Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton - 20 Greatest Hits

Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 10, 1998)
• Original Release Date: March 5, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Tee Vee Records
• ASIN: B0000066GY
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,248 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #24 in Music > Country > Classic Country > Nashville Sound
  • #80 in Music > Country > Classic Country > General AAS

Track Listings

1. Holding on to Nothin'

2. Just Between You and Me

3. Please Don't Stop Loving Me

4. If Teardrops Were Pennies

5. Just Someone I Used to Know

6. We'll Get Ahead Someday

7. Daddy Was an Old Time Preacher Man

8. Is Forever Longer Than Always

9. If You Go, I'll Follow You

10. Forty Miles from Poplar Bluff

11. Making Plans

12. The Last Thing on My Mind

13. Better Move It on Home

14. Yours Love

15. Tomorrow Is Forever

16. Lost Forever in Your Kiss

17. Burning the Midnight Oil

18. Jeannie's Afraid of the Dark

19. Before I Met You

20. Silver Sandals

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fine collection, February 4, 2006

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Jess "Jess" (Coal Country, PA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton - 20 Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

There are a few collections of Dolly and Porter out there, but this has to be the most complete. I had reservations about intially purchasing this since it was released by "TeeVee Records", but I will admit, I was wrong. It is a fine collection of original recordings, and "TeeVee Records" should be commended for this release. There are 20 numbers here, and I'm glad to say, there is no filler material; all of the songs are among their most popular. Besides the lighter material such as "We'll Get ahead Someday" and "Better Move it on Home", their two most tragic songs about dead and dying kids are also included, with "Jeannie's Afraid of the Dark" and "Silver Sandals". Get this album, as it will quickly become part of your regular rotation.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GENUINE COUNTRY AT ITS BEST, May 14, 2003

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton - 20 Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

Here's 20 genuine traditional country music songs, most of them classics of the genre. Dolly and Porter's voices blend perfectly to ensure some of the greatest duets ever in any form of popular music. There are wonderful weepies like Just Someone I Used To Know, uptempo numbers like Better Move It On Home and a great cover of The Last Thing On My Mind. Other favourites of mine are If Teardrops Were Pennies, Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man with its lovely chorus, Lost Forever In Your Kiss and the moving Yours Love. I don't know what their hit The Right Combination has been omitted, because Parton an Wagoner certainly had the perfect combination - they created ageless music that is so much better and emotionally compelling than most of what goes for modern country music.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not quite as the title suggests, August 2, 2005

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton - 20 Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

Dolly has been my favorite singer since I started collecting music seriously, but quite apart from the brilliance of her own music, she also has an outstanding catalog of recordings made with others - in recent years with Kenny, Linda, Emmylou, Tammy and Loretta as well as numerous guest appearances with many different singers. Yet, some of the best recordings Dolly ever made were her duets with Porter.

They recorded a lot of albums, all of which I bought on vinyl. Apart from Essential Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, this is the strongest compilation of their music so far released. Fifteen of the tracks here can also be found on Essential, yet if you use Billboard as a guide, the 20 tracks on the Essential compilation were actually their 20 greatest hits. For this compilation, five of their bona-fide hits were dropped and replaced by songs that were popular among their fans.

Of the five non-hits, two were songs about unlucky children (Silver sandals, Jeannie's afraid of the dark). Also here is Forty miles from Poplar Bluff, one of my favorite Porter and Dolly tracks. It was very controversial at the time because of its use of horns although anybody listening to it will realize that they enhance the recording, which is still solidly country. However, maybe the controversy prevented its release as a single. The other two non-hits were Just between you and me and Before I met you - again, both sound good enough to have been hits. Both were covers but Porter and Dolly had several cover hits (see later). To make may for those five tracks without increasing the number of tracks, they dropped Always always, The right combination, Together always, We found it and Say forever you'll be mine from this compilation.

Many of the songs Porter and Dolly recorded were written by Dolly, including (on this set) Tomorrow is forever, Daddy was an old time preacher man, Lost forever in your kiss and Together always. Porter also contributed by writing Burning the midnight oil and co-writing with Dolly two of their biggest hits (Please don't stop loving me and If you go I'll follow you).

They also recorded covers - not as many as was the custom in those days, but always well chosen. They had hits with The last thing on my mind (Tom Paxton), Yours love (previously a hit for Waylon), Just someone I used to know (originally a hit for George Jones, but titled A girl I used to know), If teardrops were pennies (first a hit for Carl Smith) and Making plans, written by Johnny Russell (who later also did a duet with Dolly on the song).

The other songs are excellent originals, written by a variety of writers. Every song on this collection is a masterpiece. Anybody who claims to be a true Dolly fan needs some of her duets with Porter, a fine singer with a nice baritone voice, but who will be forever remembered for his work with Dolly, despite being the first to have a hit with Green green grass of home and making many other wonderful records.