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Released: June, 1965
Peaked: #12 Billboard country chart.

Recorded: May 27, 1963, February 27, 1964 and January 1965 at RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, TN
Producer: Chet Atkins
Recording Engineers: William Vandevort
Arranged by Anita Kerr and W.M. McElhiney

Musicians:
Ray Edenton, Grady Martin, Harold Bradley & Jerry Reed — Guitar
Bill West — Steel Guitar
Henry Strzelecki & Bob Moore — Bass
Kenny Buttrey & Buddy Harman — Drums
Floyd Cramer — Piano
Anita Kerr Singers

Photographer: Les Leverett

Singles Released From Album:
47-8374 Here Comes My Baby / (How Can I Face) These Heartaches Alone – 06-64
47-8467 Didn’t I? / In Its Own Little Way – 11-64

Side One

  • 1. Here Comes My Baby (Dottie West – Bill West)
  • 2. Night Life (Willie Nelson – Paul Buskirk – Walt Breeland)
  • 3. That’s Where Our Love Must Be (Dottie West)
  • 4. In Its Own Little Way (Dottie West – Bill West)
  • 5. Take Me As I Am (Boudleaux Bryant)
  • 6. No One Will Ever Know (Fred Rose – Mel Foree)

Side Two

  • 7. Didn’t I? (Dottie West)
  • 8. Mama Kiss The Hurt Away (Dottie West – Bill West)
  • 9. Touch Me (Willie Nelson)
  • 10. Mama You’d Have Been Proud Of Me (Hank Cochran)
  • 11. I Dreamed Of An Old Love Affair (Jimmie Davis – Charles Mitchell – Bonnie Dodd)
  • 12. All The World Is Lonely Now (Mel Foree)

Reviews

This is a beautifully produced package, with the enchantress’ voice showcased by tasteful instrumental and choral arrangements. This album debut leads off with Dottie’s big hit, “Here Comes My Baby,” and contains a number of fine weepers such as the bluesy “Night Life” and the plaintive “No One Will Ever Know.”

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Liner Notes

Here Comes Dottie West!


Dottie West is enthusiasm! She brings this quality to bear on any activity that touches her interesting life. Boredom has its way most often where life is too easy. Perhaps Dottie’s enthusiasm has its fountainhead in the truth that none of her achievements has come easily. During her early life, she knew the demands of a daily farm routine. She worked in the cotton and surgar cane. Later, she worked at two after—school-hour jobs to finance her college career. Throughout all these activities, music was weaving a pattern that was to become the fabric of her heart. She did the usual local radio shows, played various local functions and made her first recording. She became a member of the Grand Ole Opry and signed to record for RCA Victor. She did a duet record with the late Jim Reeves—Love Is No Excuse. Shortly after, she knew the exhilaration of writing and recording a song which is so closely associated with her success that it became the inevitable title for her first RCA Victor album: HERE COMES MY BABY. As we listen to the songs she has chosen to sing, we can savor with Dottie the success she has attained. And if, as you listen, you wax enthusiastic, it is only natural—because the enthusiasm of Dottie West is very infectious!

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