'What the hell am I doing? I'm going out with a kid.). Chart performance Weekly charts Year-end charts Dusty Springfield version "How Can I Be Sure" was covered by British singer Dusty Springfield and released as a non-LP single in September 1970. It was rumoured that this recording and single release may have been prompted by her well received performance of the song on the Des O'Connor Show in May 1970. Dusty was hopeful that this single would fare better than her then-recent American recordings which were met with relative indifference in the UK (aside from the US and UK Top 10 hit "Son of a Preacher Man"). Despite several promotional television and radio appearances and glowing reviews from the press, the single only spent one week in the UK Top 40 and only four weeks total on the chart. The song was issued specifically for the British market and would not be issued in America until the release of The Dusty Springfield Anthology in 1997. Track listing Side A: "How Can I Be Sure" (2:47) Side B: "Spooky" (2:44) "Spooky" is a cover of the Classics IV hit and was recorded in January 1968 but left unused for almost three years until it featured as the B-side to this single. Charts David Cassidy version Background In 1972 "How Can I Be Sure" was recorded for the album Rock Me Baby by David Cassidy (David Cassidy quote:) "Eddie Brigati and Felix Cavaliere [were] two of the great musical influences of my teenage years [when] I thought [the Rascals] were just about the best American pop band...[That song] brought back so many memories of that [time] for me." (Another Rascals hit, the Cavaliere/Brigati composition "I've Been Lonely Too Long", was also remade by Cassidy for Rock Me Baby; concurrent with the album's recording, Cassidy's producer Wes Farrell would acquire ownership of the entire Rascals song catalogue.) Released as the album's first single, "How Can I Be Sure" became the second of Cassidy's three Top 30 solo hits on the Billboard Hot 100 with a peak of #25, Cassidy's third Top 30 hit (and fifth and final Top 40 hit) being "Lyin' to Myself" eighteen years later in 1990. On the Billboard Easy Listening chart "How Can I Be Sure" peaked at #3. "How Can I Be Sure" would afford Cassidy a #1 hit on both the Irish Singles Chart and (for