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Released: July, 1966
Peaked: #3 Billboard country chart

Recorded: September 28, 1965 and February 8 & 10, 1966 at RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, TN
Producer: Chet Atkins
Recording Engineers: Bill Vandevort and Jim Malloy

Musicians:
Ray Edenton, Grady Martin, Jerry Reed & Velma Smith — Guitar
Bill West — Steel Guitar
Henry Strzelecki & Harold Bradley— Bass
Kenny Buttrey, Buddy Harman & Jerry Carrigan — Drums
Floyd Cramer — Piano
Charlie McCoy — Vibes
+ Arranged by Ray Stevens

Background Accompaniment:
The Jordanaires

Singles Released From Album:
47-8702 Before The Ring On Your Finger Turns Green / Wear Away – 11-65
47-8770 Would You Hold It Against Me / You’re The Only World I Know
47-8900 Mommy, Can I Still Call Him Daddy? / Suffer Time – 07-66
47-9011 What’s Come Over My Baby / How Many Lifetimes Will It Take – 10-66

Side One:

  • 1. Mommy, Can I Still Call Him Daddy (Dottie West – Bill West)
  • 2. Another Heart For You To Break (Carl Belew – Clyde Pitts – Jeannie Seely)
  • 3. Baby (Ray Griff)
  • 4. Before The Ring On Your Finger Turns Green (Boudleaux Bryant – Felice Bryant)
  • 5. Wear Away (Dottie West – Bill West)
  • 6. Fair Weather Lover (Dottie West – Bill West)

Side Two:

  • 7. Suffertime (Dottie West – Bill West)
  • 8. Let Me Talk To You (Danny Dill – Don Davis)
  • 9. Would You Hold It Against Me (Dottie West – Bill West)
  • 10.Just Out Of Reach (Virgil F. Stewart)
  • 11. What’s Come Over My Baby (Dottie West – Bill West)
  • 12. Is This Me? (Dottie West – Bill West)

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Reviews

A beautiful selection of sad, wistful songs of love on the outs, including her current hit—”Before the Ring on Your Finger Turns Green”—that will be an automatic best seller on the country chart. “Would You Hold It Against Me” is another tune bound for classicdom.
Currently holding down a comfortable spot in the country charts with her latest single, “Would You Hold It Against Me,” Dottie West is certain to stir up similar response with this Victor LP. Highlighted by that same single, and featuring strictly heartbreak items, the album is a feelingful, sensitive performance that should do very well. Other tracks include her recent hit “Before The Ring On Your Finger Turns Green” and “Baby.”

Liner Notes

Dottie West Sings of The Sorrow of Love
It seems ironic that anyone as refreshingly beautiful and vivaciously happy as Dottie West—one of the brightest stars on the Nashville scene today—could sing so meaningfully about matters of the troubled heart, lost love and the like. But, from the start, tempo shows, lights dim, and this fabulously flexible woman digs deep into her reservoir of romance to put her “sad” foot forward for her fans. Dottie becomes the universal woman scorned, a sort of “doubting thomasina,” whose house, bankrupt of happiness, echoes with hollow footsteps, and memories of yesteryear. With these songs Dottie cements the impression already held by her Tennessee musical contemporaries. . .the options that as a talent she has no peer. Though Dottie loses in Super Time, not so for her life—she’s truly a winner. Most of the songs you’ll hear are new, but all are sad and magnificent staged for your benefit. Before the Ring on Your Finger Turns Green is a Dottie West hit included by popular demand. Suffertime, title song of the album, bids for greatness in a way few tunes do. Dottie’s rendition of Mommy Can I Still Call Him Daddy and Another Heart for You to Break will almost break your heart—they’re sorrowful and sad bit faced with love, too. Let Dottie be your hostess now, and through her sympathetic and sensitive treatment of these songs you will taste the unhappiness of the eternal loser.

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