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Dolly Parton

Boulder to Birmingham

1976 · via Emmylou Harris

Dolly Parton’s earliest release of “Boulder to Birmingham” on file came out in 1976. Bill Danoff and Emmylou Harris are credited as its writers. The earliest release on file is Emmylou Harris’, from 1975, along with The Walker Brothers’. Also recorded by Barbara Dickson (released 1986), Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris (released 2006) and Joan Baez (released 1976), among 42 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

Dolly Parton – Boulder to Birmingham
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Bill Danoff shares the credit with her on this one, and once Emmylou put it on record it got passed around fast. Dolly Parton cut it the next year, so hear how it holds up in somebody else's hands.

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Credited writers: Bill Danoff and Emmylou Harris.

Earliest release on file: Emmylou Harris, 1975, the same year as The Walker Brothers.

Other recordings on file · first release year

42 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Emmylou Harris recorded "Boulder to Birmingham" first, but she doesn't hold the writing credit alone. Who co-wrote it with her?Bill Danoff
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