Live at the BBC

Artist	Dusty Springfield
Label Name	Universal
Song List	1: The Real Thing [DVD] 2: Some of Your Lovin' [DVD] 3: Bring Him Back [DVD] 4: Poor Wayfaring Stranger [DVD] 5: The Mood I'm In [DVD] 6: 24 Hours from Tulsa [DVD] 7: Packin' Up [DVD] 8: Call Me Irresponsible [DVD] 9: Tell the World About You [DVD] 10: I Don't Want to Go on Without You [DVD] 11: Won't Be Long [DVD] 12: I'll Never Stop Loving You [DVD] 13: The Real Thing 14: You Lost the Sweetest Boy 15: To Love and Be Loved [DVD] 16: Anna [DVD] 17: Gonna Build a Mountain [DVD] 18: Losing You [DVD] 19: Won't Be Long [DVD] 20: Live It Up [DVD] 21: I'll Try Anything [DVD] 22: The Water Is Wide [DVD] 23: I Only Wanna Laugh [DVD] 24: If You Go Away [DVD] 25: Everybody Needs Somebody to Love [DVD] 26: Get Ready [DVD] 27: Beautiful Land [DVD] 28: All I See Is You [DVD] 29: Do Re Mi [DVD] 30: Soulville [DVD] 31: Come Back to Me [DVD] 32: Don't Let Me Lose This Dream [DVD] 33: Peel Me a Grape [DVD] 34: If You Go Away [DVD] 35: You Can Have Him [DVD] 36: By Myself [DVD] 37: Sunny [DVD] 38: Two Brothers [DVD] 39: Time After Time [DVD] 40: You Better Run [DVD] 41: Good Times [DVD] 42: If My Friends Could See Me Now [DVD] 43: I Wish You Love [DVD] 44: It Was Easier to Hurt Him [DVD] 45: Heat Wave [DVD] 46: Nowhere to Run [DVD] 47: Sweet Lover No More [DVD] 48: My Lagan Love [DVD] 49: The Mood I'm In [DVD] 50: It Ain't All Honey and It Ain't All Jam [DVD] 51: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me [DVD] 52: How Can I Be Sure [DVD][*] 53: I Am Woman [DVD][*] 54: Since I Fell for You [DVD][*] 55: I'm Coming Home Again [DVD][*] 56: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me [DVD][*] 57: I Only Want to Be with You [DVD][*] 58: Son of a Preacher Man [DVD][*] 59: I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself [DVD][*] 60: I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten [DVD][*] 61: Goin' Back [DVD][*] 62: Nowhere to Run [DVD][*] 63: Some of Your Lovin' 64: If You Go Away [DVD][*] 65: Good Times [DVD][*] 66: Get Ready [DVD][*] 67: How Can I Be Sure [DVD][*] 68: Bonus Materials [DVD][*]
Format	Digital Video Disc (DVD)
Release Date	2007 11 27
Genre	Rock
Style.Categories	Smooth Soul, Pop-Soul, Blue-Eyed Soul, Girl Group, British Invasion, Early Pop/Rock, Adult Contemporary, Soul

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In 1966 and 1967, Dusty Springfield did two separate six-episode black-and-white television series, simply titled Dusty, for the BBC. Although there was one featured guest per show, otherwise the focus was all on Dusty, who sang a half-dozen or so songs on each program. Unfortunately a few of the episodes have been erased or lost, but material from nine of the twelve -- three of the ones broadcast in 1966, and all of the ones aired in 1967 -- is featured on this remarkable DVD, which is a real treasure trove of footage largely unknown even to many Springfield fans, especially in the U.S., where this series wasn't shown. It would be enough in itself simply to see so much footage of Springfield in her absolute prime, the episodes edited so that only her solo songs and performances are featured. What makes it downright amazing, however, is that many of the 46 songs -- only a very few of them multiple versions, and one of them (one of the two renditions of Jacques Brel's "If You Go Away") not even transmitted at the time -- are numbers she never put on her studio releases. Among them are a wealth of American soul covers, including good-to-dynamic versions of Martha & the Vandellas' "Heat Wave" and "Nowhere to Run," Aretha Franklin's "Soulville," the Temptations' "Get Ready," the Drifters' "I Don't Want to Go on Without You," Mary Wells' "You Lost the Sweetest Boy," and Sam Cooke's "Good Times."
Springfield was always an eclectic chooser of material, however, and perhaps more so than ever here given that she was performing on a nationally televised variety show. That can be a mixed blessing -- there are too many middle of the road pop standards, including a vaudevillian number so cutesy ("If My Friends Could See Me Now") that even hardcore Springfield fans might feel like shielding their eyes from the screen. Yet the non-rock items also include some quite moving and intriguing performances that bring sides of Springfield to light that aren't too prominent in her '60s records, including a beautiful rendition of the Irish traditional folk song "My Lagan Love"; the folk standard "Poor Wayfaring Stranger," which Springfield states she actually learned from Jo Stafford's version; the Spanish song "Anna," "on which Dusty plays guitar; and "Two Brothers," a tune she originally recorded way back in her Springfields days. General fans who might feel disoriented by the inclusion of so much (and such a wide assortment of) obscure material can be reassured that she does in fact do a few hits too, including "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me," "All I See Is You," "Losing You," and "Some of Your Lovin'." It's great, though, to have the opportunity to hear (and see) her doing so many otherwise unavailable songs, and though the camera work and sets are basic, her vocals are uniformly strong and her stage presence always elegant and ingratiating.
Also on the DVD are a few interesting extras, those being a version of the Rascals' "How Can I Be Sure" from a 1970 BBC program; covers of "Since I Fell for You" and (less pleasingly) "I Am Woman" from a 1972 episode of The Tom Jones Show; and a 1979 BBC performance of her lukewarm single "I'm Coming Home Again," preceded by almost 15 minutes of talk show chat in which she discusses her long stay abroad in Los Angeles.