Dusty springfield biography book

I like human voices, the more human the better, which is where these dramatic-melismatic upscale and downscale contemporary singers trip up all over their soft parts, I think - they're all so "good" they become interchangeable, like great engines.

They sing their songs to death. Under their lashings and howlings and pitch-perfect ululations what sentiment can survive?

Some fine singers of the past got to make one indelible record - Priscilla Paris cooing like the Angel of Complete Sex on "I Love how you Love Me" or Cathy Jean Giordano's stark and frankly caterwauling doowop psychodrama "Please Love Me Forever", and some great voices get to sing acres of junk and consequently get forgotten (Doris Troy, Maxine Brown, Bessie Banks, Irma Thomas, lots more).

Dusty Springfield: Dancing with Demons - Google Books

But some voices are unstoppable, no matter what unappealing face they emerge from – Roy Orbison, to take an obvious example. By 1960 Roy already looke Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography of Dusty ... JAHI