My 100 Favorite Charted Country Songs: Paper Mansions

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@FourWalls (67205)
United States
October 30, 2024 9:40am CST
Howdy from the auto dealership! No, I’m not getting a new car, just getting the 100,000 mile work done on my car. That will cost 2-3 months’ worth of car payments, then I’m done (as opposed to 84 payments of $550-$600 ) The salesmen can blame Honda for building good cars. Before I walk down to Subway I’ll give you another song (this is song #57 out of 100, if you’re interested…or even if you aren’t! ) from my list of all-time favorite country singles to have charted. Paper Mansions - Dottie West Back for her second and final appearance is the great Dottie West. This woman had a hard life, including being raped repeatedly by (and becoming pregnant by) her father as a youngster. To no surprise at all, she had a nervous breakdown later in her life. Her survival to become one of the great singer/songwriters (never mind female singer-songwriters) of the Nashville Sound era is worthy of a hall of fame induction in itself. Her music put her in the Country Music Hall of Fame a few years ago, long after her tragic death from injuries in a car wreck. (She had directed the paramedics to tend to the driver of the car, an elderly man who’d offered her a ride to the Grand Ole Opry, thinking she wasn’t badly injured. Internal injuries were too severe to overcome by the time they were found.) She sang it oh, so well. Anything and everything. Paper Mansions Written by Ted Harris Recorded by Dottie West From With All My Heart and Soul, 1967 Peak chart position: #8 Today’s rock song: “On and On” You paint the nicest pictures:
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@JudyEv (338357)
• Rockingham, Australia
4h
This doesn't do much for me but that's okay. Such an awful life she had - in parts anyway.
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@FourWalls (67205)
• United States
3h
Definitely. Never knew it from her music.
@wolfgirl569 (104943)
• Marion, Ohio
8h
Nope
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@FourWalls (67205)
• United States
7h
Nokay! Happy midweek!
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@RasmaSandra (79209)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
9h
There are Dottie West songs I like but haven't heard this one before,
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@FourWalls (67205)
• United States
7h
Most of her popularity later came from the Coke commercials and the duets with Kenny Rogers.
@NJChicaa (119288)
• United States
15h
Nope
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@FourWalls (67205)
• United States
13h
Oh, come on, you know it, you love it, you can’t live without it!
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