Dusty Springfield, “You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me”

“You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me” (originally a 1965 Italian song by Pino Donaggio and lyricist Vito Pallavicini: ‘”Io che non vivo (senza te)”) is a 1966 hit recorded by English singer Dusty Springfield that proved to be her most successful hit single, reaching No.1 UK[ and No.4 US: the song subsequently charted […]

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Dusty Springfield “Brand New Me”

 Click to Listen Influenced by US pop music, Dusty Springfield created a distinctive blue-eyed soul sound. BBC News noted “[h]er soulful voice, at once strident and vulnerable, set her apart from her contemporaries … She was equally at home singing Broadway standards, blues, country or even techno-pop”.   Allmusic’s Jason Ankeny described her… Britain’s greatest pop diva, Dusty […]

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“Dusty Springfield – Son of a Preacher Man”  

Click link to Listen Dusty Springfield is Britain’s greatest ever pop diva and the possessor of one of the finest and most soulful voices of all time. This concert, filmed at the Royal Albert Hall in 1979 in the presence of HRH Princess Margaret, captures Dusty at the height of her career. Billy-Ray was a […]

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