Dolly Parton "The Great Pretender" (1984) -Country Pop-

Label : RCA Victor

 Side A

01 - Save The Last Dance For Me (Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman)

02 - I Walk The Line (Johnny Cash)
03 - Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything There Is A Season) (Pete Seeger)
04 - Downtown (Tony Hatch)
05 - We Had It All (Tro Seals & Donnie Fritts) 

Side B

01 - She Don’t Love You (Like I Love You) (Tony Orlando)
02 - We’ll Sing In The Sunshine (Gale Garnett)
03 - I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier & Eddie Holland)
04 - Elusive Butterfly (Bob Lind)
05 - The Great Pretender (Buck Ram)


Recorded & Mixed at Record One, Los Angeles (10-24-83 through 12-5-83)
Additional Recording done at Right Track Recording, New York City ; Bullet Recording, Nashville ; Music Mill, Nashville & The Sound Factory, Los Angeles

Engineered by Val Garay, Niko Bolas

Assistant Engineers : Richard Bosworth, Denny Densmore

Second Assistants Engineers : Scott Hendricks, Danny Mundhenk, Paul Goldberg, Billy Miranda, David Leonard
Mastered by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab

Produced by Val Garay


Side A

01 - Save The Last Dance For Me

Drums : David Platshon
Bass : Leland 'Lee' Sklar
Percussion : Brian Glascock
Electric Guitar : Craig Hull
Electric Guitar : Ron Elliott
DMX Drum Machine : Steve Goldstein
Prophet & Jupiter Synthesizer : Steve Goldstein
Jupiter Synthesizer : Jeff Colella
Background vocals : The Jordanaires
Arranged by Steve Goldstein

02 - I Walk The Line

Drums : David Platshon
Bass : Leland 'Lee' Sklar
Percussion : Brian Glascock
Electric Guitar : Craig Hull
Electric Guitar : Ron Elliott
Synthesizers : Steve Goldstein
Organ & Strings : Jeff Colella

03 - Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything There Is A Season)

Drums : David Platshon
Bass : Leland 'Lee' Sklar
Percussion : Brian Glascock
Congas : Russ Kunkel
Electric Guitar : Craig Hull
Electric Guitar : Ron Elliott
Electric Guitar Solo : Waddy Wachtel
Kawai Electric Grand : Steve Goldstein
Synthesizers : Jeff Colella

04 - Downtown

Drums : David Platshon
Bass : Leland 'Lee' Sklar
Percussion : Brian Glascock
Electric Guitar : Craig Hull
Electric Guitar : Ron Elliott
Electric Guitar Solo : Waddy Wachtel
Keyboards : Steve Goldstein
String Synthesizers : Jeff Colella
Horns : Chuck Findley, Dick 'Slyde' Hyde, Don Menza, Tom Scott, Gary Grant & Bill Reichenbach
Horns Arranged & Conducted by Steve Goldstein

05 - We Had It All

Acoustic Guitar : Ron Elliott
Acoustic Piano : Steve Goldstein
Concertmaster : Sid Sharp
Strings Arranged & Conducted by Steve Goldstein

Side B

01 - She Don’t Love You (Like I Love You)

Drums : David Platshon
Bass : Leland 'Lee' Sklar
Congas : Brian Glascock
Electric Guitar & Slide Guitar : Craig Hull
Acoustic Guitar : Ron Elliott
Kawai Electric Grand : Steve Goldstein
Arp Strings : Jeff Colella
Background vocals : Rosemary Butler, Arnold McCuller & Mary Ellen Quinn

02 - We’ll Sing In The Sunshine

Drums : David Platshon
Bass : Leland 'Lee' Sklar
Congas : Brian Glascock
Electric Guitar : Craig Hull
Acoustic Guitar : Ron Elliott
Keyboards : Steve Goldstein
Synthesizers : Jeff Colella
Harmonica : Lee Dresser

03 - I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)

Drums : David Platshon
Bass : Leland 'Lee' Sklar
Percussion : Brian Glascock
Electric Guitar : Craig Hull
Electric Guitar : Ron Elliott
Electric Guitar Solo : Waddy Wachtel
Kawai Electric Grand : Steve Goldstein
Synthesizer Strings : Bill Cuomo
Jupiter Synthesizer : Jeff Colella
Background vocals : Oren & Luther Waters
Strings Arranged by Steve Goldstein

04 - Elusive Butterfly

Drums : David Platshon
Bass : Leland 'Lee' Sklar
Percussion : Brian Glascock
Electric Guitar : Craig Hull
Electric Guitar : Ron Elliott
Synthesizer : Steve Goldstein
Synthesizer : Jeff Colella
Harmonica : Lee Dresser

05 - The Great Pretender

Organ : Steve Goldstein
The Choir : Waters Family (Maxine Willard Waters, Julia Tillman Waters, Oren Waters & Luther Waters)