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
Billy Ray Thunder a good fit. He tried out for the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys, without making the team in either case. After a short stint at the University of Akron Billy Ray found his true calling, quite by accident. Billy Ray's connection with horses goes all the way back through his father, who was a local expert on horses. When his stepbrother, Anthony Winfield, invited him to a rodeo in Georgia, where he was going to do some bull riding, Billy Ray had to check it out. African Americans left the South and an agrarian lifestyle in a series of