- The Best of Dolly Parton
Infobox Album |
Name = The Best Of Dolly Parton
Type =Compilation album
Artist =Dolly Parton
Released = November 1970
Recorded = Compilation
Genre = Country
Length =
Label =RCA
Producer = Bob Ferguson
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4263mpb39f8o link]
*Robert Christgau (A-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=dolly+parton link]
Last album = "A Real Live Dolly " (1970)
This album = "The Best of Dolly Parton" (1971)
Next album = "Joshua (1971)"The Best of Dolly Parton" is a compilation album by
Dolly Parton , released in November 1970.Album Information
Featuring much of her early
RCA material, the compilation album included the biggest hit she'd had to that point, her cover of Jimmie Rodgers' "Mule Skinner Blues ", which peaked at #3 on the U.S. country charts in early 1970. The recording was exclusive to this album - the other tracks were previously released on other albums."The Best of Dolly Parton" was released just three years after Parton signed with the label and thus features several songs that were not single releases, "Down From Dover", "Gypsy Joe and Me", "Just the Way I Am", and the gospel standard "How Great Thou Art".
The album is occasionally confused with the 1975 RCA release"
Best of Dolly Parton ". (Sometimes the albums are differentiated by their being referred to as "Best of...Volume I" and "Best of...Volume II") and the 2007 compilation album "The Very Best of Dolly Parton "."
Mule Skinner Blues " earned Parton her first everGrammy nomination for Best Female Country Vocal.Track listing
#
Mule Skinner Blues (Jimmie Rodgers) 3:10
# Down From Dover (Dolly Parton ) 3:42
# My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy (Dolly Parton ) 3:27
# In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) (Dolly Parton ) 2:46
# Gypsy, Joe, and Me (Dolly Parton ) 3:07
#In the Ghetto (Mac Davis ) 2:46
# Just Because I'm a Woman (Dolly Parton ) 3:01
# Daddy Come and Get Me (Dolly Parton , Dorothy Jo Hope) 2:59
#How Great Thou Art (Carl Boberg ) 3:27
# Just the Way I Am (Dolly Parton ) 2:27Chart position
External links
* [http://www.dollyon-line.com/archives/albums/bestof70/index.shtml The Best of Dolly Parton at Dolly Parton On-Line]
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