Blue-eyed soul
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Blue-eyed soul is rhythm and blues and soul music performed by white artists. The term was coined in the mid-1960s, to describe white artists whose sound was similar to that of the predominantly black
The Righteous Brothers, one of the early artists most closely associated with blue-eyed soul
Steve Winwood performing with Traffic, 1969
Duffy, Welsh soul artist
Dusty Springfield
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Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, better known by her stage name Dusty Springfield, was an English singer. With her distinctive mezzo-soprano voice, she was a popular singer of blue-eyed soul,
Blue-eyed soul
…had soul-tinged pop songs, but it was the soulful vocals of Felix Cavaliere that gave them the blue-eyed soul sound. By the mid-1960s, British singers Dusty Springfield, Eric Burdon, and Tom Jones had become leading vocal stars of the emerging style. Other notable UK exponents of blue-eyed soul included the Spencer…
Green Plaque at the entrance of Ealing Fields High School in Ealing, London which Springfield, as Mary O'Brien, attended
Cashbox advertisement, 7 March 1964
Springfield in 1965
Plaque, 38–40 Aubrey Walk, London