Dusty Springfield Every Day I Have To Cry ( Ready Steady Go)

Britain s greatest pop diva, Dusty Springfield was also the finest white soul singer of her era, a performer of remarkable emotional resonance whose body of work spans the decades and their attendant musical transformations with a consistency and purity unmatched by any of her contemporaries; though a camp icon of glamorous excess in her towering beehive hairdo and pandaeye black mascara, the sultry intimacy and heartbreaking urgency of Springfield s voice transcended image and fashion, embracing everything from lushly orchestrated pop to gritty R B to disco with unparalleled sophistication and depth. She was born Mary O Brien on April 16, 1939, and raised on an eclectic diet of classical music and jazz, coming to worship Peggy Lee; after completing her schooling she joined the Lana Sisters, a pop vocal trio which issued a few singles on Fontana before dissolving. In 1960, upon teaming with her brother Dion O Brien and his friend Tim Feild in the folk trio the Springfields, O Brien a