Dolly Parton’s Blue Smoke – The Best Of Album Jumps to #3 in it’s Fifth Week On Official UK Chart; Glastonbury’s “Doggy Parton” Reunited with Original Owners
Parton Set to Perform Final Show of Blue Smoke World Tour in Locarno, Switzerland!
Locarno,
Switzerland – Dolly Parton, the most honored female country performer
of all time, will be bringing her Blue Smoke World Tour to a close on
Monday night as she takes the stage in Locarno, Switzerland. The Blue
Smoke World Tour kicked off in January with concert performances in the
United States before heading to New Zealand and Australia. Additional
shows in America preceded Dolly’s European shows, which took her to
Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and
Switzerland.
“Well first of all we’ve had an absolutely wonderful world tour.
Everywhere we’ve been, the audiences have been great, and the fact that
we are closing out in Switzerland is absolutely great. And they say
it’s one of the most beautiful venues that we’ll play – it’s an outdoor
show – we’re looking forward to that, and we couldn’t end on a better
note. I’m SO looking forward to that. That’s gonna be a great way to end
it and a great way to head home and hopefully that’ll be our best show
yet”, says Dolly Parton.
In addition, Dolly had made recent media headlines with her offer to
adopt “Doggy Parton”, the dog that was abandoned at the Glastonbury
festival. The Happy Landings Animal Shelter have reunited “Doggy
Parton” with its original owners. Dolly comments here as the story
comes to a happy ending.
“We
got a call from the main people with the government and they told us
that the true owners did come forward,” says Dolly. “There was a
language barrier; I think they were from another country. They got the
dog back so I don’t get to take her home. I was looking forward to it.”
Dolly Parton’s latest UK album release Blue Smoke – The Best Of,
continues to be a fan favorite as Dolly moves up to #3, her
all-time highest album chart position, on the UK official chart. Dolly
originally debuted on the chart five weeks ago at #6, which at the
time was her highest ever album chart position.
Blue Smoke – The Best Of, includes her latest studio album
Blue Smoke featuring “Home”, “Blue Smoke” and new duet with long- time
collaborator and friend Kenny Rogers and even a Bon Jovi cover!
Alongside her greatest hits on disc 2 featuring the classics such as
“Jolene”, “9 to 5”, “Islands in the Stream”, “Little Sparrow”, “Here You
Come Again” and “I Will Always Love You” plus many more.
Dolly has achieved 25 RIAA certified gold, platinum and
multi-platinum awards, she has had 25 songs reach number 1 on the
Billboard Country charts, a record for a female artist. She has 42
career top 10 country albums, a record for any artist, and she has 110
career charted singles over the past 40 years. All-inclusive sales of
singles, albums, hits collections, paid digital downloads and
compilation usage during her Hall of Fame career have topped a
staggering 100 million records worldwide. She has garnered 7 Grammy
Awards, 10 Country Music Association Awards, 5 Academy of Country Music
Awards, 3 American Music Awards and is one of only five female artists
to win the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year Award.
As a zenith crown to the dreams of country music that originally
brought her to Nashville, Dolly was inducted as a member of the Country
Music Hall of Fame in 1999.
Dolly’s career has spanned nearly five decades and is showing no
signs of slowing down. An internationally-renowned superstar, the
iconic and irrepressible Parton has contributed countless treasures to
the worlds of music, film and television. Some of her hit films have
included Nine to Five, Steel Magnolias, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Rhinestone. Parton received two Oscar® nominations – one for writing the title tune to Nine to Five and the other for “Travelin’ Thru” from the film Transamerica.
Track listings:
CD #1
BLUE SMOKE
UNLIKELY ANGEL
DON’T THINK TWICE
YOU CAN’T MAKE OLD FRIENDS (KENNY ROGERS FEAT. DOLLY PARTON)
HOME
BANKS OF THE OHIO
LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME
MISS YOU-MISS ME
IF I HAD WINGS
LOVER DU JOUR
FROM HERE TO THE MOON AND BACK (WILLIE NELSON FEAT. DOLLY PARTON)
TRY
CD #2
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
9 TO 5
JOLENE
TOGETHER YOU & I
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM
HERE YOU COME AGAIN
COAT OF MANY COLOURS
LITTLE SPARROW
LOVE IS LIKE A BUTTERFLY
MY TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN HOME
IN THE GHETTO
SILVER THREADS & GOLDEN NEEDLES
SACRED MEMORIES
APPLEJACK
TWO DOORS DOWN
BABY I’M BURNIN’
BETTER GET TO LIVIN’
THE SACRIFICE
FROM THE MOON AND BACK
BETTER DAY