Remembering Dusty Springfield

16th April 1939 - 2nd March 1999


Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, better known as Dusty Springfield, was born this day in 1939.

With her distinctive voice, Dusty became one of the most successful British female performers, clocking up 6 top 20 singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 and 16 on the UK Singles Charts from 1963 to 1989.








Always brings back happy memories of a road trip to Cornwall with the girls, singing along to this in a convertible with the roof down, shooting through country lanes :)



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