Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email
Answers.com

Here You Come Again

 
Album Review: Here You Come Again

  • Artist: Dolly Parton
  • Rating: StarStarStarStar
  • Release Date: October 29, 1977
  • Total Time: 30:34
  • Genre: Country

Review

It might be the short length of Dolly Parton's Here You Come Again that inevitably makes it feel like it just didn't quite all come together, yet there are plenty of high points, such as the catchy title tune, the grooving "It's All Wrong, But It's All Right," "Two Doors Down," and the typically Parton-esque charm of "Cowgirl and the Dandy." Some problems originate with the studio backup, which just isn't country enough. Sure, there's some pedal steel here and there, but an effort is obviously being made to steer her away from the hardcore country sound to whatever might have been perceived as being popular in the late '70s. This is still a few years before disco was to temporarily monopolize her aesthetic. The musicians here represent a smooth Los Angeles sound, with pickers such as David Lindley aboard. There are even synthesizer contributions from Ian Underwood, but from what he does one would hardly know that he had been a member of the avant-garde rock outfit the Mothers of Invention. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Here You Come Again (Lyrics) Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil Dolly Parton (2:56)
Baby Come Out Tonight (Lyrics) Ken McCord Dolly Parton (3:25)
It's All Wrong, But It's All Right Dolly Parton Dolly Parton (2:55)
Me and Little Andy Dolly Parton Dolly Parton (2:36)
Lovin' You John Sebastian Dolly Parton (2:22)
Cowgirl & The Dandy (Lyrics) Bobby Goldsboro Dolly Parton (3:44)
Two Doors Down Dolly Parton Dolly Parton (3:04)
God's Coloring Book Dolly Parton Dolly Parton (3:10)
As Soon as I Touched Him (Lyrics) Dolly Parton (3:12)
Sweet Music Man (Lyrics) Kenny Rogers Dolly Parton (3:10)

Credits

David Wolfert (Pedal Steel), Ian Underwood (Programming), Armin Steiner (Remixing), David Foster (Keyboards), Ian Underwood (Synthesizer), Ed Greene (Drums), David Lindley (Slide Guitar), Jim Keltner (Percussion), Steve Hoffman (Remastering), Dean Parks (Rhythm Arrangements), David Wolfert (Guitar), Dolly Parton (Vocals (Background)), Ed Caraeff (Art Direction), Nick DeCaro (Vocal Arrangement), David Hungate (Bass), Jodi Cohen (Typesetting), Nick DeCaro (String Arrangements), Armin Steiner (Engineer), Nick DeCaro (Vocals (Background)), Charles Koppelman (Executive Producer), Marti McCall (Vocals (Background)), Dolly Parton (Vocals), Ed Caraeff (Photography), Jay Graydon (Guitar), Jan Gassman (Vocals (Background)), Gene Morford (Vocals (Background)), Jim Keltner (Drums), Ed Caraeff (Design), Myrna Matthews (Vocals (Background)), Al Perkins (Pedal Steel), Ben Benay (Guitar), Linda Tyler (Assistant Engineer), Zedric Turnbough (Vocals (Background)), Dean Parks (Guitar), Marcia McGovern (Production Director), Dean Parks (Banjo), Nick DeCaro (Accordion), James Getzoff (Concert Master), Michael Manoogian (Lettering), David Foster (Synthesizer), Gary Klein (Producer), Harry Bluestone (Concert Master)
Search unanswered questions...
Enter a question here...
Search: All sources Community Q&A Reference topics
Wikipedia: Here You Come Again
Top
Here You Come Again
Studio album by Dolly Parton
Released October 1977
Recorded Los Angeles, May, June 1977
Genre Country
Length 30:34
Label RCA
Producer Gary Klein
Professional reviews
Dolly Parton chronology
New Harvest - First Gathering
(1977)
Here You Come Again
(1977)
Heartbreaker
(1978)
Singles from Here You Come again
  1. "Here You Come Again"
    Released: October 15, 1977
  2. "Two Doors Down"
    Released: March 18, 1978
  3. "It's All Wrong, But It's All Right"
    Released: March 18, 1978

Here You Come Again was a 1977 album by Dolly Parton. The album included Parton's first significant crossover hit in the title single, which reached #3 on the US pop charts in early 1978. Both the album and single also reached #1 on the US country music charts, and earned Parton a Grammy. "Here You Come Again"' was a rare example of a Parton hit that she did not write herself; it was composed by the songwriting team of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. In addition to four of Parton's own compositions, the album also included work by Bobby Goldsboro, John Sebastian, and Kenny Rogers.

In addition to the title single, Parton's composition "Two Doors Down" also scored on both the US pop and country charts, though Parton rerecorded the song as a more laid back pop tune, several months after the album's release, and had the new version of the song replace the old on subsequent pressings of the album. The hit single version was also the new pop version of the song. It was released with "It's All Wrong, but It's All Right" as a double-A-sided single in April 1978, reaching #1 on the U.S. country charts, and making the top twenty on the U.S. pop charts. The song had also been a top-ten country hit for newcomer Zella Lehr earlier in 1978.

The album's success was a culmination of Parton's quest for pop success. Initial reaction to Here You Come Again was mixed, with many critics and fans disliking the more polished, produced sound of the album, though it proved to be Parton's biggest seller to that point, her first album to sell in excess of one million copies.

Track listing

  1. "Here You Come Again" (Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil)
  2. "Baby, Come Out Tonight" (McCord)
  3. "It's all Wrong But It's All Right" (Dolly Parton)
  4. "Me and Little Andy" (Parton)
  5. "Lovin' You" (John Sebastian)
  6. "The Cowgirl and the Dandy" (Bobby Goldsboro)
  7. "Two Doors Down" (Parton)
  8. "God's Coloring Book" (Parton)
  9. "As Soon as I Touched Him"
  10. "Sweet Music Man" (Kenny Rogers)

External links


 
 

 

Copyrights:

Album Review. Copyright © 2009 All Media Guide, LLC. Content provided by All Music Guide ®, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC. All rights reserved.  Read more
Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Here You Come Again" Read more