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Summer Is Over (Dusty Springfield song)

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gives it a distinct chill." The music, she wrote, "threatens to escape the scale, paralleling, perhaps, the closely tended images of summer that threaten to slip through the singer's desperate grasp," of a vocal performance that "establishes the heroine's nightmarishly circular sense of something
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The single was released on 16 October 1964, entered the British chart on 28 October 1964, and reached the 9th position. "Summer Is Over" featured in her second
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In 2008, author and critic, Anna J. Randall, wrote that the Dusty Springfield version begins "decisively" on the "
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From 1964, until it was shut down by law in 1974, the
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Index


Single
Dusty Springfield
A-side
Label
Philips
Songwriter(s)
Tom Springfield
Clive Westlake
Producer(s)
Johnny Franz
Dusty Springfield
Tom Springfield
Clive Westlake
easy listening
country music
Frank Ifield
B-side
Buddy Holly
True Love Ways
Dusty Springfield
pop
folk
The Springfields
Ivor Raymonde
Johnny Franz
album
EP
French
down beat

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