Hello, I'm Dolly

Infobox Album |
Name = Hello, I'm Dolly
Type = Album
Artist = Dolly Parton


Released = July 1967
Recorded = 1967, Nashville
Genre = Country music
Length = 29:14
Label = Monument
Producer = Fred Foster
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4le67ui0h0jw]
Last album =
This album = "Hello, I'm Dolly" (1967)
Next album = "Just Because I'm a Woman (1968)

"Hello, I'm Dolly" was Dolly Parton's 1967 debut album.

Album Information

Parton had previously contributed tracks to a 1963 Kitty Wells / Patsy Cline tribute album, but "Hello, I'm Dolly" represented her first full-length album. It contained Parton's hits "Dumb Blonde" (written by Curly Putman) and "Something Fishy" (Parton-penned), both of which reached the top twenty on the U.S. country singles charts, and the album itself reached #11 on the country albums chart, a remarkable achievement, considering that Parton was largely an unknown at that point.

The album (along with its two hit singles, which received a considerable amount of airplay) is largely credited with bringing Parton to the attention of Porter Wagoner, who, in late 1967, would invite Parton to join his band and appear on his weekly television show.

The album contains Parton's versions of three songs she wrote that were already hits for others by the time her debut album appeared, "Put it Off Until Tomorrow" (a hit for Bill Phillips), "Fuel to the Flame" which was a hit for Skeeter Davis, and "I'm in No Condition" which made the charts by Hank Williams Jr. although it was not a major hit.

Though she released a number of singles during her two-year tenure with Monument (1965-67)," Hello, I'm Dolly" was her only original album released during her time with the label. Shortly after its release, she joined Porter Wagoner's organization (appearing on his road show and his weekly syndicated television series), and signed with his label RCA.

Monument released an album of unreleased/non LP Parton tracks, "As Long as I Love", in 1970 and in 1972 that album and this one were combined for the double LP set "The World of Dolly Parton". In 1975, that collection was reissued as "Hello, I'm Dolly / As Long As I Love"; in 1978, Monument released "In the Beginning", a single album of selected Parton tracks on the label.

Track listing

#"Dumb Blonde" (Curly Putman)
#"Your Ol' Handy Man" (Dolly Parton
#"I Don't Wanna Throw Rice" (Dolly Parton, Bill Owens)
#"Put It Off Until Tomorrow" (Dolly Parton, Bill Owens)
#"I Wasted My Tears" (Dolly Parton, Bill Owens)
#"Something Fishy" (Dolly Parton)
#"Fuel To The Flame" (Dolly Parton, Bill Owens)
#"The Giving And The Taking" (Dolly Parton, Bill Owens)
#"I'm In No Condition" (Dolly Parton)
#"The Company You Keep" (Dolly Parton, Bill Owens)
#"I've Lived My Life" (Lola Jean Dillon)
#"The Little Things" (Dolly Parton, Bill Owens)
#"If Cupid Had a Heart" (Dolly Parton, Bill Owens)

Chart position

External links

* [http://www.dollyon-line.com/archives/albums/helloimd/index.shtml Hello, I'm Dolly at Dolly Parton On-Line]