Sunday May 23, 2021 “Only Want to Be With You” Dusty Springfield

This was Dusty Springfield’s (Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien) first solo hit after leaving the folk group The Springfields who had just charted their biggest song “Silver Threads and Golden Needles” .  She would go on to have sixteen international top twenty singles and record twenty two albums/CDs.

After several major hit singles Dusty traveled to Memphis to record what would be her artistic high point album Dusty in Memphis. Although it did not fare well commercially it has generally been acclaimed as her best work and among the greatest albums of all time.  It would generate the hit single “Son of a Preacher Man”.  The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame...which I didn’t know even existed for albums.

Dusty has had a remarkable career with twenty one studio albums, one live album, thirty compilations, four extended plays and sixty-nine singles.  She had a big ‘comeback’ in 1987 when she teamed up with the Pet Shop Boys for the international top five song “What Have I Done to Deserve This”.

She fought a losing battle with recurring cancer and was inducted posthumously into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1999.

 Stay safe and well...and enjoy this kind of awkward performance, but still great song.

I don't know what it is that makes me love you so

I only know I never want to let you go

'Cause you started something, oh, can't you see?

That ever since we met you've had a hold on me

It happens to be true, I only want to be with you

 It doesn't matter where you go or what you do

I want to spend each moment of the day with you

Well, look what has happened with just one kiss

I never knew that I could be in love like this

It's crazy but it's true, I only want to be with you

 You stopped and smiled at me

Asked if I'd care to dance

I fell into your open arms

And I didn't stand a chance

 Now, listen, honey, I just want to be beside you everywhere

As long as we're together, honey, I don't care

'Cause you started something, oh, can't you see?

That ever since we met you've had a hold on me

No matter what you do, I only want to be with you

 Oh, you stopped and you smiled at me

Asked if I'd care to dance

I fell into your open arms

I didn't stand a chance

 Now hear me darling, I just want to be beside you everywhere

As long as we're together, honey, I don't care

'Cause you started something, oh, can't you see?

That ever since we met you've had a hold on me

No matter what you do, I only want to be with you

 I said, no matter, no matter what you do

I only want to be with you