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Catalog Number(s): SLP-302 (Stereo LP)
Producer: Tommy Hill

Released: 1964
Peaked: Didn’t Chart.
Recorded:  1960-1961 at Starday Sound Studio, Nashville, TN

Singles Released From Album: None

Side One:

  • 1. Angel On Paper (Paul Borst – Delmar Williams)
  • 2. Crazy (Willie Nelson)
  • 3. My Big John (J. Dean-Ira & Charlie Louvin – J. Newman)
  • 4. I’d Be Lying (P. Blevins)
  • 5. Men With Evil Hearts (Tommy Hill)
  • 6. Heartbreak U.S.A (Harlan Howard)

Side Two:

  • 7. I Fall To Pieces (Christmas Every Other Year) (Hank Cochran)
  • 8. Sing A Little Song Of Heartache (Del Reeves – Ellen Reeves)
  • 9. I Should Start Running (Paul Windy Blevins)
  • 10. I Lost, You Win, I’m Leaving (Tommy Hill – Ray King)
  • 11. Walking In The Dark (Joseph Adams – Rubye Glasgow)
  • 12. She’s Got You (Hank Cochran)

Reviews

Miss West is among the top-selling female recording artists in the c&w field. Her current single release on another label, “Here Comes My Baby,” is still registering on BB’s c&w chart after a 17-week run. The tunes and Dottie’s stylings are all first rate. Whether singing on up-tempo or tear jerker ballad. Dottie’s personal touch is hard to beat.

Liner Notes

The beautiful girl pictured on the front of this album is none other than Dottie West, sensational new star on the Country Music horizon. Her recent hit duets with Jim Reeves have established her as a Country Music entertainer. Dottie West majored in Music while attending Tennessee Tech in Cookeville, Tennessee and played, of all things, drums in the marching band. Her husband incidentally, whom she met at college, plays the steel guitar. Dottie and Bill West moved to Cleveland, Ohio in 1956 where Dottie did a weekly TV show called Landmark Jamboree and started making personal appearances throughout the area. Delmar Williams, a Dayton, Ohio Country Music songwriter and promoter, recognized Dottie’s talent and brought her to the Starday Studios to make records in 1961. Country Music dee jays loved her work and her career started to gather steam. Her Starday recording of I SHOULD START RUNNING became a best-seller. Dottie wanted to be part of the Nashville Music/scene so she moved to Nashville. More recordings followed, and Dottie picked up a lot of valuable experience and made several guest appearances on the Grand Ole Opry. Dottie and Bill West wrote IS THIS ME? which was an international smash hit by Jim Reeves, Her acquaintanceship with Jim Reeves and Chet Atkins resulted in an RCA Victor contract and a duet record with Jim Reeves and the rest is history. At Starday, we wish Dottie West every success regardless of the label she is on. She is wonderful to work wit, she’s a talented songwriter and singer, and we feel she has a tremendous future. Her vocal talent is amply demonstrated in this album as she sings many of the greatest Country Music song hits of recent years including CRAZY, I FALL TO PIECES. SHE’S GOT YOU, SING A LITTLE SONG OF HEARTACHE, and others. She also sang some duets with Cowboy Copas which appear in other Starday albums. These recordings were made at the Starday Sound Studios in Nashville under the direction of Tommy Hill with Jack “Hoes” Linneman at the controls. Recordings were made in stereo and remixed for maximum monaural sound quality. This is another in a series of Country Music album presentations by Sunday, a label engaged exclusively in presenting the truly authentic in Country and Sacred Music worldwide.

 

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