The Ballad of Dusty Springfield

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
Way before Amy Winehouse, singer Dusty Springfield was the first British soloist to break into the US top ten charts with her 1964 hit, "I Only Want To Be With You." Annie Randall, musicologist and author of "Dusty!: Queen of the Postmods," talks about how the former convent school girl became the "White Queen of Soul.”

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