This was written by the songwriting team of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, and was the centerpiece of Dolly Parton's now famous late '70s crossover from Country music to Pop. In addition to topping the Country singles chart, it was also Parton's first Top 10 Pop hit, reaching #3 on the Pop singles charts in January 1978.
Mann and Weil wrote this somewhere around 1975, and initially offered it to Brenda Lee. Lee sat on the song for over a year, before ultimately deciding not to record it. B.J. Thomas was the first to record the song when he included it on his self-titled album in 1977, and it reached the ears of Parton's producer Gary Klein.
This was the title song of Parton's 1977 Here You Come Again album which, like the single, hit both the Country and Pop albums charts.
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