The Tracks of My Tears My Tears" was a number 2 hit on the "Billboard" R&B chart, and it reached number 16 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. Belatedly released in the UK in 1969, it became a Top Ten hit that summer, reaching number 9 (the UK release was credited to "Smokey Robinson and the Miracles"). This song is considered to be among the finest recordings of The Miracles, and it sold over one million records within two years, making it The Miracles' fourth million-selling record. The Miracles can be seen performing "The Tracks of My Tears" on their 2006 Motown DVD release, "The Miracles'
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said received positive reviews including one from the Los Angeles Times which stated that "the piece is vintage Dick, fluctuating between the inventive and the paranoiac." On February 1, 2004, "Variety" announced that Utopia Pictures & Television had acquired the rights to produce adaptations of three of Dick's novels: "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said", "VALIS" and "Radio Free Albemuth". In 2007, The Halcyon Company acquired the first-look rights to Dick's works, and in May 2009 they announced that after "Terminator Salvation" (2009), they would next adapt "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said". The book is referenced in 2001 film "