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marg
Sweet Inspiration
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Sara
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 21/01/2008 : 14:44:22
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I don't remember ever seeing this one either! Where's it from? Thanks Marg! 
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Lindakron
Sweet Inspiration
Canada
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 Posted - 21/01/2008 : 15:10:00
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Oh wow! That's a great picture! Thanks Marg!
First thing that I thought of was Alistair Cooke and "Masterpiece Theatre". LOL
Or Alistair Cookie from Monsterpiece Theatre:
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Sara
Moderator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 21/01/2008 : 15:11:32
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PP68
Wishing And Hoping
United Kingdom
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Posted - 21/01/2008 : 15:50:28
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Vera
Administrator
United Kingdom
1402 Posts |
Posted - 21/01/2008 : 17:06:44
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lol - she somehow lookes like a bond girl on that one!
Thanks for posting this marg - I will translate it as soon as possible...
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Janie
Administrator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 21/01/2008 : 18:32:32
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Alistair's thighs aren't quite in the same class though, are they?   
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Carla
Wishing And Hoping
Netherlands
258 Posts |
Posted - 21/01/2008 : 23:52:28
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I have a link to a shiveree januari 1966 if i am correct its an American show, my friend uploaded it for me, the video has a few artist on it like Simon and Garfunkel Lou Rawls, but most importantly Dusty, and she performs 2 songs...
The file is 190 MB so here is the link....
You can use the following link to retrieve your file:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/d8a0rc
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Sgt.Pepper
Wishing And Hoping
Germany
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Posted - 23/01/2008 : 12:45:43
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Oh, what a nice article. I never knew that we have such a topic in Germany! But it is great to understand it very good!
Ah, I see that Vera is going to translate it.
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treking
Moderator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 24/01/2008 : 09:21:03
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It is very Bond like as Vera says--Dusty and Sean Connery---just too much
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Carole R.
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
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Posted - 24/01/2008 : 14:37:57
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Is she singing? Is she talking? Is she posing?
Is she 'eckerslike!... She's telling a story on Jackanory...
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Vera
Administrator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 24/01/2008 : 15:47:36
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„I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself“
She could be Van Morrison’s big sister, at least on a musical level. There is no other white woman like Dusty Springfield in history of Pop, no other woman who had so much soul in her voice.
Until today she remains the “best Pop singer ever to have emerged out of Great Britain”, as the New York Times put it in 1999 in her obituary. Dusty Springfield died on 2nd March, some weeks before her 60th birthday.
There is plenty to tell about Mary Catherine Isobel Bernadette O’Brien – about this passionate artist, about the diva, about the insecure girl who, as Dusty Springfield, became an icon of pop culture. The great “Earbook – Simply Dusty” approaches this on 116 glossy pages and – much more important – on four CDs containing 98 songs.
The beautiful thing about this opulent showcase of her work is that it shows both the factor of glamour spread by Dusty Springfield, and a way of approaching her as a human being behind the limelight stream. About 100 photographs, detailed accompanying texts, and of course the songs convey a comprehensive picture of the artist, who lived a life full of struggles which took up a lot of her strength. Popularity and success on the one hand, lack of understanding and contempt on the other hand – the ‘White Lady of Soul” lived between extremes.
Before she became Dusty Springfield, Mary O’Brien was an average, English, middleclass girl, daughter of an accountant and loved music just like every other teenager did. She sung with brother Dion (later Tom Springfield) at the kitchen table, accompanying this with all household tools available.
Someday both were old enough to found The Springfields (with Tim Field) on a spring day’s meadow. Before this Dusty had already made some professional steps and proven to be a musical bomb waiting to explode.
After going through the early pop- stages with the Lana Sisters, “Seven Little Girls (sitting on the Back Seat)” Dusty emancipated quickly from being average. She left the band due to musical differences and started to look into Country, R’n’B and Soul on a trip to the USA with The Springfields .
Fascinated by the sound of Motown, Dusty produced dazzling records such as Will You Love Me Tomorrow and Whishing And Hoping for her 1964 Solo-debut “A Girl Called Dusty”, which ultimately heaved her into pop heaven.
Up there she was Queen, pop star and style icon, emulated by other girls – the remarkable hairdos and the eyes outlined by black eye shadow stood out from mainstream. But above all she was a perfectionist artist who, torn inside, seemed to be searching for the perfect song, being all insecure about how to do it.
‘Son of A Preacherman’ (1968) from her best (though flopped) album ‘Dusty In Memphis’ is one of her best pieces and somehow also exemplary for Dusty’s life. Just like ‘I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself” (1964), is a title which could be the essence of her everlasting search.
The strong catholic upbringing had a lifelong influence on the human being consisting out of the shy, private Mary O’Brien and the impulsive, eccentric stage personality Dusty Springfield. Dusty couldn’t defend herself, had violent fights with lovers, alcohol and drug abuse problems and was neglected by the US audience when she admitted in 1970 forthrightly that she’d be capable of loving both men and women.
Just on a side note: Some of the content in this article seems a little bit distorted. Dusty was successful in the States (even though it might have been not as much of a success if one compares it to Britain). And there is no reason to believe that there was an instant connection between her outing and her popularity in the US.
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Lindakron
Sweet Inspiration
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Posted - 24/01/2008 : 17:55:14
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Thank you Vera!
This is the first time I ever thought of Dusty as Van Morrison's big sister.
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Alex Forhermusic
Wishing And Hoping
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Posted - 24/01/2008 : 21:46:12
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Thanks Vera for the translation. Good work. I especially appreciate paragraph five. Thanks again.
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Carole R.
Higher and Higher
United Kingdom
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Posted - 24/01/2008 : 23:22:16
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Thankyou for the translation Vera!..
The only words I'd recognised were Dusty Springfield..
I like the idea of Dusty singing with Tom at the kitchen table using 'household tools' for accompaniment....CUTE!
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Sara
Moderator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 24/01/2008 : 23:27:47
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Hey, thanks for this, Vera!
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Vera
Administrator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 24/01/2008 : 23:33:35
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| There is more to come, folks! :-) |
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chrispld
Wishing And Hoping
United Kingdom
256 Posts |
Posted - 25/01/2008 : 00:51:24
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Thanks for that Vera. Always great to learn something new about Dusty.!
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Vera
Administrator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 25/01/2008 : 01:32:54
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Okay - updated it. You got the whole article in front of you now. I will do some typo corrections as soon as I got the time for it. Enjoy ;-)
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marg
Sweet Inspiration
2686 Posts |
Posted - 25/01/2008 : 08:16:08
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Danke V! 
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treking
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United Kingdom
5230 Posts |
Posted - 25/01/2008 : 09:25:23
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The pic by the way is from a Charles Aznavour special called For me...Formidable.
Dusty spent (according to Paul Howes) a week in Cannes to record this in July 1969.
On some DVD's I got from a guy in the US a very shaky recording is on one of them where she is sitting on a chair by a fire--as in the picture.
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Ooh la la... DUSTY!
Posted - 21/01/2008 : 14:04:31
