{"id":673097,"date":"2026-05-15T18:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/673097\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:22:10","slug":"just-a-little-lovin-rhino-hi-fi-reissues-dusty-springfield-cher-joni-mitchell-in-new-audiophile-pressings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/673097\/","title":{"rendered":"Just A Little Lovin’: Rhino Hi-Fi Reissues Dusty Springfield, Cher, Joni Mitchell In New Audiophile Pressings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rhino High Fidelity, the label\u2019s series of deluxe audiophile reissues, has announced a new trio of titles available today from three legendary women of song: Joni Mitchell, Cher, and the late Dusty Springfield.\u00a0 Each album has been cut from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray, pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Optimal, and packaged in sturdy, numbered \u201ctip-on\u201d gatefold jackets with new liner notes. The releases are limited to 5,000 copies each and available today, exclusively through Rhino\u2019s webstore<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joni Mitchell embraced pop on her sixth studio album, 1974\u2019s Court and Spark, while continuing to develop her jazz stylings and maintaining her singular voice. Court and Spark defined the sound of the Southern California musical landscape with appearances from Tom Scott\u2019s L.A. Express, David Crosby, Graham Nash, and even Cheech and Chong, as well as The Crusaders and fellow Canadian Robbie Robertson. The seductive lead single \u201cRaised on Robbery\u201d was followed on 45 RPM by \u201cHelp Me,\u201d perhaps the most irresistible, breezy, and melodic slice of pure pop ever released by Mitchell. It was pure Joni \u2013 no concessions to current trends, but immediately accessible to radio. \u201cHelp Me\u201d became her only U.S. top ten single and topped the AC chart, too, but the love song was far from the album\u2019s only triumph of composition, production, and arrangement from Mitchell. \u201cFree Man in Paris,\u201d an effortlessly melodic portrait of David Geffen \u201cstoking the starmaker machinery behind the popular song,\u201d struck another universal chord and reached No. 2 AC\/No. 22 Pop. Court and Spark\u00a0reflected Mitchell\u2019s many musical personalities, even paying homage to Annie Ross with the vocalese classic \u201cTwisted.\u201d\u00a0Court and Spark\u00a0reached No. 2 on the\u00a0Billboard 200 and has been certified 2x platinum. Mitchell had climbed another mountain \u2013 and did it her way.\u00a0 The new liner notes feature a Q&A with Joni.<\/p>\n

Writing for Rolling Stone in 1969, Greil Marcus commented of Dusty Springfield\u2019s Dusty in Memphis, \u201cMost white female singers in today\u2019s music are still searching for music they can call their own.\u00a0 Dusty is not searching.\u00a0 She just shows up, and she, and we, are the better for it.\u201d\u00a0 When the British chanteuse showed up in Memphis, she wasn\u2019t sure what to expect.\u00a0 \u201cI figured it would be Aretha kinds of songs\u2026much more gritty R&B,\u201d Dusty commented.\u00a0 Instead,\u00a0Dusty in Memphis served up the classy blend of pop and soul expected of Dusty \u2013 but arranged in smoking American style.\u00a0 Hence, the album produced by Jerry Wexler, Arif Mardin, and Tom Dowd opens with one of the most smoldering songs ever, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil\u2019s \u201cJust a Little Lovin\u2019,\u201d in its definitive arrangement.\u00a0 Carole King and Gerry Goffin were tapped for \u201cSo Much Love,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t Forget About Me,\u201d and two dramatic tour de forces, \u201cNo Easy Way Down\u201d and \u201cI Can\u2019t Make It Alone.\u201d\u00a0 The young Randy Newman offered \u201cJust One Smile\u201d and the powerful character study \u201cI Don\u2019t Want to Hear It Anymore,\u201d while Burt Bacharach and Hal David contributed the impressionistic \u201cIn the Land of Make Believe.\u201d\u00a0 From the pens of Michel Legrand and Alan and Marilyn Bergman came the haunting, evocative \u201cThe Windmills of Your Mind,\u201d hardly a standard selection for a southern soul album.\u00a0 The seductive atmosphere continued with Eddie Hinton and Donnie Fritts\u2019 \u201cBreakfast in Bed,\u201d but the song that put Dusty in Memphis on the map was John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins\u2019 \u201cSon of a Preacher Man.\u201d\u00a0 Springfield\u2019s smoky, sensual vocals convincingly convey the saucy lyric, and the tight band just crackles behind her.\u00a0 The match of material to artist to musicians (The Memphis Boys of American Sound Studios) and background singers (The Sweet Inspirations) achieved on Dusty in Memphis was unparalleled, and even though Dusty retreated to New York to finalize her vocals, the distinctive southern flavor was unmistakable.\u00a0 Andria Lisle provides the new liner notes.<\/p>\n

Cher\u2019s sixth album, 1969\u2019s 3614 Jackson Highway took her out of the environs of Hollywood and into Muscle Shoals, Alabama.\u00a0 Supported by the great musicians of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio including Eddie Hinton, David Hood, Roger Hawkins, Jimmy Johnson, and Barry Beckett, as well as producers Wexler, Mardin, and Dowd, it was intended to showcase a side of Cher previously unknown.\u00a0 (The title refers to the address of the studio.)\u00a0 It featured songs by Bob Dylan (\u201cTonight I\u2019ll Be Staying Here with You,\u201d \u201cI Threw It All Away,\u201d and \u201cLay Baby Lay\u201d) as well as Stephen Stills\u2019 \u201cFor What It\u2019s Worth,\u201d Otis Redding and Steve Cropper\u2019s \u201cSittin\u2019 on the Dock of the Bay,\u201d and Dr. John\u2019s \u201cI Walk on Gilded Splinters.\u201d\u00a0 Southern soul staples from Dan Penn and Chips Moman (\u201cDo Right Woman, Do Right Man\u201d) and Penn and Spooner Oldham (\u201cCry Like a Baby\u201d) were also featured.\u00a0 But despite Cher\u2019s most soul-infused singing, top-drawer arrangements, and tight band performances, the album failed to restore her commercial fortunes.\u00a0 That, of course, would come later.\u00a0 But in the years to come, 3614 Jackson Highway was re-evaluated as a high watermark in Cher\u2019s artistry as an interpretive singer.\u00a0 Rob Bowman writes the new liner notes.<\/p>\n

All three Rhino High Fidelity titles are available now directly from Rhino.com at the links below.<\/p>\n

Joni Mitchell, Court & Spark<\/a> (Asylum 7E-1001, 1974 \u2013 reissued 2026)<\/p>\n

Side One<\/p>\n

Court and Spark
\nHelp Me
\nFree Man in Paris
\nPeople\u2019s Parties
\nThe Same Situation<\/p>\n

Side Two<\/p>\n

Car on a Hill
\nDown to You
\nJust Like This Train
\nRaised on Robbery
\nTrouble Child<\/p>\n

Dusty Springfield, Dusty in Memphis<\/a> (Atlantic SD 8214, 1969 \u2013 reissued 2026)<\/p>\n

Side One<\/p>\n

Just A Little Lovin\u2019
\nSo Much Love
\nSon Of A Preacher Man
\nI Don\u2019t Want To Hear It Anymore
\nDon\u2019t Forget About Me
\nBreakfast In Bed<\/p>\n

Side Two<\/p>\n

Just One Smile
\nThe Windmills Of Your Mind
\nIn The Land Of Make Believe
\nNo Easy Way Down
\nI Can\u2019t Make It Alone<\/p>\n

Cher, 3614 Jackson Highway<\/a> (Atlantic SD 33-298, 1969 \u2013 reissued 2026)<\/p>\n

Side One<\/p>\n

For What It\u2019s Worth
\n(Just Enough to Keep Me) Hangin\u2019 On
\n(Sittin\u2019 On) The Dock of the Bay
\nTonight I\u2019ll Be Staying Here with You
\nI Threw It All Away
\nI Walk on Gilded Splinters<\/p>\n

Side Two<\/p>\n

Lay Lady Lay
\nPlease Don\u2019t Tell Me
\nCry Like a Baby
\nDo Right Woman Do Right Man
\nSave the Children<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUY NOW FROM RHINO.COM Rhino High Fidelity, the label\u2019s series of deluxe audiophile reissues, has announced a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-673097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}