Dusty Springfield market, scoring 18 singles in the "Billboard" Hot 100 from 1964 to 1970 including six in the top 20. The music press considers her an iconic figure of the Swinging Sixties. Quentin Tarantino caused a revival of interest in her music in 1994 by including "Son of a Preacher Man" in the "Pulp Fiction" soundtrack, which sold over three million copies. In that same year, in the documentary, "Dusty Springfield: Full Circle", guests of her 1965 "Sound of Motown" show credited Springfield's efforts with popularising US soul music in the UK. In 2008, country/blues singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne recorded a tribute
Dusty Springfield as a tax accountant and consultant. Her mother came from an Irish family, originally from Tralee, County Kerry, that included a number of journalists. Springfield was brought up in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire until the early 1950s, and later lived in Ealing. She attended St Anne's Convent School, Northfields, a traditional all-girl school. The comfortable middle-class upbringing was disturbed by dysfunctional tendencies in the family; her father's perfectionism and her mother's frustrations would sometimes result in food-throwing incidents. Springfield and her brother were both prone to food-throwing as adults. She was given the nickname "Dusty" for playing football with boys in