Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You

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“Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You”
“Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You” cover
Single by Dolly Parton
from the album Dolly, Dolly, Dolly
B-side "I Knew You When"
Released July 1980
Recorded RCA Studios, Nashville; 1980
Genre Country
Label RCA
Writer(s) Pete Sebert, Hugh Moffatt
Producer Gary Klein
Dolly Parton singles chronology
"Starting Over Again"
(1980)
"Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You"
(1980)
"9 to 5"
(1980)

"Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You" was a country song written by Pebe Sebert and Hugh Moffatt. It provided a top forty U.S. country hit for Joe Sun in 1978, and was later covered by Dolly Parton, who took it to the top of the U.S. country charts in August 1980. In the song, the narrator tells their lover not to feel threatened by past affairs for these "old flames" are in the past. Parton included her version on her 1980 Dolly, Dolly, Dolly album, and it was released as the album's second single, after the success, "Starting Over Again".

The song was also recorded by classic country legend Merle Haggard on his 1985 album titled Kern River. There is some irony in this situation, considering Haggard claims to have had a thing for Dolly in the past.

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Preceded by
"Lookin' for Love"
by Johnny Lee
Billboard Hot Country Singles number one single
September 27, 1980
by Dolly Parton
Succeeded by
"Do You Wanna Go to Heaven"
by T. G. Sheppard
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