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Bobbie Gentry or Dusty Springfield?

... and add if you wish what your answer says about you, your music, and cultural migration in the context of the Special Relationship.   
jamesclarke
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pehare
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love em both grew up listening to that stuff....you may want to checkout delta sweetie by mercury rev fantastic hears some info:
A tribute to Bobbie Gentry's 1968 gem The Delta Sweete that features an amazingly talented group of vocalists: Hope Sandoval, Norah Jones, Lucinda Williams, Beth Orton, Vashti Bunyan, Carice van Houten from Game of Thrones, and more. Bobbie Gentry was an American singer-songwriter and one of the first female artists to compose and produce her own material. 'Ode to Billie Joe' was Bobbie Gentry's 1967 debut as a singer-songwriter and a Number One single for three weeks in the late Summer of Love.
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bdp24
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This may be unfair on my part, but for whatever reason I view Bobbie as an entertainer, Dusty an artist. What's the difference, and what is the criteria for making that judgment? I don't possess the skill to put it into words, but, as they say, I know an artist when I hear her.

At the time that "The Look Of Love" was on the radio, I confessed to a close friend that Dusty's vocal on the song felt to me like a soft, slow, sensual kiss. I never heard the end of THAT one ;-) .

n80
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@bdp24 : I’ve never been into either one of them but I completely get what you’re saying.

Off topic but I do like Jack White's cover of Dusty Springfield's  "I Don't Know What to Do With Myself" written by Burt Bacharach.
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