DUSTY SPRINGFIELD - EV'RYTHINGS COMING UP DUSTY, UK, Philips, LP, RBL 1002 '65

PRESSED ON HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL (159g) WITH THE FIRST MATT AND TEXTURED MAROON/SILVER PHILIPS LABELS WITH "RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1965" STATEMENT

THE RECORD COMES IN THE ORIGINAL HARDBACK GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH INTERNAL FIXED 14 PAGE BOOKLET AND INTERNAL FIXED POCKET FOR THE RECORD
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL INNER, INNER SLEEVE WITH BRITISH PATENT NUMBER "BRITISH & OTHER PATENTS PENDING" AND "MADE IN ENGLAND". This inner inner polythene lined sleeve has previous owner's name in biro. It also suffers some foxing and has tape repair to one side.

Dusty Springfield's second British LP was roughly equivalent to the American You Don't Have to Say You Love Me album, which appeared ten months later in the United States and had the title hit and one other song ("Little by Little") added, and three of the U.K. edition's songs stripped off.
The British version also appeared as a gatefold, filled with a series of beautiful photographs and extensive notes.
More to the point, this second album presented a more mature Dusty Springfield, doing songs by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, Randy Newman and co., although all of the material here -- even "Who Can I Turn To," from the musical The Roar of the Greasepaint -- still has a soulful edge.
Moreover, she scales new heights of passion on Rod Argent's "If It Don't Work Out" and the ethereal "That's How Heartaches Are Made," and seems close to bursting her lungs on Gerry Goffin and Carole King's "I Can't Hear You."
A little more than half of this album -- mostly the up-tempo numbers -- was recorded with her on-stage backing group the Echoes, and they have a nice, lean band sound that was also a departure from the lushly orchestrated, outsized production of her early singles sides.
The whole record comes off as perhaps the greatest Motown album that was never made by Motown, and has a pleasing unity in its British form that the U.S. version lacks.

 Side B:  'IF IT DON'T WORK OUT' ; 'THAT'S HOW HEARTACHES ARE MADE' ;   'IT WAS EASIER TO HURT HIM'  ; 'I'VE BEEN WRONG BEFORE' ; 'I CAN'T HEAR YOU'  ; 'I HAD A TALK WITH MY MAN'  ; 'PACKIN' UP' .