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Starting Over Again (Donna Summer song)

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"Starting Over Again"

SinglebyDolly Parton

from the album Dolly, Dolly, Dolly

B-side

"Sweet Agony"

Released

February 25, 1980

Recorded

December 1979

Genre

Country

Length

3:58

Label

RCA

Songwriter(s)

Donna Summer, Bruce Sudano

Producer(s)

Gary Klein

Dolly Parton singles chronology

"Sweet Summer Lovin'"
(1979)

"Starting Over Again"
(1980)

"Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You"
(1980)

"Starting Over Again" is a song recorded by American entertainer Dolly Parton. The song was written by Donna Summer and her husband Bruce Sudano.^[1] Parton's recording was performed as a slow tempo ballad, gradually building to a dramatic crescendo. It was released in March 1980 as the first single from her album Dolly, Dolly, Dolly. "Starting Over Again" made the U.S. pop top forty, peaking at number 36, and reached number 1 on the U.S. country charts on May 24, 1980, becoming Parton's 12th number one. ^[2] Dolly’s recording would also make Donna Summer the first black female to co-write a number 1 country hit.^[3]

Donna Summer performed it live numerous times on television specials during the 1980s, including her own program, The Donna Summer Show. A studio version of the track has yet to surface.

Content

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The song tells the story of a middle-aged couple separating after 30 years of marriage. It was based upon the divorce of Sudano's parents.

Chart history

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Weekly

Chart (1980)	Peak position
USHot Country Songs (Billboard)^[4]	1
USBillboard Hot 100^[5]	36
USAdult Contemporary (Billboard)^[6]	35
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	2

Year-End

Chart (1980)	Peak Position
USHot Country Songs (Billboard)^[7]	22

Reba McEntire cover

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"Starting Over Again"

SinglebyReba McEntire

from the album Starting Over

B-side

"I Won't Mention It Again"

Released

1996

Recorded

1995

Genre

Country

Length

4:07

Label

MCA Nashville

Songwriter(s)

Donna Summer, Bruce Sudano

Producer(s)

Tony Brown, Reba McEntire

Reba McEntire singles chronology

"Ring on Her Finger, Time on Her Hands"
(1995)

"Starting Over Again"
(1996)

"You Keep Me Hangin' On"
(1996)

Reba McEntire also covered the song in 1995 for her Starting Over album. Released as the album's third single, McEntire's version peaked at number 19 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.^[8] In the album's liner notes, McEntire wrote that she chose to cover the song as a tribute to Parton and Summer, both artists whom she'd admired.

Chart history

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Chart (1996)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[9]	26
USHot Country Songs (Billboard)^[10]	19

Other cover versions

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Martine McCutcheon covered "Starting Over Again" in 2001.

References

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^ Tennessean Music Team (24 July 2009). "Bruce Sudano's 'Wedding Day' rings bells with listeners". Advertisement Music. Retrieved 19 September 2015.

^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 262.

^ https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/entertainment/how-donna-summer-made-black-female-history-on-country-charts-before-beyonce/amp/

^ "Dolly Parton Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

^ "Dolly Parton Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.

^ "Dolly Parton Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.

^ "Billboard Hot Country Songs - Year-End Charts (1980)". Billboard. Retrieved 4 December 2020.

^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1844-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 226.

^ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 2987." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. June 3, 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2013.

^ "Reba McEntire Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

External links

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Starting Over Again lyrics at Dolly Parton On-Line
Listen to "Starting Over Again"onYouTube (Donna Summer)
Listen to "Starting Over Again"onYouTube (Dolly Parton)
Listen to "Starting Over Again"onYouTube (Reba McEntire)

Dolly Parton

Studio albums

1960s

1970s

The Fairest of Them All
The Golden Streets of Glory
Joshua
Coat of Many Colors
Touch Your Woman
My Favorite Songwriter, Porter Wagoner
My Tennessee Mountain Home
Bubbling Over
Jolene
Love Is Like a Butterfly
The Bargain Store
Dolly
All I Can Do
New Harvest...First Gathering
Here You Come Again
Heartbreaker
Great Balls of Fire

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Live albums

Soundtrack albums

Compilation albums

Singles

1960s

1970s

"Mule Skinner Blues"
"Joshua"
"Comin' for to Carry Me Home"
"Coat of Many Colors"
"Touch Your Woman"
"My Tennessee Mountain Home"
"Jolene"
"I Will Always Love You"
"Love is Like a Butterfly
"The Bargain Store"
"The Seeker"
"We Used To"
"All I Can Do"
"Light of a Clear Blue Morning"
"(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher"
"Here You Come Again"
"Two Doors Down"
"It's All Wrong, But It's All Right"
"Heartbreaker"
"It's Too Late to Love Me Now"
"Baby I'm Burnin'"
"I Really Got the Feeling"
"You're the Only One"
"Great Balls of Fire"
"Sweet Summer Lovin'"

1980s

"Starting Over Again"
"Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You"
"9 to 5"
"But You Know I Love You"
"The House of the Rising Sun"
"Single Women"
"Heartbreak Express"
"Do I Ever Cross Your Mind"
"Hard Candy Christmas"
"Potential New Boyfriend"
"Save the Last Dance for Me"
"Downtown"
"She Don't Love You (Like I Love You)"
"Tennessee Homesick Blues"
"Medley: Winter Wonderland/Sleigh Ride"
"Don't Call It Love"
"Real Love"
"Think About Love"
"Tie Our Love (In a Double Knot)"
"We Had It All"
"To Know Him Is to Love Him"
"Telling Me Lies"
"Those Memories of You"
"The River Unbroken"
"Wildflowers"
"Why'd You Come in Here Lookin' Like That"
"Yellow Roses"

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Features

Film and TV

Dolly (1976)
Dolly (1987)
Dolly & Carol in Nashville
Hollywood to Dollywood
The Book Lady
For the Love of Dolly
Coat of Many Colors
Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love
Dolly Parton's Heartstrings
Christmas on the Square

Tours

Theme parks

Category

v t e Reba McEntire singles
Albums Singles Videos
1970s	"I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" (with Jacky Ward) "Sweet Dreams"
1980s	"(You Lift Me) Up to Heaven" "I Can See Forever in Your Eyes" "I Don't Think Love Ought to Be That Way" "Today All Over Again" "Only You (And You Alone)" "I'm Not That Lonely Yet" "Can't Even Get the Blues" "You're the First Time I've Thought About Leaving" "Why Do We Want (What We Know We Can't Have)" "There Ain't No Future in This" "Just a Little Love" "He Broke Your Memory Last Night" "How Blue" "Somebody Should Leave" "Have I Got a Deal for You" "Only in My Mind" "Whoever's in New England" "Little Rock" "What Am I Gonna Do About You" "Let the Music Lift You Up" "One Promise Too Late" "The Last One to Know" "Love Will Find Its Way to You" "A Sunday Kind of Love" "I Know How He Feels" "New Fool at an Old Game" "Cathy's Clown" "'Til Love Comes Again" "Little Girl"
1990s	"Walk On" "You Lie" "Rumor Has It" "Fancy" "Fallin' Out of Love" "For My Broken Heart" "Is There Life Out There" "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" "The Greatest Man I Never Knew" "Take It Back" "The Heart Won't Lie" (with Vince Gill) "It's Your Call" "Does He Love You" (with Linda Davis) "They Asked About You" "Why Haven't I Heard from You" "She Thinks His Name Was John" "Till You Love Me" "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" "And Still" "On My Own" "Ring on Her Finger, Time on Her Hands" "Starting Over Again" "You Keep Me Hangin' On" "The Fear of Being Alone" "How Was I to Know" "I'd Rather Ride Around with You" "What If It's You" "If You See Him/If You See Her" (with Brooks & Dunn) "Forever Love" "Wrong Night" "One Honest Heart" "What Do You Say"
2000s	"I'll Be" "We're So Good Together" "I'm a Survivor" "Sweet Music Man" "I'm Gonna Take That Mountain" "Somebody" "He Gets That from Me" "My Sister" "You're Gonna Be (Always Loved by Me)" "Love Needs a Holiday" "Because of You" (with Kelly Clarkson) "The Only Promise That Remains" (with Justin Timberlake) "Every Other Weekend" (with Kenny ChesneyorSkip Ewing) "Strange" "Consider Me Gone"
2010s	"I Keep On Loving You" "Turn On the Radio" "If I Were a Boy" "When Love Gets a Hold of You" "Somebody's Chelsea" "Going Out Like That" "Until They Don't Love You" "Just Like Them Horses" "Softly and Tenderly" "Back to God" "God and My Girlfriends" "Freedom"
2020s	"Does He Love You" (with Dolly Parton) "I Can't"
Other singles	"Mind Your Own Business" (with Hank Williams Jr.) "Oklahoma Swing" (with Vince Gill) "Cowgirls Don't Cry" (with Brooks & Dunn) "Forever Country" (with Various artists) "Be a Light" (with Thomas Rhett) "What If"

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