The Great Pretender (Dolly Parton album)

Infobox Album |
Name = The Great Pretender
Type = Album
Artist = Dolly Parton


Released = January, 1984
Recorded = 1983
Genre = Country
Length = 35:44
Label = RCA
Producer = Val Garay
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7ueyxdab8olg link]
Last album = "Burlap & Satin" (1983)
This album = "The Great Pretender" (1984)
Next album = "Rhinestone (film soundtrack)" (1984)

The Great Pretender is a Dolly Parton album, released in January 1984 and comprised of covers of hits from the 1950s and 1960s. The first single, a remake of The Drifters' 1960 hit "Save the Last Dance for Me" was a top ten country single for Parton in early 1984 and came close to making the pop Top 40 as well (#45). Dolly Parton's cover of the 1965 Petula Clark hit "Downtown" was the album's second single. The title song was originally a hit for The Platters in 1956.

Track listing

# Save the Last Dance for Me
# I Walk the Line
# Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There is a Season)
# Downtown
# Elusive Butterfly
# She Don't Love You Like I Love You
# We'll Sing in the Sunshine
# I Can't Help Myself
# We Had it All
# The Great Pretender

External links

* [http://www.dollyon-line.com/archives/albums/greatpre/index.shtml The Great Pretender at Dolly Parton On-Line]