Catalog Number (s): CPL1-7047

Released: 1985

Peaked: Didn’t Chart

Singles Released From Album: None

R & R Coordinator: Steve Lindsey

Art Direction and Design: Tal Howell Design

Remastering Engineers: Randy Kling, Jim Loyd, Disc Mastering, Inc., Nashville, TN

Photography: Herb Burnette

Side One

• 1. Would You Hold It Against Me* (Dottie West – Bill West)
• 2. Suffertime* (Dottie West – Bill West)
• 3. I Love You So Much It Hurts** (Floyd Tillman)
• 4. Make The World Go Away** (Hank Cochran)
• 5. Last Word In Lonesome Is Me** (Roger Miller)

Side Two

• 5. COUNTRY GIRL (Dottie West – Red Lane)
• 6. FOREVER YOURS (Dottie West)
• 7. LAST TIME I SAW HIM (Michael Masser – Pamela Sawyer)
• 8. COUNTRY SUNSHINE (Dottie West – Billy Davis)

Liner Notes

The years that Dottie West spent recording for RCA Records were unquestionably the most prolific and successful in her long and illustrious career. Signed to the label in 1962, the auburn-haired, husky-voiced songstress released 36 albums and over 100 singles. While her predecessors such as Kitty Wells and Patsy Cline may have opened the door for women in country music, it was vocalists like Dottie whose talents and accomplishments made sure it stayed open. With her 1964 hit, “Here Comes My Baby.” Dottie became the first female country singer to win a Grammy Award for Best Female Performance. The song, which she also wrote, has been recorded by more than 100 artists. She was inspired to write the song by a welcome mat at a Holiday Inn. At the time, Dottie was on tour and yearned to be home with her newborn child, daughter Shelly. Little did she know the magnitude of her heartfelt inspiration when she sat alone in her motel  room and composed the tune. The McMinnville, Tennessee native has totaled 18 Grammy nominations in her career, most of them when she was signed to RCA. In 1974, her song “Country Sunshine,” a country smash and Top-40 pop hit, was nominated in both the performance and songwriting categories. The tune, which was adapted from a commercial she wrote for Coca-Cola, did earn her a CLEO Award in 1973 as the Best Commercial of the year. Among her other Top 10 hits which she enjoyed at RCA are: “Country Girl.” “Paper Mansions.” “Would You Hold It Against Me,” and “Last Time I Saw Him.” A farm girl who worked her way through college at Tennessee Tech University, Dottie once noted, “I can’t remember when I didn’t sing.” Listening to the songs on this Collector’s Series LP, one is reminded that this is indeed a woman who was born to sing.

 

Kelly Delaney