Carol Channing's Country Music Recordings
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Carol Channing
HarlowMGM — 13 years ago(January 31, 2013 03:28 AM)
Theater great Carol Channing is apparently a big country music fan and in the 1970's she recorded several singles and albums in the genre. None of them were hits (after all she was in her fifties when many of the big female stars at the time were at least 20 years her junior) but they are rather charming records and worth seeking out. I remember she recorded a cute little song called "Think Twice Before You Get Yourself in Love" which was a single and although not a hit, my local country station played it quite a bit. Her easiest to find country records are the albums from 1977 and 1978 she made for Plantation Records (the label on which Jeannie C. Riley told the world about the Harper Valley PTA), one a duet album with 50's country legend Webb Pierce, the other an album called "Carol Channing and her Country Friends" which is all duets with either faded or never big country singers. This album includes a memorable cover of Loretta Lynn's "One's on the Way" (which I believe Carol sang in her 70's nightclub act; she sang it on Dinah Shore's talk show in this period) which is sung as a duet with a singer I never heard before this disc, Rita Remington. Her Plantation recordings are also how she ended up on the HARPER VALLEY PTA soundtrack album but I can't remember the movie well enough to say if her performance made it into the actual movie.