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Springfield, Dusty - Living Without Your Love - Amazon.com Music
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I don't understand the complaints about this album. Perhaps some of the reviewers favor Dusty's 1960s albums but remember this was 1979. Every track on this album is fabulous, the ballads and the uptempo tracks. The arrangements and production are typical of this time period. Simply put, if you love 1970s pop you'll love it. And if you're a Dusty fan, you'll love it.
I never thought I'd see the day when I've give any Dusty Springfield offering less than 4 stars. Well, this is that day.
While one can rarely fault Dusty's vocal talents on any song, in the case of "Living Without Your Love", those talents are totally wasted on this inferior material and shoddy production.
Most of the songs sound like demos which I threw out rather than be embarassed by. However, the writers of these songs have no shame. If you could find a worse song penned by Barry Gibb than "Save Me, Save Me", you'd have to rummage through his rubbish cans. This entire album drags on and on - there is no life in it. I realize Dusty was going through some awful personal problems back then; but, someone/anyone around her should have sat her down and told her not to bother recording this third-rate material.
The fact that the record company stuck her with an apprentice producer is most glaring. After Wexler and Dowd managed to produce Dusty's masterpiece "Dusty In Memphis" ten years earlier than this album, there really was no place to go but down until the Pet Shop Boys came along and rescued one of the 20th Century's greatest pop singers.
The real tragedy that was Dusty Springfield is on us in that we can only imagine what wonderful work she would have done had she been handled properly during those lean years between '69 and '87. We'll never know; and, that makes her premature death all the more tragic.
If you're new to Dusty's work, forget this album; and, do yourself the favour of buying "Dusty In Memphis" and/or "A Very Fine Love". All this reviewer can say is: Dusty should have spent more time in the great state of Tennessee. She did her best work there.
Dusty Springfield quickly followed up on her 1978 comeback album, IT BEGINS AGAIN, with LIVING WITHOUT YOUR LOVE. Unfortunately, it fared worse commercially than its predecessor. The album was barely promoted, and Dusty's label, United Artists was bought out shortly thereafter.
However, while IT BEGINS AGAIN was an ambitious (if not altogether successful) project that is remembered favorably, LIVING WITHOUT YOUR LOVE is a decidely lesser effort, lacking in focus or panache. While the main criticism of IBA is usually that it is overproduced, LWYL, with novice producer David Wolfert at the helm, seems lacking in that same area. The songs vary greatly in quality (both in the writing and in the execution), and as a result, the album as a whole comes across as uninspired. Dusty herself later referred to it as "unstunning".
The album kicks off with a cover of Smokey Robinson's "You Got Really Got a Hold on Me", which is pleasant (and features a decent vocal from Dusty) but suffers the same problem that plagued the sole Motown cover from her last album ("A Love Like Yours")- the production is too polished; not enough grit.
the second song, "You Can Do It" is another pleasant number, a midtempo, light R&B entry which features a notable horn arrangement, but seems to be lacking something, mainly in the chorus. The next song is Melissa Manchester's "Be Somebody", a slower bit of AC which is one of the better entries on the album, with Dusty delivering a compelling performance.
"Closet Man" is probably the most interesting song here- not so much because of the curious lyric (co-written by David Foster!) of a woman encouraging her secretly-gay friend to "come out into the light", but because of an irresistable arrangement, resplendent with jazzy nuances and heavy shades of the Quiet Storm sound that ruled late-night R&B radio at the time (compare the production on this with another blue-eyed soul classic, Bobby Caldwell's "What You Won't Do For Love").
The title track is in the middle of the album (it closed out side 1 on vinyl), and it's another album highlight- nothing particularly brilliant, but definitely a commercial number, uptempo and catchy, and Dusty glides along with the chorus. It would've fit comfortably alongside other light R&B/disco/AC hybrids that were ruling the airwaves at the time.
The second half of the album takes a nosedive, with "Save Me, Save Me" leading things off. If nothing else, you can usually expect a nice melody- or a bit of clever wordplay- from a Barry Gibb/Albhy Galuten composition, but there's none of that here. It's a disco number that fails to be energetic or memorable, with Dusty sounding uneasy at times. Honestly, it's a lousy song.
Things get pretty sleepy from here on. "Get Yourself to Love" starts out nicely, then stumbles into a dreary psuedo-gospel mess. "I Just Fall in Love Again"- a huge hit less than a year later for Anne Murray- suffers from another pleasant-but-bland production. The song is also done in an odd-key, higher than Murray's version, which would've been perfect for Dusty's husky tones. "Dream On" is an innocuous Carole Bayer Sager trifle, but can be a bit irritating at times.
The closing song, "I'm Coming Home Again" (another Bayer Sager composition, and the leadoff single in Dusty's native UK) is a big improvement, even if it's too plodding for commercial consideration as a single. Dusty is touching on the track, but too much of the preceding selections have been forgettable for this number to salvage the album.
As for Dusty herself, she has some great vocal moments throughout but, saddled with second rate material too often, even she can't rescue some of this stuff.
After this album died a dismal death, Dusty stammered a bit, landing on Casablanca in 1982 with WHITE HEAT, another commercial disappointment, but a MUCH more exciting, compelling album than this.
It's not terrible, but aside from a couple of truly great highlights, there's not enough in LIVING WITHOUT YOUR LOVE to make it a must-listen.
(PS- I would've given this album 1 or 2 stars, had a lesser vocalist than Dusty been on it)
This was Dusty Springfield's second attempt at crossing over into the US. Unfortunately it was met with mediocre success. Vocally she is at no fault on this CD, sounding wonderful as usual with her golden voice. The fault lies a bit with the production and song selection. Highlights include the title track, "Save Me, Save Me", "I'm Coming Home Again" and "I Just Fall In Love Again". It's not as bad as everyone remembers, it might not have been her most successful but it still warrents a listen.
I love this album. I have all of Dusty's albums and I have probably listened to this one the most of all and would rate as my favourite along with ''See All Her Faces''. Her choice of songs here was fantastic and their continuity on the album make good listening. Among the best, in my mind, are ''You can do it'', Melissa Manchester's ''Be somebody'', her brilliant version of ''I Just fall in Love again'', ''Get Yourself to Love''. The Barry Gibb song ''Save me, Save me'' is also very groovy and makes me wonder what could have happened had The Bee Gees produced an album for Dusty in the same way they did for Barbra and Dionne!! The title track of this album is a fantastic song with a brilliant production and although the title would suggest a ballad, it is a very cheerful, energetic song. After ''Dream On'', another fantastic song with a sharp vocal performance by Dusty, the album closes with ''I'm coming home again'' a beautiful, reflective ballad with that lovely voice!! An album well worth listening to!!
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