The title of this two CD set one of a plethora of Dusty Springfield compilations to have appeared since the late ´80s is a lot more ambitious than its actual content. There´s not a chance that 38 songs any 38 songs could truly encompass the actual Dusty Springfield story, but as a marketing concept it isn´t bad, linking a strong and slightly quirky body of three dozen songs with a booklet that´s OK on text and a lot stronger on pictures. The track list includes three songs by her early folk-based trio the Springfields "Island of Dreams," "Say I Won´t Be There," and "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" which show some of that group´s range, and the second disc ends with four tracks from her later Sony Music catalog, which have their own virtues, even if they aren´t as well known to most fans. That leaves 31 songs representing her main body of music for Philips and Atlantic, and the emphasis is clearly on her ´6