TRIBUTE: DUSTY SPRINGFIELD WON'T BE FORGOTTEN.Byline: - Fred Shuster Producer Jerry Wexler Gerald "Jerry" Wexler (born January 10 1917) is a music journalist turned highly influential music producer, and is regarded as one of the major record industry players behind 1960s soul music. He was born in the Bronx, New York City, into a Jewish family. remembers Dusty Springfield Dusty Springfield OBE (16 April, 1939–2 March, 1999) was a popular English singer whose career spanned four decades. She achieved her most notable success during the 1960s, with a successful comeback in the late 1980s. in his living room, knee-deep in demos, turning down song after song for a proposed Memphis album. There were 75 tunes suggested, ``of which she liked exactly zero,'' the longtime record man once said, adding that she was at least considering ``Son of a Preacher Man.'' When the dust cleared, there stood the transcendent ``Dusty in Memphis,'' in which Springfield, compatriot com·pa·tri·ot n. 1. A person from one's own country. 2. A colleague. [French compatriote, from Late Latin compatri of Britpop divas Cilla Black, Marianne Faithfull and Lulu, took a dive into Aretha Franklin's soul pool. As great as that album was, most rock fans on this side of the pond in late 1969 probably thought of Dusty Springfield as Buffalo Springfield's kid sister - if they thought of her at all in the age of Woodstock. But Springfield, who died Tuesday at age 59 at her home outside London after a long battle with breast cancer - 11 days before she was to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other people who have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in at a ceremony in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , alongside Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen - was beloved by many, from her earliest Top 40 hit, ``I Only Want to Be With You,'' in 1964, through such smashes as ``I Just Don't Know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. What to Do With Myself,'' ``You Don't Have to Say You Love Me'' and ``What Have I Done to Deserve This'' (with the Pet Shop Boys). As composer Burt Bacharach put it, Springfield boasted one of the ``truly great, distinctive voices of our time.'' Added Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, who made up the Pet Shop Boys: ``Dusty was a tender, exhilarating and soulful singer, incredibly intelligent at phrasing a song, painstakingly building it up to a thrilling climax.'' Notoriously insecure, Springfield performed rarely and if she did, she wouldn't sing her old songs. In 1994, ``Son of a Preacher Man'' from the Memphis album was the crown jewel Crown jewel A particularly profitable or otherwise particularly valuable corporate unit or asset of a firm. Often used in risk arbitrage. The most desirable entities within a diversified corporation as measured by asset value, earning power, and business prospects; in takeover of the ``Pulp Fiction'' soundtrack, bringing Dusty her first platinum album. A year after its release, she admitted she still hadn't seen the film. While legendary records are often dimmed by time, the years have only strengthened the reputation of the magical ``Dusty in Memphis.'' The same is bound to occur with Springfield herself. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: no caption (Dusty Springfield) |
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