Rainbow (Dolly Parton album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Rainbow
Type = Album
Artist = Dolly Parton


Released = December 19, 1987
Recorded = 1987
Genre = Country/Pop
Length = 39:38
Label = CBS
Producer = Steve "Gold-E" Goldstein
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4lr67ul0h0j3 link]
Last album = "The Best There Is" (1987)
This album = "Rainbow" (1987)
Next album = "White Limozeen" (1989)

"Rainbow" was a Dolly Parton album from 1987, her first after switching labels to CBS Records, after nearly two decades with RCA. The original plan was for Parton to alternate between releasing pop and country albums (rather than trying to combine the two styles on each album), but due to "Rainbow"'s poor sales and tepid critical reception, the plan was quickly abandoned, and Parton more or less focussed on recording country material for the remainder of her association with CBS.

The album was among Parton's lowest charting albums to that point. It stalled at 153 on the U.S. pop albums charts and barely cracked the top twenty on the country albums charts; its first single, "The River Unbroken" missed the country top 40 entirely, stalling at # 63, and did not make the pop charts; its second single, "I Know You by Heart", a duet with Smokey Robinson, did not chart at all.

"Rainbow"'s release coincided with the launch of Parton's ill-fated 1987-88 variety show, "Dolly", and much of the music on the album was highlighted on the show.

Track listing

# The River Unbroken
# I Know You By Heart (Duet With Smokey Robinson)
# Everyday Hero
# Red Hot Screaming Love
# Make Love Work
# Could I Have Your Autograph
# Two Lovers
# Dump The Dude
# Savin' It For You
# More Than I Can Say

External links

* [http://www.dollyon-line.com/archives/albums/rainbow/index.shtml Rainbow at Dolly Parton On-Line]