Bonus Dusty:



Best hair-do in the universe. We must all aspire to have hair like that.
- L.M. 1-24-2008 9:13 am

from her incredibly lengthy wikipedia entry:

By the mid 1960s, Springfield was one of the biggest solo artists of her day. Other hit singles included the 1965 releases "Your Hurtin' Kinda Love", "In the Middle of Nowhere" and "Some of Your Lovin'". Her greatest hit, "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me", was released in 1966. It reached no. 4 in the US charts, while in Britain it went to no. 1 (and was the only one of her records to do so). Springfield first heard this song when it was performed on stage at the San Remo Music Festival in 1965 by its author Pino Donaggio and Jody Miller, in its original Italian lyrics written by Vito Pallavicini. She moved quickly to get an acetate demo, but it took another 12 months for the English lyrics to materialise. These, in the end, came from her friend and future manager Vicki Wickham, who wrote them with Simon Napier-Bell, reportedly in the back of a cab the night before Springfield was due to record the song.

Early in her career, Springfield created a controversy when she refused to perform before a segregated crowd in South Africa. She had a clause in her contract stating that she would perform only before mixed audiences, and performed two concerts under that arrangement before being asked by the South African government to leave the country. She stated that she didn't intend her insistence on the clause to be any sort of social statement, but rather that she felt anyone should be able to listen to her music.

Springfield was the first guest and a featured artist on the British television music show Ready Steady Go!, produced by Vicki Wickham, who would later become her manager. Because of her great, almost obsessive, enthusiasm for Motown music, Springfield was selected in 1965 to host The Sound Of Motown, a Ready Steady Go! special that introduced Motown and American soul music to British audiences. In the 1994 video biography, Dusty — Full Circle, several of the musicians and singers who participated, most notably Martha Reeves, one of Springfield's favourite singers, credited the media exposure, and Springfield's advocacy of the music, with helping them to break into the British pop charts. Springfield would later suggest to the heads of Atlantic Records that they should sign the newly-formed Led Zeppelin in the wake of the Yardbirds dissolution (and the remaining members' contractual freedom from Columbia Records). The signing of Led Zeppelin is considered one of the great A&R coups that would distinguish Atlantic. Both incidents testify to Springfield's forward-thinking music business savvy.

I like her saloon girrrrls!
- J@simpleposie (guest) 1-24-2008 3:10 pm

L,M,. do you take requests? What about Mary Hopkin's Those Were The Days, My Friend?

We lived in Wales when she and it won the Eurovision song competition. She came from Ponterdawe, just up the valley, so there was a great local buzz.

(It's on youtube, I just don't know how to move it from there to here.)
- M.Jean 1-24-2008 4:34 pm

Another incidental interesting fact: Pet-U-la Clark, as we would have it in North America, turned out to be actually pronounced PET-ula.

We first heard Hey Jude on a jukebox in a cruddy little restaurant in Perth, in Scotland, and were transfixed.

(Grrr, grrr, you hear that? It's Joester grinding his teeth: "Enough with the memory lane, already"! Ok, I'll stop.)
- M.Jean 1-24-2008 4:45 pm

Your wish is my command, especially if it tortures Joester.


- L.M. 1-24-2008 8:58 pm

Might as well move to the heart of the matter when it comes to british rock devas from the 60's ......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Faithfull

.... I would suggest sampling a few youtube selections from the sixties and from her mature later work .....
- The Bru (guest) 1-24-2008 10:24 pm

My god, I didn't realize it would be quite that painful! Particularly good the way they've got it out of synch.

Thanks, L.M.!
- M.Jean 1-24-2008 11:27 pm

My Pleasure M. Jean, cause I'm sure it hurt joester more than you.

Lots of love for Marianne Faithful. but she's a 60's ROCK CHICK. Her autobiography is a hoot, she had a reading list for all these rock stars that they had to get through if they wanted to spend time with her. ("Sympathy for the Devil" came about because she made Jagger read "Master & Marguerita" by Mikhail Bulgakov -- a book I love too)

Way too much to post but, from the 80's "Broken English" [woops - 1979] inspired by Baader-Meinhof:



Her more recent recording, Kissing Time is also great, with a brilliant cover of Beck's "Nobody's Fault"
- L.M. 1-24-2008 11:42 pm

who wrote the sad and campy and v. v. funny article in lola about the ballad of lucy jordan?

also tammy wynette has the best hair in the universe, dusty stole her genius.

also i am made of fail, i will get things under control in the next couple of days
- anonymous (guest) 1-25-2008 5:25 am

that was me
- anthony (guest) 1-25-2008 5:32 am

Dusty's career and hair were well underway before Tammy Wynette's. So yes! You are made of fail! CONTROL. CONTROL. CONTROL.
- L.M. 1-25-2008 8:02 am

what are the dates on the tammy/dusty thing, because im not sure thats true?
- anthony (guest) 1-25-2008 8:31 am

58 for dusty, 65 for tsmmy mea culpa
- anthony (guest) 1-25-2008 8:34 am

I think there is show in this for you Lorna!!! I can see sixties pop divas everywhere on monitors and projections and a whole lot of grooviness!! with lush orchestrations !!
- Andrew Harwood (guest) 1-27-2008 11:50 pm

This is for the enjoyment of a friend who won the "I am sicker than Lorna contest" (but that's only for today, I could take a horrible turn for the worse tomorrow)
- L.M. 1-31-2008 6:21 am

Here come the Girls : British Girls Groups of the Sixties

1.: That's How It Goes - Breakaways
2.: We Were Lovers When The Party Began - Barry, Sandra
3.: There He Goes (The Boy I Love) - Antoinette
4.: He Knows I Love Him Too Much - Macari, Glo
5.: As Long As You're Happy Baby - Shaw, Sandie
6.: Song Without End - Ruskin, Barbara
7.: Tell Me What To Do - Jackson, Simone
8.: Put Yourself In My Place - Panter, Jan
9.: It's Hard To Believe It - Collins, Glenda
10.: So Much In Love - Browne, Polly
11.: Very First Day I Met You - Cannon, Judy
12.: How Can I Hide From My Heart - Darren, Maxine
13.: No Other Baby - Davis, Billie
14.: Listen People - Lane, Sarah
15.: Come To Me - Grant, Julie
16.: Dark Shadows And Empty Hallways - St. John, Tammy
17.: Happy Faces (CD) - Silver, Lorraine
18.: Something Must Be Done (CD) - Harris, Anita
19.: You'd Better Come Home (CD) - Clark, Petula
20.: When My Baby Cries (CD) - Prenosilova, Yvonne
21.: Something I've Got To Tell You (CD) - Honeycombs
22.: I Want You (CD) - Jeannie & The Big Guys
23.: I Can't Believe What You Say (CD) - McKenna, Val
24.: If You Love Me (Really Love Me) (CD) - Trent, Jackie

and can i just slip this american artist in (?) :

leslie gore
- bill 1-31-2008 3:41 pm

I just received a bunch of CD's of 60's babes and Sandie Shaw's "Girl Don't Come" was on it.



Did the Americans have anything as weird as the BBC shows that so many of these women got?

Never liked Leslie Gore, too needy. As opposed to what you'd ask? Good question.

She did do a song I liked called "Maybe I Know".


- L.M. 1-31-2008 9:49 pm

Mì se líbí Bob - best song ever.
- L.M. 1-31-2008 9:57 pm

we just had shindig, hullabaloo and where the action is. no girls on tv except ed sullivan. had to go to the radio for that.
- bill 1-31-2008 10:17 pm