A Brand New Me

Infobox Album |
Name = A Brand New Me
Type = Album
Artist = Dusty Springfield


Released = 15 January 1970 (US)
10 April, 1970 (UK)
Recorded = Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, September-October 1969
Genre = Pop, Soul
Length = 25:52
Label = Atlantic (US)
Philips (UK)
Producer = Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:anfexqw0ldte]
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:d9fwxqu5ldde~T0]

Last album = "Dusty in Memphis"
(1969)
This album = "A Brand New Me"
(1970)
Next album = "Faithful"
(1971)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = studio


Lower caption = Cover of the UK version of the album, "From Dusty...With Love"

"A Brand New Me" is the title of British singer Dusty Springfield's sixth studio album, released on the Atlantic Records label in January 1970. The album was also released in the UK some three months later on the Philips Records label, and then under the title "From Dusty...With Love". "A Brand New Me"/"From Dusty...With Love" was recorded in late 1969 at the Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia and is the only one of Springfield's albums that was ever recorded featuring songs by the same production team for a whole album. Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, who also wrote many songs on the album, went on to have success with many groups and singers in the '70s, among them Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes, The O'Jays, MFSB and The Three Degrees. The British version, "From Dusty...With Love" was Springfield's last British album to use the singer's name in the title; all but one of her previous five albums had done so.

In 1992 Atlantic Records/Warner Music's sublabel Rhino Entertainment re-released a digitally remastered edition of "A Brand New Me" in the US, featuring nine bonus tracks originally issued as A- and B-side singles in the US in the years following the "A Brand New Me" album's release, among them recordings made with both Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin and Ellie Greenwich as well as tracks from a shelved second album with Gamble & Huff, and one track recorded for Philips Records, but never released by Atlantic (Springfield's contract with Atlantic allowed them to release Philips recordings). Some of these recordings were first issued in the UK on the 1972 album "See All Her Faces" (which had no US counterpart), others would remain unavailable in the UK for another ten years until PolyGram released an expanded edition of "Dusty in Memphis" as part of their mid-price series "Reflections", entitled "Dusty in Memphis Plus" and released on the Mercury Records label in the UK and the rest of Europe in September 1980.

"From Dusty...With Love" was first transferred from vinyl to CD by Philips Records/PolyGram and re-issued in Europe in the early 1990s.A digitally remastered CD edition of "From Dusty...With Love" was released by Mercury/Universal Music in the UK/Europe in 2002, featuring alternate versions of recordings from the 1970 Gamble & Huff sessions as bonus tracks.

Track listing

Side A
#"Lost" (Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, Jerry Butler) - 2:29
#"Bad Case of the Blues" (Roland Chambers, Gamble) - 2:03
#"Never Love Again" (Chambers, Gamble, Huff) - 3:24
#"Let Me in Your Way" (Chambers, Gamble) - 2:48
#"Let's Get Together Soon" (Gamble, Huff) - 2:45

Side B
#"Brand New Me" (Thom Bell, Butler, Gamble) - 2:29
#"Joe" (Allan Felder, Gamble, Norman Harris) - 2:22
#"Silly, Silly Fool" (Gamble, Huff) - 2:33
#"The Star of My Show" (Gamble, Huff) - 2:30
#"Let's Talk It Over" (Gamble, Huff) - 2:29

Bonus tracks CD re-issues

Bonus tracks "A Brand New Me", Rhino Records 1992
#

I Wanna Be a Free Girl" (Thom Bell, Linda Creed, Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff) - 2:57
#* First release: Atlantic US single #2729 (A-side), 16 April 1970. First UK release: "Dusty In Memphis Plus", 1980.
#"What Good Is I Love You?" (Ellie Greenwich, Mike Rashkow) - 2:57
#* First release: Atlantic US single #2771 (A-side), 12 January 1971. First UK release: "See All Her Faces", 1972.
#"What Do You Do When Love Dies" (Mary Unobsky, Donna Weiss) - 2:42
#* First release: Atlantic US single #2771 (B-side of "What Good Is I Love You"). First UK release: "Dusty In Memphis Plus", 1980.
#"Haunted" (Jeff Barry, Bobby Bloom) - 2:27
#* First release: Atlantic US single #2825 (A-side), 4 August 1971. First UK release: "Dusty In Memphis Plus", 1980.
#"Nothing Is Forever" ( [Barry, Bloom) - 2:35
#* First release: Atlantic US single #2825 (B-side of "Haunted"). First UK release: "See All Her Faces", 1972.
#"Someone Who Cares" (Alex Harvey) - 2:56
#* First release: Atlantic US single #2841 (B-side of "I Believe In You"), 14 November 1971. First UK release: "See All Her Faces", 1972.
#"I Believe in You" (Barry) - 3:12
#* First release: Atlantic US single #2841 (A-side), 14 November 1971. First UK release: "Dusty In Memphis Plus", 1980.
#"I'll Be Faithful" (Mono mix) (Ned W. Albright, Michael F. Soles, Steve Soles) - 3:02
#* Originally unissued.
#"I Can't Give Back The Love I Feel For You" (Alternate mix) (Nickolas Ashford, Brian Holland, Valerie Simpson) - 2:30
#* Originally unissued mix. First release original mix: "Dusty... Definitely", 1968.
* Track 11. Recording date: March 1970. Recorded at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia. Producers: staff for Gamble-Huff Productions. Arranger:Thom Bell.
* Track 12. Recording date: 23 July 1970. Recorded at A & R Studios, New York. Producers: Ellie Greenwich & Mike Rashkow.
* Track 13. Recording date: September 1968. Recorded at American Studios, Memphis. Dusty Springfield's final vocals recorded in New York. Producers: Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd & Arif Mardin.
* Tracks 14 & 15. Recording date: 27 March 1971. Recorded at Century Sound Studio, New York. Producer & arranger: Jeff Barry.
* Tracks 16, 17 & 18. Recording date: between January and June 1971. Recorded at Century Sound Studio, New York. Producer & arranger: Jeff Barry.

Bonus tracks "From Dusty with Love", Mercury Records 2002
#

"The Richest Girl Alive" (Gamble, Huff) - 3:01
#* Originally unissued. First release: US compilation "Love Songs", Rhino/Atlantic 2001.
#"Summer Love" (Gamble, Huff) - 2:48
#* Originally unissued. First release: US compilation "Love Songs", Rhino/Atlantic 2001.
#"I Wanna Be A Free Girl" (Bell, Creed, Gamble, Huff)
#* First release: Atlantic US single #2729 (A-side), 16 April 1970. First UK release: "Dusty In Memphis Plus", 1980.
* Tracks 11-13. Recording date: February-March 1970. Recorded at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia. Producers: Gamble & Huff Productions.

Personnel and production "A Brand New Me"/"From Dusty...With Love"

* Dusty Springfield - vocals
* Ugene Dozier - piano, producer
* Roland Chambers - guitar, arranger, producer
* Vince Montana - background vocals, vibraphone
* Norman Harris - guitar
* Ronnie Baker - bass
* Earl Young - drums
* The Sweethearts of Sigma - background vocals
* Don Renaldo & His String Section - strings
* Sam Reed & His Horn Section - horns
* Thom Bell - arranger
* Bobby Martin - arranger
* Recorded at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia
* Joe Tarsia - engineer
* Loring Eutemey - cover design ("A Brand New Me")
* Dan Hersch - remastering ("A Brand New Me", 1992 re-issue)
* Bill Inglot - remastering ("A Brand New Me", 1992 re-issue)
* Jim Feldman - liner notes ("A Brand New Me", 1992 re-issue)
* Deborah Frost - project assistant ("A Brand New Me", 1992 re-issue)
* Mike Gill - remastering/mix ("From Dusty With Love", 2002 re-issue)
* Roger Wake - remastering/mix ("From Dusty With Love", 2002 re-issue)

ources

* Howes, Paul (2001). The Complete Dusty Springfield. London: Reynolds & Hearn Ltd. ISBN 1 903111 24 2.

External links

* [http://www.isd.net/mbayly/phil.htm Article about "A Brand New Me"]
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