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I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

"I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself"
Dusty Springfield – I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself.jpg
Single by Dusty Springfield
from the album Dusty
B-side "My Colouring Book"
Released 1964
Format 7"
Genre Pop
Length 3:01
Label Philips
Writer(s) Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Producer(s) Johnny Franz
Dusty Springfield singles chronology
"All Cried Out"
(1964)
"I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself"
(1964)
"Guess Who"
(1964)
"I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself"
Single by Dionne Warwick
from the album Here Where There Is Love
B-side "In Between the Heartaches"
Released 1966
Format 7" Vinyl
Recorded August 1966
Genre Pop, soul
Length 2:50
Label Scepter
Writer(s) Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Producer(s) Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Dionne Warwick singles chronology
"Trains Boats and Planes"
(1966)
"I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself"
(1966)
"The Beginning of Loneliness"/
"Another Night"
(1966)
"I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself"
Single by Marcia Hines
from the album Shining
A-side "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself"
B-side "Trilogy”
Format single
Genre Funk music, Soul music, Pop music
Length 3:08
Label Wizard Records
Writer(s) Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Producer(s) Robie Porter
Marcia Hines singles chronology
"From the Inside"
(1975)
"I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself/ Trilogy"
(1976)
""Don't Let the Grass Grow" / "You Gotta Let Go""
(1976)
"I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself"
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Single by The White Stripes
from the album Elephant
Released September 2003
Format CD, 7", DVD
Recorded April 2003
Genre Alternative rock, garage rock, blues rock
Length 2:46
Label XL Recordings
Writer(s) Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Producer(s) Jack White
The White Stripes singles chronology
"Seven Nation Army"
(2003)
"I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself"
(2003)
"The Hardest Button to Button"
(2003)

"I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

"I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" was first recorded by Tommy Hunt in a session produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, with Burt Bacharach arranging and conducting. It was released as single Scepter 1236 (B-side "And I Never Knew") in May 1962, but did not chart. The song served as the title track for Hunt's sole album release on Scepter released in April 1963. The success in the UK of the Dusty Springfield version of "I Just Don't Know..." in the summer of 1964 led to Scepter's re-releasing the original, at which time it reached the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart in Billboard with a #119 peak. It would appear however that the first version of this song to be recorded was not by Hunt but by Chuck Jackson also in 1962. Jackson's version was shelved and remained unreleased until it appeared on a 1984 compilation on the Kent record label called "Mr. Emotion". According to the sleeve notes of that album, Tommy Hunt's vocals were substituted for Jackson's whilst the original backing track was retained.

Dusty Springfield recorded "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" in a session at Olympic Studios in Westminster with production credited to Philips Records owner Johnny Franz - although Springfield later stated her solo Philips tracks were self-produced - and arranged by Ivor Raymonde who conducted his orchestra; personnel on the session included Big Jim Sullivan on guitar and Bobby Graham on drums. Springfield, whose first solo recordings had included covers of the Bacharach/David compositions "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and "Wishin' and Hopin' " - had brought back "I Just Don't Know..." from an overnight trip to New York City where she met up with Bacharach in February 1964.


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