The song was originally written and performed by Dolly Parton in 1974. She wrote it for her mentor and partner Porter Wagoner after leaving their band.
The song was originally written and performed by Dolly Parton in 1974. She wrote it for her mentor and partner Porter Wagoner after leaving their band.
Back in the day singles were targeted to juke boxes in bars. So the charts kinda depended on who shipped a bunch of vinyl to a bunch of bars, and not just on what people wanted to listen to.
This was also somewhat exacerbated by the fact that the different diameter of the center hole in vinyls was made solely to lock the purchaser of a jukebox to the label’s releases (namely iirc RCA make the wide hole for that).