Where Am I Going – DUSTY SPRINGFIELD***

Bring Him Back/Don’t Let Me Lose This Dream/I Can’t Wait Until I See My Baby’s Face/Take Me For A Little While/Chained To A Melody/Sunny/They Long To Be Close To You/Welcome Home/Come Back To Me/If You Go Away/Broken Blossoms/Where Am I Going

With the arrival of flower power Dusty Springfield’s popularity took a slight dip and she appeared to lose direction. Despite some good reviews Where Am I Going only brushed the UK album chart. (UK:40)

“Dusty inches closer to soul, showing a knack for the genre's phrasing and a dazzling charm, only to be foiled by another set of hack arrangements. Typical of the overuse of strings and harmonies in 60s pop, subtlety is still antithetical to anything Springfield's handlers are aiming for. And by the looks of side two, they're awfully keen on big band tunes we've heard billions of times over.”

“This album does not quite reach the levels of Dusty’s other 1960s albums. There are a handful of good songs, but several arrangements seem somewhat dated and intrusive. Stylistically at times it comes close to mainstream family jazz-pop.”

“The Dusty album, Where Am I Going will tug at your heartstrings in more ways than one. She had an incredible knack of picking songs that had both amazing lyrics and beautiful melodies, Add to that her wonderful ability to throw just the right emotion into her voice and you simply cannot imagine anyone else singing the same songs.”

“The first two tracks on this album pulled me in right away, really hot numbers. Likewise, They Long To Be Close To You was an instant knock-out. The other cuts are all winners too, just a killer album with no weak spots.”

“This baroque 60s soul sound is just so intrinsically awesome that when you get the sound down and have an amazing singer like Dusty, you can't go wrong.”

“Dusty's eclecticism presents the listener with different rhythms, throughout the disc, her unique voice lending charm and feeling to all of them.”

“After getting the set off to a rollicking start, she flirts with the pop stuff, British style, then goes Broadway, covers Aretha Franklin and gets her take on Close To You under the wire before The Carpenters launched the Bacharach-David tune into the pop/easy listening stratosphere. There is even an exploration of jazz.”