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Dusty In Memphis (Expanded Version) | 
| Artist: Dusty Springfield
Label: Commercial Marketing
Category: Music
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 1971
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 56
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 440063297274
EAN: 0044006329727
ASIN: B00006J3KF
Release Date: September 30, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | Just A Little Lovin' | | • | So Much Love | | • | Son Of A Preacher Man | | • | I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore | | • | Don't Forget About Me | | • | Breakfast In Bed | | • | Just One Smile | | • | The Windmills Of Your Mind | | • | In The Land Of Make Believe | | • | No Easy Way Down | | • | I Can't Make It Alone | | • | Son Of A Preacher Man | | • | Just A Little Lovin' | | • | Don't Forget About Me | | • | Breakfast In Bed | | • | I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore | | • | The Windmills Of Your Mind | | • | In The Land Of Make Believe | | • | So Much Love |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Birthday Surprise June 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I shall be forever grateful to the friend who brought this album into my life. Happy birthday to me!
 As a reflective 41 year old... April 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sumptuous arrangements, the intelligent interpretation of standards and a superlative blue-eyed soul voice would not have interested me twenty years ago but, as a reflective 41 year old, I am able to nod with appreciation and purr with admiration at the delights that Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis brings. Springfield's sultry, laid back and smoky tones add so much to an array of beautiful numbers penned by the masters of the songwriting game, Bacharach and David, Goffin and King inter alia. The rendition of Breakfast in Bed is wonderful; being a reggae aficionado, I have always adored the exquisite version by Lorna Bennett but Springfield's is an exotic reading of the song and is, in my opinion, of equal merit.
DUSTY IN MEMPHIS- SO MUCH LOVE April 1, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was just listening to `Welcome Home' from Dusty Springfield's `Where am I Going' album. It's a lovely soulful song and you can tell from sides like this, and even the album title, that she had to leave the UK to sing soul (which was all she wanted to do by 1967-8) and try to crack the USA market where she belonged. She was going to Memphis and New York where she recorded this great album while wracked with self-doubt, knowing she was risking her career to do what she loved. It didn't work. `Dusty in Memphis' bombed and helped ruin her confidence. The album was deleted and unavailable for a long time; it became a hard to get connoisseur's classic.
Listen to Dusty laying her heart on the line. Listen to those breathtaking notes, the great music, recording quality and the fantastic Sweet Inspirations. This is a master-class. The first 6 tracks and 10-11 are amazing and sublime. The rest is gorgeous icing. This album should always be available. Whatever you pay, it's an absolute steal for this totally classic album.
Dusty sounds like she's not earthbound any more like Memphis has released her soul and its floating free at last. Dusty totally lives the lyrics and exposes a deeply intelligent, sensual sensibility. She reaches into a deep sadness and vulnerability too. You get a little of this on some of her other albums but its totally realized on 'Memphis'. There's a raw, yet controlled, emotional quality that astonishes at every listen. Listen at night with the lights turned down, relax, just give in and make contact. Everything will disappear and it will just be you, ethereal Dusty, and your emotions in free fall.
On`So Much Love' she takes my breath away every time she sings `You show your love in so many ways, I'm gonna love you for the rest of my days...' I just don't know how she gets those notes; they come from another world. I can just about remember Dusty on TV singing 'Preacher Man'. This is such a groovy song but I sometimes skip this to get to the amazing ' I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore'. `Just a Little Lovin' is so great too. So is `Breakfast in Bed' (with that slow wink at 'You Don't Have to Say You Love Me'). `Don't Forget About Me' (an ultimate favourite of mine). `No Easy Way Down' (oh Wow), `I Can't Make It Alone' (brilliant) and like the alchemist she was she takes `Windmills of Your Mind' and `Just One Smile' and turns them from silver plate into spun gold.
This is the only time musical craftsmanship was truly up to Dusty's high mark of musical artistry, intelligence and ambition and good enough in its own right to push Dusty beyond the safe zone to produce a brave, coherent, consistent, matchless album. It must have cost a lot of money to make because everything here is the absolute best. Other UK artists went to Memphis to get this `sound' but most only exposed their limitations. There wasn't a Memphis `sound'; there were just great artists that were up to Atlantic Records highest production standards (epitomized in Aretha Franklin). I'm hard pressed to think of any other album of any genre that has knocked me out so much and which I can still play today just like the first time. Maybe one track or another can compete but not a whole album.
I've never been without this album since I bought it on vinyl in the early 1980s. The Rhino version is a great package but this version is fine. I don't have any gripes with the quality of the transfer. It's just a shame `Memphis' never came out on SACD or DVD-Audio when those super hi-fi formats were in vogue. There's something in my own soul that leads me back to `Memphis'. I don't know what that is but this album is a perfect response. It just makes me feel good.
Brilliant album - poor remastering December 31, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was so excited when this remastered version first appeared as I hoped, at last, that I'd have a decently remastered CD of Dusty's greatest album. What a disapointment then to discover remastering engineer Gary Moore's crude use of CEDAR noise reduction - the CD is heavily no-noised with noise reduction artifacts all over the place and many tracks have been EQ'd quite badly to compensate.
Oddly, some of the tracks sound like they're from inferior tapes to the Rhino edition of 1999 (which, even though it's hissy, is much better than this) as the sleeve notes claim to have sourced the best extant tapes.
I presume that the original multi-track tapes have been lost, as not one of the CD issues of this album have remixed them, but if you want this great album on CD, then the Rhino edition (with all the unecessary 'bonus' tracks) is much more consistant.
Re-mastering aside, this is a sad, beautiful and poignant album, full of amazing playing and the best singing Dusty ever recorded. Even the absurd 'Windmills of Your Mind' is made profound (the prologue clearly recorded as an afterthought and edited on, and the impossible metre of the original changed by Tom Dowd in order for Dusty to breathe between lines).
Try "New Routes" too December 11, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Rightly now recognised as a fantastic album, you should also check out Dusty's peer and friend Lulu's "New Routes" on Atco from 1969, also produced by Wexler, Dowd & Mardin - recently reissued on Rhino as "The Atco Sessions 1969-72". This album is gritty, funky and bluesy and deserves equal respect.
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