Dolly Parton W/Kenny Rogers "Real Love" 1985 Rca Mint-/Ex- Promo 7" Pop Duet

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ARTIST: DOLLY PARTON DUET WITH KENNY ROGERS

TITLE: “REAL LOVE” ((3:46) b/w SAME PROMO 7” SINGLE

RECORD LABEL: RCA RECORDS

CAT #: JK-14058

YEAR: 1985

RECORD CONDITION: IS IN NM/NM- CONDITION, THE SONGS BOTH PLAY SUPER CLEAN. NO FINGERPRINTS, SMUDGES ETC. NO CLICKS, POPS, SCRATCHES OR SKIPS. BOTH LABELS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

SLEEVE: IN EX- CONDITION, COMES IN THE ORIGINAL COOL PICTURE SLEEVE.

OTHER INFO: THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. TITLE TRACK FROM HER “REAL LOVE” ALBUM. PRINTED ON BOTH LABELS IS “NOT FOR SALE”. NOTE I HAVE A COUPLE DOLLY/KENNY 45's I AM SELLING & I DO COMBINE SHIPPING. THANKS FOR LOOKING!

ARTIST INFO:

Parton was born into a large family, the fourth of twelve children, on January 19, 1946 in Locust Ridge, Tennessee. She came from deep in Appalachia, where music was an integral part of life for those who, like the Partons, struggled to make a hard living. Her mother was a singer who taught Dolly church music along with the Elizabethan ballads her ancestors had brought to America. Dolly’s grandfather was a fiddling preacher who wrote “Singing His Praise,” which was recorded by Kitty Wells. Several of Dolly’s eleven siblings have been active in music, and some worked for a time in her family band.

Parton’s childhood figured very strongly in her ambition to escape her circumstances, and in the many frank, unromantic songs she wrote about her experience and about life in Appalachia. For example, “Coat of Many Colors” (#4, 1971) was a straight-ahead account of a humiliating experience she had suffered at school when classmates made fun of her patchwork, homemade coat.

Parton was encouraged in her tentative attempts at music by her uncle Bill Owens, who bought her a guitar and who, by the time she was ten years old, managed to land her a stint on a television variety show in the nearest big town, Knoxville. Nashville soon took note of her, and she made her first guest appearance on the Grand Ole Opry at age thirteen in 1959. She also recorded a single for a small Louisiana label, and one for Mercury Records in Nashville in 1962.

Parton was not daunted by the lack of success of her early recordings, so in 1964 she packed her bags and left for Nashville immediately after graduating from high school. Her first day in town, she met her future husband, contractor Carl Dean, in a laundromat. Her musical career progressed apace; people began to take note of her as a songwriter, especially after a pair of songs she wrote with Bill Owens became Top Ten hits for Bill Phillips in 1966. Then she recorded for Fred Foster’s Monument Records from 1965 to 1967, with “Dumb Blonde”—which attacked traditional female stereotypes—becoming her first Top Forty hit.

Parton’s pivotal career moment came in 1967, in the form of a phone call from the syndicated television series The Porter Wagoner Show. Wagoner, a flashy-dressing traditional country singer, was looking to replace his duet partner Norma Jean. As a team, Wagoner and Parton became immediate audience favorites. Her hourglass figure, outrageous outfits, and angelic voice played off perfectly against Wagoner’s cornpone humor and old-fashioned country sensibility. RCA Records signed Parton as both Wagoner’s duet partner and as a solo recording artist. She became increasingly successful in both personas, and soon began to eclipse Wagoner’s own star.

Parton’s first solo #1 hit was her composition “Joshua” (1970–1971), and that led to three more #1 songs in 1974: “Jolene,” “Love Is Like a Butterfly,” and “I Will Always Love You.” That the latter song was her own personal farewell to partner Wagoner became painfully evident to him when she left his TV show that year. Under contractual obligations, he continued to produce her records until 1976 (including the #1 hit “The Bargain Store” in 1975), but she was soon on her own.

In retrospect, the early- to mid-1970s was the most creatively fertile period of Parton’s country music career. She was voted the Country Music Association’s (CMA) Female Vocalist of the Year in both 1975 and 1976. Additionally, 1973 yielded what has come to be regarded by some as her most nearly-perfect album, My Tennessee Mountain Home. It’s a bittersweet look backward at a life and a tradition she was bound on leaving. The cover is a picture of the cabin in which she grew up in Sevierville; the songs, especially the title cut, are a matter-of-fact tribute to a people and a way of life that are vanishing. “I wanted to be free,” she told Rolling Stone in 1977. “I had my songs to sing, I had an ambition and it burned inside me. It was something I knew would take me out of the mountains. I knew I could see worlds beyond the Smoky Mountains.”

Parton’s new life looked beyond Nashville and increasingly upon Hollywood. Her first album after declaring her independence from Wagoner was 1977’s New Harvest, First Gathering, which yielded the #11 single “Light of a Clear Blue Morning.” That same year brought the album Here You Come Again, a glitzy—and successful—attempt at a country-to-pop crossover. The CMA named her Entertainer of the Year in 1978, and it seemed as if Parton could preserve the best of both worlds.

Parton’s country career became erratic after that, however, even as her name became a household word and she became a constant presence on network TV, appearing on talk shows, specials, and a brief self-titled series of her own in 1976. Her movie career bounced from stellar (9 to 5) to forgettable (Rhinestone, which attempted to make Sylvester Stallone a believable country singer). Her recording triumphs included 1987’s Trio album with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt and the 1993 Honky Tonk Angels collaboration with Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette. In 1992 the singer Whitney Houston recorded Parton’s “I Will Always Love You,” which became a #1 smash hit in the pop market, partly due to its inclusion in the soundtrack for the movie The Bodyguard.

Parton has also demonstrated her business acumen in several ventures, most notably the theme park Dollywood in East Tennessee, near Sevierville. In 1985 she and other investors opened the park, which has become one of the South’s leading tourist attractions. Through Dollywood and the non-profit Dollywood Foundation, Parton has contributed in many ways to her home county’s economy and to scholarship programs for high school students there. Her Imagination Library, which gives one free book a month to children from birth to age five, has distributed more than 100 million books, and expanded from East Tennessee to towns across the United States and into England and Australia. She also supports the Dolly Parton Center for Women’s Services in Sevierville. There is now a life-size statue of Parton on the lawn of the Sevier County courthouse.

In 1996 Parton cut Treasures, an album of favorites (non-Parton songs), for the new Nashville recording label Rising Tide Entertainment. The album was a critical success but did not fare well commercially. In that same year she and Vince Gill won the CMA’s Vocal Event of the Year Award for their duet recording of “I Will Always Love You.” Parton, Harris, and Ronstadt joined forces again for Trio II, and the supergroup’s rendition of Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush” won a 1999 Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. In 1999 Parton was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame.

That year also marked Parton’s coming full circle to the music she grew up hearing. She released her first bluegrass album for Sugar Hill, The Grass Is Blue. It was named Album of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) and won a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. Two additional bluegrass albums, Little Sparrow (2001) and Halos and Horns (2002), followed. In 2003 Sugar Hill released Just Because I’m a Woman: Songs of Dolly Parton, a tribute album, which included tracks from Norah Jones, Sinead O’Connor, Alison Krauss, and Shania Twain, among others.

In 2004, the Library of Congress presented Parton with the Living Legend Award for her contributions to the United States’ cultural landscape. In 2005, she received the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the U.S. government; a year later, she received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors.

Parton wrote the music and lyrics for the musical adaptation of 9 to 5, which debuted on Broadway in 2009; her work was nominated for the Best Original Score Tony award. – Chet Flippo

  • Adapted from the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum’s Encyclopedia of Country Music, published by Oxford University Press.

KENNY ROGERS BIO

Kenneth Donald Rogers, 21 August 1938, Houston, Texas, USA. Rogers was the fourth of eight children, born in a poor area, where his father worked in a shipyard and his mother in a hospital. By sheer perseverance, he became the first member of his family to graduate. By 1955 Rogers was part of a doo-wop group, the Scholars, who recorded ‘Poor Little Doggie’, ‘Spin The Wheel’ and ‘Kangewah’, which was written by gossip columnist Louella Parsons. At the age of 19, he recorded ‘That Crazy Feeling’ as Kenneth Rogers for the small Houston label Carlton Records. Rogers’ brother Lelan (b. 1928, USA, d. 22 July 2002, Nashville, Tennessee, USA), who had worked for Decca Records, promoted the record and its local success prompted the brothers to form their own label, Ken-Lee, although Rogers’ single ‘Jole Blon’ was unsuccessful. Rogers also recorded ‘For You Alone’ for the Carlton label as Kenny Rogers The First. When Lelan managed Mickey Gilley, Rogers played bass on his 1960 single ‘Is It Wrong?’, and he also played stand-up bass with the jazz outfit Bobby Doyle Three (he appears on their 1962 album of standards, In A Most Unusual Way).

After recording solo for Mercury Records, Rogers joined the New Christy Minstrels (he appears on their 1966 album of pop hits, New Kick!) while forming a splinter group the First Edition with other Minstrels - Mike Settle, Thelma Camacho and Terry Williams. The First Edition signed with Reprise Records and enjoyed a string of country pop hit singles in the late 60s and early 70s, including ‘Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)’, ‘But You Know I Love You’, ‘Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town’ and ‘Something’s Burning’. Now billed as Kenny Rogers And The First Edition, the band left Reprise in 1972 to record for Rogers’ Jolly Rogers label. Rogers has since described running the label as ‘a lesson in futility’. When First Edition broke up in 1974, he owed $65, 000.

The following year, Rogers signed with United Artists Records and his producer, Larry Butler, envisaged how he could satisfy both pop and country markets. Impotence was an extraordinary subject for a hit record, but ‘Lucille’ (US number 5, UK number 1) established Rogers as a country star. He wrote and recorded ‘Sweet Music Man’, although the song is more appropriate for female singers and has been recorded by Billie Jo Spears, Anne Murray, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and Millie Jackson. Rogers, who had a second solo hit with ‘Daytime Friends’, toured the UK with Crystal Gayle, and, although plans to record with her did not materialize, he formed a successful partnership with Dottie West. Don Schlitz’s story-song, ‘The Gambler’, was ideal for Rogers and inspired the television movies The Gambler, The Gambler II and The Gambler Returns which featured Rogers. His love for poignant ballads about life on the road, such as ‘She Believes In Me’ (US number 5), is explained by his own life. Rogers had the first of four marriages in 1958 and blames constant touring for the failure of his relationships (although Rogers says the worst aspect of touring is being bombarded with grey-bearded lookalikes!). His fourth marriage was to Marianne Gordon, a presenter of the US television series Hee Haw and an actress who appeared in Rosemary’s Baby. His stage show promoted his happy family life and included home movies of their child, Christopher Cody. ‘You Decorated My Life’ was another US hit and then came ‘Coward Of The County’ (US number 3, UK number 1). This song, too, became a successful television movie, and the album Kenny sold over five million copies.

Rogers also made the documentary Kenny Rogers And The American Cowboy, and a concept album about a modern-day Texas cowboy, Gideon, led to a successful duet, ‘Don’t Fall In Love With A Dreamer’ (US number 4), with one of its writers, Kim Carnes. Rogers also had success with ‘Love The World Away’ from the soundtrack of the movie Urban Cowboy, and ‘Love Will Turn You Around’ from Six Pack, a light-hearted television movie in which he starred. Rogers’ voice was ideal for Lionel Richie’s slow-paced love songs and ‘Lady’ topped the US charts for six weeks. This was followed by ‘I Don’t Need You’ (US number 3) from the album Richie produced for Rogers, Share Your Love. Rogers and Sheena Easton revived the Bob Seger song ‘We’ve Got Tonight’ (US number 6).

Having sold 35 million albums for United Artists, Rogers moved to RCA Records. Eyes That See In The Dark was produced by Barry Gibb, featured the Bee Gees, and included ‘Islands In The Stream’ (US number 1, UK number 7) with Dolly Parton, which was helped by her playful approach on the video. Further US hits include ‘What About Me?’ with James Ingram and Kim Carnes and ‘Make No Mistake, She’s Mine’ with Ronnie Milsap. Surprisingly, Rogers has not recorded with his close friend Glen Campbell, although he took the cover photograph for his album Southern Nights. Rogers was also featured on USA For Africa’s highly successful ‘We Are The World’. George Martin was an inspired choice of producer for The Heart Of The Matter album, which led to two singles that topped the US country charts, ‘Morning Desire’ and ‘Tomb Of The Unknown Love’. The title track from They Don’t Make Them Like They Used To was the theme song for the Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster movie Tough Guys, but overall, Rogers’ services on RCA may have disappointed its management, who had spent $20 million to secure his success. Rogers returned to Reprise but the opening track of his first album, ‘Planet Texas’, sounded like a joke. His son, Kenny Rogers Jnr., sang background vocals on his father’s records and launched his own career in 1989 with the single ‘Take Another Step Closer’.

Rogers now breeds Arabian horses and cattle on his 1, 200-acre farm in Georgia and has homes in Malibu, Bel Air and Beverly Hills. He owns entertainment centres and recording studios and has 200 employees. This is impressive for someone who was described by Rolling Stone as an ‘overweight lightweight’. He says, ‘I’ve never taken my talent that seriously. At one time I had a three-and-a-half octave range and sang the high parts in a jazz group. Now I don’t use it because I don’t have to. If Muhammad Ali can beat anyone without training, why train?’ He now records for his own independent label Dreamcatcher Records, and unexpectedly found himself with a huge hit in 2000. ‘Buy Me A Rose’, featuring both Billy Dean and Alison Krauss on harmony vocals, topped the US country chart.

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  • Condition: Used
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  • Producer: DAVID MALLOY
  • Custom Bundle: No
  • Inlay Condition: Very Good (VG)
  • Record Grading: Near Mint (NM or M-)
  • Speed: 45 RPM
  • Format: Record
  • Type: Single
  • Record Label: RCA RECORDS
  • Color: Black
  • Fidelity Level: Full-Range
  • Edition: ORIGINAL 7" PROMO, First Pressing, Limited Edition, Promo
  • Genre: Pop
  • Era: 1980s
  • Vinyl Matrix Number: PB-14058-A
  • Artist: Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Catalog Number: JK-14058
  • Style: POP, 2010s, Duet
  • Material: Vinyl
  • Case Type: Paper Sleeve
  • Record Size: 7"
  • Features: NOT SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC, THIS IS OUT OF PRINT, COMES IN STOCK PICTURE SLEEVE
  • Release Title: Real Love
  • Release Year: 1985
  • Language: English
  • Run Time: 3:46
  • Number of Audio Channels: Stereo
  • Sleeve Grading: Excellent (EX)

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