Publisher's Synopsis
Dusty Springfield with her album in Memphis was constructed with the help of some of the best musicians in Memphis and with the use of superb material written by, among others, Jerry Goffin & Carol King, Randy Newman, and Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil. The white girl singer from London attempted to fill the shoes of her African-American idols like Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett. Now Dusty is not a soul singer, and she makes no effort to "sound black" - rather she is singing songs that ordinarily would have been offered by their writers to black vocalists.
Producer Jerry Wexler and The Memphis Boys are equally in awe of Dusty herself. Spawning classics like "Son of a Preacher Man" and the Oscar-winning "Windmills of Your Mind," Dusty In Memphis forever immortalized Dusty Springfield as "The White Queen of Soul."
