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The Seeker (Dolly Parton song)

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"The Seeker"
Single by Dolly Parton
from the album Dolly
B-side"Love With Feeling"
ReleasedMay 19, 1975
Recorded1975
GenreCountry
Length3:02
3:14 (2007 edited reissue)
LabelRCA
Songwriter(s)Dolly Parton
Producer(s)Bob Ferguson
Dolly Parton singles chronology
"The Bargain Store"
(1975)
"The Seeker"
(1975)
"We Used To"
(1976)

"The Seeker" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Dolly Parton. It was released as the first single from Parton's 1975 album, Dolly, and was also a top ten single on the U.S. country charts. A spiritual, which Parton described as her "talk with God", the song was released as a single in July 1975, just missing the top spot on the U.S. country singles chart; it peaked at #2.[1]

Two decades later, Parton rerecorded the song for her 1995 album Something Special. Nelly Furtado covered this song for the film The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom.[2] Merle Haggard who, in his 1981 autobiography, "Sing Me Back Home", would confess his infatuation with Parton, also recorded the song.

Chart performance

Chart (1975) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] 2
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)[4] 5
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 261.
  2. ^ "Dolly Parton: 30 best songs". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2017-04-08.
  3. ^ "Dolly Parton Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  4. ^ "Dolly Parton Chart History (Bubbling Under Hot 100)". Billboard.

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