Dusty Springfield: Uptight (Everything's Alright) (BBC Session, 1966)Of course, it's actually more Faux-town than Motown, but you see where we're going with this. Anyway, I've been listening to this great Dusty Springfield compilation for a few weeks, but her Stevie Wonder cover is the one I keep going back to and not just because of the fantastic Brian Matthew intro. I think Dusty's version is actually better than Stevie's. Which is sort of ridiculous, but it's also true. Oh yes.
Hello Saferide: I Was Definitely Made For These Times (Regal, 2007)Annika Norlin - she is Mrs Saferide - says, "My aim with this was to write a song that was both stupid and smart at the same time, in true Motown style." So there's my link. I think Norlin is a tremendous pop explosion just waiting to happen. How can anyone - anyone - not love a song that sounds like the ecstatic first night of the summer holiday of your dreams, mentions bad nutrition and High Fidelity before promising, "I'll not commit to you, but I will hold you when you cry"? Hmm? Answer me that...
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Dusty better than Stevie???
Wash your mouth out with soap and water young man!
Dusty squashes all-comers under foot, James!
I love HS. She's everything a pop star should be - full of great songs and loads of fun.
Her band member Maia Harasawa is pretty good. If they could just change their names world domination would surely follow.........
Rob - does 'The Word' want to sell ice cream on its stand at the Cornbury Festival? It can be arranged.
Simon: She is - you're right! Do you know Ms Harasawa?
Tony: We might do - email me...
She sings it a million times better than Stevie!
Not personally, I'm afraid. This is one of the more bizarre videos I've seen in a while http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRIyb8Sqol8 - not sure whether she is great or really quite scary!
whoever came up with that video treatment needs treatment... Nice song tho'
Dusty better than Stevie?!! Sacrilidge! (Rushes off to have a listen).
OK - I'm back; I'm sorry but I have to differ on this one. I vote for Stevie.
Dusty's voice is amazing; my shower time torch song of all time is 'I Don't Know What To Do With Myself'.
That girl could sing!
I was listening to the Stevie Wonder original last night and you are so very wrong. Dusty is great but this version just doesn't have the sheer energy and thrill and energy of little Stevie. The original sounds like a party on vinyl.
Spymum and MG: I hear what you're saying, but Dusty's version - backed by a great band - takes the song somewhre entirely new. It sounds like the same party a few hours later, when things have got a bit looser and more interesting. She sounds like she's lived more than Stevie, too Well, it does to me, anyway...
if this is all about Dusty Spingfield then why the photo of Lady Penelope from Thunderbirds?
Thanks ever so for the link by the way. That's lovely.
I think Dusty would have been highly flattered by that, Rilly!
(And I'm very embarrassed at my complete inability to spell 'sacrilege' properly without having to look it up. The shame!)
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