    white heat is the twelfth studio album recorded by singer dusty springfield, and eleventh released. it was only released in the united states and canada. it was released because of a change in record labels; in the aftermath of the disco backlash and its ensuing dramatic drop in record sales worldwide, springfield's american label united artists records was bought out. 20th century fox records took on the project, but by the time that the album was completed and ready for release, 20th century fox had in turn been sold, bought by the us arm of the polygram conglomerate. the release date was postponed for another six months and when white heat finally came out, it had been relegated to the re-activated casablanca records, a label closely associated with disco, which in the year of 1982 didn't improve its chances of sales. springfield later stated that she was surprised that the album came out at all: "everytime i made an album, the company i'd made it for would be swallowed up. they'd fire everyone that you'd worked with and the enthusiasm would disappear with them. then i had to fire the original producer because he had put half the budget up his nose... there was a point where i began to feel that i was just some company's tax loss." to add insult to injury, the british subsidiary of polygram, a label the singer had been connected with for 25 years in various forms, declined its option to release the album in the uk; fans of springfield's in her native country consequently had to buy import copies from the us and canada. more so than her previous two albums, it begins again (1978), and living without your love (1979), and the non-album single "it goes like it goes" (1980), white heat was a distinct departure from springfield's los angeles produced adult contemporary sound, being closely identified with the new wave, synthpop sounds of the early 80's but the album arguably contains the most diverse selection of genres to be collected on any dusty springfield studio album, ranging from robbie buchanan's ballad "time and time again", gently orchestrated 
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