<p id=”par-1_60″>When <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/dolly-parton/”>Dolly Parton</a> released her <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/music/”>album</a> <em>Here You Come Again</em>, she felt an overwhelming sense of trepidation about how her fans would react. While she had already been working to cross over onto the pop charts, this album was clearly a jump. Many of her fans enjoyed the music on the album, but they still found problems with the cover.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-dolly-parton-s-fans-did-not-like-the-cover-of-one-of-her-celebrated-albums”>Dolly Parton’s fans did not like the cover of one of her celebrated albums</h2>
<p id=”par-2_35″>When Parton released<em> Here You Come Again</em>, she was acutely aware that it might <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/dolly-parton-worried-1-hit-songs-scare-audience-death.html/”>upset her country fans</a>. She said that this was not her intention, but she wanted to continue progressing with her sound.</p>
<p id=”par-3_102″>“I am thankful for everything good that has happened to me. I will never neglect or turn my back on any person who has ever helped me,” she said in the book <em><a href=”https://www.amazon.com/Dolly-Alanna-Nash/dp/0891695230″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Dolly</a> </em>by Alanna Nash, adding, “I will give my country fans what they want and what they need from me, but I have other fans that I must give what they want and what they need. And I must give myself what I want and what I need, because I have to live with me, and I have to know that I have done my best. That’s what I’m doing.”</p>
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<p id=”par-4_53″>Ultimately, the album was a hit with old and new fans alike. Her country fans had a problem with the album cover, though. On it, three images of Parton pose in jeans and a red top. Some fans felt the pictures were too close to disco and represented an unwelcome change in Parton.</p>
<p id=”par-5_71″>“I don’t think they’re resentful of her switching over as much as they are of the pictures on that album,” a studio musician said. “And people resented her standin’ in front of that muscle man [Arnold Schwarzenegger] in Rolling Stone. They’re wondering if the sweet disposition and the clean mouth that she’s maintained all up to this point will stay the same. They’re worried that she’s not a clean-minded person anymore.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-dolly-parton-fans-did-not-love-the-album-she-released-before-here-you-come-again”>Dolly Parton fans did not love the album she released before ‘Here You Come Again’</h2>
<p id=”par-6_46″>The album that Parton released before <em>Here You Come Again</em>, <em>New Harvest … First Gathering</em> was more of a <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/dolly-parton-disappointed-nashville-release-1-album.html/”>disappointment to her Nashville fans</a>. The album was her first attempt to hit the pop charts, and people felt she was turning her back on country music.</p>
<p id=”par-7_57″>“A lot of people don’t want to accept it. They think, ‘She’s just disappointed us.’ Especially people who were close to her,” Parton’s seamstress, Judy Hunt, explained. “Then, a lot of other people have accepted it. I was very skeptical that she’d make it at first. I thought, ‘Gosh, she’s too country.’ But she’s comin’ right along.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-she-said-she-worried-about-the-way-fans-would-react-to-her-crossover-music”>She said she worried about the way fans would react to her crossover music</h2>
<p id=”par-8_39″>While Parton knew that finding a broader audience was good for her career, she worried about <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/dolly-parton-said-first-country-crossover-smash-monkey-could-sing-song-have-hit.html/”>the way her loyal fans</a> would take it. She insisted that she didn’t stray too far from her roots with her new sound.</p>
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<p id=”par-9_87″>“I knew [‘Here You Come Again’] was the single before it was even mixed, but it was a little bit scary for Dolly to make a pop record,” producer Gary Klein said. “She was afraid her fans would say, ‘Oh, Dolly’s selling out.’ She did ask to have pedal steel guitar added to the record, so I added a few licks. But I pointed out to her that records like Engelbert Humperdinck’s ‘After the Lovin’’ make the country charts now. People don’t realize how broad country is.”</p>
<p id=”par-10_12″>Despite her concerns, the album hit No. 1 on the country charts.</p>