No Dolly Parton thread? Well then -- classic or hyperclassic?

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I found a song of hers not too long ago, called "Don't Drop Out" and it's the best Shangri-Las song they never did. It's a perfect over the top pop song that I sounds like it was recorded in the mid to late sixties. Has anyone else heard it? And if so, are there more songs by Dolly that sound anything like it?

Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 23:07 (twenty years ago) link

spittle:

hmmm. interesting. what would she leak I wonder?

bakhtin, Thursday, 13 November 2003 07:39 (twenty years ago) link

when I reviewd her last album, I talked about how she deserves, but doesn't really get the same *rockist* (i didn't use that term though) acclaim and respect as Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard have over the last decade. I concluded though:
"But then, none of those guys have their own theme park, so Dolly wins."

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 13 November 2003 14:47 (twenty years ago) link

What was it she just performed on a late night show last night or the night before? It had a great line about "red, white, blue... now I've gone colorblind."

Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

yeah i saw that, on letterman last night (last night here in nz) , what the fuck was that about. it sounded like a completely straight & v. simpleminded patriotic song but we talked all the way thru it so i mighta missed some subtleties.

duane, Friday, 14 November 2003 02:09 (twenty years ago) link

junior from junior senior was talking about a dolly parton/linda ronstadt/emmylou harris album that he loves, has anyone heard that?

minna (minna), Friday, 14 November 2003 02:22 (twenty years ago) link

love is like a butterfly....

jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 14 November 2003 02:31 (twenty years ago) link

Minna, that would be Trio -- came out in 1987. I've only heard the Phil Spector cover on it, "To Know Him is To Love Him," but it's quite lurvly.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 November 2003 02:44 (twenty years ago) link

There is also a Trio II album that came out in '99, it's also great. They cover "After The Gold Rush" and it's just a little jaw-droppingly-incredible.

teeny (teeny), Friday, 14 November 2003 02:51 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...
Getting here a little late, but I stumbled across "Little Sparrow" today. Absolutley great..

dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 29 March 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago) link

'baby i'm burning' - !!!! oh my god what a tune!!

piscesboy, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...
I bought the two blue grass albums today, and i had heard bits and peices, and some i love (silver dagger was done better by joan baez, but that might be me reading thomas mertons obsession w. it) but im bored, i dont know--i love her but this is just trying to hard.

anthony, Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Her recent live album was one of those ones I put on to put myself in a better mood, surefire, until I gave it to my step-dad, and now I want it back.

Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Little Sparrow >> Halos And Horns, so I recommend concentrating on Little Sparrow for a while. Except for "Stairway To Heaven", of course.

mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...
To Ned and the rest looking for a fantastic comp: The Essential Dolly Parton, with 37 songs, with great liner notes, remastered sound, and all the essential hits. I got it yesterday and can't stop listening it.

Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 20 August 2005 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Seconded. That is one mother of a comp

Baaderonixx on a long black leash (Fabfunk), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link

when i was in nashville a few weeks ago i drove by her old house. also saw trace atkins house but i have no idea who trace atkins is.

keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...
ok i need major help ID-ing a dolly tune.

at least, i think it's dolly.

i can't offhand remember specific lyrics, i heard it on the radio a while back.

it's one of her uptempo, rocking, likely 70's/early 80's songs.
the lyrics were somewhere like a cross between "here you come again" and "why'd you come here lookin' like that."

please help.

reo, Saturday, 10 December 2005 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link

This one?

Here you come again
Just when I’m about to make it work without you
You waltz right in the door
Just like you done before
And wrap my heart ’round your little finger
Here you come again
Just when I’m about to make it work without you
You look into my eyes
And light those dreamy eyes
And pretty soon I’m wonderin’
How I came to doubt you
All you gotta do
Is smile that smile
And there go all my defenses
Just leave it up to you
And in a little while
You’re messin’ up my mind
An’ fillin’ up my senses

Here you come again
Lookin’ better than a body
Has a right to
An’ shakin’ me up so
That all I really know
Is here you come again
An’ here I go

All you gotta do
Is smile that smile
And there go all my defenses
Just leave it up to you
And in a little while
You’re messin’ up my mind
An’ fillin’ up my senses

Here you come again
Lookin’ better than a body
Has a right to
An’ shakin’ me up so
That all I really know
Is here you come again
An’ here I go

luna (luna.c), Saturday, 10 December 2005 01:08 (eighteen years ago) link

it's not "here you come again."

it's a more uptempo, rocking song.

the lyrics that strike me as similar are pretty much "here you come again." the song i'm trying to recall has a lot of attitude in it.

i'm racking my brain.

reo, Saturday, 10 December 2005 01:13 (eighteen years ago) link

what do you people think of "down from dover"?

My friend Eric said "This is going to make your hair stand on end" and played me the record. It made my hair stand on end.

Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Saturday, 10 December 2005 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Great song, but I just can't see why Dolly would be involved with a fella from Delaware in the first place.

Trafalga, Saturday, 10 December 2005 02:55 (eighteen years ago) link

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m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 10 December 2005 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Dolly's original recording of "Down From Dover" >>>> Little Sparrow version. Also check Skeeter Davis' cover on her terrific Skeeter Sings Dolly album.

Roy Kasten, Saturday, 10 December 2005 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Is it "Why'd You Come in Here Looking Like That"?

Why'd you come in here lookin' like that
In your cowboy boots and your painted-on jeans
All decked out like a cowgirl's dream
Why'd you come in here looking like that

Here comes my baby
Draggin' my heart behind
He's drivin' me crazy
Who says love is blind
He's got a wanderin' eye and a travelin' mind
Big ideas and a little behind
Out with a different woman every night
But I remember when he was mine

Why'd you come in here lookin' like that
In your high heeled boots and your painted-on jeans
All decked out like a cowgirl's dream
Waltzing right in here lookin' like that
Why'd you come in here lookin' like that
When you could stop traffic in a gunney sack
Why you're almost givin' me a heart attack
When you waltz right in here lookin' like that

I just can't stand it
To see him on the town
He's out slow dancing
With every girl around
I'm a softhearted woman he's a hardheaded man
And he's gonna make me feel just as bad as he can
He's got himself a mean streak a half a mile wide
But now he's dancing on this heart of mine

Why'd you come in here lookin' like that
In your high heeled boots and your painted-on jeans
All decked out like a cowgirl's dream
Why'd you come in here lookin' like that

Why'd you come in here lookin' like that
In your high heeled boots and your painted-on jeans
All decked out like a cowgirl's dream
Why'd you come in here lookin' like that

Why'd you come in here lookin' like that
When you could stop traffic in a gunney sack
Why you're almost givin' me a heart attack
When you waltz right in here lookin' like that
Why'd you come in here lookin' like that

luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 00:57 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
Maybe it was her Collective Soul cover. Which rules.

rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 30 December 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...
God, "Touch Your Woman" is eros-in-song.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 23 March 2007 03:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey now, that tribute album Kozelek coordinated gives me a new respect for the man.

His part in the PRMC case gives him all the creds he needs singlehandedly.


As for Dolly Parton, classic breasts, some nice music too. But nowhere near the greaness of Gram Parsons or even Emmylou Harris.

Geir Hongro, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Classic breasts? Maybe, but that shouldn't be the first observation that comes to mind. I like what someone said above re: her voice, her down-to-earth-ness and her likeability. Those are all much more hyperclassic than her breasts.

Surmounter, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...
No comments here on the reissues of Coat of Many Colors, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Jolene and her late seventies/early mid-eighties stuff?

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

!!! reissues? gimme

Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...

have been listening to dolly parton all day (and the great trio record). it's cool to suddenly step into about 7 acres of beautiful music.

Dominique, Thursday, 30 August 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link

her recent bluegrass record is AWESOME

chaki, Thursday, 30 August 2007 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link

The demo of "My Blue Tears" is better than the studio version.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 30 August 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Hey, which is the better album: The Grass is Blue or Halos and Horns?

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 30 August 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link

is anybody bummed that she feels the need to have all that shit done to her face?

QuantumNoise, Thursday, 30 August 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link

i have only heard grass is blue, and I like it.

all the plastic surgery stuff -- it's strange, because for someone else, it would seem freakish, but something about dolly parton just seems so normal and grounded that she could do almost anything, and I would still think she was pretty cool.

Dominique, Thursday, 30 August 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link

and Trio record is greatness

Dominique, Friday, 31 August 2007 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link

The demo of "My Blue Tears" is better than the studio version.
ysi??

Lingbert, Saturday, 8 September 2007 03:26 (sixteen years ago) link

three months pass...

i agree re: surgery. doesn't bother me in the least. she seems like the coolest woman ever.

and the music, wow. subtle and moving at the same time that it is incredibly poppy and fun.

trio is breeeaaaataking!!!

wee listened to Hard Candy Christmas on xmas night the other night, and it was just perfect. perfect.

Surmounter, Thursday, 27 December 2007 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link

Getting sued by your own fans for lip syncing your entire show, classic or superclassic?

Siegbran, Thursday, 27 December 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link

what??

Surmounter, Thursday, 27 December 2007 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link

???

I know, right?, Thursday, 27 December 2007 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh this might not have made the intl press but a few thousand people who attended her Rotterdam (i think) show are trying to get their 80 euro back after discovering obv lip syncing.

Siegbran, Thursday, 27 December 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link

The demo of "My Blue Tears" is better than the studio version.
ysi??

-- Lingbert, Saturday, 8 September 2007 03:26 (3 months ago) Link

Lingbert, Thursday, 27 December 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link

all the plastic surgery stuff -- it's strange, because for someone else, it would seem freakish, but something about dolly parton just seems so normal and grounded that she could do almost anything, and I would still think she was pretty cool.

I saw her on Larry King, and a caller asked if she'd had any work done. Without missing a beat, she said, "Hey, whenever's something saggin', baggin', or draggin', I gotta do what I can." Brilliant.

Major props for including "Imagine" in her sets when pro-war sentiment was at a fever pitch ('02-'03).

Sara Sara Sara, Thursday, 27 December 2007 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

new album - "Backwoods Barbie" on Dolly Records

apparently it's her first mainstream country record in 15 years

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link

Is Jack White involved?

Jazzbo, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link

i certainly hope not

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link

Yo-Yo Ma?

Wooly Bully (2005 Remaster) (morrisp), Saturday, 20 January 2024 02:37 (three months ago) link

lol I came home to my wife playing "Rockstar." This album sucks.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 January 2024 23:22 (three months ago) link

(many xp) I thought you meant Stevie Nicks.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 20 January 2024 23:27 (three months ago) link


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