Susan Barrett - What's It Gonna Be

Susan Barrett - What's It Gonna Be

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• Susan
• Barrett
• What's
• It
• Gonna
• Be
• Dusty
• Springfield
• Barbara
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[fannycraddock99]

I need your help please. Do you know the actual release date of this version? Thanks.

[Xpinger]

I didn't know myself, so i searched on the Net but cannot find a specific date other than the year of release being 1967 the same year as Dusty's version was released, but i don't know which came first?

[mrrk]

I think Dusty Springfield's version has a better beat and vocals.

[moodysoulwoman]

Dustys version any time..far superior

[cubwithnoname]

@mrrk totally agree. it's my favourite Dusty track.

[patrictic]

Susie B all the way!!

Better production, bassline.....

[fannycraddock99]

@leigy Did Susan release her version around late Aug 1967? She would have had to record it prior to 27th July but there is no proof either way. Given what we know I'm prepared to give it to Dusty by a whisker but I doubt we will never know for sure unless someone can access the RCA recording logs!

[fannycraddock99]

@leigy This would have been a requirement as a recording of the song had yet to be released. (Goin' Back is a text book case.) Of course it's not a 100% certainty.

Dusty finished recording 'What's It Gonna Be' on 27th July & it was released on 22nd Sept 1967. Susan Barrett's version was issued on RCA 9296 but I don't know when. However Jefferson Airplane's single 'Ballad Of You And Me And Pooneil' was issued on RCA 9297 and that entered the Billboard Hot 100 on 2nd Sept 1967.

[fannycraddock99]

@leigy Hi again. Right this what was discovered by Dusty historian Paul Howes.

The jury's still out as to whose version came first. However Paul did say that as Jerry Ragovoy produced Dusty's recording of his own song, it's a fair assumption that it was to Dusty that he first gave the song and that she was therefore the first to record it. He added that presumably Ragovoy and his publishers would not have given authorisation for the release of the Barrett version ahead of Dusty’s.

[fannycraddock99]

@leigy Hi. Actually Dusty's version was recorded BEFORE Susan's. I have done a lot of research into the recording archives of both artists. Plus the writers personally offered it to Dusty. I'm away from home right now so don't have all the details to hand. So Dusty's is indeed the ORIGINAL version.

[leigy]

@fannycraddock99 By a whisker? Susan Barrett's version was released MONTHS before Dusty Springfield's version.

[CharziiBabyy22]

IN THE FINAL ... IT WAS DUSTY ON PENS 5 -4 ... SORRY SUSAN .. SOMEONE HAD TO COME SECOND ....