Just a Little Lovin' all recorded complete as sung and played with no overdubs. The cover of "Just a Little Lovin'<nowiki>'</nowiki>" would show Lynne posed similarly to the image of Springfield on the cover of "Dusty in Memphis" (Lynne acknowledged the resemblance saying it was serendipitous), and the album featured four remakes from the Springfield album while passing over its highest-profile cut: the 1969 Top Ten hit "Son of a Preacher Man" () "I would never ever ever attempt to cut 'Son of a Preacher Man.' [Dusty Springfield] owns that." Lynne did remake the "Dusty in Memphis" number "I Don't Want to Hear It
Dusty Springfield placed among the top 25 female artists of all time by readers of "Mojo" magazine (May 1999), editors of "Q" magazine (January 2002), and a panel of artists on VH1 TV channel (August 2007). In 2008, Dusty appeared at No. 35 on the "Rolling Stone"s "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In the 1960s she topped a number of popularity polls, including "Melody Maker"s Best International Vocalist for 1966; in 1965 she was the first British singer to top the "New Musical Express" readers' polls for Female Singer, and topped that poll again in 1966, 1967, and 1969 as well