“Starting Over Again” is a song recorded by American entertainer Dolly Parton. The song was written by Donna Summer and her husband Bruce Sudano. Parton’s recording was performed as a slow tempo ballad, gradually building to a dramatic crescendo. It was released in March 1980 as the first single from her album Dolly, Dolly, Dolly. […]
Here You Come Again, released in 1977, is the 19th solo studio album by Dolly Parton. The album included Parton’s first significant “crossover” success, the Grammy award-winning title single, which scored #3 on the US pop singles charts during the early months of 1978. Both the album and title single also scored #1 on the […]
Rainbow is the 28th solo studio album by American country entertainer Dolly Parton. Released on November 25, 1987, it was her first album after switching to Columbia Records, after nearly two decades with RCA. The original plan, when Parton signed with CBS, was for her to alternate between releasing pop and country albums (rather than […]
“Baby I’m Burning” is a 1978 song written and performed by Dolly Parton that was part of a double-A-sided single “Baby I’m Burning”/”I Really Got the Feeling”. Issued from Parton’s RCA Records album Heartbreaker, after the success of the title single, “Baby I’m Burning” reached number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early […]
For quite some time I got in touch with Blaise Tosti who re-released his album American Lovers in 2016. Apparently it was requested many times by the Toto fans at the address of Fred Mollin, who produced this album. Shortly before that Fred Mollin also released his Fast Company soundtrack. Who knows what else is […]
Something Special is the 32nd studio album by Dolly Parton, released in August 1995 on Columbia Records. In addition to the seven new Parton compositions, she updated three classics from her repertoire: “Jolene”, “The Seeker”, and “I Will Always Love You”, the latter of which was performed as a duet with Vince Gill. The Gill […]
“Two Doors Down” was a song written and performed by Dolly Parton, which provided a 1978 U.S. country and pop hit for her. The song was sung from the perspective of a woman who has just broken up with her boyfriend and is debating attending a party two doors down the hall from her apartment. […]
“Here You Come Again” is a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, and recorded by American entertainer Dolly Parton, which topped the U.S. country singles chart for five weeks, and won the 1979 Grammy award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance; it also reached number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, representing […]
Heartbreaker is the 20th solo studio album by Dolly Parton, released in 1978. Released following the huge pop crossover success of Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker was designed as an even more direct aim at the pop charts, with several of its songs verging on disco. The title song, a ballad written by Carole Bayer […]
Dolly, Dolly, Dolly, released in 1980, is the 22nd solo studio album by Dolly Parton. Coming at the height of her late 1970s-1980s quest for pop success, the album was her least traditional country-sounding album to that point, with a number of songs bordering on disco. Though the album’s two singles, “Starting Over Again” (written […]