Beautiful Soul: The ABC/Dunhill Collection

This collection contains the album CAMEO and nine unreleased tracks from the unfinished album LONGING.Personnel: Dusty Springfield (background vocals); Dusty Springfield (vocals); Al Gorgoni, Cornell Dupree, David Snyder, Ben Benay (guitar); Garry Sherman, Ron Frangipane, Joe d'Elia, Mike Lang, Richard Tee, Paul Griffin , Frank Owens (keyboards); Wilton Felder, Carol Kaye (bass instrument); Barry Lazarowitz, Jimmy Johnson , Gary Chester , Paul Humphrey , Bernard "Pretty" Purdie (drums); Joe Venuto, Ralph MacDonald, Brian Potter (percussion); Renee Armand, Merle Miller, Christie Thompson, Judy Thomas, Myrna Mathews, Gail Kantor, Sherlie Mathews, Maretha Stewart (background vocals); David Cohen, Hugh McCracken, Larry Carlton (guitar); Melissa Manchester (keyboards, background vocals); Dennis Lambert, Michael Omartian, Barry Manilow (keyboards); Hal Blaine, Steve Gadd (drums); Victor Feldman (percussion); Clydie King, Venetta Fields (background vocals).Audio Mixers: Kevin Reeves; Ben Mitchell.Liner Note Authors: Melissa Manchester; Barry Manilow; Jim Pierson.Recording information: 914 Sound Studios, Blauvelt, NY (08/07/1972-09/04/1974); ABC Recording Studios, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (08/07/1972-09/04/1974).Arrangers: Garry Sherman; Ron Frangipane.BEAUTIFUL SOUL collects tracks from Springfield's 1973 CAMEO album, along with the entirety of its previously unreleased follow-up LONGING. The CAMEO tracks are produced by then-hot songwriting team Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, and they're done in the same pop/soul style the pair employed with the Four Tops at the time. Highlights include "Who Gets Your Love," a mid-tempo teaser that became a modest hit, and a spectacularly soulful version of Van Morrison's "Tupelo Honey." The LONGING TRACKS, some of which were to some degree unfinished, are a bit more wide-ranging stylistically. Among the best are the haunting, minor-key "Exclusively for Me," on which Springfield does a lovely impression of its co-author, ex-Zombies singer Colin Blunstone," and "A Love Like Yours," a lesser-known Motown song that she re-recorded for her 1977 album IT BEGINS AGAIN.

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