"I'll Try Anything" is a 1967 single by Dusty Springfield

Dusty Springfield

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienSources use both Isabel and Isobel as the spelling of her second name. OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s...

 which reached the UK Top 20 and the US Top 40.

The track was prepped at the CBS Recording Studios in New York City on 22 January 1967 in a session produced by Herb Bernstein

Herb Bernstein

- Professional Life :Bernstein arranged and produced records for many artists in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. These artists include Laura Nyro, John Denver, Joel Grey, The Four Seasons, Bob Dylan, The Monkees, Dusty Springfield, Tina Turner, The Happenings, Julie Budd, Lainie Kazan, Frankie Valli,...

. Springfield's vocal was recorded later that month at Philips Studios in London with Johnny Franz

Johnny Franz

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 acting as producer.
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"I'll Try Anything" was co-written by Mark Barkan

Mark Barkan

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 and Vic [aka Victor] Millrose. Barkan had written the hits "I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter

I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter

"I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter" is a 1962 single by Connie Francis, released in that December to peak at #18 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Cash Box Top 100...

" (Connie Francis

Connie Francis

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) and "Maybe I Know" (Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore is an American singer. She is perhaps best known for her 1963 pop hit "It's My Party", which she recorded at the age of 16. Following the hit, she became one of the most recognized teen pop singers of the 1960s.- Biography :Gore was born in New York City, New York. She was raised in...

) while Millrose had written the Gene Pitney

Gene Pitney

Eugene Francis Alan Pitney, known as Gene Pitney , was an American singer-songwriter, musician and sound engineer. Through the mid-1960s, he enjoyed success as a recording artist on both sides of the Atlantic and was among the group of early 1960s American acts who continued to enjoy hits after the...

 hit "Last Chance to Turn Around" and would later write "This Girl Is a Woman Now

This Girl Is a Woman Now

"This Girl Is a Woman Now" is a song written by Victor Millrose and Alan Bernstein and was recorded by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap for their 1969 album, The New Gary Puckett & The Union Gap Album. The song reached #2 on the Adult Contemporary chart in 1969...

" for Gary Puckett & the Union Gap

Gary Puckett & The Union Gap

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.

Since making her solo debut in 1963 with the upbeat "I Only Want to Be With You

I Only Want to Be with You

"I Only Want to Be with You" is a rock-and-roll song by Mike Hawker and Ivor Raymonde. It was the first solo single released by British singer Dusty Springfield under her long-time producer Johnny Franz...

" Springfield had subsequently shifted her musical focus to a softer sound as exemplified by her 1966 career record "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

"You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" is the title of a 1966 hit recorded by British singer Dusty Springfield which proved to be her career record reaching #1 UK and #4 US: the song subsequently charted in the UK via remakes by Elvis Presley , Guys 'n' Dolls and Denise Welch with Presley's version...

".

"I'll Try Anything" was largely a return to Springfield's original upbeat sound and might have been a more substantial hit for her somewhat earlier. However by 1967 the track had a markedly out-of-date sound
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and in its UK release peaked at #13 breaking a Top Ten streak for Springfield which had lasted for three hits.

In the US "I'll Try Anything" peaked at #40 in April 1967 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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 - with peaks in Cash Box and Record World

Record World

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of respectively #29 and #34 - making it the sixth of Springfield's ten US Top 40 solo hits.

"I'll Try Anything" reached #38 in Australia and #19 in Canada. The track had its strongest chart impact in Singapore

Singapore

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with a #6 peak in June 1967.