Dolly Parton - Puppy Love / Girl Left Alone Dolly Parton

Before she became a country music legend, Dolly Parton was a young songwriter with a song called “Puppy Love”. Originally released by Goldband Records in 1959, “Puppy Love” was Dolly’s first single and the beginning of a career that would span more than six decades. Written with her uncle Bill Owens, the buoyant song captures the innocence and excitement of young love in just under two minutes, offering an early glimpse of her distinctive songwriting talent.

To record her earliest songs, Dolly and her grandmother travelled by bus to Lake Charles, Louisiana. Dolly wrote the single’s B-side, “Girl Left Alone”, with her aunt Dorothy Jo Owens and her uncle Bill. Together, the two songs capture Dolly at the very beginning of her recording career.

Yep Roc Records, in partnership with the Southern Folklife Collection, first reissued “Puppy Love” / “Girl Left Alone” in 2017, bringing this rare piece of Dolly’s early history back to vinyl. The single now returns on pink vinyl, marking the first time these recordings have been issued on coloured vinyl.