DUSTY SPRINGFIELD Lesley Gore

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD COME FOR A DREAM—THE U.K. SESSIONS 1970-1971 During her 1968-1971 period with Atlantic Records in SELLING POINTS: the United States, Dusty Springfield also continued to record material in England, where her Atlantic repertoire • Dusty Springfield Was and Is the Greatest was released on Philips Records. In turn, Atlantic Female Blue-Eyed Soul Singer of All Time received rights to issue Dusty's British recordings from the era, but chose to focus entirely on her American • During Her 1968-1971 Period Recording for Atlantic in the U.S., Dusty Continued to Record sessions. In fact, it wasn’t until the ‘90s that some of for the Philips Label in England these masters (many of which originally came out on the Philips See All Her Faces album overseas) were available • That Material Was Never Released in the U.S. Stateside, but they were scattered across several compilations Except Decades Later in Piecemeal Fashion and were never comprehensively assembled. SONGS: During the CD Era Now, with the release of Come For A Dream—The U.K. Sessions 1. A Song For You 1970-1971, all of Dusty’s “orphaned” British recordings from her • Come for a Dream—The U.K. Sessions 1970- 2. Mixed Up Girl 1971 Gathers All of Her “Orphaned” British 1970-1971 Atlantic period have been gathered together for the first 3. Wasn’t Born To Follow Recordings from 1970-1971 Together in One time. These 16 sides document what was intended to be a 4. Sweet Inspiration Place for the First Time complete album plus some extra single sides and outtakes. Dusty 5. Yesterday When I Was Young was singing at her absolute best during this time, covering pop, 6. Let Me Down Easy • Includes What Was Intended to Be a Complete rock and soul with equal power and sensitivity; thus, Come For A 7. Come For A Dream Album Plus Singles and Outtakes Dream represents a major addition and clarification to the 8. Girls It Ain't Easy 9. See All Her Faces • Notes by Joe Marchese legendary singer’s discography. Notes by Joe Marchese shed 10. Crumbs Of The Table further light on this tumultuous period in Dusty Springfield’s 11. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? • Rare Photos career, with rare photos to boot. A perfect companion piece to 12. How Can I Be Sure Real Gone Music’s recent Faithful release, which presented Dusty’s 13. Goodbye • The Perfect Companion Piece to Real Gone missing third album for Atlantic from the same era in proper 14. Girls Can't Do What The Guys Do Music’s Faithful Release fashion for the first time. 15. I Start Counting 16. Go My Love ORDER USING 848064003830 17. O-o-h Child STREET DATE: August 7, 2015 ALSO AVAILABLE: LABEL: Real Gone Music GENRE: Rhythm & Blues DUSTY SPRINGFIELD: Faithful FORMAT: CD Order Using 848064003526 8048064 00383 SELLING POINTS: Lesley Gore • With Four Top Five Hits Before She Was 18, Lesley Gore Was Probably the Biggest Female Someplace Else Now Teen Idol of Her Era • Songs Like “You Don’t Own Me” Broke New It’s hard to overestimate the role Lesley Gore played in charting the Ground for Female Performers, and Later Gore course of popular music. Not only was she probably the biggest Became a Pioneering LGBT Artist female teen idol of her era—with four Top Five hits before she was of • Despite Her Exalted Status in Pop Music History, legal age—but she broke out of the “girl singer” mold with “You Don’t Her 1972 Album Someplace Else Now for Own Me,” the proto-feminist #2 hit that inspired generations of Berry Gordy’s MoWest Label Has Never Been female singers to come, and served notice that she was much more Released on CD than just a pretty face with a pretty voice (indeed; Gore ultimately • Gore Wrote or Co-Wrote Every Song on the became a pioneering LGBT performer). Album However, despite Lesley’s lofty place in the pop music pantheon, SONGS: there remain some pretty major gaps in the reissue of her repertoire • Songwriting Collaborators Include Ellen Weston 1. For Me and Gore’s Brother Michael, with Whom on CD, notably the lone album she cut for Berry Gordy’s Motown 2. The Road I Walk Lesley Wrote the Score to the Hit Movie Fame subsidiary MoWest, Someplace Else Now. Produced by Joe Porter, this 3. Out of Love 4. She Said That 1972 release marked Lesley’s move into a singer-songwriter mode. • Remastered by Mike Milchner at SonicVision 5. Don’t Wanna Be the One Gore wrote or co-wrote (with Ellen Weston or her brother Michael, 6. Be My Life 7. Where Do You Go • Liner Notes by Joe Marchese with whom Lesley would later gain renewed acclaim for collaborating (When You Get Home) on the score to the hit film Fame) every song on the album. Though it 8. What Did I Do Wrong • With Gore’s Recent Passing, a Timely Release 9. Someplace Else Now failed to make a significant commercial impact at the time, 10. Mine and a Lost Blue-Eyed Soul Classic 11. No Sad Songs Someplace Else Now has come to be regarded as a lost, blue-eyed 12. For You soul gem, and it makes its worldwide CD debut on this Real Gone STREET DATE: August 7, 2015 reissue, complete with liner notes by Joe Marchese and remastering LABEL: Real Gone Music by Mike Milchner at SonicVision. With Lesley’s recent passing, a most GENRE: Rock FORMAT: CD timely release and one long requested by her legion of fans. ORDER USING 848064003854 8448064 00385.

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