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Do I Ever Cross Your Mind

"Do I Ever Cross Your Mind"
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 (1982-05)
Recorded November 1981
Genre Country
Label RCA
Songwriter(s) Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton singles chronology
"Heartbreak Express"
(1982)
"Do I Ever Cross Your Mind"
(1982)
"Hard Candy Christmas"
(1982)
"Heartbreak Express"
(1982)
"Do I Ever Cross Your Mind"
(1982)
"Hard Candy Christmas"
(1982)

"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).


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