The Complete BBC Sessions

Dusty Springfield was the finest female vocalist of her era, a performer of remarkable emotional resonance whose body of work spans the decades and their attendant musical transformations with a consistency and purity unmatched by any of her contemporaries. This wonderful collection compiles her complete surviving BBC sessions onto one CD for the very first time. The first three tracks, by the Springfields, includes their first single ‘Dear John’ alongside two follow up singles ‘Swahili Papa’ and ‘Say I Won’t Be There’. This session and the following solo session in 1964 have only recently surfaced at the BBC, having been considered ‘lost’ for a number of years. The album racks up five Top 10 hits alongside a string of album tracks and B-sides but most excitingly includes ‘To Love Somebody’, a cover of the Bee Gees classic that was originally recorded in Atlanta for inclusion in the seminal Dusty in Memphis album however that version was destroyed in a fire. This track and ‘Tossing and Turning’, ‘Up Tight (Everything’s Alright)’, ‘We’re Doing Fine’, ‘Good Loving’ and ‘Higher and Higher (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me)’ only exist in the BBC’s archives. 22 tracks. Mercury.