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Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

Elaine — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:18:57 -0000

Good grief. I just got around to listening to this awful track. Who knew Kenny & Dolly were into singing about booty calls before hip hop got in on the act?

I don't get it. I always assumed that people only write Christmas songs because they'd like for them to become classics, or see them at least as sing-a-longs. WTF is this!?

Holy mother, the Judy Collins Sarajevo one just started... ugh.

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

WHarrisBullzEye — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:51:49 -0000

Having been out of town, I'm just now reading this, and may I just say that I hold Mr. Rogers in the highest regard, so while it was NOT me who suggested this track, I'm very pro-Kenny, dammit! (Hell, I just watched "Six Pack" a couple of weeks ago!)

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

Beau — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:11:28 -0000

Take out the Hot AC synth trappings, and I can listen to this.

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

what the what — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:29:14 -0000

Yep...keyboards, Producer and Rhythm Arrangements! I really thought The Fozz would've shown up earlier on Mellowmas. Then again, we still have several days left...

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

mojo — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:39:19 -0000

Please clear up something for me. Which one of the mannequins is Kenny ROgers in that video?

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

mojo — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:37:26 -0000

I didn't know they had christmas in gatlinburg. I thought they just had bow season and rifle season.

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

DwDunphy — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:39:43 -0000

Something you never say in Sunday School: Dolly is jerking Kenny’s boots off!

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

DwDunphy — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:37:11 -0000

And, of course, the whole Dolly-Wood double entendre wedges itself in quite nicely.

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

JonCummings — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:12:11 -0000

My college girlfriend once told a roomful of students in a Rhetoric of Contemporary Culture class, who had just spent five minutes trashing Dolly's persona, that she had always liked Dolly "because she has a lot of class."

We didn't last long after that.

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

DwDunphy — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:01:49 -0000

So would that constitute a hoedown or a hoe-up?

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

MatthewBolin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:58:47 -0000

Speakin of that, the album cover looks like Kenny's "slow burnin wood" AND the reindeer are being shoved up Dolly's.... um....southern chimney.....

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

DwDunphy — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:31:14 -0000

Just so long as "hanging out" doesn't also include "slow burnin' wood".

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

DavidMedsker — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:22:18 -0000

Dear God, are you saying David Foster is responsible for this?

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

jasonhare — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:02:24 -0000

UNLESS he's hanging out with Lionel Richie. (The CMT Crossroads ep with the two of them is awesome.)

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

Old_Davy — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:03:17 -0000

I have mixed feelings about Dolly. She has a wonderful voice, can write a dynamite song, is a very savvy businesswoman, can be a brilliant interpreter of other people's material, and realizes that the whole "Dolly" persona is a complete joke. But then she goes and does shit like this.

Kenny, on the other hand, is a complete waste of egg nog.

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

MichaelWSP — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:48:28 -0000

I don't think she is allowed to question anything Dolly does, says or wears.

I'm not saying she "worships" Dolly, per se...OK, I am saying that.

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

jasonhare — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:35:56 -0000

Mikey, what is your Parton-lovin' wife going to think of this one?

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

Terje Fjelde — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:41:58 -0000

The keyboard sound, the fake strings. Who can it be?

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

MichaelWSP — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:27:29 -0000

Michael is right, this whole production has a McD-esque sheen to it. The Keyboard sound, the fake strings. Everything.

Also, I could have lived my WHOLE life without hearing Dolly Parton singing about a fast-talkin lover with some slow burnin' wood. *Shudder*

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

jabartlett — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:52:07 -0000

As horrifying as it seems, this record was an extraordinary big deal when it came out. Country stations played it, A/C stations played it, and if you tune in your local best-variety-of-today-and-yesterday A/C station in the next 10 days, you'll hear it. Unless you tune away to something else quickly.

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

Michael — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:24:23 -0000

I'll be honest, I was waiting for Michael McDonald to start singing. Are you sure he was not involved?

Re: The Fifteenth Day of Mellowmas: Dollytoe!

Todd — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:50:10 -0000

Producers: "What... you think we're made of money?"

Director: "Kinda. Yeah."

Producers: "We can't afford a lodge full of Extras. Use some of the mannequins We found in the warehouse we rented to shoot this thing!"