The Great Pretender (Dolly Parton album)

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The Great Pretender
The Great Pretender cover
Studio album by Dolly Parton
Released January, 1984
Recorded 1983
Genre Country
Length 35:44
Label RCA
Producer(s) Val Garray
Professional reviews
Dolly Parton chronology
Burlap & Satin (1983) The Great Pretender (1984) Rhinestone (film soundtrack) (1984)


The Great Pretender was a 1984 Dolly Parton album, comprised of covers of hits from the 1950s and 1960s. The first single, a remake of The Drifters' 1960 hit "Save the Last Dance for Me" was a top ten country single for Parton in early 1984. Parton's cover of the 1965 Petula Clark hit "Downtown" was the album's second single. The title song was originally a hit for The Platters.

[edit] Track listing

  1. Save the Last Dance for Me
  2. I Walk the Line
  3. Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season)
  4. Downtown
  5. Elusive Butterfly
  6. She Don't Love You Like I Love You
  7. We'll Sing in the Sunshine
  8. I Can't Help Myself
  9. We Had it All
  10. The Great Pretender