Dusty Springfield Time and Time Again
| White Heat | ||||
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| Studio album by Dusty Springfield | ||||
| Released | Dec 1982 | |||
| Recorded | Conway Recording Studios, Kendun Recorders, Group 4 Studios, Hollywood, California, November 1981– June 1982 | |||
| Genre | Pop, new moving ridge | |||
| Length | 37:44 | |||
| Label | Casablanca | |||
| Producer | Howard Steele Dusty Springfield | |||
| Dusty Springfield chronology | ||||
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White Heat is the twelfth studio album recorded past singer Dusty Springfield, and eleventh released. Information technology was only released in the United States and Canada.
More and so than her previous two albums, Information technology Begins Again (1978), and Living Without Your Love (1979), and the non-album single "Information technology Goes Like It Goes" (1980), White Heat was a singled-out deviation from Springfield'southward Los Angeles-produced radio-friendly soft rock audio, being closely identified with the new wave, synthpop sounds of the early 1980s. The album arguably contains the most various selection of genres to be collected on whatever Dusty Springfield studio album, ranging from Robbie Buchanan's carol "Time and Time Again", orchestrated past James Newton Howard, to the aggressive hard stone of "Blind Sheep", co-written by Springfield herself. The sessions for "Bullheaded Sheep" are the last designated sessions for Twentieth Century Fox Records in the Musician's Club Logs.[ citation needed ]
The anthology's opening runway and only single release was "Donnez-Moi (Give It to Me)" which production wise took more than a few hints from contemporaneous synthesizer-driven pop productions by Giorgio Moroder, like Donna Summer'southward The Wanderer and Irene Cara's "Flashdance... What a Feeling", and British New Romantic bands like the Human League and their 1981 anthology Dare.
Groundwork and recording [edit]
Jean-Alain Roussel lived in Montreal at the time. Springfield lived part-fourth dimension in Toronto at this phase in her life; the 2 met through mutual friends and ended upwardly collaborating on most of White Heat.
Written by Canadian New Wave band Rough Trade's Carole Pope and Kevan Staples, "Soft Cadre" describes the realities of a dysfunctional human relationship. "Soft Core" was cut in a single take by sheer error, thanks to an engineer throwing a tape motorcar into 'record', with composer Kevan Staples playing a grand pianoforte.[ citation needed ] The sound of footsteps heard at the beginning of the track is, in fact, Springfield walking up to the piano for what she thought was simply a rehearsal.[ commendation needed ]
Release [edit]
In the backwash of the disco backlash and its ensuing dramatic driblet in record sales worldwide, Springfield's American label United Artists Records was bought out. 20th Century Fox Records took on the project, but by the time that the anthology was completed and ready for release, 20th Century Fob had in turn been sold, bought past the US arm of the PolyGram conglomerate.[ citation needed ] The release date was postponed for another six months and when White Oestrus finally came out, it had been relegated to the re-activated Casablanca Records, a characterization closely associated with disco, which in the year of 1982 didn't improve its chances of sales.[ citation needed ] Springfield afterwards stated that she was surprised that the album came out at all: "Every time I made an album, the visitor I'd made it for would be swallowed up. They'd burn anybody that you'd worked with and the enthusiasm would disappear with them. Then I had to burn down the original producer because he had put half the budget up his nose... in that location was a point where I began to experience that I was just some visitor'southward tax loss."[ citation needed ]
The British subsidiary of Polygram, a label the vocaliser had been connected with for 25 years in various forms, declined its option to release the anthology in the Great britain; fans of Springfield'southward in her native country consequently had to buy import copies from the US and Canada.
White Heat in its entirety was offset issued in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland in 2002 when it was released on CD by Mercury/Universal Music.
Reception [edit]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
Reviewing the album in Record, Barry Alfonso commented, "Springfield'south at present stepped away from her earlier MOR approach and headed in a Grace Jones popular/funk management. The results are uneven, simply encouraging nonetheless." He elaborated that Springfield's sensual approach to songs like "I Am Curious" and "I Don't Think We Could Ever Be Friends" was perfect, while she mishandled ballads such equally "Losing You" by taking a modern approach to them instead of the emotional thrust that was her trademark sound.[2]
Track listing [edit]
Side A
- "Donnez Moi (Give It to Me)" (Jean-Alain Roussel, Paul Northfield, Luc Plamondon, Christiane Robichaud) – 3:52
- "I Don't Recollect We Could Ever Be Friends" (Jean-Alain Roussel, Sting) – 3:25
- "Bullheaded Sheep" (Daniel Ironstone, Tommy Faragher, Dusty Springfield, Mary Unobsky) – 4:28
- "Don't Call Information technology Dearest" (Dean Pitchford, Tom Snow) – 3:28
- "Fourth dimension and Time Again" (Paul Buchanan, Jay Gruska) – 3:xl
Side B
- "I Am Curious" (Carole Pope, Kevan Staples) – iv:06
- "Sooner or Later" (Tommy Faragher, Daniel Ironstone) – 4:18
- "Losing You (Just a Retentivity)" (Elvis Costello) – 2:48
- "Gotta Get Used to Yous" (Jean-Alain Roussel) – iii:53
- "Soft Cadre" (Carole Pope, Kevan Staples) – 3:xiii
Personnel [edit]
- Dusty Springfield – lead vocals, groundwork vocals
- Max Gronenthal – groundwork vocals
- Boil Keating – background vocals
- John Townsend – groundwork vocals
- Danny Ironstone – background vocals
- Barbara Busa Cilla – background vocals
- George Nauful – guitar
- David Plehn – guitar
- Jean Roussel – synthesizer, pianoforte
- Robbie Buchanan – piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano
- Tommy Faragher – synthesizer, percussion, background vocals, Wurlitzer electric piano, Casio
- Nicky Hopkins – piano
- James Newton Howard – Prophet-five synthesizer, string arrangements
- Caleb Quaye – synthesizer, bass, guitar, Wurlitzer electric piano, Minimoog
- Kevan Staples – piano, guitar, Minimoog
- Steve Sykes – guitar, Wurlitzer electrical piano, Minimoog
- Nathan Eastward – bass guitar
- Davey Faragher – bass
- Marlo Henderson – bass
- Marker Leonard – bass
- Kenny Lee Lewis – bass
- André Fischer – drums
- Casey Scheuerell – drums
- Linn Drums - drums
- Steve Zaretsky – percussion
Product [edit]
- Dusty Springfield – record producer
- Howard Steele – producer, engineer, mixing
- André Fischer – producer
- Jackie Krost – executive producer
- Steve Zaretsky – banana engineer
- Lindy Griffin – assistant engineer
- Philip Moores – banana engineer
- Nick DeCaro – arranger, conductor
- Karen Chamberlain – banana engineer
- Les D. Cooper – assistant engineer
- Debra Courier – product assistant
- Glen Christensen – art direction
- Bret Lopez – photography
- Mac James – paintings
Sources [edit]
- ^ AllMusic review
- ^ Alfonso, Barry (June 1983). "Whiteheat review". Record. 2 (viii): 29.
- Howes, Paul (2001). The Complete Dusty Springfield. London: Reynolds & Hearn Ltd. ISBN 1-903111-24-2.
- O'Brien, Lucy (1988, 2000): Dusty. London: Pan Books Ltd. ISBN 978-0-330-39343-0.
- Official site Jean-Alain Roussel
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Heat_(Dusty_Springfield_album)
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