Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Stereo
Country: US
Released: Oct 1, 1971
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country
[Tracklist]
A1 Coat Of Many Colors (3:02)
A2 Traveling Man (2:38)
A3 My Blue Tears (2:14)
A4 If I Lose My Mind (2:26)
A5 The Mystery Of The Mystery (2:24)
B1 She Never Met A Man (She Didn't Like) (2:40)
B2 Early Morning Breeze (2:53)
B3 The Way I See You (2:43)
B4 Here I Am (3:17)
B5 A Better Place To Live (2:39)
[Credits]
Dolly Parton (vocals) David Briggs (piano) Hargus Robbins (piano) Jerry Carrigan (drums) Pete Drake (steel) Johnny Gimble (fiddle) Mack Magaha (fiddle) Buddy Spicher (fiddle) George McCormick (guitar) Dave Kirby (guitar) Billy Sanford (guitar) Jerry Shook (guitar) Buck Trent (banjo) Bobby Dyson (bass)
Producer: Bob Ferguson, Painter: Les Leverett, Engineer: Al Pachuckiand Roy Shockley
[Notes]
With hindsight it feels incredible to think that Dolly Parton had to be convinced to record what would become one of her signature songs, ‘Coat of Many Colors’. The song was written on a tour bus in 1969, on the back of a dry cleaning receipt ironically for one of Porter’s Nudie suits (the receipt was eventually framed by Porter and can now be seen at Dollywood) but was not recorded until 1971 on this, her eighth album. Two years might not seem like a long time but Dolly had written and recorded many other songs in the interim. Porter himself actually recorded the first version, with Dolly on backing vocals, but he knew that there was only one singer who could do this song justice – the girl in the song. So why did Dolly hesitate to put this one on tape? To understand the answer we have to go back through the years, once again returning to her childhood in Tennessee.
The official trailer "Coat of Many Colors" for Dolly Parton NBC Movie on Vimeo
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