Catalog Number(s):
LPM-3693 (Mono LP)
LSP-3693 (Stereo LP)
Released: January, 1967
Peaked: #8 Billboard country chart.
Recorded: July 14 & 15, 1966 at RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, TN
Producer: Chet Atkins Musicians:
Ray Edenton & Grady Martin — Guitar
Bill West — Steel Guitar
Harold Bradley — Electric Bass
Junior Huskey — Bass
Buddy Harman — Drums
Hargus Robbins — Piano
Vocal Accompaniment:
The Jordanaires
Singles Released From Album:
47-9118 Paper Mansions / Someone’s Gotta Cry – 02-67
Side One
- 1. Paper Mansions (Ted Harris)
- 2. Don’t Touch Me (Hank Cochran)
- 3. No One To Cry To (Foy Willing – Sid Robin)
- 4. A Way To Survive (Hank Cochran – Moneen Carpenter)
- 5. Don’t Keep Me Lonely Too Long (Melba Montgomery)
- 6. Loving On Borrowed Time (Dottie West – Bill West – Ray Wix)
Side Two
- 7. Almost Persuaded (Billy Sherrill – Glenn Sutton)
- 8. Tip Of My Fingers (Bill Anderson)
- 9. With All My Heart And Soul (Dottie West – Bill West)
- 10.It’s Teardrop Time (Dallas Frazier – Buddy Mize)
- 11. Someone’s Gotta Cry (Don Bowman)
- 12. How Many Lifetimes Will It Take (Dottie West)
Reviews
Liner Notes
“Dottie is a perfectionist. . .the mark of a great artist.”
Please don’t read these notes while you’re listening to the album! If you do, you either won’t hear what I’m saying, or else you won’t hear what Dottie is singing. Of course, if you are already one of her fans, you know what I’m going to say, ’cause all of us Dottie West fans are alike. However, if you’ve never met Dottie, I’d like to tell you something about her. . .SHE’S GREAT!! There are many great artists in the music industry today, but few can offer the rare qualities Dottie West is offering you in this album—”heart and soul.” Having the ability to understand people, Dottie interprets a song the way the writer intended and keeps the listeners waiting for every word. For this album she has chosen some of the best ballads of our time. Dottie is a perfectionist in the recording studio. . .the mark of a great artist. As an entertainer, Dottie West never ceases to amaze people. She performs with all the finesse of a polished pro, and yet, there’s a simplicity about her that makes her performance down-to-earth and real. She radiates warmth and a genuine friendliness. By the end of her show you feel like you know her personally, and you do! That’s just the way she is all the time. Dottie should not be overlooked as a songwriter either, for she holds her place with the best of them. She and her steel guitar-playing husband Bill composed her first big hit, Here Comes My Baby, which helped her win a Granny Award for the Best Female Performance in Country Music for the year 1964! Among her friends and fellow artists, Dottie is regarded as a one of the truly “great people” in our business, as well as one of the truly great talents. At home she plays the role of wife and mother of four children with such proficiency it’s hard to imagine that she has any career other than being a housewife. (Just between you and me, I’m pretty sure there are more than twenty-four hours in her day.) Doing all the things she dose, and being everything she is, it almost seems as if there are more than one of her. But there’s only one Dottie West. So we have to share her. Gee, I hope RCA Victor made enough albums to go around.
JEANNIE SEELY
Monument Records
