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Dolly Parton Album: “Real Love”
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Release Date:1985-03-09
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:Country, Classic Country, Greatest Country Hits
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Explicit Lyrics:Yes
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UPC:078635634044
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| 1 |
Think About Love (Think About Me) |
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| 2 |
Tie Our Love (in a Double Knot) |
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| 3 |
We Got Too Much |
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| 4 |
It's Such a Heartache |
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| 5 |
Don't Call It Love |
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| 6 |
Real Love Video |
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| 7 |
I Can't Be True |
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| 8 |
Once in a Very Blue Moon |
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| 9 |
Come Back to Me |
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| 10 |
I Hope You're Never Happy Video |
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Review - :
{$Dolly Parton}'s best music is genuinely timeless, spinning tales of love, home and faith that seem at once as old as the hills and as fresh as yesterday's heartbreak. However, one spin of {^Real Love} lands this album firmly in 1985, when it was recorded. In an apparent effort to keep up with the times, producer {$David Malloy} built most of this album's arrangements around synthesizers and drum machines, and two decades later the results sound almost painfully dated, far more so than {$Parton}'s work of the early Seventies; this is middle-of-the-road schlock that grates on the nerves. {^Real Love} also shortchanges {$Parton} the songwriter, who only penned four of the album's ten tracks, though {&"We Got Too Much"}, {&"I Can't Be True"} and {&"I Hope You're Never Happy"} display a welcome spunk most of these songs lack. {$Dolly} herself is in fine voice here, and while she sometimes has to struggle to make herself heard through {$Malloy}'s mix, her performances are game and she offers more enthusiasm than most of the material deserves (though her debut with {$Kenny Rogers} on the title track fails to connect). Listen to {$Dolly Parton}'s fine self-produced 1977 album {^New Harvest … First Gathering} back-to-back with {^Real Love} and the question becomes obvious: why did {@RCA} hire {$David Malloy} when {$Dolly} could do a much better job by herself? ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
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