9 to 5 and Odd Jobs

The album built around the title song of the film in which she made her acting debut.
Dolly Parton, 1980

Released
1980
Label
RCA Victor
Producer
Mike Post

Released in late 1980 on RCA Victor, it opens with 9 to 5, the title song of her film debut. Mike Post produced and arranged the record, with Gregg Perry as associate producer. Besides her own songs, among them Hush-A-Bye Hard Times, Working Girl and Poor Folks Town, it has Deportee by Woody Guthrie and Martin Hoffman, Detroit City by Danny Dill and Mel Tillis, Dark as a Dungeon by Merle Travis and Sing for the Common Man by Freida Parton and Mark Andersen. She and Post arranged The House of the Rising Sun, and Bobby and Sonny Osborne sing on Hush-A-Bye Hard Times.

Track listing

  1. 9 to 52:43
  2. Hush-A-Bye Hard Times3:46
  3. The House of the Rising Sun3:57
  4. Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)4:41
  5. Sing for the Common Man3:45
  6. Working Girl3:15
  7. Detroit City3:33
  8. But You Know I Love You3:16
  9. Dark as a Dungeon3:23
  10. Poor Folks Town2:55

Personnel

More from Dolly Parton

Hello, I'm Dolly (1967), Coat of Many Colors (1971), Jolene (1974), Here You Come Again (1977), Trio (1987), The Grass Is Blue (1999), Little Sparrow (2001), Blue Smoke (2014), Rockstar (2023)

Sources

  1. 9 to 5 (Dolly Parton song), Wikipedia