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
A Girl Called Dusty multi-track master tapes no longer were to be found in the Philips Records archives, the vast majority of the tracks on the 1997 version are in mono or in some cases re-created stereo mixes using alternate vocal takes. The current CD version of "A Girl Called Dusty", which still remains in print, is consequently radically different from the original album, as produced by Johnny Franz and Springfield herself. The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Side A Side B Bonus tracks 1997 CD re-issue A Girl Called Dusty A Girl Called Dusty