Nashville, TN (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - 21 No 1 Country hits: "Joshua," "Jolene," "I Will Always Love You," "Please Don't Stop Loving Me" (with Porter Wagoner), "Love Is Like A Butterfly," "The Bargain Store," "It's All Wrong, But It's All Right," "Here You Come Again," "Heartbreaker," "I Really Got The Feeling," "You're The Only One," "Starting Over Again," "Old
Flames Can't Hold A Candle To You," "9 To 5," "But You Know I Love You," "
Islands In The Stream" (with Kenny Rogers), "Tennessee Homesick Blues," "Think About Love," "Why'd You Come In Here Lookin' Like That," "Yellow Roses," "Rockin' Years" (with Ricky Van Shelton)
11 Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton duets: "Last Thing On My Mind," "Holdin' On To Nothin'," "We'll Get Ahead Someday," "Jeannie's Afraid Of The Dark," "Just Someone That I Used To Know," "Tomorrow Is Forever," "Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man," "Better Move It On Home," "Together Always," "Lost Forever In Your Kiss," "Please Don't Stop Loving Me"
60-page full-color booklet includes rare photography and memorabilia, plus liner notes by Laura Cantrell and by Holly George-Warren
Available at both physical and digital retail outlets starting October 27, 2009, through RCA Nashville/Legacy
Available for pre-order at www.shopdolly.com
"A friend recently asked me to suggest some Dolly albums to purchase. I answered, 'Which Dolly do you want?' for few artists, country or otherwise, have careers as deep and diverse as Dolly Parton... The kind of art Dolly Parton makes takes a great faith, and spreads the good word. It is life affirming, whether your preference is for the Dolly of 'Jolene,' or the Dolly of 'Islands In The Stream,' or the Dolly of 'Eagle When She Flies'."
- from the liner notes introduction written by Laura Cantrell
"If there were a Mount Rushmore of American song, the face of Dolly Parton would be front and center - and the sculpture would be located in the Great Smoky Mountains, her childhood home and the inspiration behind much of this collection."
- from the liner notes essay written by Holly George-Warren
If the image of Dolly Parton (b. 1946) was indeed to be carved in stone atop a great mountain in her native East Tennessee hills, it would be a worthy honor among the hundreds of honors and awards she has already received - for her accomplishments over the past 50 years as a singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, worldwide touring artist, Hollywood actor and tv personality, Broadway entrepreneur, author, amusement theme park owner, celebrated philanthropist, and more.
Not the least of those accomplishments is her litany of hit songs and signature compositions spanning five distinct decades - in fact, Dolly Parton is distinguished for having charted at least one Top 5 country hit in each of those decades (from the '60s to the '00s). She has also charted at least one No 1 country hit (if not a dozen) in each decade from the '70s to the '00s: "Joshua," "Jolene," "I Will Always Love You," "Love Is Like A Butterfly," "Here You Come Again," and many more in the '70s; "Starting Over Again," the Grammy Award-winning "9 To 5," "Islands In The Stream" (with Kenny Rogers), "Tennessee Homesick Blues," "Why'd You Come In Here Lookin' Like That," and many more in the '80s; "Rockin' Years" (with Ricky Van Shelton) in 1991; and "When I Get Where I'm Going" (with Brad Paisley) in 2005.
Now a unique new honor comes her way with the simply-titled DOLLY, the first multi-CD, multi-label deluxe box set compilation ever to represent her life's work, comprising 99 songs over four CDs. DOLLY will be available at all physical and digital retail outlets starting October 27th through RCA Nashville/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT. The set is also available for pre-order at www.shopdolly.com.
The elegant package designed for DOLLY houses a full-color 60-page booklet with never-before-seen photographs and rare memorabilia. A brief and loving introduction has been written by Nashville-bred singer-songwriter Laura Cantrell. An extensive 5,000-word biographical essay follows, by ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award-winning writer-editor-producer-lecturer Holly George-Warren. Her recent books include Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry; The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The First 25 Years; and The Road to Woodstock (with Michael Lang). She has written liner notes for dozens of rock and country anthologies and box sets, many of them on Legacy, including June Carter Cash's Keep On The Sunny Side: Her Life in Music (2005), Johnny Cash at Madison Square Garden (2002) and the reissue of Uncle Tupelo's Still Feel Gone (2003).
Earlier this year, in March 2009, one week prior to the eagerly-anticipated Broadway opening of 9 To 5: The Musical at the Marriott Marquis Theatre, RCA Nashville/Legacy released a new expanded edition of 1980's 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs - with three bonus tracks, two of them previously unreleased.
DOLLY continues to explore the broad range and depth of her recording career - from the rarely-heard sides cut at age 11 for the Louisiana-based Goldband indie label, and at age 16 for Mercury in Nashville, through her whirlwind two years (and first chart records) with Monument (1965-67), her record-setting near two-decade stay with RCA Records (1967-85, underpinning her long hitmaking association with Porter Wagoner), and another near-decade at Columbia into the '90s.
In addition, seven previously unreleased tracks make their historic debuts on this box set:
� "Gonna Hurry (As Slow As I Can)" - demo circa 1957-62, co-written with her uncle Bill Owens, a formative figure in Dolly's early musical evolution;
� "Nobody But You" (with the Merry Melody Singers) - from the same 1962 Nashville sessions that produced Dolly's Mercury single "It's Sure Gonna Hurt" b/w "The Love You Gave," both songs also included on this box set;
� "I've Known You All My Life" - a virtually unknown Goffin-King song (cut by the Four Preps) from the same November 1965 sessions at Monument as "Don't Drop Out," produced and arranged by Ray Stevens;
� "Everything Is Beautiful (In Its Own Way)" - an original composition, from the fall 1969 sessions at RCA Studios Nashville for The Fairest Of Them All;
� "God's Coloring Book" - an original, thematically related to "Coat Of Many Colors," from the same April 1971 sessions which produced that LP;
� "Eugene Oregon" and "What Will Baby Be" - both original compositions, from the RCA Studios Nashville sessions of December 1972, for My Tennessee Mountain Home.
The phenomenal chart statistics that Dolly Parton has accumulated come alive on DOLLY. She is the top-ranked female (by far!) among Joel Whitburn's all-time Top 10 artists for most overall country chart hits (113), most Top 40 country hits (87), most Top 10 hits (57), most No 1 hits (25), and the most pop crossover hits (25).
Of the 99 tracks on DOLLY, one is not a Dolly Parton recording: "Put It Off Until Tomorrow" by Bill Phillips on Decca, 1965, is significant because it was the first composition by 19-year old Dolly (co-written with her uncle Bill Owens) that actually hit the charts, earning Dolly her first BMI songwriting award. This was during Dolly's first year at Monument Records, when owner Fred Foster was trying to position her as a teen pop star with her first couple of singles, "Busy Signal," and "Don't Drop Out" ("a kind of 'Leader Of The Pack' meets 'He's A Rebel'," writes Holly George-Warren). Dolly even appeared on American Bandstand.
Her first Monument pop singles didn't chart, but when Phillips' "Put It Off Until Tomorrow" clicked at country radio, Dolly was able to convince Foster to let her sing country music her way. The cheeky single "Dumb Blonde" (not!) was the result, followed by "Something Fishy," as Dolly scored her first two solid country chart hits. (Dolly married her husband Carl during this period as well, in 1966.) It was the success of those two songs that got the attention of RCA Victor country star Porter Wagoner. After six years as Porter's "girl singer" partner on his syndicated tv show, the popular Norma Jean was getting married and retiring, and needed to be replaced. Porter offered Dolly a $60,000 annual salary to join him on tv. Along with their duets on the show, RCA wanted Porter and Dolly to record together. Dolly was reluctantly forced to leave Monument, but the RCA deal immediately hit paydirt in 1967, with the duet version of folksinger Tom Paxton's "Last Thing On My Mind."
More than 20 of Porter and Dolly's duets hit the country chart - and 11 of them are featured on DOLLY:
� 1967: "Last Thing On My Mind";
� 1968: "Holdin' On To Nothin'," "We'll Get Ahead Someday," "Jeannie's Afraid Of The Dark";
� 1969: "Just Someone That I Used To Know";
� 1970: "Tomorrow Is Forever," "Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man";
� 1971: "Better Move It On Home";
� 1972: "Together Always," "Lost Forever In Your Kiss";
� 1974: "Please Don't Stop Loving Me."
At the same time, Porter was overseeing Dolly's RCA recording sessions, though (as Holly George-Warren notes) he did not receive production credit on the albums, even though he was running the show. This was also the start of Dolly's most prolific years as a songwriter, as she applied her uncommon touch to stories of fallen women ("False Eyelashes"), free spirits ("Just The Way I Am"), her own hardscrabble life back in the mountains ("In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)"), a betrayed woman gone mad due to her cheating husband, who then has her locked up in a mental institution ("Daddy Come And Get Me"), and many other colorful characters.
Dolly became a core RCA artist who knew that the sun was beginning to set on her partnership with Porter. She won her first No 1 hit in 1970, "Joshua"; her second No 1 in 1973, "Jolene" (No 217 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"); and her third No 1 in 1974, the all-time goldmine, "I Will Always Love You" (her affectionate way of giving Porter notice of what was to come). Porter continued to oversee Dolly's sessions (without producer credit) until 1976, when she finally released her first self-produced LP, New Harvest...First Gathering (with "Light Of A Clear Blue Morning," "You Are," and "Applejack").
Starting in 1977, Dolly's second decade at RCA brought some of the biggest hits in American music, as she regularly crossed over to the pop and Adult Contemporary charts: "It's All Wrong, But It's All Right," "Here You Come Again," "Heartbreaker," "I Really Got The Feeling," "You're The Only One," 'Starting Over Again," "Old Flames Can't Hold A Candle To You," "9 To 5," "But You Know I Love You," "Islands In The Stream" (with Kenny Rogers), "Tennessee Homesick Blues," "Think About Love," and many others.
Into the '80s, Dolly established herself as a formidable actor as well, with critically acclaimed movie performances in 9 To 5 (1980, for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy); The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982, and another Golden Globe nomination); Rhinestone (1984); and Steel Magnolias (1989).
Dolly signed with Columbia Records in 1987, and went on to record five albums for the label: Rainbow (1987); White Limozeen (1989, with consecutive No 1 hits, "Why'd You Come In Here Lookin' Like That" and "Yellow Roses," along with "Time For Me To Fly" and "He's Alive"); Eagle When She Flies (1991, with the No 1 duet, "Rockin' Years" with Ricky Van Shelton, "Eagle When She Flies," and "Silver And Gold"); Slow Dancing with the Moon (1993, with "Romeo"); and Something Special (1995).
Inducted into the National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001, Dolly Parton went on to receive the Living Legend Medal from the Library of Congress in 2004, and the National Medal of Arts from President Bush in 2005. In 2006, she was celebrated alongside fellow honorees Zubin Mehta, Steven Spielberg, Smokey Robinson and Andrew Lloyd Webber at the Kennedy Center Honors, for her lifetime of contributions to the arts. She adds these honors to the seven Grammy Awards, 11 Country Music Association (CMA) Awards, nine Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards, and countless other Billboard, Cashbox and Record World, Peoples Choice, American Music Awards, BMI Awards, and more that she has won.
Holly George-Warren quotes from the memoir, Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business (HarperCollins, 1994): "Without a doubt, songwriting is my greatest source of joy and the best outlet for my creativity." Ms. George-Warren then sums up: "Listening to this musical autobiography, we are grateful for Dolly Parton's tenacious dedication to her craft."
DOLLY
(RCA Nashville/Legacy 88697 48086 2)
Disc One
Title Chart From album or detail Label Record
1. Puppy Love - single Goldband 1957
2. Girl Left Alone - single Goldband 1957
3. * Gonna Hurry (As Slow As - demo - - I Can)
4. It's Sure Gonna Hurt - single w/Merry Melody Singers Mercury 2/25/62
5. The Love You Gave - single w/Merry Melody Singers Mercury 2/25/62
6. * Nobody But You - w/Merry Melody Singers - 2/25/62
7. Busy Signal - single Monument 6/24/65
8. Don't Drop Out - single Monument 11/15/65
9. * I've Known You All My Life - single - 11/15/65
10. Put It Off Until Tomorrow CNo 6 Put It Off Until Tomorrow Decca 6/22/65 (by Bill Phillips)
11. Dumb Blonde CNo 24 single Monument 9/23/66
12. Something Fishy CNo 17 single Monument 9/23/66
13. I Couldn't Wait Forever - As Long As I Love Monument 9/5/67
14. I'm Not Worth The Tears - As Long As I Love Monument 9/5/67
15. P Last Thing On My Mind CNo 7 Just Between You And Me RCA 10/11/67
16. False Eyelashes - Just Because I'm A Woman RCA 12/20/67
17. The Bridge - Just Because I'm A Woman RCA 12/20/67
18. Just Because I'm A Woman CNo 17 Just Because I'm A Woman RCA 12/18/67
19. P Holdin' On To Nothin' CNo 7 Just The Two Of Us RCA 1/31/68
20. P We'll Get Ahead Someday CNo 5 Just The Two Of Us RCA 5/22/68
21. P Jeannie's Afraid Of The Dark CNo 51 Just The Two Of Us RCA 5/21/68
22. In The Good Old Days (When CNo 25 In The Good Old Days (When RCA 9/9/68 Times Were Bad) Times Were Bad)
23. Daddy CNo 40 My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy RCA 9/9/68
24. Evening Shade - My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy RCA 5/21/69
25. Gypsy, Joe And Me - My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy RCA 5/21/69
26. My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy CNo 45 My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy RCA 5/20/69
Disc Two
Title Chart From album or detail Label Rec.
1. Just The Way I Am - The Fairest Of Them RCA 10/31/69
2. Down From Dover - The Fairest Of Them RCA 9/4/69
3. * Everything Is Beautiful (In Its - 1969 Own Way)
4. Daddy Come And Get Me CNo 40 The Fairest Of Them RCA 10/31/69
5. P Just Someone That I Used To CNo 5 Porter Wayne & Dolly Rebecca RCA 4/1/69 Know
6. P Tomorrow Is Forever CNo 9 Porter Wayne & Dolly Rebecca RCA 12/2/69
7. P Daddy Was An Old Time CNo 7 Once More RCA 4/21/70 Preacher Man
8. Comin' For To Carry Me Home CNo 23 single RCA 1-2/71
9. The Golden Streets Of Glory - The Golden Streets Of Glory RCA 5/11/70
10. Mule Skinner Blues (Blue CNo 3 The Best Of Dolly Parton RCA 5/4/70 Yodel No. 8)
11. Joshua CNo 1, HNo 108 Joshua RCA 1970
12. Daddy's Moonshine Still - Joshua RCA 1-2/71
13. The Last One To Touch Me - Joshua RCA 2/11/71
14. P Better Move It On Home CNo 7 The Best Of Porter Wagoner RCA 12/14/70 And Dolly Parton
15. Coat Of Many Colors CNo 4 Coat Of Many Colors RCA 4/71
16. Traveling Man CNo 20 Coat Of Many Colors RCA 4/16/71
17. My Blue Tears CNo 17 Coat Of Many Colors RCA 4/16/71
18. Here I Am - Coat Of Many Colors RCA 4/71
19. * God's Coloring Book - 4/71
20. Will He Be Waiting - Touch Your Woman RCA 12/71-1/72
21. Touch Your Woman CNo 6 Touch Your Woman RCA 12/71-1/72
22. P Together Always CNo 14 Together Always RCA 5/1/72
23. P Lost Forever In Your Kiss CNo 9 Together Always RCA 9/30/71
24. My Tennessee Mountain Home CNo 15 My Tennessee Mountain Home RCA 9-12/72
25. * Eugene Oregon - 12/12/72
26. * What Will Baby Be - 12/12/72
Disc Three
Title Chart From album or detail Label Rec.
1. Jolene CNo 1,HNo 60,ACNo 44 Jolene RCA 6/73
2. Early Morning Breeze - Jolene RCA 12/27/73
3. I Will Always Love You CNo 1 Jolene RCA 6/13/73
4. P Please Don't Stop Loving Me CNo 1 Porter 'N' Dolly RCA 5/24/74
5. Love Is Like A Butterfly CNo 1,ACNo 38,HNo 105 Love Is Like A Butterfly RCA 7/16/74
6. Sacred Memories - Love Is Like A Butterfly RCA 9/1/72
7. The Bargain Store CNo 1, ACNo 35 The Bargain Store RCA 12/4/74
8. On My Mind Again - The Bargain Store RCA 12/11/74
9. Kentucky Gambler - The Bargain Store RCA -
10. The Seeker CNo 2,HNo 105 Dolly RCA 12/9/74
11. We Used To CNo 9 Dolly RCA 12/9/74
12. All I Can Do CNo 3 All I Can Do RCA 2/17-18/76
13. Light Of A Clear Blue Morning CNo 11,HNo 87 New Harvest...First Gathering RCA 8/19/76
14. You Are - New Harvest...First Gathering RCA 8/20/76
15. Applejack - New Harvest...First Gathering RCA 12/10/76
16. It's All Wrong, But It's All CNo 1 Here You Come Again RCA 7/77 Right
17. Here You Come Again CNo 1,HNo 3,ACNo 2 Here You Come Again RCA 7/77
18. Two Doors Down HNo 19,ACNo 12 Here You Come Again RCA 7/77
19. Me And Little Andy - Here You Come Again RCA -
20. Heartbreaker CNo 1,HNo 37,ACNo 12 Heartbreaker RCA 3/78
21. I Really Got The Feeling CNo 1 Heartbreaker RCA 3/78
22. Baby I'm Burnin' CNo 48 Heartbreaker RCA -
23. You're The Only One CNo 1,HNo 59,ACNo 14 Great Balls Of Fire RCA 1979
24. Sweet Summer Lovin' CNo 7 Great Balls Of Fire RCA 1979
25. Starting Over Again CNo 1,HNo 36,ACNo 35 Dolly, Dolly, Dolly RCA 1979
Disc Four
Title Chart From album or detail Label Rec.
1. Old Flames Can't Hold A CNo 1 Dolly, Dolly, Dolly RCA 12/79 Candle To You
2. 9 To 5 CNo 1,HNo 1,ACNo 1 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs RCA 4/80
3. But You Know I Love You CNo 1,HNo 41,ACNo 14 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs RCA 7/80
4. Single Women CNo 8 Heartbreak Express RCA 1982
5. Heartbreak Express CNo 7 Heartbreak Express RCA 1/82
6. Do I Ever Cross Your Mind - Heartbreak Express RCA -
7. Potential New Boyfriend CNo 20 Heartbreak Express RCA -
8. Islands In The Stream (Kenny CNo 1,HNo 1,ACNo 1 Eyes That See In The Dark RCA 1983 Rogers with Dolly Parton)
9. Save The Last Dance For Me CNo 3,HNo 45,ACNo 12 The Great Pretender RCA 10/83
10. Tennessee Homesick Blues CNo 1 Rhinestone o.s. 20th Century 1984
11. God Won't Get You CNo 10 Rhinestone o.s. 20th Century 8/83
12. What A Heartache - Rhinestone o.s. 20th Century -
13. Don't Call It Love - Real Love RCA 1985
14. Think About Love CNo 1 Real Love RCA 1985
15. Why'd You Come In Here CNo 1 White Limozeen Columbia 1988 Lookin' Like That
16. Yellow Roses CNo 1 White Limozeen Columbia 1988
17. Time For Me To Fly - White Limozeen Columbia 1988
18. He's Alive - White Limozeen Columbia 1988
19. Rockin' Years (Dolly Parton CNo 1 Eagle When She Flies Columbia 1990 with Ricky Van Shelton)
20. Eagle When She Flies - Eagle When She Flies Columbia 1990
21. Silver and Gold - Eagle When She Flies Columbia 1990
22. Romeo - Slow Dancing with the Moon Columbia 1993
Key:
* indicates previously unreleased track
P indicates track recorded by Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton
Charts:
C indicates Billboard Top Country Songs chart
H indicates Billboard Hot 100 chart
AC indicates Billboard Adult Contemporary chart
