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Bonus tracks CD re-issues

  • Track 11. Recording date: March 1970. Recorded at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia. Producers: staff for Gamble-Huff Productions. Arranger:Thom Bell
    Thom Bell
    Thomas Randolph "Thom" Bell is an American songwriter and producer, best known as one of the creators of the Philadelphia style of soul music in the 1970s. He moved to Philadelphia as a child.-Biography:...

    .
  • Track 12. Recording date: 23 July 1970. Recorded at A & R Studios, New York. Producers: Ellie Greenwich & Mike Rashkow.
  • Track 13. Recording date: September 1968. Recorded at American Studios, Memphis. Dusty Springfield's final vocals recorded in New York. Producers: Jerry Wexler
    Jerry Wexler
    Gerald "Jerry" Wexler was a music journalist turned music producer, and was regarded as one of the major record industry players behind music from the 1950s through the 1980s...

    , Tom Dowd
    Tom Dowd
    Tom Dowd was an American recording engineer and producer for Atlantic Records. He was credited with innovating the multi-track recording method. Dowd worked on a virtual "who's who" of recordings that encompassed blues, jazz, pop, rock and soul records.- Early years :Born in Manhattan, Dowd grew...

     & Arif Mardin
    Arif Mardin
    Arif Mardin was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco, and country...

    .
  • Tracks 14 & 15. Recording date: 27 March 1971. Recorded at Century Sound Studio, New York. Producer & arranger: Jeff Barry.
  • Tracks 16, 17 & 18. Recording date: between January and June 1971. Recorded at Century Sound Studio, New York. Producer & arranger: Jeff Barry.


  • Tracks 11-13. Recording date: February–March 1970. Recorded at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia. Producers: Gamble & Huff Productions.

Personnel and production A Brand New Me/From Dusty...With Love

  • Dusty Springfield – vocals
  • Ugene Dozier – piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

    , producer
    Record producer
    A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

  • Roland Chambers – guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , arranger, producer
  • Vince Montana – background vocals, vibraphone
    Vibraphone
    The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family....

  • Norman Harris
    Norman Harris
    Norman Harris was an American guitarist, producer, arranger and songwriter associated with Philly soul. He was a founding member of MFSB and one-third of the production trio of Baker-Harris-Young...

     – guitar
  • Ronnie Baker
    Ronnie Baker
    Ronnie Baker was a famous record producer, bassist, arranger and songwriter. He participated on many Gamble and Huff recordings and was one-third of the production team of Baker-Harris-Young. He was one of The Trammps, who had a #5 UK/#35 US hit with Hold Back The Night....

     – bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Earl Young
    Earl Young (drummer)
    Earl Young is a Philadelphia-based drummer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s as part of the Philly Soul sound. Young is best known as the founder and leader of The Trammps who had a hit record with "Disco Inferno". Young, along with Ronnie Baker and Norman Harris, was the owner of the...

     – drums
  • The Sweethearts of Sigma – background vocals
  • Don Renaldo & His String Section – strings
    String instrument
    A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones...

  • Sam Reed & His Horn Section – horns
    Horn section
    In music, a horn section can refer to several groups of musicians. It can refer to the musicians in a symphony orchestra who play the horn . In a British-style brass band it refers to the tenor horn players. In popular music, it can also refer to a small group of wind instrumentalists who augment a...

  • Thom Bell
    Thom Bell
    Thomas Randolph "Thom" Bell is an American songwriter and producer, best known as one of the creators of the Philadelphia style of soul music in the 1970s. He moved to Philadelphia as a child.-Biography:...

     – arranger
  • Bobby Martin – arranger
  • Recorded at Sigma Sound Studios
    Sigma Sound Studios
    Sigma Sound Studios is an American music recording studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania founded by recording engineer Joseph Tarsia in 1968.Located at 212 N. 12th Street in Philadelphia, it was the second studio in the country to offer 24-track recording and the first in the country to use console...

    , Philadelphia
  • Joe Tarsia – engineer
  • Loring Eutemey – cover design (A Brand New Me)
  • Dan Hersch – remastering (A Brand New Me, 1992 re-issue)
  • Bill Inglot – remastering (A Brand New Me, 1992 re-issue)
  • Jim Feldman – liner notes (A Brand New Me, 1992 re-issue)
  • Deborah Frost – project assistant (A Brand New Me, 1992 re-issue)
  • Mike Gill – remastering/mix (From Dusty With Love, 2002 re-issue)
  • Roger Wake – remastering/mix (From Dusty With Love, 2002 re-issue)

Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)
Year Chart Position
1970 Pop Albums 107


Singles – Billboard (North America)
Year Single Chart Position
1969 "A Brand New Me" Pop Singles 24
1969 "A Brand New Me" Adult Contemporary 3
1970 "Silly, Silly Fool" Pop Singles 76
1970 "Silly, Silly Fool" Adult Contemporary 25
1970 "I Wanna Be a Free Girl" Pop Singles 105
1970 "I Wanna Be a Free Girl" Adult Contemporary 25

Sources

  • Howes, Paul (2001). The Complete Dusty Springfield. London: Reynolds & Hearn Ltd. ISBN 1-903111-24-2.

External links

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