Dusty Springfield – See All Her Faces

ever released in the US, See All Her Faces was a hodge-podge of tracks from the late 1960s and early 1970s, some of which had previously appeared on Atlantic singles in the States, although it did have some good moments. One of those was the bossa nova-influenced title track, and she does another bossa nova-flavored number, “Come for a Dream,” co-written by Antonio Carlos Jobim. As always there were some really straight-orchestrated pop ballads, like “I Start Counting,” and something that sounded like an attempt to emulate whatever was happening at Motown at the moment (“Girls It Ain’t Easy”). There were also some deep soul-speckled outings (the 1969 single of Tony Joe White‘s “Willie & Laura Mae Jones,” Goffin & King‘s “That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho)”), and some half-decent cuts from early-seventies singles that Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry helped write (“What Good Is I Love You,” “Nothing Is Forever”). Eight of the tracks are on Rhino’s compilation of 1968-71 British recordings, Dusty in London; all but one (“Girls Can’t Do What the Guys Do”) of the six remaining tracks appears as one of the bonus cuts on Rhino’s reissues of Dusty in Memphis and A Brand New Me. If you live in the US, picking up all of these Rhino reissues, rather than hunting for the See All Her Faces album, seems like the way to go.