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Dolly Parton

 

 

 

Dolly has released 65 studio albums throughout her almost seven decade career! The most recent, Run, Rose, Run, was released in March 2022, and features the singles Big Dreams and Faded Jeans, Blue Bonnet Breeze, and Woman Up (And Take It Like a Man). Dolly is also a prolific songwriter, having composed over 3,000 songs, including Jolene, I Will Always Love You, and 9 to 5.

She has ventured into television, hosting her own variety shows in the 1970s and the 1980s, as well as starring in the feature films 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and Steel Magnolias, among others.

 

Dolly's upcoming projects include a Christmas special for NBC titled Mountain Magic Christmas, which is being filmed at her Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and is set to feature special guests including Willie Nelson and Jimmy Fallon. She also has a new duet version of 9 to 5 with Kelly Clarkson planned for release this fall to coincide with the released of the documentary Still Working 9 to 5.

 

Studio Albums Discography

Hello, I'm Dolly (1967)

Just Between You and Me (with Porter Wagoner) (1968)

Just Because I'm a Woman (1968)

Just the Two of Us (with Porter Wagoner) (1968)

In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) (1969)

Always, Always (with Porter Wagoner) (1969)

My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy (1969)

The Fairest of Them All (1970)

Porter Wayne and Dolly Rebecca (with Porter Wagoner) (1970)

Once More (with Porter Wagoner) (1970)

Two of a Kind (with Porter Wagoner) (1971)

The Golden Streets of Glory (1971)

Joshua (1971)

Coat of Many Colors (1971)

The Right Combination • Burning the Midnight Oil (with Porter Wagoner) (1972)

Touch Your Woman (1972)

Together Always (with Porter Wagoner) (1972)

My Favorite Songwriter, Porter Wagoner (1972)

We Found It (with Porter Wagoner) (1973)

My Tennessee Mountain Home (1973)

Love and Music (with Porter Wagoner) (1973)

Bubbling Over (1973)

Jolene (1974)

Porter 'n' Dolly (with Porter Wagoner) (1974)

Love Is Like a Butterfly (1974)

The Bargain Store (1975)

Say Forever You'll Be Mine (with Porter Wagoner) (1975)

Dolly (1975)

All I Can Do (1976)

New Harvest...First Gathering (1977)

Here You Come Again (1977)

Heartbreaker (1978)

Great Balls of Fire (1979)

Dolly, Dolly, Dolly (1980)

Porter & Dolly (with Porter Wagoner) (1980)

9 to 5 and Odd Jobs (1980)

Heartbreak Express (1982)

Burlap & Satin (1983)

The Great Pretender (1984)

Once Upon a Christmas (with Kenny Rogers) (1984)

Real Love (1985)

Trio (with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt) (1987)

Rainbow (1987)

White Limozeen (1989)

Home for Christmas (1990)

Eagle When She Flies (1991)

Slow Dancing with the Moon (1993)

Honky Tonk Angels (with Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette) (1993)

Something Special (1995)

Treasures (1996)

Hungry Again (1998)

Trio II (with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt) (1999)

Precious Memories (1999)

The Grass Is Blue (1999)

Little Sparrow (2001)

Halos & Horns (2002)

For God and Country (2003)

Those Were the Days (2005)

Backwoods Barbie (2008)

Better Day (2011)

Blue Smoke (2014)

Pure & Simple (2016)

I Believe in You (2017)

A Holly Dolly Christmas (2020)

Run, Rose, Run (2022)

Edited January 6, 20233 yr by benjichilders

New single from Cheat Codes & Queen Dolly!

 

 

Once Upon A Christmas being the most popular of her three holiday albums despite being the worst of the them.  But I’m assuming it’s mostly because of Hard Candy Christmas so I’ll allow it. 
 

My faves of her holiday recordings:

I’ll Be Home For Christmas

Joy To The World

Hard Candy Christmas

Wrapped Up in You

Holly Jolly Christmas

Pretty Paper

Christmas on the Square

 

I’m listening to Home for Christmas in full for the first time now and it’s got such a pleasant classic vibe. Quality recordings of well-selected classics. So many children’s choirs, though—but if anyone can make that tolerable, it’s Dolly!

Let me try again to find another Dolly Parton stan on this forum.
 

Some of my favorites include Robert, Coat of Many Colors, Potential New Boyfriend, Travelin Thru, Just Because I'm A Woman, Single Women, Try, Blackie Kentucky, Old Black Kettle, Old Flames, Touch Your Woman…
 

 

 

 

Are yall ready to talk about thee greatest of the great yet?

Revisited Rockstar earlier. Such an fun and iconic capstone to her career. Responding to her Rock N Roll Hall of Fame induction by recording a 40 track monster of a project to justify her inclusion. Who else could do it? Who else would? The fact that she recruited so many big names… effortlessly did justice to so many classics… slipped in a dozen of her own original compositions, several of which are genuinely very good. What a moment for her.

Also revisited Burlap & Satin, probably the best of her pop crossover records. The streak of A Gamble Either Way, Appalachian Memories, I Really Don't Want to Know, Potential New Boyfriend, A Cowboy's Ways is so GOATed. Love that AGEW and ACW are outtakes from Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Also really fascinating how she basically recycled ACW into Try, which is one of my personal favorites and seemed to be one of Dolly's own favorites of her 21st century output; it was featured on Blue Smoke and prominently used in her Emmy winning holiday film Christmas on the Square.

Can soome of yall real fans say what album would u recomend for discovering her discography?!

4 minutes ago, LadyDiana said:

Can soome of yall real fans say what album would u recomend for discovering her discography?!

My top 3 are probably Love is Like a Butterfly, Just Because I'm a Woman, and My Tennessee Mountain Home.

Most of her albums clock in around the 30 minute mark so they're not super demanding.

Dolly Parton came into this world at 8:25?P.M. and left this world on 8/25.

There are so many songs I enjoy:

Hard Candy Christmas, You Can't Make Old Friends, Rockin' It, Jeannies Afraid of the Dark, Big Dreams and Faded Jeans,

keep watching her content with Katy and what a funny, gorgeous and glamorous woman she was.

this is a very nice summary of all recent events

Edited August 26Aug 26 by KatyPrismSpirit

Listened to the Jolene album last night and it was gorgeous especially River of Happiness

18 hours ago, LadyDiana said:

Can soome of yall real fans say what album would u recomend for discovering her discography?!

I think her debut Hello, I'm Dolly is a great starting point. It's a solid record.

My personal top 5:

• Coat of Many Colors

• My Tennessee Mountain Home

• Joshua

• The Fairest of Them All

• The Grass Is Blue

"Potential New Boyfriend" should be a gay classic.

43 minutes ago, StonedSoulPicnic said:

I think her debut Hello, I'm Dolly is a great starting point. It's a solid record.

My personal top 5:

• Coat of Many Colors

• My Tennessee Mountain Home

• Joshua

• The Fairest of Them All

• The Grass Is Blue

Right now I should stick to her hits, was playing her spotify this is Dolly playlist, some songs made me cry

Going through her discography but skipping the Porter Wagoner joint albuns.

I'm at My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy and have enjoyed all of the records so far. She really was a one of a kind songwriter. Title track is actually amazing. Still can't believe she's gone.

We will miss Dolly so much I hope we can hear more about how her team and organizations will keep her legacy going, especially the Imagination Library.

Here you come again is that song

26 minutes ago, _love_pop_girls_ said:

We will miss Dolly so much I hope we can hear more about how her team and organizations will keep her legacy going, especially the Imagination Library.

They said about the various projects that were and still are in the works

Ooh, I found the base! Huzzah! I've always been a fan of this legend, but I've planned on going through the queen's gigantic discography instead of just knowing her general hits. I started just mere weeks before her passing and I'm so far finished with her '60s and '70s records (I only plan on going through her solo albums).

The ones I've already stanned: Drives Me Crazy, Better Get to Livin', Faith, If You Hadn't Been There, Baby I'm Burnin', World On Fire, Here You Come Again, I Will Always Love You, 9 to 5 and Jolene.

The essential highlights I've found along the way: Great Balls of Fire, Sweet Summer Lovin', Star of the Show, I Wanna Fall in Love, Sure Thing, Two Doors Down, (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher & Higher, Light of a Clear Blue Morning (quite literally a top 5 highlight in her repertoire), Boulder to Birmingham, All I Can Do, We Used to, The Bargain Store, Love Is Like a Butterfly, Cracker Jack, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Joshua, Golden Streets of Glory, My Blue Tears, Coat of Many Colors, In the Ghetto, He's A Go Getter (the wordplay on this chef's kiss), In the Good Old Days When Times Were Bad, Something Fishy, Dumb Blonde, God's Coloring Book, Help, Most of All Why, Touch Your Woman and the absolute heartwrenchers that are Letter to Heaven and Me & Little Andy.

Although it seems like I've barely crossed half of the finish-line, I've already saved over 200+ songs. Currently my favorite record is New Harvest...First Gathering... what a gem!

On 8/27/2026 at 9:57 AM, StonedSoulPicnic said:

"Potential New Boyfriend" should be a gay classic.

I say this to myself ALL the time.

3 minutes ago, gagacasanova said:

Although it seems like I've barely crossed half of the finish-line, I've already saved over 200+ songs.

Oh this is so real. I've finally heard more than half of the albums (31!)—though some require more listens. There are so few duds in this catalog.

She has my most saved albums of any artist, and trails only Taylor in saved songs.

11 minutes ago, Achilles. said:

Oh this is so real. I've finally heard more than half of the albums (31!)—though some require more listens. There are so few duds in this catalog.

She has my most saved albums of any artist, and trails only Taylor in saved songs.

Yeah, I've found a few duds and a few that weren't necessarily bad, just mid. I can say my absolute least favorite so far is I'll Oilwells Love You (which I found out was one of her least favorites as well).

After listening to Great Balls of Fire, Dolly surpassed Taylor and has the most liked songs of all the artists in my library. And I haven't even started on the 22nd album yet

44 minutes ago, gagacasanova said:

Ooh, I found the base! Huzzah! I've always been a fan of this legend, but I've planned on going through the queen's gigantic discography instead of just knowing her general hits. I started just mere weeks before her passing and I'm so far finished with her '60s and '70s records (I only plan on going through her solo albums).

The ones I've already stanned: Drives Me Crazy, Better Get to Livin', Faith, If You Hadn't Been There, Baby I'm Burnin', World On Fire, Here You Come Again, I Will Always Love You, 9 to 5 and Jolene.

The essential highlights I've found along the way: Great Balls of Fire, Sweet Summer Lovin', Star of the Show, I Wanna Fall in Love, Sure Thing, Two Doors Down, (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher & Higher, Light of a Clear Blue Morning (quite literally a top 5 highlight in her repertoire), Boulder to Birmingham, All I Can Do, We Used to, The Bargain Store, Love Is Like a Butterfly, Cracker Jack, My Tennessee Mountain Home, Joshua, Golden Streets of Glory, My Blue Tears, Coat of Many Colors, In the Ghetto, He's A Go Getter (the wordplay on this chef's kiss), In the Good Old Days When Times Were Bad, Something Fishy, Dumb Blonde, God's Coloring Book, Help, Most of All Why, Touch Your Woman and the absolute heartwrenchers that are Letter to Heaven and Me & Little Andy.

Although it seems like I've barely crossed half of the finish-line, I've already saved over 200+ songs. Currently my favorite record is New Harvest...First Gathering... what a gem!

I'm on the same Journey! Also skipping her albums with Porter. So far I think my favorite is Dolly: The Seeker - We Used To but there are literally so many gems really good album tracks in her discography. I'll have to say tho... I'm with you and Here You Come Again (single) is one of my faves but the album.... I fear is one of her worst for me

Edited September 7Sep 7 by rcksluke

Btw I'm on 9 to 5 rn and this is such a good album!!!! 😭

24 minutes ago, rcksluke said:

I'm on the same Journey! Also skipping her albums with Porter. So far I think my favorite is Dolly: The Seeker - We Used To but there are literally so many gems really good album tracks in her discography. I'll have to say tho... I'm with you and Here You Come Again (single) is one of my faves but the album.... I fear is one of her worst for me

Yeah, I never intend on touching their collaboration albums. As a matter of fact, I can confidently say her Porter Wagoner album is probably my least favorite at the moment, it's got a few hits but several mids & duds.

Her vocal performances on her albums in the late 70s scratches so many itches in my brain. A lot of her albums have all the songs saved in my library (The Seeker/We Used To included)

I did, however, mute re-recordings from the albums to keep it less repetitive.