the best songs ever

[Eric the Green]

Dusty Springfield was a great girl singer who came over to America with the Beatles invasion. Vocalists like her do a lot to shape and communicate a song, even though I don't think she was a songwriter. But she played instruments and had a unique style called blue-eyed soul that is well described in the wiki article. I chose 3 of her songs for my top 300, but my favorite was the oldie that was her first hit in Jan-Feb 1964, I Only Want to Be With You.





My two other "Academy Award-winning" picks by Dusty Springfield were from or covers of movie soundtracks:
The Look of Love (1967)
Windmills of Your Mind (1969)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusty_Springfield