3x CD

The Essential Dolly Parton

Compilation by Dolly Parton

Released 2005

country country rock ballad

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
Dumb Blonde
2:29
3.5 ★
2
Just Because I'm a Woman
3:04
3.5 ★
3
My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
3:29
3.0 ★
4
Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8)
3:09
2.0 ★
5
Joshua
3:04
3.5 ★
6
Coat of Many Colors
3:04
4.2 ★
7
Touch Your Woman
2:41
3.0 ★
8
My Tennessee Mountain Home
3:07
3.7 ★
9
Jolene
2:41
4.4 ★
10
Please Don't Stop Loving Me
2:47
3.4 ★
11
I Will Always Love You
2:55
4.0 ★
12
Love Is Like a Butterfly
2:21
4.0 ★
13
The Bargain Store
2:42
3.2 ★
14
The Seeker
3:15
2.5 ★
15
We Used To
3:12
3.4 ★
16
All I Can Do
2:25
5.0 ★
17
Light of a Clear Blue Morning
4:56
3.5 ★
18
It's All Wrong, but It's All Right
3:17
2.5 ★
CD 2
1
Here You Come Again
2:54
4.2 ★
2
Two Doors Down
3:06
3.5 ★
3
Heartbreaker
3:30
3.5 ★
4
I Really Got the Feeling
3:08
3.0 ★
5
You're the Only One
3:20
3.0 ★
6
Starting Over Again
3:58
4.0 ★
7
Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You
3:25
3.8 ★
8
9 to 5
3:00
4.0 ★
9
But You Know I Love You
3:18
2.5 ★
10
Single Women
3:44
4.0 ★
11
Heartbreak Express
3:13
3.0 ★
12
Islands in the Stream
4:10
4.2 ★
13
Save the Last Dance for Me
3:50
3.0 ★
14
Tennessee Homesick Blues
3:23
2.5 ★
15
God Won't Get You
4:13
16
To Know Him Is to Love Him
3:51
3.7 ★
17
Why'd You Come in Here Lookin' Like That
2:33
3.8 ★
18
Rockin' Years
3:26
3.0 ★
19
Shine
5:10
3.5 ★
CD 3
1
Something Fishy
2:07
2.0 ★
2
In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
2:46
3.0 ★
3
Just Someone That I Used to Know
Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton
2:24
3.0 ★
4
My Blue Tears
2:17
2.6 ★
5
Early Morning Breeze
2:47
3.3 ★
6
Baby I'm Burnin'
2:37
3.9 ★
7
Think About Love
3:27
3.0 ★
8
Yellow Roses
3:55
2.5 ★

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9 to 5 and Odd Jobs

9 to 5 and Odd Jobs 1980

Jolene

Jolene 1974

The Very Best of Dolly Parton

The Very Best of Dolly Parton 2007

9 to 5 / Sing for the Common Man

9 to 5 / Sing for the Common Man 1980

Here You Come Again

Here You Come Again 1977

Jolene

Jolene 1976

Release credits

Al Pachucki
recording [1.2, 1.5-7, 3.4]
Albert Lee
acoustic guitar [16]
Albhy Galuten
producer [12]
Barry Gibb
producer [12]
Bob Ferguson
producer [1.2, 1.5-9, 1.11-12, 3.4-5]
Bobby Dyson
bass [3.5, 1.9, 1.11]
Bobby Thompson
banjo [9, 11], guitar [5]
Buck Trent
banjo [9, 11]
Dave Kirby
guitar [1.9, 1.11, 3.5]
David Lindley
Hawaiian guitar [16], mandolin [16]
Dolly Parton
arranger [16], guitar [1.9, 1.11, 3.5], producer [16-17], vocal [2.1-2, 2.4-6, 2.10-14, 2.16-18, 3.3-6, 3.8, 1.1-2, 1.5-13, 1.15]
Dolores Edgin
background vocals [9, 11]
Doug Sax
mastering [16]
Emmylou Harris
vocal [16]
Fred Foster
producer [3.1, 1.1]
George Massenburg
producer [16], recording [16]
Hargus “Pig” Robbins
piano [1.9, 1.11, 3.5]
Hurshel Wiginton
background vocals [9, 11]
Jimmy Colvard
electric guitar [9], guitar [1.11, 3.5]
Joe Babcock
background vocals [9, 11]
Johnny Gimble
fiddle [9, 11]
June Page
background vocals [9, 11]
Karl Richardson
producer [12]
Kenny Edwards
acoustic bass guitar [16]
Kenny Malone
drums (drum set) [9]
Kenny Rogers
vocal [12]
Kent Wells
producer [17]
Larry Londin
drums (drum set) [3.5, 1.11]
Linda Ronstadt
vocal [16]
Mack Magaha
fiddle [9, 11]
Mike Shockley
task [7]
Mort Thomasson
recording [1.1, 3.1]
Onie Wheeler
harmonica [5]
Porter Wagoner
arranger [16], producer [16], vocal [3.3, 1.10]
Ricky Van Shelton
performer [18], vocal [18]
Roy Shockley
task [3.4, 1.5-8, 1.16]
Russ Kunkel
drums (drum set) [16]
Ry Cooder
guitar [16]
Sharon Rice
assistant [16]
Stu Basore
steel guitar [1.9, 1.11, 3.5]
Tom Pick
engineer [3.5, 1.9, 1.11], recording [7-8, 16]
Tommy Strong
task [1.1, 3.1]
Tony Smith
producer [17]

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The Essential Dolly Parton
2x CD
2005
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The Essential Dolly Parton
2x CD
2005
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The Essential Dolly Parton
2x CD
2010
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The Essential Dolly Parton
3x CD
2010
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The Essential Dolly Parton
2x Digital Media
7 January 2011