Dusty Brought Motown to the UK
Dusty Springfield introduced Motown music to a wider UK audience with her cover songs, and also by facilitating the first UK television appearances for The Temptations, The Supremes, The Miracles, and Stevie Wonder on the ‘Ready Steady Go!’ show.
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Dusty wanted to make sure that a new British audience would get to know about American soul singers who were still unknown in the UK. She knew that whenever she covered a song, on record or in concert, tons of her fans would investigate the singers to see who had written it or recorded it first. Just as the Rolling Stones lured us into the works of Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters, Dusty raised the profile of many soul singers.