Legendary Dolly Parton [Import]

Disc: 1

1. Coat of Many Colors

2. In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)

3. Higher and Higher

4. Touch Your Woman

5. We Used To

6. My Tennessee Mountain Home

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. 9 to 5

2. Old Flames (Can't Hold a Candle to You)

3. Baby I'm Burnin'

4. Sweet Summer Lovin'

5. Bargain Store

6. Think About Love

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Great Balls of Fire

2. Almost in Love

3. To Daddy

4. She Don't Love You (Like I Love You)

5. Travelling Man

6. Heartbreaker

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Product Description:
Australian compilation featuring 50 of the biggest hits from the country music superstar. Tracks include 'Coat Of Many Colours', 'Jolene', 'I Will Always Love You', '9 To 5' and 'Real Love', 'Islands In The Stream' (both with Kenny Rogers). 2000 release. Standard double jewel case.

Tracks:

Coat of Many Colors
In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
Higher and Higher
Touch Your Woman
We Used To
My Tennessee Mountain Home
Love Is Like a Butterfly
All I Can Do
Jolene
I Will Always Love You
Here You Come Again
It's All Wrong, But It's All Right
Elusive Butterfly
Real Love - Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Kenny Rogers
But You Know I Love You
Just Because I'm a Woman
One of Those Days

Tracks:

9 to 5
Old Flames (Can't Hold a Candle to You)
Baby I'm Burnin'
Sweet Summer Lovin'
Bargain Store
Think About Love
Seeker
Don't Call It Love
Save the Last Dance for Me
You're the Only One
Heartbreak Express
Single Women
Potential New Boyfriend
Two Doors Down
Islands in the Stream - Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Kenny Rogers
Starting over Again
We Had It All

Tracks:

Great Balls of Fire
Almost in Love
To Daddy
She Don't Love You (Like I Love You)
Travelling Man
Heartbreaker
I Really Got the Feeling
Last Thing on My Mind - Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner
Tie Our Love (In a Double Knot)
Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
I Really Don't Want to Know - Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton
We'll Sing in the Sunshine
Mule Skinner Blues
Downtown
Light of a Clear Blue Morning
Joshua

Album Description

Australian compilation featuring 50 of the biggest hits from the country music superstar. Tracks include 'Coat Of Many Colours', 'Jolene', 'I Will Always Love You', '9 To 5' and 'Real Love', 'Islands In The Stream' (both with Kenny Rogers). 2000 release. Standard double jewel case.

Album Details

Compiled in Australia, it is Packaged in a Thick Triple CD Jewel Case. includes The Hits Contains 50 of her Biggest Hits.

Customer Reviews:

Legendary Singer, Legendary Compilation.......2007-04-20

This is a excellent compilation of Dolly Parton, it covers most of her career from the 1960s all the way through 1985. This collection has most of her famous songs & hits like "I Will Always Love You", "Jolene", "Coat Of Many Colors", "Here You Come Again", "9 To 5", "The Seeker", "Islands In The Stream", "Heartbreaker" & many many more. Here's five reasons why you should buy this Dolly Parton compilation over all the other compilations of hers.

(Countdown)

5. If your just getting into Dolly Parton & you don't have most of these or any of these, then buy this, there is no reason why you can't.
4. Their all remastered for better sound & performance.
3. Like I said in the review, it covers Dolly's best songs from the 1960s to 1985, BMG picked only the best for Dolly's fans.
2. It has 3 disc, the first 2 have 17 songs, the last disc has 16 = 50 songs.
1. It's cheap, you can't beat the price that their selling this for.

What a great introduction to this artist.......2005-03-11

I'll start by saying, I am no fan of country music. However, as a kid, I had limited exposure to the country music of the late '60s/early 70's thanks to my dad's weekly viewing of Hee Haw... Torture. Having said that, that's what I consider to be country, Buck Owens, Roy Clark, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Tammy Wynette, Lynn Anderson, Charlie Pride, etc... Again, I'm NO fan of country, but I'm vaguely aware of its past performers.

Today, I find the whole "Country" scene to be very contrived and the only stars I'm aware of are the ones that get any media coverage. Garth, Shania, Randy Travis... and that's about it. Is it rock, is it country? Who cares?

Not having any interest at all in country music, I bought this collection for several reasons:
1. I knew some of Dolly's big, early hits (Jolene, Coat of Many Colors. Hadn't heard them for years, but I knew her early work is held in high regard and wanted to hear for myself what all the hype was about.
2. Wanted to hear the original version of "I Will Always Love You".
3. This collection had a LOT of music for the money. Best bang for your buck. I couldn't pass up this collection. Cheapness does have its rewards!

This has turned out to be one of the biggest surprises in my collection. While not every song is great (and some are quite bad), by and large, this is a fantastic set of songs. The ones one I tend to like best are the ones I assume to be from early in her career. The emotion that comes through on the early songs really strikes the listener with an authenticity that is rarely heard in music. The low point in the collection would have to be the songs that seem to have been recorded in the 80's; mostly light-weight fluff that does not strike an emotional connection with the listener.

Dolly successfully projects a wide range of emotions in this collection: humor, sadness, rejection, strength, vulnerability, joy, sensuality. It's hard to listen to this music and not like the artist as a person.

Oh, by the way, in my opinion, Dolly's version of "I Will Always Love You" smokes Whitney's version. Dolly's version truly conveys the emotion of the song (sadness), whereas all you notice with Whitney's version are her vocal abilities (which, admittedly, are impressive). This is not a love song (in the traditional sense, anyway).

Superb! Varied and Surprising!.......2003-12-05

If you are new to the delights of Dolly's wonderful talent this is an excellent place to start.

This contains many familiar radio songs, a few songs she wrote that became big hits for other artists (such as Jolene and I Will Always Love You) plus a host of songs spanning a good majority of the ladies career. She is displayed as a fine singer, superlative interpreter and skilled songwriter.

The range of songs spans from the Country Disco of her late 70's early 80's material, to early material that hints at the direction she has recently returned to with her most recent releases. But nestled among these are a surprising variety of styles, all equally suited to her dynamic and flexible voice.

As someone who has recently discovered Dolly as an artist (and not simply the bosomy, bewigged sexpot that has long been her media image) this collection comes as a revelation. It has wetted my appetite for more of her early work as well as referenced her new material such as Little Sparrow and Halos and Horns which stand as the finest folk albums of recent times.

Dolly, to these ears, is arguably America's finest folk singer in the purest sense of the term. Her music comes from her roots and these are pure Tennesee Mountain bluegrass. The diversity of styles shows how far modern popular music has taken these original roots and broadened them into a very wide range indeed.

You may not like all of this material (a few of them fall a little too far on the side of country MOR for my taste) but you have to admire the spirit that created it and when it comes down to it, most of this collection is essential.

Wonderful stuff.

Better Value and Better selection of songs.......2003-08-28

I prefer this import version over the new remastered Cd that just came out last month, 2 to 1!! I love Dolly......

Best available Dolly Parton career retrospective.......2002-11-10

Dolly Parton's 3CD set in the import budget "Legendary" series may be the best available compilation there is in the market for fans expecting a fairly broad-based representation of Dolly's recorded output from her long and illustrous career. Most other "best of", "greatest hits" or career retrospectives have tended to concentrate on her pop hits from the 80s onwards at the expense of her far more potent country recordings from the 70s.

The first CD is quintessential Dolly, consisting of her most stellar and heartfelt work from the 70s. There's "Coat of Many Colours", "Just Because I'm A Woman", "Jolene", "I Will Always Love You", "In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)", "One Of Those Days" and lots lots more great stuff. This first CD alone is worth the price of the set.

The second CD covers material from Dolly's most commercially viable period but it is also arguably her weakest set. Full of obvious crossover hits (eg, "9 to 5"), pointless covers, (eg "Save The Last Dance For Me") and calculated duets ("Islands In The Stream"), it is saved by a handful of nuggets like "Old Flames (Can't Hold A Candle To You"), "Bargain Store" and the incomparable "Two Doors Down". The uptempo "Don't Call It Love" (covered by the fabulous Dusty Springfield) and the funky "Potential New Boyfriend" are also highlights. Half of these 17 tracks I'll happily listen to any day. The rest I'd programme out.

The final CD lies somewhere in between. Mixing her earliest with her latest material, it gives us a sense of the road Dolly has travelled. Whilst the country classic "Mules Skinner Blues", "Joshua", "Almost In Love", "To Daddy" and the early Porter Wagoner duet "The Last Thing On My Mind" are truly wonderful, there're also the occasional duffer like "Downtown". Dolly should leave pop classics like this to pure stylists. Not that she does a bad job. Only that she should render Caeser's to Caeser.

Tracks:

Coat of Many Colors
In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
Higher and Higher
Touch Your Woman
We Used To
My Tennessee Mountain Home
Love Is Like a Butterfly
All I Can Do
Jolene
I Will Always Love You
Here You Come Again
It's All Wrong, But It's All Right
Elusive Butterfly
Real Love - Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Kenny Rogers
But You Know I Love You
Just Because I'm a Woman
One of Those Days

Tracks:

9 to 5
Old Flames (Can't Hold a Candle to You)
Baby I'm Burnin'
Sweet Summer Lovin'
Bargain Store
Think About Love
Seeker
Don't Call It Love
Save the Last Dance for Me
You're the Only One
Heartbreak Express
Single Women
Potential New Boyfriend
Two Doors Down
Islands in the Stream - Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Kenny Rogers
Starting over Again
We Had It All

Tracks:

Great Balls of Fire
Almost in Love
To Daddy
She Don't Love You (Like I Love You)
Travelling Man
Heartbreaker
I Really Got the Feeling
Last Thing on My Mind - Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner
Tie Our Love (In a Double Knot)
Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
I Really Don't Want to Know - Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton
We'll Sing in the Sunshine
Mule Skinner Blues
Downtown
Light of a Clear Blue Morning
Joshua

Customer Reviews:

Legendary Singer, Legendary Compilation.......2007-04-20

THE Dolly collection.......2006-08-27

This is it! All of Dolly's Hits up to 2000. For anyone who likes Dolly Parton, but doesn't buy all her albums (there are A LOT of them! ), this is the collection for you! All the hits are here, and well worth the money for 50 songs on 3 discs!

Music Album:

Music Album