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Old 11-27-2008, 12:14 PM   #412
rogermexico
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I'm going to keep on with the oldies for a while yet here I think.

For the fourth round, in the Pop category, I pick Dusty in Memphis by Dusty Springfield.



Dusty was probably the biggest female pop singer of the sixties, certainly the biggest of the British Invasion. She'd had a string of hits on both sides of the ocean - 'All I See is You', 'I Only Want To Be With You', 'Spooky'. She really wanted to be taken seriously as a soul singer though. So the Atlantic Records crew sent her to Memphis, Tennessee, and hooked her up with Tom Dowd and Jerry Wexler - the guys who'd made records like Aretha Franklin's 'I Never Loved A Man Like I Loved You' and Otis Redding's 'Otis Blue.'

The result shows that you can come from anywhere and still have soul. 'Son of a Preacher Man' was a massive hit of course (and was again decades later thanks to the Pulp Fiction sound track), but the whole record is great, start to finish.



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