Two Swedish Dusty covers

Swedish Pet Shop Boys cover group, West End Girls, released their version of What Have I Done To Deserve This? earlier this year. For the male vocals, they turned to Magnus Carlson (not the gay one but the one from the group Weeping Willows). Check it out:

You can hear the Club Mix and the Electro Mix over at their MySpace page:

http://www.myspace.com/westendgirls1

Swedish female rock group, Sahara Hotnights released In Private as their latest single earlier this month and it reached number 7 on the Swedish charts.

Here is the film clip:


Check out Sahara Hotnights' MySpace page here:

http://www.myspace.com/saharahotnights

Shelby Lynne's Dusty Springfield Tribute

The release of Shelby Lynne's new album Just A Little Lovin' has been brought forward to 29 January 2008.

As a preview, Shelby has added the following studio footage to YouTube. The song is I Only Want To Be With You.

An Evening with Dusty Springfield - Swedish tribute

On 28 December 2007, a tribute to Dusty Springfield was held in Malmö, Sweden. En Afton Med Dusty Springfield (An Evening With Dusty Springfield) featured such well-known singers as Nina Persson from The Cardigans and Titiyo. Other singers included Moto Boy, Per Sunding, Helena Josefsson and Niklas Frisk.

Here are some YouTube clips from the night.

Nina Persson - The Windmills Of Your Mind:


Per Sunding - Anyone Who Had A Heart:


Moto Boy: You Don't Have To Say You Love Me:


Moto Boy - If You Go Away:


Niklas Frisk - Just A Little Lovin':

The One And Only...

The One And Only is a new reality show on the BBC in the UK. It is a talent show to find the best tribute act and give them a performing contract in Las Vegas. One of the acts is a tribute to Dusty Springfield.

An audition process narrowed the acts down to the top 3 for each artist. A group of super fans for that particular artist then selected the best.

Katy Setterfield is representing Dusty in the first proper show to be screened in the UK this Saturday. She will be performing I Only Want To Be With You.

There is an official BBC site which includes videos. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on where you live), the videos can only be accessed if you like in the UK.

www.bbc.co.uk/theoneandonly

Katy also has her own website.

www.katysetterfield.com

1,000 albums to hear before you die

The Guardian in the UK recently ran a series of articles on the 1,000 albums to hear before you die. They steered clear of the obvious choices so "Dusty in Memphis" was not included.

But naturally Dusty was represented with "From Dusty With Love" (aka "A Brand New Me" in the US).



Dusty Springfield
From Dusty With Love (1970)
After triumphing with the Memphis set, Dusty headed north for the nascent Philadelphia sound. Gamble & Huff were a couple of years shy of their string-driven soft-soul peak, but songs such as Let Me Get in Your Way and Never Love Again are ornate, exquisite and just-so for the singer's most delicate performances.

Tina Arena pays tribute to Dusty

Tina Arena has included her versions of four classic Dusty Springfield songs on her new album "Songs Of Love & Loss".

The songs are "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself", "The Look Of Love", "I Only Want To Be With You" and "Windmills Of Your Mind".

The album comes out in Australia on 1 December 2007 and is the first under her new contract with EMI.

You can listen to samples from all the songs on the album at the following link.

http://www.musichead.com.au/ecards/tinaarena

I Just Fall In Love Again - duet with Anne Murray

A fan has put together a pictorial tribute to Dusty Springfield and Anne Murray on YouTube. The slide show is set to the "new" duet "I Just Fall In Love Again".