Just A Little Loving Early In The Morning: - Dusty Springfield's Dusty In Memphis masterpiece -

Without unnecessary to repeat what other reviewers have written very correctly, I would like today to remember this epoch-making album, once again, for the work it has now become really do not deserve forget.

Dusty Springfield (1939 - 1999), according to New York Times, unfortunately, the best singer, the UK has produced, died much too early (to cancer), but it has left us with wonderful music..

After their success in their home country, the Americans discovered Dusty's great musical talent, the love of the singer for Motown sound and Atlantic Soul (legendary to this day among other things, their cover versions of 'When The Lovelight Starts Shining the Supremes +++' Needle In A Hastack 'the Velvelettes +++ Marvin Gaye's' Can I Get A Witness' or +++' Will You Love Me Tomorrow 'the Shirelles) the black audience in the United States caused a stir.

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On the history of the album Dusty in Memphis

It was only logical that the Atlantic Records (New York) veterans Jerry Wexler and Arif Mardin Dusty Springfield calling on the late 1960s to disk recordings in the, famous for her soul recordings, Muscle Shoals Studios, Memphis, after had noted how sensitively Dusty knew how to handle with black music.

Result: The Album 'Dusty In Memphis', it has been praised by musicians and critics worldwide and is considered a milestone in the international pop music ('Top 10 in Rolling Stones Coolest Ever Records' +++ Dusty In Memphis has Assumed Legendary critical status, Billboard Magazine). Why the plate still was initially not a great commercial success, can now hardly understand, but maybe it was having on the really only moderate and somewhat musty-sounding audio quality of the disc.

First changed That shortcoming also in the publications on CD nothing, probably because it was resorted repeatedly to the same (American) bands; this perhaps you need to know the Dusty was in the US with Atlantic Records and in Europe on Philips Records. After then even the Atlantic Records archive, and with him many analog master tapes were destroyed in a fire, there was little hope of improvement.

But in the UK made it in 2002 at Universal Records, to which Philips Records now belonged to undergo because the album a new (third) digital remastering and fortunately this time there was a significant improvement in sound, compared to the two CD-first publications to recorded.

Mastering engineer Gary Moore brought the British Philips Analog Masters actually resonate and thus the album was finally appreciate him good sound quality available. Complemented by original singles and alternate mono mix, this version is now superior to all others.

About the music:
The album is a work of art, the sung very relaxed, contains real musical gems. Whether +++ Just A Little Loving Son Of A Preacher Man +++ +++ Breakfast In Bed +++ The Windmills In Your Mind or +++ Just One Smile, there are songs for eternity, where voice and musicians a Symbiosis received. Great!

Sound quality:
As described earlier in the text, this British Philips CD with the green cover is (the American Atlantic-CD has a different cover) the best choice if you want to hear the album in a really good sound quality.

Buy recommendation:
Who does not own the album (neither as vinyl, yet as old CD version), you should consider purchasing. And who does not have one of the older CD-spending on the shelf, could find his peace :-) back and liberate themselves as apparently necessary evil from muffle sound by purchasing the final remastering finally.

To avoid confusion (there are still a number of CD versions commercially) I'll post the photos in the customer discussed herein outstanding British Philips CD version (green) Cover and the American Atlantic CD edition to distinguish.

RIP Dusty