Cause when you doodle then your noodle's flyin' high

Continuing my trip back through the 1965 album charts.

21/11/65 : Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty - Dusty Springfield


Our second visit with Dusty - and it's one I'm looking forward to!

Hmmm - she's got a nice voice, but this isn't a great set of songs. None of them are terrible, but there's no "I Only Want To Be With You" or "Son Of A Preacher Man" here - not on first listen, anyway. I was also very unconvinced by her version of "La Bamba" - it was very peculiar. Multiple listens might improve matters, but it's not going to get a chance with me, I'm afraid - it's an interesting slice of history, but no more than that. It's a peculiar apostrophe though, isn't it?

We're at #6 in the chart this week on her sixth week of a twelve week run, with this being as high as it got. The top five this week were TSOM, The Beatles' Help!, Mary Poppins, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones and we have one new entry for Joan Baez (#18). 

Wikipedia tells us this is her second album and gives us some interesting names in the songwriters section including Goffin & King, Bacharach & David, Antony Newly, Randy Newman, Rod Argent (from The Zombies who hailed from St Albans) and Billy Davis (who wrote "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing" for Coke). It also gives us some interesting news from the times - UK versions of albums tended not to include the hit singles because they assumed people already owned them, whereas in the US they very much included them. But that's as much insight as you're getting, I'm afraid.

"Customers also listened to" The Supremes. Cilla Black, Dionne Warwick and The Springfields, which is where Dusty started out before she went solo. But whilst her solo career produced some great tracks, there was a distinct lack of them here for me.

14/11/65 - Interesting, but not great
28/11/65 - Interesting, but not loveable

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