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"The Seeker"
SinglebyDolly Parton
from the album Dolly
B-side"Love With Feeling"
ReleasedMay 19, 1975
RecordedDecember 9, 1974
GenreCountry
Length3:02
3:14 (2007 edited reissue)
LabelRCA Victor
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. The British band The New Seekers recorded a version of the song in 1976.

Chart performance[edit]

Weekly

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

Year-End

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

References[edit]

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 261.
  • ^ "Dolly Parton: 30 best songs". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2017-04-08.
  • ^ "Dolly Parton Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  • ^ "Dolly Parton Chart History (Bubbling Under Hot 100)". Billboard.
  • ^ "Billboard Hot Country Songs - Year-End Charts (1975)". Billboard. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
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