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
kept singing Quiet Please live during her wilderness years for a reason. The version from 1979, the year Springfield’s UK tour was cancelled due to poor sales, is particularly freighted: “She may not be the latest rage, but she’s singing and she means it … give her your respect if nothing else.”In an era when albums were usually a filler-packed afterthought, Springfield’s were anything but: she clearly saw them as a chance to indulge in the music she loved, rather than simply making hits.
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. I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself is perfectly poised: dramatic, but never melodramatic.The definitive reading of a Goffin-King song essayed by everyone from Diana Ross to the Byrds, whose David Crosby balked at recording what he considered Brill Building fluff.
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