DUSTY SPRINGFIELD Where Am I Going 1967 UK PHILIPS ORIGINAL *STEREO* VINYL LP
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DUSTY SPRINGFIELD Where Am I Going 1967 UK PHILIPS ORIGINAL *STEREO* VINYL LP
DUSTY SPRINGFIELDWhere Am I Going
UK PHILIPS (SBL 7820) FIRST *STEREO* PRESSING (October 1967)
GREAT ORIGINAL COPY WHICH HAS SEEN LITTLE USE AND PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY THROUGHOUT
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST BLACK/SILVER PHILIPS LABELS
MATRIX: 844205 1Y//1 ? 420 1 1 / 844205 2Y//1 ? 420 1 1 6
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FRONT LAMINATED FLIPBACK SLEEVE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE DATED OCTOBER 1967 (‘107')
Where Am I Going is a phenomenal album by Dusty Springfield
The LP cover is great too - a black and white image of a smiling Springfield with wide-brimmed hat, mini skirt, and a comic book quotation in psychedelic off-pink and orange.
The music inside with strings and orchestration is a relentless delight.
The Pat Williams arrangement of Bobby Hebb's "Sunny" with conductor Peter Knight reveals a touch of the James Bond riff, a definite sign of the times.
One can hear the wondrous voices of Madeline Bell and Lesley Duncan, the backing voices blending perfectly with the orchestration in songs like "I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face" and "Don't Let Me Lose This Dream."
"Where Am I Going?" is as perfectly surreal as its title suggests -- imagine Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music twirling around in the windmills of Springfield's mind. This is not the driving pop of "I Only Want to Be With You" or "Wishin' & Hopin'," this is symphonic adult contemporary.
"They Long to Be Close to You" is the serious and dramatic blues that the Carpenters aspired to develop. "Welcome Home" is out of this world rhythm & blues told with authority. It and other tracks from Where Am I Going? puts Springfield in that elite class reserved for the best of Janis Joplin, Etta James, and Ella Fitzgerald -- female vocalists who found notes in niches of songs that were unavailable to lesser mortals.
While Springfield was filling the airwaves with "The Son of a Preacher Man" toward the end of 1968, a band called Vanilla Fudge had "Take Me for a Little While" on the U.S. charts, but their disc was issued in July of 1967 and their success in the States was a delayed reaction. Dusty Springfield takes that great composition and turns it into snappy pop with an amazing vocal.
Add "If You Go Away" and the musicians on these grooves take the listener on a wild ride running the gamut of genres without disrupting Where Am I Going?'s flow.
This is a tremendous and often forgotten masterpiece in the repertoire of Dusty Springfield which deserves more attention
Side A
Bring Him Back (Mort Shuman, Doc Pomus) - 2:12
Don't Let Me Lose This Dream (Aretha Franklin, Ted White) - 2:24
I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face (Jerry Ragovoy, Chip Taylor) - 2:39
Take Me For A Little While (Trade Martin) - 2:22
Chained To A Memory (Kay Rogers, Richard Ahlert) - 2:35
Sunny (Bobby Hebb) - 1:52
Side B
(They Long to Be) Close to You (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 2:25
Welcome Home (Chip Taylor) - 2:38
Come Back To Me (Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane) - 2:03
If You Go Away (Ne Me Quitte Pas) (Jacques Brel, Rod McKuen) - 3:50
Broken Blossoms (Traditional, Tom Springfield, Robert Gray) - 2:41
Where Am I Going (Dorothy Fields, Cy Coleman) - 3:39
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Both labels are clean and unmarked with barely a spindle trace to be seen
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT+
Both surfaces shine like-new with nothing but harmless light wispy and harmless hairlines
VINYL Audio: EXCELLENT+
This barely played copy delivers stunning sound throughout with little to fault the crisp, bright and fresh, loud and immediate *STEREO* cut.
An odd one-off light tick noted but nothing else - no scratches, loud clicks, ticks or pops and clean.
A fantastic copy of a great record - very highly recommended indeed
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
Fine example. The front laminate has a deep glossy sheen and the back is clean.
A tiny nick on the opening edge otherwise, all edges are sharp and all spine text is clear and bold
POST & PACKING:
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UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
UK: £11.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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