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
Dusty Springfield Tanega (Springfield's then-partner) and Jim Council. UK singer-songwriter David Westlake on his 2002 release, "Play Dusty for Me", "fêted [Springfield] in both the album title and opening title track". US singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne's tenth studio album "Just a Little Lovin'" (2008) was issued as a tribute. In 2012, a biographical jukebox musical titled "Forever Dusty" opened Off-Broadway in New York City at New World Stages. The production starred Kirsten Holly Smith as Springfield. Smith also co-wrote the book of the musical. In 2015, Springfield was named by Equality Forum as one of their 31 Icons of the 2015 LGBT History