"Do I Ever Cross Your Mind" | ||||
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Single by Dolly Parton | ||||
from the album 'Heartbreak Express' | ||||
A-side | "I Will Always Love You" (1982 recording) | |||
B-side | "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind" | |||
Released | May 1982 | |||
Recorded | November 1981 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Label | RCA | |||
Songwriter(s) | Dolly Parton | |||
Dolly Parton singles chronology | ||||
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"Do I Ever Cross Your Mind" is a country music song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Dolly Parton; it was included on her April 24, 1982 album Heartbreak Express.
Composed in the early 1970s (the song's copyright lists a 1973 date), Parton first recorded it as a duet with Chet Atkins, for Atkins' 1976 album The Best of Chet Atkins & Friends. The solo recording would become one of three tracks from Heartbreak Express to enter the top 10 in the country music singles chart.
"The Best of Chet Atkins & Friends" was published by RCA Victor under the catalogue number APL1-1985.
Heartbreak Express was published by RCA Victor under the catalogue number RCALP 3076.
Beginning in the 1970s, RCA acknowledged Parton's twin appeal to pop- and country music audiences by packaging a number of her singles as double A-sides—pairing a mainstream commercial hit with a more traditional country number of roughly equal chart potential, with the A side released to pop radio, and the B side targeted toward country. Following this formula, RCA paired "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind" with another re-recorded single--"I Will Always Love You", from the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas soundtrack album —previously released on Parton's 1974 album Jolene.
Released on July 31, 1982, the double-A side was well-received--"Do I Ever Cross Your Mind" peaked at #1 on the country singles chart in August, followed by "I Will Always Love You", which became the Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single for a second time on October 16, 1982.
Thanks to a double-A side of previously recorded singles, Dolly Parton became the first artist ever to earn a number one record twice with the same song as a singer (three times as a writer, following Whitney Houston's 1992 cover of "I Will Always Love You" for the 1992 film The Bodyguard).