 Another reported candidate for a role as Springfield was Madonna in a TV film project.Universal Pictures scheduled another biopic with "The West Wing"s Kristin Chenoweth in the starring role, however, according to Chenoweth, in January 2012, "[w]e had a script that needed a lot of work" and she did not know where the project was up to.In 1970 US jazz singer-pianist, Blossom Dearie, recorded a tribute song, "Dusty Springfield", on her album, "That's Just the Way I Want to Be" – it was co-written by Dearie, Tanega (Springfield's then-partner) and Jim Council.