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I was ready to work; what I couldn't was the right producer. I had considered various people like the people who do Randy Newman and talked to Ted Te… - Dusty Springfield
" "I was ready to work; what I couldn't was the right producer. I had considered various people like the people who do Randy Newman and talked to Ted Templeman who was doing Carly Simon at that time. Again, availability. I wasn't at the right place and right time. They were busy. And the thought of Roy was very strange, I mean, it was a bizarre combination. But I didn't know; I think a lot of people don't know what a very broad musical background he does have; He started out at Decca in the classical department and sort of regressed through Frank Chacksfield and Mantovani, passed through that into pop music and really got into heavy stuff; into rock. But I didn't know he had that background and it was nice. He has incredibly good judgments.
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About Dusty Springfield
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), professionally known as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose music career spanned from the 1960s to 1990s. She is credited as one of the preeminent singers of blue-eyed soul music and the first singer to introduce the Motown sound to the British audience on a Ready Steady Go! television special The Sound of Motown in 1965. Prior to starting her music career, she was a member of pop groups the Lana Sisters and the Springfields.
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María Isabel Catalina Bernadette O'Brien
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