The Right Combination/Burning The Midnight Oil

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The Right Combination/Burning the Midnight Oil
The Right Combination/Burning the Midnight Oil cover
Studio album by Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton
Released January 1972
Recorded RCA's Studio "B", Nashville, 1971
Genre Country
Label RCA
Producer(s) Bob Ferguson
Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton chronology
The Best Of Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton (1971) The Right Combination/Burning The Midnight Oil (1972) Together Always (1972)


The Right Combination/Burning the Midnight Oil was a duet album by Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton from 1972. It included the humorous "Her and the Car and the Mobile Home" (in which a wife leaves her husband, taking their trailer with her, leaving him dumped and homeless), which became a concert favorite. The two title songs, "The Right Combination" and "Burning the Midnight Oil" were both top twenty hits on the U.S. country charts; the album reached #6 on the country albums charts.

[edit] Track listing

  1. More Than Words Can Tell
  2. The Right Combination
  3. I've Been This Way too Long
  4. In Each Love Pain Must Fall
  5. Her and The Car and the Mobile Home
  6. Burning the Midnight Oil
  7. Somewhere Along the Way
  8. On and On
  9. Through Thick and Thin
  10. Fog Has Lifted