hold me tight Take my…
Your Hurtin' Kind Of Love I wanted you so Wanted you to hold me tight Take my…
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on You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me - Lisa Dillan - Lyrics
When I said, I needed you
You said you would always stay
It wasn't me who changed, but you
And now you've gone away
Don't you see that now you're gone
And I'm left here on my own
Then I have to follow you
And beg you to come home
You don't have to say you love me
Just be close at hand
You don't have to stay forever
I will understand
Believe me,
I can't help but love you
But believe me, I'll never tie you down
Left alone with just a memory
Life seems dead and so unreal
All that's left is loneliness
There's nothing left to feel
You don't have to say you love me
Just be close at hand
You don't have to stay forever
I will understand
Believe me, believe me
You don't have to say you love me
Just be close at hand
You don't have to stay forever
I will understand
Believe me, believe me. Believe meβ¦