Catalog Number(s):
LPM-3830 (Mono LP)
LSP-3830 (Stereo LP)
Released: November, 1967
Peaked: #11 Billboard country chart.
Recorded: March, 1967 at RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, TN
Producer: Chet Atkins
Arranged and conducted by: *Ray Stevens
Vocal accompaniments by: Jordanaires
Musicians:
Unknown
Singles Released From Album:
47-9267 Everything’s A Wreck (Since You’ve Gone) / Like A Fool – 07-67
Side One
- 1. Give Him My Love* (Ken Williams – Rose Marie McCoy)
- 2. Touch My Heart* (Johnny Paycheck – Aubrey Mayhew – Donny Young)
- 3. Funny, Familiar, Forgotten Feelings* (Mickey Newbury)
- 4. No One (Dottie West – Bill West)
- 5. Lonely Again* (Jean Chapel)
- 6. The Last Letter (Rex Griffin)
Side Two
- 7. I’ll Help You Forget Her* (Yvonne Devaney)
- 8. Walk Through This World With Me (Sandy Seamons – Kaye Savage)
- 9. Everything’s A Wreck* (Dottie West – Bill West)
- 10.A Legend In My Time (Don Gibson)
- 11. Like A Fool* (Yvonne Devaney)
- 12. There Goes My Everything (Dallas Frazier)
Reviews
Liner Notes
Dottie West- “Eloquence in Action”
Let’s start by going back to the year 1932. You won’t require a course in instant recall to remember some of the things that were happening then. That was the time when Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlanta alone and the year Lindbergh kidnapping. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York was elected to his first term as President and the Model A Fords with running boards and rumble seats were the rage. It was also the year a second son was born to the Lindbergh family and his father, through the news media, appealed to the press to let his child “lead a normal life,” without publicity. Also in the year 1932 a little brown-eyed, auburn-haired baby girl was born to Mrs. Pelina Marsh who lived, at that time, in Frog Pond, Tennessee, which is near McMinnville, Tennessee, which is an hour-and-a-half drive from Music City, U.S.A. Mrs. Marsh, however, never thought about mentioning to the press, or anyone else, anything about her daughter’s leading a normal life. She never dreamed that that the infact she was cuddling at that time would, a few years later, become RCA Victor’s prima donna of the country field—Dottie West. But even if she had known, she wouldn’t have protected, but rather encouraged her, because no one is prouder of Dottie’s success than her mother. Today Dottie West is many things to many people and something very special to us all. To her mother she is the oldest of ten children. To her husband, Bill, she’s the greatest wife in the world. To her four lovely children, she’s a devoted mother. It’s no secret to her many close friends that she’s an excellent cook. To anyone who sees her she’s a bundle of talent radiating poise, beauty and charm. To those who listen to the radio, jukeboxes, or buy phonograph records—she’s eloquence in action and sounds like a rainbow looks. To herself she’s just a lucky girl whose talent and ambition were called to the attention of Chet Atkins of RCA Victor. (But don’t you agree that Chet and RAC Victor were equally lucky?) Indeed it’s a rare occasion when all things I have mentioned are contained in one package. Speaking of packages, this album contains twelve songs that showcase the talent of Dottie West in a most effective way. There are songs that will bring smiles and tears as close together as they will ever be, and songs that will add more glitter to a star that’s already shining very brightly and is destined to shine even brighter as time rolls along.
Bob Jenning
WLAC Radio
Nashville, Tennessee
