# New Harvest...First Gathering > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/New_Harvest...First_Gathering > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/New_Harvest...First_Gathering.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Harvest...First_Gathering > Source revision: 1353697719 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = New Harvest...First Gathering | type = [Album](/source/Album) | artist = [Dolly Parton](/source/Dolly_Parton) | cover = newharvest.jpg | alt = | released = February 14, 1977 | recorded = August 19–December 17, 1976 | studio = *Soundshop (Nashville, Tennessee) *[Creative Workshop](/source/Creative_Workshop) (Nashville, Tennessee) | genre = *[Country](/source/Country_music) *[pop](/source/Pop_music) | length = 38:30 | label = [RCA Victor](/source/RCA_Records) | producer = {{hlist|Dolly Parton|Gregg Perry}} | prev_title = [All I Can Do](/source/All_I_Can_Do_(album)) | prev_year = 1976 | next_title = [Here You Come Again](/source/Here_You_Come_Again) | next_year = 1977 | misc = {{Singles | name = New Harvest...First Gathering | type = studio | single1 = [Light of a Clear Blue Morning](/source/Light_of_a_Clear_Blue_Morning) | single1date = March 21, 1977 | single2 = You Are | single2date = March 25, 1977 | single3 = Applejack | single3date = August 27, 1977 | single4 = (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher | single4date = 1977 }} }} '''''New Harvest...First Gathering''''' is the eighteenth solo studio album by American entertainer [Dolly Parton](/source/Dolly_Parton). It was released on February 14, 1977, by [RCA Victor](/source/RCA_Victor). It is significant for being Parton's first self-produced album, as well as her first effort aimed specifically at the pop charts. ==Content== In addition to her own compositions, Parton included [the Temptations](/source/the_Temptations) classic "[My Girl](/source/My_Girl_(The_Temptations_song))" (sung as the gender-neutral "My Love"), and "[(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher](/source/(Your_Love_Keeps_Lifting_Me)_Higher_and_Higher)", originally a [Jackie Wilson](/source/Jackie_Wilson) hit. "Applejack" features an all-star lineup of country legends singing background vocals, including [Roy Acuff](/source/Roy_Acuff), [Kitty Wells](/source/Kitty_Wells), [Johnny Wright](/source/Johnnie_Wright), [Chet Atkins](/source/Chet_Atkins) and [Minnie Pearl](/source/Minnie_Pearl). ==Critical reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic) | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r108067|first=Mark|last=Deming}} | rev2 = ''[Christgau's Record Guide](/source/Christgau's_Record_Guide%3A_Rock_Albums_of_the_Seventies)'' | rev2Score = B−{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies](/source/Christgau's_Record_Guide%3A_Rock_Albums_of_the_Seventies)|publisher=[Ticknor & Fields](/source/Ticknor_%26_Fields)|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: P|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=P&bk=70|access-date=March 10, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}} | rev3 = ''[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music](/source/The_Encyclopedia_of_Popular_Music)'' | rev3score = {{rating|4|5}}{{r|larkin}} | rev4 = ''[Record Mirror](/source/Record_Mirror)'' | rev4score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite magazine|last=Russell|first=Rosalind|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/70s/77/Record-Mirror-1977-03-19.pdf|title=Albums: Dolly Parton – ''New Harvest...First Gathering''|magazine=[Record Mirror](/source/Record_Mirror)|date=19 March 1977|page=20|location=London|publisher=Spotlight Publications Ltd.|access-date=8 December 2023|via=World Radio History|issn=0144-5804|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230623131029/https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/70s/77/Record-Mirror-1977-03-19.pdf|archive-date=23 June 2023}} | noprose = yes }} In the issue dated February 26, 1977, ''[Billboard](/source/Billboard_(magazine))'' published a review calling the album "Parton's most progressive and individualistic LP ever. Changes in producer (Gregg Perry co-produces this with Dolly), studio, publisher and mental outlook are bound to have a significant effect on the ultimate product. The changes are dramatic and result in some of the most memorable work yet – in writing and singing – by Parton. She wrote most of the songs and vividly displays her stunning powers as a writer. This could be the album that shoves Parton from a country-only base to the category of across-the-board talents like Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt who emulate and admire her."{{cite web |title=Billboard Magazine – February 26, 1977 |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/70s/1977/Billboard%201977-02-26.pdf |website=American Radio History |publisher=Billboard Magazine |access-date=6 December 2018}} ''[Cashbox](/source/Cashbox_(magazine))'' published a review in the February 26, 1977, issue, which said, "Breaking from her country roots, Dolly has put together this package of tailor-mades for the progressive rock listener. Her versatility and natural talents combined with her excellent production as well as arrangement comes crystal clear here."{{cite web |title=Cashbox Magazine – February 26, 1977 |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1977/CB-1977-02-26.pdf |website=American Radio History |publisher=Cashbox Magazine |access-date=6 December 2018}} ''[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)'' noted that "the inflated, bathetic rhetoric of the arrangements will appeal to the Barry Manilow crowd, and to reject them (or him) somehow brands one antidemocratic."{{cite news |last1=Rockwell |first1=John |title=The Pop Life |work=The New York Times |date=25 Mar 1977 |page=C16}} ==Commercial performance== The album peaked at No. 1 on the US ''[Billboard](/source/Billboard_(magazine))'' [Hot Country LPs](/source/Top_Country_Albums) chart and No. 71 on the US [''Billboard'' 200](/source/Billboard_200) chart. "You Are" was released as the first single from the album in March 1977 in Europe, but did not chart. However, in 1983 it reached the number 1 position in Dutch charts, at the time it was released from a compilation album titled "The Love Album". The first single in North America, "Light of a Clear Blue Morning" was released in March 1977 and peaked at number 11 on the ''Billboard'' [Hot Country Singles](/source/Hot_Country_Songs) chart. It peaked at number one on the ''[RPM](/source/RPM_(magazine))'' Top County Singles chart. "Applejack" had been issued as the B-side of "You Are" in Europe and would be re-promoted as the A-side later in 1977 and did not chart. "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" was released as a single in Germany, but did not chart; it was not released as a single in the US, due, in part, to [Rita Coolidge](/source/Rita_Coolidge)'s cover of the song, which had reached the US top ten earlier in 1977. ==Track listing== {{track listing | headline = Side one | all_writing = [Dolly Parton](/source/Dolly_Parton), except as noted | extra_column = Recording date | title1 = [Light of a Clear Blue Morning](/source/Light_of_a_Clear_Blue_Morning) | length1 = 4:53 | extra1 = August 19, 1976 | title2 = Applejack | length2 = 3:20 | extra2 = December 10, 1976 | title3 = [My Girl (My Love)](/source/My_Girl_(The_Temptations_song)) | length3 = 3:44 | extra3 = December 3, 1976 | writer3 = [William Robinson](/source/Smokey_Robinson), [Ronald White](/source/Ronnie_White) | title4 = Holdin' on to You | length4 = 2:46 | extra4 = August 22, 1976 | title5 = You Are | length5 = 5:14 | extra5 = August 20, 1976 }} {{track listing | headline = Side two | extra_column = Recording date | title1 = How Does It Feel | length1 = 3:13 | extra1 = November 21, 1976 | title2 = Where Beauty Lives in Memory | length2 = 3:50 | extra2 = December 10, 1976 | title3 = [(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher](/source/(Your_Love_Keeps_Lifting_Me)_Higher_and_Higher) | length3 = 2:52 | writer3 = Gary Jackson, Carl Smith | extra3 = December 16, 1976 | title4 = Getting in My Way | length4 = 2:40 | extra4 = August 21, 1976 | title5 = There | length5 = 5:32 | extra5 = December 17, 1976 }} ==Personnel== Adapted from the album liner notes. {{div col|colwidth=35em}} *[Roy Acuff](/source/Roy_Acuff) – backing vocals *Rich Adler – engineer *[Chet Atkins](/source/Chet_Atkins) – backing vocals *Anita Ball – backing vocals *Bashful Brother Oswald – backing vocals *Stu Basore – steel *Lea Jane Berinati – background vocals *Clyde Brooks – drums, percussion, tambourine, backing vocals *Mark Casstevens – banjo *Charlie Chappelear – bass, backing vocals *Ralph Childs – tuba *Jimmy Colvard – acoustic guitars, electric guitar *Jimmy Crawford – steel, backing vocals *Richard Dennison – backing vocals *Bobby Dyson – bass *Bob Ferguson – Applejack's voice *Mary Fielder – backing vocals *Janie Fricke – backing vocals *Hubert Gregory and the Fruit Jar Drinkers – backing vocals *Joe and Rose Lee Maphis – backing vocals *[Shane Keister](/source/Shane_Keister) – organ synthesizer, organ *The Kelly Kirkland Strings – string *Dave Kirby – acoustic guitars *Jerry Kroon – drums, percussion *[Larrie Londin](/source/Larrie_Londin) – drums *Brent Maher – engineer *Kirk McGee – backing vocals *Joe McGuffee – dobro, steel *[Terry McMillan](/source/Terry_McMillan_(musician)) – harmonica *Farrell Morris – percussion *The Nashville Horns – horns *Jamie Nichol – conga *Avie Lee Parton – backing vocals *Dolly Parton – producer, lead vocals, backing vocals, banjo *Lee Parton – backing vocals *Randy Parton – backing vocals *Minnie Pearl – backing vocals *John Pell – acoustic guitar, classical guitar, backing vocals *Gregg Perry – producer, piano, tambourine, keyboards, backing vocals, string arrangements, string conductor *Debbie Joe Puckett – backing vocals *Dwight Puckett – backing vocals *Billy Puett – flute, piccolo, horns *Jimmy Riddle – Jew's (juice) harp *Don Roth – electric guitars *Tom Rutledge – acoustic guitars *Rod Smarr – electric guitar, acoustic guitars, slide guitar, backing vocals *[Buddy Spicher](/source/Buddy_Spicher) – fiddle *[Bobby Thompson](/source/Bobby_Thompson_(musician)) – banjo, acoustic guitars *[Ernest Tubb](/source/Ernest_Tubb) – backing vocals *Ray Walker – backing vocals *Don Warden – backing vocals *Kitty Wells – backing vocals *The Willis Brothers – backing vocals *Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper – backing vocals *Casey Worden – backing vocals *Kelly Worden – backing vocals *Mickie Worden – backing vocals *Johnny Wright – backing vocals {{div col end}} ==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |+Chart performance for ''New Harvest...First Gathering'' ! scope="col"| Chart (1977) ! scope="col"| Peak
position |- {{Album chart|BillboardCountry|1|artist=Dolly Parton|rowheader=true}} |- {{Album chart|Billboard200|71|artist=Dolly Parton|rowheader=true}} |- !scope="row"|US ''[Cashbox](/source/Cashbox_(magazine))'' Country Albums{{cite web|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1977/CB-1977-05-07.pdf|title=Cash Box Country Albums|work=[Cashbox](/source/Cashbox_(magazine))|access-date=23 December 2024}} |align="center"|1 |- !scope="row"|US ''[Cash Box](/source/Cash_Box)'' Top Albums {{cite web|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1977/CB-1977-06-18.pdf|title=Cash Box Top 100 Albums|work=[Cashbox](/source/Cashbox_(magazine))|access-date=23 December 2024}} |align="center"|151 |} '''Singles''' {|class="wikitable" |- !align="left"|Year !align="left"|Single !align="left"|Chart !align="center"|Peak
position |- |rowspan = "2"|1977 |rowspan = "2"|"Light of a Clear Blue Morning" | US [Hot Country Singles](/source/Hot_Country_Songs) (''[Billboard](/source/Billboard_(magazine))''){{cite magazine |title=Dolly Parton Chart History |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/dolly-parton/chart-history/csi/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=5 December 2018}} | style="text-align:center;"|11 |- | US [Hot 100](/source/Billboard_Hot_100) (''Billboard''){{cite magazine |title=Dolly Parton Chart History |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/dolly-parton/chart-history/hsi/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=7 December 2018}} | style="text-align:center;"|87 |- |rowspan = "2"|1977 |rowspan = "2"|"Light of a Clear Blue Morning" |Canada Top Country Singles (''[RPM](/source/RPM_(magazine))'') | style="text-align:center;"|1 |- |} ==Accolades== '''[20th Annual Grammy Awards](/source/20th_Annual_Grammy_Awards)''' {{awards table}} |- | 1978 | "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" | [Best Country Vocal Performance, Female](/source/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Female_Country_Vocal_Performance) |{{nominated}} |- {{end}} '''[American Music Awards of 1978](/source/American_Music_Awards_of_1978)''' {{awards table}} |- | 1978 | "New Harvest...First Gathering" | [Favorite Country Album](/source/American_Music_Award_for_Favorite_Country_Album) |{{won}} |- {{end}} '''[CMT Music Awards](/source/CMT_Music_Awards)''' {{awards table}} |- | 1978 | "New Harvest...First Gathering" | Album of the Year |{{nominated}} |- {{end}} == References == {{cite book|author=Colin Larkin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music](/source/The_Encyclopedia_of_Popular_Music)|edition=4th|volume=6|date=2006|publisher=Muze, [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press)|page=435{{ndash}}6|isbn=978-0-19-531373-4|chapter=Parton, Dolly|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofpo0006unse/page/435/}} {{Dolly Parton}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:New Harvest - First Gathering}} Category:Dolly Parton albums Category:1977 albums Category:RCA Records albums --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [New Harvest...First Gathering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Harvest...First_Gathering) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Harvest...First_Gathering?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.