Hello, I'm Dolly

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Hello, I'm Dolly
Studio album by Dolly Parton
Released	July 1967
Recorded	1967, Nashville
Genre	Country music
Label	Monument
Producer(s)	Fred Foster
Professional reviews
All Music Guide [1]
Dolly Parton chronology
	Hello, I'm Dolly (1967)	Just Because I'm a Woman (1968)

Hello, I'm Dolly was Dolly Parton's 1967 debut album. (She had previously contributed tracks to a 1963 Kitty Wells/Patsy Cline tribute album, but Hello, I'm Dolly represented her first full-length album.) The album contained Parton's hits "Dumb Blonde" and "Something Fishy", both of which reached the top twenty on the U.S. country singles charts, and the album itself reache #11 on the country albums chart, a remarkable achievement, considering that Parton was largely an unknown at that point.

The album (along with its two hit singles, which received a considerable amount of airplay) also is largely credited with bringing Parton to the attention of Porter Wagoner, who, in late 1967, would invite Parton to join his band and appear on his weekly television show.

The album contains Parton's versions of three songs she wrote that were already hits for others by the time her debut album appeared, "Put it Off Until Tomorrow" (a hit for Bill Phillips), "Fuel to the Flame" which was a hit for Skeeter Davis, and "I'm in No Condition" which made the charts by Hank Williams Jr. although it was not a major hit.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Dumb Blonde"
2. "Your Ol' Handy Man"
3. "I Don't Wanna Throw Rice"
4. "Put It Off Until Tomorrow"
5. "I Wasted My Tears"
6. "Something Fishy"
7. "Fuel To The Flame"
8. "The Giving And The Taking"
9. "I'm In No Condition"
10. "The Company You Keep"
11. "I've Lived My Life"
12. "The Little Things"