A Brand New Me

A Brand New Me is the title of British singer Dusty Springfield's sixth studio album, released on the Atlantic Records label in January 1970. The album was also released in the UK some three months later on the Philips Records label, and then under the title From Dusty...With Love. A Brand New Me/From Dusty...With Love was recorded in late 1969 at the Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia and is the only one of Springfield's albums that was ever recorded featuring songs by the same production team for a whole album. Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, who also wrote many songs on the album, went on to have success with many groups and singers in the '70s, among them Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, The O'Jays, MFSB and The Three Degrees. The title track was released as a single in the US in late 1969 and became Springfield's last Top 40 for 17 years, peaking at #24 in early 1970 (it was also a big US Adult Contemporary hit, peaking at #3 on that chart). The British version, From Dusty...With Love was Springfield's last British album to use the singer's name in the title; all but one of her previous five albums had done so. The album had moderate success in the UK, peaking at #35 on their album chart (whereas in the US, it stalled at #107).

In 1992 Atlantic Records/Warner Music Group's sublabel Rhino Entertainment re-released a digitally remastered edition of A Brand New Me in the US, featuring nine bonus tracks originally issued as A- and B-side singles in the US in the years following the A Brand New Me album's release, among them recordings made with both Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin and Ellie Greenwich as well as tracks from a shelved second album with Gamble & Huff, and one track recorded for Philips Records, but never released by Atlantic (Springfield's contract with Atlantic allowed them to release Philips recordings). Some of these recordings were first issued in the UK on the 1972 album See All Her Faces (which had no US counterpart), others would remain unavailable in the UK for another ten years until PolyGram released an expanded edition of Dusty in Memphis as part of their mid-price series Reflections, entitled Dusty in Memphis Plus and released on the Mercury Records label in the UK and the rest of Europe in September 1980.

From Dusty...With Love was first transferred from vinyl to CD by Philips Records/PolyGram and re-issued in Europe in the early 1990s. A digitally remastered CD edition of From Dusty...With Love was released by Mercury/Universal Music Group in the UK/Europe in 2002, featuring alternate versions of recordings from the 1970 Gamble & Huff sessions as bonus tracks.

1 Track listing
- 1.1 Bonus tracks CD re-issues
2 Personnel and production A Brand New Me/From Dusty...With Love
3 Charts
4 Sources
5 External links

Track listing

Side A
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Lost"	Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, Jerry Butler	2:29
2.	"Bad Case of the Blues"	Roland Chambers, Gamble	2:03
3.	"Never Love Again"	Chambers, Gamble, Huff	3:24
4.	"Let Me in Your Way"	Chambers, Gamble	2:48
5.	"Let's Get Together Soon"	Gamble, Huff	2:45

Side B
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Brand New Me"	Thom Bell, Butler, Gamble	2:29
2.	"Joe"	Allan Felder, Gamble, Norman Harris	2:22
3.	"Silly, Silly Fool"	Gamble, Huff	2:33
4.	"The Star of My Show"	Gamble, Huff	2:30
5.	"Let's Talk It Over"	Gamble, Huff	2:29

Bonus tracks CD re-issues

Bonus tracks A Brand New Me, Rhino Records 1992
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Release History	Length
11.	"I Wanna Be a Free Girl"	Thom Bell, Linda Creed, Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff	First release: Atlantic US single #2729 (A-side), April 16, 1970 (1970-04-16) First UK release: Dusty In Memphis Plus, 1980	2:57
12.	"What Good Is I Love You?"	Ellie Greenwich, Mike Rashkow	First release: Atlantic US single #2771 (A-side), January 12, 1971 (1971-01-12) First UK release: See All Her Faces, 1972	2:57
13.	"What Do You Do When Love Dies"	Mary Unobsky, Donna Weiss	First release: Atlantic US single #2771 (B-side of "What Good Is I Love You") First UK release: Dusty In Memphis Plus, 1980	2:42
14.	"Haunted"	Jeff Barry, Bobby Bloom	First release: Atlantic US single #2825 (A-side), August 4, 1971 (1971-08-04) First UK release: Dusty In Memphis Plus, 1980	2:27
15.	"Nothing Is Forever"	Barry, Bloom	First release: Atlantic US single #2825 (B-side of "Haunted") First UK release: See All Her Faces, 1972	2:35
16.	"Someone Who Cares"	Alex Harvey	First release: Atlantic US single #2841 (B-side of "I Believe In You"), November 14, 1971 (1971-11-14) First UK release: See All Her Faces, 1972	2:56
17.	"I Believe in You"	Barry	First release: Atlantic US single #2841 (A-side), November 14, 1971 (1971-11-14) First UK release: Dusty In Memphis Plus, 1980	3:12
18.	"I'll Be Faithful" (Mono mix)	Ned W. Albright, Michael F. Soles, Steve Soles	Originally unissued	3:02
19.	"I Can't Give Back The Love I Feel For You" (Alternate mix)	Nickolas Ashford, Brian Holland, Valerie Simpson	Originally unissued mix. First release original mix: Dusty... Definitely, 1968	2:30

Track 11. Recording date: March 1970. Recorded at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia. Producers: staff for Gamble-Huff Productions. Arranger:Thom Bell.
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, Tom Dowd & Arif Mardin.
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.

Bonus tracks From Dusty with Love, Mercury Records 2002
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Release History	Length
11.	"The Richest Girl Alive"	Gamble, Huff	Originally unissued First release: US compilation Love Songs, Rhino/Atlantic 2001	3:01
12.	"Summer Love"	Gamble, Huff	Originally unissued First release: US compilation Love Songs, Rhino/Atlantic 2001	2:48
13.	"I Wanna Be A Free Girl"	Bell, Creed, Gamble, Huff	First release: Atlantic US single #2729 (A-side), April 16, 1970 (1970-04-16) First UK release: Dusty In Memphis Plus, 1980

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, producer
Roland Chambers – guitar, arranger, producer
Vince Montana – background vocals, vibraphone
Norman Harris – guitar
Ronnie Baker – bass
Earl Young – drums
The Sweethearts of Sigma – background vocals
Don Renaldo & His String Section – strings
Sam Reed & His Horn Section – horns
Thom Bell – arranger
Bobby Martin – arranger
Recorded at Sigma Sound Studios, 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

^ "Allmusic From Dusty with Love review". http://www.allmusic.com/album/r583938. Retrieved 22 Feb 2011.
^ "Allmusic A Brand New Me review". http://www.allmusic.com/album/r18721. Retrieved 22 Feb 2011.

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

External links

Article about A Brand New Me

Dusty Springfield

UK studio albums (1964-70)	A Girl Called Dusty (1964) · Ev'rything's Coming Up Dusty (1965) · Where Am I Going? (1967) · Dusty... Definitely (1968) · Dusty in Memphis (1969) · From Dusty with Love (1970)

US studio albums (1964-70)	Stay Awhile/I Only Want to Be with You (1964) · Dusty (1964) · Ooooooweeee!!! (1965) · You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (1966) · The Look of Love (1967) · Dusty in Memphis (1969) · A Brand New Me (1970)

Studio albums (1972-95)	See All Her Faces (1972) · Cameo (1973) · Longing (1974) · It Begins Again (1978) · Living Without Your Love (1979) · White Heat (1982) · Reputation (1990) · A Very Fine Love (1995)

Other	Discography