Goldie - Goin`Back ( original version pre- Dusty Springfield )

[tomsmusicforallofyou]

This version is the original release, 1966 was the year, several weeks before the late great Dusty Springfield release. I don't think you can really compare the styles of the two versions. I have listened to this song for most of my life, and think Goldies version is by far better with its sweeping melody in the opening and dramatic ending. Goldies version just makes ya feel good.

[MaiHarinder]

The singing and execution of this are really good, but the final lyrics that Dusty sings are much better. After all the many recordings of this, it remains Dusty's song.

[tiddler61]

Wow!, i've never heard this version, I remember apparently carole king getting it pulled, but this is a great version, different from dusty & the byrds , didn't know it was available so many thanks for posting it

[bopava]

This version is great. I have never heard it before, only being familiar with the versions by Dusty and the Byrds. Great post, thanks!

[Harmonicajello]

I like Dusty's version, i dig The Byrd's version and i love Goldie's too. She starts out all sensitive, soft, and i melt when she turns up a gear, at 01:18, to use a throaty growl. She puts her stamp on the number. Such a shame she doesn't get the credit she deserves for her talented cover of this great song.

[thegoldie202]

Produced by the Rolling Stones producer....Andrew Loog Oldham

[marcusbewley1]

this is really a great version, very well done, music as well as the lyrics, I think this would have been a big hit ,if it was left un pulled

Both this, and Dustys song is very good, and both will appeal to different people, as they have got totally different soul to them

my self, I love both of them, Dustys, almost brings tears to your eyes, its so haunting, Genyas, because of its more up tempo pop sound,

thanks for uploading, just make sure the Infamous You Tube sniffer leaves it alone

[soulhoney56]

Lovely !!!

[BlackMonk66]

It's a measure of how strong the song is that there can be three great and very different versions of it recorded so close together-this, Dusty, and The Byrds. I wonder why Oldham tried to change the lyrics; looking for a cut of the royalties, perhaps? He ruined my favorite line in the song, about the skipping rope to lend. The Byrds did, too, but that's more understandable, since boys generally don't play jump rope.

[pkappel006]

roger mcguin was very smart......byrds were STEP ABOVE ALL

[erichclow]

ELTON JOHN when asked what song he wants played at his funeral, he named this song, GOING BACK, the Dusty Springfield version ....

[hunkhk]

love this version its very soulful and thank you for the time effort in putting the 45 covers together a few memories there ... cannot compare this with dusty no need to both are good in their own right and we cannot change the hand of time and the path that destiny took i'm gonna listen again I like it

[gassygoon]

It's Genya Ravan , then known as Goldie of Goldie and The Gingerbreads. It was a solo single. Word is that Dusty wanted this song badly and had Goldie's version pulled before it got airplay. Dusty did it, as did The Byrds and others. I do like Genya 's [Goldie's] version.

[blackkats]

gassy...for the "record", it is well documented that the group changed a few of the original lyrics, intentionally or not, and this version HAD to be pulled. Dusty never had such power to "pull" a record, nor would she have. Dust not only was spot on in her version, but followed all of Carole's original lyrics.

[gassygoon]

I like both Dusty's and Goldie's -[ Genya Ravan ]. Dusty's is sensitive and soulful. Goldie's is soulful, with that loudmouth New York attitude that she possessed.

[midnightcandle]

good but not great. dusty had it nailed.

[Andrewsmate]

This version and dusty's are a bit like a sister and her cousin; This is more pop, Dusty's more melancholic smooth. Love both, just like my own sister and cousin.

[petclark1]

She did a damn good job on this. I adore Dusty, but this is VERY good. Thanks for posting this great version.

[djdeitch]

Nice...but its not Dusty !!!,.ktf.

[Nicklas4500]

Interesting, I like it. Not as much as Dusty's but good in a different way.

[hildaquinn]

perfer dusty singing the song

[mrdee11091]

groovy sound on this one liked it