Five of the 12 songs on this album were hits for other artists around the same time it was released.
Bill Phillips had made Put It Off Until Tomorrow a country No.1 in 1966 with Dolly herself on backing vocals (uncredited but far from unnoticed). Yet Dolly’s version on this debut album has a touch more vulnerability to it, as does her take on Phillips’ 1967 hit The Company You Keep. Skeeter Davis’ dreamier, less plaintive reading of Fuel To The Flame is also an intoxicating affair, and Hank Williams Jr’s version of I’m In No Condition imbues it with a brittle male pride. Elsewhere, Jan Howard’s take on Your Ole Handy Man is a touch more mumsy than Dolly’s, but has a similar breezy charm. All of which shows that if a song’s good enough, it can be a hit in anyone’s hands.