 To boost her credibility as a soul artist, Springfield went to Memphis, Tennessee, to record "Dusty in Memphis", an album of pop and soul music with the Atlantic Records main production team.Released in 1969, it has been ranked among the greatest albums of all time by the US magazine "Rolling Stone" and in polls by VH1 artists, "New Musical Express" readers, and Channel 4 viewers.The album was also awarded a place in the Grammy Hall of Fame and in March 2020 the US Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry, which preserves audio recordings considered to be "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".