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‘Full of secrets and promises’: Dusty Springfield’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
Sixty years after her debut album, we rate the pop singer’s best tracks, from a song recorded in a stairwell to a Pet Shop Boys collaboration
From her third album, the brilliant Where Am I Going?, I Can’t Wait Until I See My Baby’s Face is evidence of the sheer class and sophistication Springfield brought to mid-60s pop: a great song, a fantastic arrangement – by Serge Gainsbourg cohort Arthur Greenslade – and a fabulous vocal. Written by the same team as In the Middle of Nowhere, Little By Little essentially does the same thing – swaggering brass-heavy music, commanding in-your-face vocal, lyrical despair – but somehow improves the formula, honing it to a point of perfection: an awesome single on which misery somehow sounds like an invitation to party. Photograph: Dezo Hoffman/Shutterstock On which Springfield first deployed her signature vocal style – “haunting, husky, full of secrets and promises” in Bette Midler’s memorable summation – and transformed a minor Bacharach-David song into a huge hit.
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