The Seeker (Dolly Parton song)

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"The Seeker"
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Single by Dolly Parton
from the album Dolly
B-side "Love With Feeling"
ReleasedMay 19, 1975
RecordedDecember 9, 1974
Genre Country
Length3:02
3:14 (2007 edited reissue)
Label RCA Victor
Songwriter(s) Dolly Parton
Producer(s) Porter Wagoner
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]

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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. The British band The New Seekers recorded a version of the song in 1976.

Chart performance

Weekly

Chart (1975)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [3] 2
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles ( Billboard ) [4] 5
Canadian RPM Country Tracks1

Year-End

Chart (1975)Peak
Position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [5] 35

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.
  5. "Billboard Hot Country Songs - Year-End Charts (1975)". Billboard. Retrieved 4 December 2020.