Country Girl (Dottie West album)

Country Girl

Studio album by Dottie West

Released

August 1968

Recorded

February 1968; RCA Victor Studios, Nashville, Tennessee

Genre

Country, Nashville sound

Dottie West chronology

What I'm Cut Out to Be
(1968)

Country Girl
(1968)

Feminine Fancy
(1968)

Country Girl is an album released by country music singer, Dottie West in 1968.

This album was released subsequent to the success of the track "Country Girl" as a single, "Country Girl" having reached #15 on the Billboard Country charts and becoming a signature song of West's. West would be recruited in 1973 to write and sing jingles for Coca Cola commercials after an associate of McCann-Erickson Advertising heard "Country Girl"^[1] (see "Country Sunshine").

The Country Girl album peaked at #18 on the "Top Country Albums" chart in 1968.

Track listing

"Country Girl" (Red Lane, Dottie West)
"Less of Me" (Glen Campbell)
"Faded Love" (Bob Wills, John Wills)
"Just Call Me Lonesome" (Rex Griffin)
"My Goal for Today" (Ray Pennington, Chuck Howard)
"You've Still Got a Place in My Heart" (Leon Payne)
"Little Things" (Willie Nelson, Shirley Nelson)
"Too Far Gone" (Billy Sherrill)
"Healing Hands of Time" (Willie Nelson)
"When" (Ben Peters)
"Hold Me Tighter" (Willie Nelson)
"Take These Chains from My Heart" (Fred Rose, Hy Heath)

Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1968	Top Country Albums	#18
1968	The Billboard 200	#N/A

Singles – Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1968	"Country Girl"	Hot Country Singles & Tracks	#15

References

↑ Telegraph-Herald August 18 1976 p.12

Dottie West

Studio albums	Here Comes My Baby The Country Girl Singing Sensation Dottie West Sings Suffer Time With All My Heart and Soul Dottie West Sings Sacred Ballads I'll Help You Forget Her What I'm Cut Out to Be The Sound of Country Music Country Girl Feminine Fancy Dottie Sings Eddy Makin' Memories Country and West Forever Yours Careless Hands Have You Heard ... Dottie West I'm Only a Woman If It's All Right With You/Just What I've Been Looking For Country Sunshine House of Love Carolina Cousins When It's Just You and Me Dottie Special Delivery Wild West High Times Full Circle New Horizons Just Dottie

Collaboration albums	Dottie and Don (with Don Gibson) Country Boy and Country Girl (with Jimmy Dean) Every Time Two Fools Collide (with Kenny Rogers) Classics (with Kenny Rogers)

Compilation albums	The Best of Dottie West I'd Be a Legend in My Time Would You Hold it Against Me Loving You Once You Were Mine Dottie West The Best of Dottie West Dottie West's Greatest Hits Are You Happy Baby: The Collection The Essential Dottie West Dottie West: RCA Country Legends

Notable singles	"My Big John" "Here Comes My Baby" "Would You Hold It Against Me" "What's Come Over My Baby" "Paper Mansions" "Like a Fool" "Country Girl" "Reno" "Careless Hands" "Country Sunshine" "Last Time I Saw Him" "When It's Just You and Me" "Tonight You Belong to Me" "Come See Me and Come Lonely" "You Pick Me Up (And Put Me Down)" "A Lesson in Leavin'" "Leavin's for Unbelievers" "Are You Happy Baby?" "What Are We Doin' in Love" (with Kenny Rogers) "(I'm Gonna) Put You Back on the Rack" "It's High Time"

Collaboration singles	"Love Is No Excuse" (with Jim Reeves) "Rings of Gold" (with Don Gibson) "Till I Can't Take It Anymore" (with Don Gibson) "Every Time Two Fools Collide" (with Kenny Rogers) "Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight" (with Kenny Rogers) "All I Ever Need Is You" (with Kenny Rogers) "'Til I Can Make It on My Own" (with Kenny Rogers)

Guest singles	"There's a Story (Goin' 'Round)" (with Don Gibson) "Together Again" (with Kenny Rogers)

Related	Albums Singles Shelly West Chet Atkins RCA Victor Records Grand Ole Opry

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