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Love Is Like a Butterfly is the fourteenth solo studio album by American entertainer Dolly Parton.It was released on September 16, 1974, by RCA Victor.The title track was the third consecutive single to reach #1 on the U.S. country charts for Parton.
"Love Is Like a Butterfly" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Dolly Parton and released in August 1974 as the first single and title track from the album Love Is Like a Butterfly. It was her overall fourth number one on the country chart as a solo artist (and her third consecutive number one).
The album's lead single "Guava Jelly" was released as a 7" record on December 16, 1974, two months after the release of ButterFly. [25] It was paired with "Love in the Afternoon" and "Life on Mars" as a B-side track in the United States and the Netherlands, respectively.
Parton composed the song in 1969, while traveling with Porter Wagoner on a tour bus. (She explained in her 1994 memoir, My Life and Other Unfinished Business, because she could find no paper, as the song came to her, she wrote it on the back of a dry cleaning receipt from one of Wagoner's suits; when the song became a hit, Wagoner had the receipt framed.)
Editor’s note: Few journalists ever got to meet Carl Dean, the husband of Dolly Parton, who died Monday at age 82. He was renowned for his reclusiveness, developing a legend — probably in ...
The lines "Like a butterfly, a wild butterfly / I will collect you and capture you" were inspired by The Collector, a film that Des Barres had watched about a man who kidnaps a beautiful woman. Co-writer Holly Knight would often practice or write riffs on the bass E-string of her guitar, which spawned the bass rhythm of "Obsession".
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In a two-part interview with podcaster Zach Sang, Grande said the album covers a lot of emotional ground, and touches on themes of loss, grief, love, and heartbreak, weighing the light and the dark.