Country Boy and Country Girl

Country Boy & Country Girl

Studio album by Jimmy Dean and Dottie West

Released

December 1970

Recorded

September, 1970 at RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, TN

Genre

Country, Nashville Sound

Label

RCA

Producer

Jerry Bradley

Dottie West chronology

Forever Yours
(1970)

Country Boy and Country Girl
(1970)

Careless Hands
(1971)

Country Boy and Country Girl is the name of a Country music duet album, with the Country singers, Jimmy Dean and Dottie West.

This album was released in 1971, and charted the "Top Country Albums" list at No. 42. The album spawned one single, "Slowly". The single reached the Country Top 30 at No. 29 on the Billboard Country charts. All the songs on this album are duets with Jimmy Dean and Dottie West. The album consists of some cover versions of Country hits, like Ray Price's "For the Good Times". Other cover versions are duet hits, like Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry's "Let It Be Me". The album led to a successful tour at the "Landmark Hotel" in Las Vegas, Nevada. This was Jimmy Dean's and Dottie West's only album together.

Track listing

"Slowly" (Webb Pierce, Tommy Hill)
"Jackson" (Billy Ed Wheeler, Jerry Leiber [as Gaby Rodgers])
"For the Good Times" (Kris Kristofferson)
"Let It Be Me" (Mann Curtis. Pierre Delanoë. Gilbert Bécaud)
"Yours Love" (Harlan Howard)
"Sweet Thang" (Nat Stuckey)
"Put It Off Until Tomorrow" (Dolly Parton, Bill Owens)
"I Got You" (Ricci Mareno, Gordon Galbraith)
"Just Someone I Used to Know" (Jack Clement)
"Wish I Didn't Have to Miss You" (Hank Cochran, Dave Kirby)

Personnel

Dottie West – vocals
Jimmy Dean – vocals
Grady Martin – guitar
Ray Edenton – guitar
Morris Wix – guitar
Harold Bradley – bass
Pete Drake – pedal steel guitar
Bill West – pedal steel guitar
Bob Moore – bass
Buddy Harman – drums
David Brigg – piano
Charlie McCoy – harmonica, vibes
The Jordanaires – background vocals

Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1970	Top Country Albums	#42
1970	The Billboard 200	#N/A

Singles – Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1971	"Slowly"	Hot Country Singles & Tracks	#29

External links

LP Discography entry for Country Boy and Country Girl

Dottie West

Studio albums	Here Comes My Baby The Country Girl Singing Sensation Dottie West Sings Suffer Time With All My Heart and Soul Dottie West Sings Sacred Ballads I'll Help You Forget Her What I'm Cut Out to Be The Sound of Country Music Country Girl Feminine Fancy Dottie Sings Eddy Makin' Memories Country and West Forever Yours Careless Hands Have You Heard ... Dottie West I'm Only a Woman If It's All Right With You/Just What I've Been Looking For Country Sunshine House of Love Carolina Cousins When It's Just You and Me Dottie Special Delivery Wild West High Times Full Circle New Horizons Just Dottie

Collaboration albums	Dottie and Don (with Don Gibson) Country Boy and Country Girl (with Jimmy Dean) Every Time Two Fools Collide (with Kenny Rogers) Classics (with Kenny Rogers)

Compilation albums	The Best of Dottie West I'd Be a Legend in My Time Would You Hold it Against Me Loving You Once You Were Mine Dottie West The Best of Dottie West Dottie West's Greatest Hits Are You Happy Baby: The Collection The Essential Dottie West Dottie West: RCA Country Legends

Notable singles	"My Big John" "Here Comes My Baby" "Would You Hold It Against Me" "What's Come Over My Baby" "Paper Mansions" "Like a Fool" "Country Girl" "Reno" "Careless Hands" "Country Sunshine" "Last Time I Saw Him" "When It's Just You and Me" "Tonight You Belong to Me" "Come See Me and Come Lonely" "You Pick Me Up (And Put Me Down)" "A Lesson in Leavin'" "Leavin's for Unbelievers" "Are You Happy Baby?" "What Are We Doin' in Love" (with Kenny Rogers) "(I'm Gonna) Put You Back on the Rack" "It's High Time"

Collaboration singles	"Love Is No Excuse" (with Jim Reeves) "Rings of Gold" (with Don Gibson) "Till I Can't Take It Anymore" (with Don Gibson) "Every Time Two Fools Collide" (with Kenny Rogers) "Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight" (with Kenny Rogers) "All I Ever Need Is You" (with Kenny Rogers) "'Til I Can Make It on My Own" (with Kenny Rogers)

Guest singles	"There's a Story (Goin' 'Round)" (with Don Gibson) "Together Again" (with Kenny Rogers)

Related	Albums Singles Shelly West Chet Atkins RCA Victor Records

Jimmy Dean

Studio albums	Everybody's Favourite (1967) Country Boy and Country Girl (1970)

Songs	"Big Bad John" "PT-109" "Mind Your Own Business" "The First Thing Ev'ry Morning (And the Last Thing Ev'ry Night)" "A Thing Called Love" "I.O.U."

Television	The Jimmy Dean Show

Business ventures	Jimmy Dean sausage

Related	Discography

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