Dusty Springfield "Billboard" 200, and at the time, went platinum (100,000 units) in Canada alone. "Son of a Preacher Man" helped the soundtrack album sell over 2 million copies in the US, and it reached No. 21 on the charts. During September and October 1969 Dusty hosted her third and final BBC musical variety series (her fourth variety series overall), "Decidedly Dusty" (co-hosted by Valentine Dyall). All eight episodes were later wiped from the BBC archives, and to date the only surviving footage consists of domestic audio recordings. By the start of the 1970s Dusty Springfield was a major star, though her
Reputation (Dusty Springfield album) Reputation (Dusty Springfield album) Reputation is the thirteenth studio album by British singer Dusty Springfield, and twelfth released. Issued on the Parlophone Records label in the UK and the rest of Europe in June 1990, "Reputation" was not only Springfield's first studio album in eight years at the time but also her first album to be released in her native UK since 1979's "Living Without Your Love". After a string of commercially overlooked albums through the late 1970s and early 1980s "Reputation" finally managed to resurrect Springfield's career and belatedly resulted in her being re-evaluated and recognised by both music