Dolly [Box set]

Dolly Parton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 26, 2009)
• Original Release Date: October 26, 2009
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Box set
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• Label: Sony Legacy
• ASIN: B002CKCV3U
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,297 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Puppy Love

2. Girl Left Alone

3. Gonna Hurry (As Slow As I Can) [#][Demo Version]

4. It's Sure Gonna Hurt

5. The Love You Gave

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Just The Way I Am

2. Down From Dover

3. Everything Is Beautiful (In Its Own Way) [#]

4. Daddy Come And Get Me

5. Just Someone That I Used To Know

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Jolene

2. Early Morning Breeze

3. I Will Always Love You

4. Please Don't Stop Loving Me

5. Love Is Like A Butterfly

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. Old Flames Can't Hold A Candle To You

2. 9 To 5 [From 9 To 5]

3. But You Know I Love You

4. Single Women

5. Heartbreak Express

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Dolly Parton Has Few Peers, And No One In Music Will Deny Her Powers As A Singer, A Storyteller And A Pop Star. From Her First National Hit In 1967, The Ironically Titled 'Dumb Blonde' (Nobody With A Lick Of Sense Ever Accused Dolly Of That!) And The Legendary '70s Duets With Porter Wagoner, From Her First Number One Single ('Joshua') In 1970 To Her 26th Number One In 1991 ('Rockin' Years,' A Duet With Ricky Shelton) And All Train Stops In Between, Dolly Has It All. 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' From The Fertile Three-Way Collaboration With Linda Ronstadt And Emmylou Harris, The Amazing Crossover Pop Smashes, Including The Heartfelt Duet With Kenny Rogers 'Islands In The Stream,' As Well As Revered Juke Box Staples '9 To 5' And 'Here You Come Again,' This 101 Track/4 Cd Treasure Trove Covers All The Bases. You May Never Have To Leave Home Again, But If You Do, Be Sure To Take Dolly Along For The Ride. First-Ever Multi-Label, Career-Spanning Box Set For Dolly! 4 Cds, Over 100 Songs Includes Her Biggest Hits, Rarities, And Duets From Monument, Rca Victor, And Columbia + Seven Previously Unreleased Songs Introduction Written By Singer-Songwriter Laura Cantrell, And New Liner Notes Written By Noted Dolly Parton Historian Holly George-Warren Features Never-Before-Seen Photos And Rare Memorabilia! All The Big Hits, Including Jolene, 9 To 5, Coat Of Many Colors, Joshua, I Will Always Love You. Rarities And Previously Unreleased Tracks.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars "Attention All Dolly Parton Fans!" October 26, 2009

By Terry Richard TOP 500 REVIEWER

Format:Audio CD

Well here it is, a spectacular boxset on Dolly Parton. A few medicore boxsets on Dolly have been released over the years, but they all pale in comparison to this beautiful gem. Featuring an informative sixty page booklet on Miss Parton with rare pictures never seen before, the crowning jewel are seven tracks never released from Dolly's various record labels. The newly released songs are "Gonna Hurry (As Slow As I Can) which is one of the first songs Dolly ever recorded back in the 1950's; "Nobody But You" recorded when Dolly was 16 years old on Mercury Records; "I've Known You All My Life" from Dolly's Monument period; "Everything's Beautiful (In It's Own Way) that was originally recorded for "The Fairest of Them All" album in 1969; "God's Coloring Book" recorded during the "Coat of Many Colors" 1971 sessions; and finally "Eugene Oregon" and "What Will Baby Be" from 1972's "My Tennessee Mountain Home" album recordings. Out of these seven wonderful tracks four are really standouts; "Gonna Hurry" is true Dolly and she proves even at 10 years of age not only would she be a huge country music star, but a pop superstar. Her voice is pure, strong, original and unmistakingly Dolly. "Everything's Beautiful" is a song Dolly wrote before she came to Nashville and it is truely one of the most beautiful songs she has ever written. It was the song Dolly sang to Porter Wagoner the very day he called her to his office in 1967 to hire her as his "girl singer" on his TV and road show. "God's Coloring Book", that was later recorded for Dolly's 1977 "Here You Come Again" album, is far superior than the remake. You can hear a lot of the "Coat of Many Colors" sound and Dolly's vocal is impeccable and crystle pure. Lastly, "Eugene Oregon" has a neat tempo and is similar in vocal style to the rest of her "My Tennessee Mountain Home" recordings. Another great part about this boxset are the hardly heard singles and B-Sides that have rarely been released on CD over the years, most notably "Puppy Love", "It's Sure Gonna Hurt" and its B-Side "The Love You Gave", and the beautiful "Put It Off Until Tomorrow", which is actually a Bill Phillip's recording, but features Dolly doing background vocals uncredited. This particular recording is one of the most important Dolly recordings ever as it would persuade Dolly's then record label Monument, at Dolly's insistence, to record her country. Porter Wagoner would eventually discover her from her country oriented recordings on Monument and the rest is history. All of Dolly's huge hits are available here including "9 to 5", "I Will Always love You", "Jolene", "Joshua", "Heartbreaker", "Islands In The Stream", and many more. 11 Porter/Dolly duet hits are also included. This set is for the ardent Dolly fan who needs to have this boxset to complete their Dolly collection even if you have all her CD's and albums. This set is also a great place to start your Dolly collection as you will not find a more comprehensive packaging of her material anywhere. Four CD's with 99 songs and a beautiful career book included. We Dolly fans are finally in Heaven! This "Dolly" boxset sold enough copies to debut on the country album chart at #59.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars The best Dolly box out there, but still not definitive... October 28, 2009

By Allen Chapman VINE™ VOICE

Format:Audio CD

For years Dolly fans have been waiting for a definitive boxed set from her. "Dolly" comes pretty close to being just that. With 99 tracks spread across four CD's there is an awful lot to like here. The set starts off with her very first recording "Puppy Love" and goes up thru 1992's "Romeo". Along the way are her solo hits as well as her duets with Porter Wagoner. The set follows her career from the small GoldBand record label thru her stay at Columbia, the main focus being of course her long tenure with RCA. The set begins with a string of early singles recorded for Monument Records when Dolly was being pushed towards a Brenda Lee/girl group sound. The songs are catchy, but nothing like what she would eventually find fame with. After that and her connection with Porter Wagoner do the really great songs start coming. All of the hits are her from "Jolene" and "Joshua" to "I Will Always Love You", "Here You Come Again" and of course "9 to 5". Not to mention some great album cuts like "The Bridge", "Down From Dover" and many more.
For as great as the set is, there are few complaints. First is the fact that it ends in 1992. Dolly has continued to release some incredible records since then (such as her fantastic bluegrass albums from the past decade). Another complaint is that the massively successfull "Trio" album with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt is not represented at all. Despite having tons of great tracks, it's a shame they couldn't find room for her 1983 song "Appalachian Memories" one of her masterpieces. Finally, disc four is the least interesting of the bunch, the songs on disc four have been reissued so many times over the past several years that the disc is pretty redundant.
Complaints aside this is the best collection of Dolly's work out there. It's not THE definitive set, but it is the best there is. A treat for long time fans as well as those who may be just now discovering Dolly.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Porter and Dolly! December 27, 2007

By Terry Richard TOP 500 REVIEWER

Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase

"Porter and Dolly" marks the very first CD release of an original album by Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton in North America. Their very first LP "Just Between You and Me" was released in 1995 in Europe on CD and there have been various compilation CD's distributed, but RCA Records has been extremely slow in releasing any of the duos famous albums. Minnie Pearl once called Porter and Dolly the greatest man/woman singing team in the history of country music. This CD shows why!
"Porter and Dolly" has quite a history as an LP. It was the last album the duo ever released in 1980 long after their partnership was over. It was originally to have been put out in 1976, but Dolly's new management team headed by Sandy Gallin convinced RCA to shelve the duet album, citing that its release would hamper the growth of Dolly's new solo career. This didn't sit too well with Porter who would go on to lose royalties as a singer, songwriter, and producer of the album. In 1979 Porter sued Dolly for 3 million dollars citing breach of contract and of blocking the release of this very album. After settling out of court for 1 million dollars, in which Dolly nearly ended up broke, the "Porter and Dolly" album was released. The album shot all the way to number 9 and had 2 singles released; "Making Plans" hit number 2 and "If You Go I'll Follow You" went to number 12, indicating the fans still loved their Porter and Dolly. The album is quite good. Featuring 10 tracks the standout is the second single. Dolly's girlish voice blends perfectly with Porter's manly vocals and the song should have gone higher on the charts. All the songs were recorded prior to 1976 and the only song released before 1980 was "If You Say I Can", released as the B-Side to "Is Forever Longer Than Always" another top 10 single not included on the album release.
The album cover also features both Porter and Dolly photographed by 2 different photographers and their images were spliced together, since at that time the two were not talking. Happily they would rekindle their friendship in 1988. In my opinion all their albums were excellent and this ranks as one of their finest, and the fact that it finally has a home on CD makes me long to see more old Porter and Dolly LP's re-released on CD. On a final note the duos 1969 LP "Always, Always" and 1971's "Two of a Kind" will be released in February 2008 together on 1 CD. Look for that.