"Dusty In Memphis" is definitely one of the greatest albums of all time! How much it would have meant to Dusty if the album had received, right from the release, the appreciation it deserved! Thank you so much, Darren, for sharing!🌷🤗❤🍀
I remember hearing this programme when it was first broadcast (15 years ago? Maybe more?!?) The platinum disc arriving and the catalogue shopping made me smile. I wonder how she would have gotten on with online shopping 😃 Thanks Darren for finding and sharing this😊
I bought Dusty in Memphis in April 1969 … aged 15. And I loved it then and have ever since. There should have been some other singles released from it. Son of a Preacher Man in 1968/9 was Dusty’s last Top Ten Hit till she sang with the PSB’s in 1987 on What Have I Done to Deserve this. Well done the PSB’s for bringing her back to prominence and rescuing her from Californian obscurity!
Thank you! I was ten years old in a distant part of Australia when I heard “Son of a Preacher Man”, and I’d never heard anything like it. Galvanised! I didn’t live in a place with TV reception until I was twelve so I was a radio addict… “Mum, Kennedy’s been shot… no, he has, just now, it was on the radio, the brother!” I was glued to the family radio. Mum bought me a little transistor radio. I treasured that radio. There was enough “soundtracks to my life” stuff but it wasn’t until 1972 that David Bowie electrified me in the same way. But he never “vanished” like Dusty did, for a ling time.
Thanks for a real great insight as to what really happened in Memphis. The great shame was the total disinterest in the album when it first came out. However I had heard it was awarded a platinum disc in 1994 so not all was lost. Most of this documentary I already knew but it's still interesting listening to the technicalities to do with how to record. Thanks again, Darren.😊😊😊
In my top 10 favourite albums a classic. Dusty is incredible but every musician is at the top of there game. My favourite song is without a doubt is I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore Dusty at her best.
