Chords for Dusty Springfield - Interview OGWT from July 2nd 1978

Now to a moment I have been waiting for literally for years a chance to say welcome back
Dusty Springfield or maybe come home always forgive me
If you were watching the program last week
You would have seen a clip of dusty in her heyday in the 60s singing and falling about generally on really steady go
And in those days dusty was credited by many people
I would be the first to agree as Britain's best lady singer when she split from the rather folksy sounding
Springfield's dusty had a shoal of solo hits then she went to live and work in America and for the past five years
We've heard not a note from dusty
Until now she's though.
I am delighted to say back was in the studio tonight.
Hello, and it really is great to see you
What sort of welcome have you had since you came back to England?
Ah, it's been marvelous and until I came up to to Birmingham
It was it's been nice ever since about eight o'clock this evening
When a gentleman from the Inland Revenue met me at the door and said yeah you owe us 1800 whatever's
Smackers and [Eb] then disappeared looking very embarrassed.
I might say he's probably right.
I'd forgotten a genuinely have forgotten
I'm still not at all sure that he's right
They _ won't let me leave unless I do _
_ Well, I was gonna say it wasn't actually anything like that that made you go to America was it no
_ _ No
No, it was that I I felt I'd done about as much as I could do here
I didn't know in what direction I could go apart from across the sea
Yeah, because I think I read somewhere that you said you couldn't face another 32 weeks [G] of summer season at Blackpool
Yeah, which is it's like miss go because actually I've never done
22 or 32 or any time in Blackpool
I think that people in back almost after this past week begin to think I have some something personal against them
It's not that I had some very nice concerts in Blackpool, but it's a state of mind where you know
You don't sell records anymore.
And then you have to play
Although you get a lot of nice money.
You have to play those weeks and weeks in terminal weeks
But the first eight weeks it's fun.
And then you know as the season goes on it's not too much
I felt possibly that that American may have treated you somewhat differently because
Do you think you suffered from that originally of the early 60s the Dolly Pop singer thing was that?
initially
_ Particularly as [Ab] you say in the early 60s
I was always the thing that went along or one of the females that went along with Beatlemania then there was no
Differentiation about whatever style I happen to have.
Oh, let's touch her
She's touched the Beatles and then as it progressed I had
Intermittent type of hits that were very big but I was never very visible there
I always seem to be here when I should be there and there when I should be here and
Through one thing or another it was never quite right
[G] Do you think that the [Eb] great success people like Joni Mitchell Linda Ronstadt Emily Harris _
_ Well, do you think it sort of helped you or do you feel that that perhaps if they'd been around when you started [G] they would
Have found it just as difficult to break away from that.
Well, they're Dolly image
_ Yeah, the time was right
I think from sort of Carly Simon the early days of Carly Simon I was and and they're they're enormously talented women and they do
write marvelous songs there were
Women writing songs before that like Carol King
But they were always very much in the background and didn't really come out
Carol didn't come out until sort of five years ago and play the piano and say look it's me.
I wrote the song and
In a way the singer-songwriter thing became very very fashionable and I'm not a singer-songwriter
I don't know the woman who doesn't really write or at least hasn't written for some time
so after this long layoff of yours because at one time I heard that Elton was going to
There was some talk of it and I think he was terribly keen on the whole idea
and I think he was
Almost over enthusiastic
it was one of those things that in actual fact doesn't come off because nobody in the end is available at the right time and
It's a shame because I love him dearly.
He's a marvelous person
But in retrospect in consideration now probably wouldn't have worked because he was
Well, he was very very much into into touring at that time and I take such a long time
To make things work out that you know, we probably have had punch-ups or something _ _ _ _ _
Well
Was it him that got you back together and into a [Gm] studio to produce you well
I was ready to [G] work what I couldn't find was the right producer had considered [Eb] various people like the people who do Randy Newman and
Talked to Ted Templeman who was doing Carly Simon at that time.
But again availability
I wasn't in the right place at the right time.
They were busy and the thought of Roy was very strange
I mean, it was a really bizarre combination
I didn't think 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 Decker in the classical department and sort of
regressed through Frank Jacksfield and
Mantovani passed through that into pop music and then really got into the heavy stuff into into rock
But I didn't know he had that background and it was nice.
He has incredibly good judgments
So what really did decide you to take the plunge after it is a long silence?
Yes, well if you keep silent that long you get very bored with being silent and very
[G] _ You come to the conclusion only thanking to [E] the conclusion.
That is really [G] probably what I do best in [Eb] life
I can't think of anything else.
I [N] particularly want to do more.
Hmm.
It's a nice challenge.
It is again a challenge
That's what if it lost
Before I'd lost the feeling of challenge and the stimulation in doing what I did
[Eb] Disenchantment and I think a lot of people feel after I've been singing a lot of years
It wasn't just as dusty Springfield before that
I had had the Springfield's and before that I was with the sister act and before that I was in clubs playing guitars and whatnot
So overall it added up to quite a few.
What about going on the road again?
Even that becomes a very nice prospect things have changed sound systems now work on occasion _
Various things are made easier in some ways for the artists now all the things
Yeah, yeah all the things [G] that I used to want to do and get right and
Became and known as being very difficult because I wanted them
They are now part and parcel of a tour and it'll be a delight to work under that system
So are we like to see you in England in concert?
I hope so
I'd like to get back in the studio and make another album first and then get out there [Gm] and do it and it's a delightful
Prospect.
Well, we can't wait.
Really.