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From '' Jolene ''
Label: Korova -- KOW 42 T, 248 974-0
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 1985

Tracklist
A1 Jolene
Producer -- Clive Langer, Colin Fairley
Arranged By [Strings] -- David Bedford
Harmonica -- Larry Adler
B1 Black Taxi
Recorded By -- Martin Hayles
B2 Being Cold
Producer [Uncredited], Arranged By [Uncredited] -- David Motion

Artwork By [Sleeve Design] -- P.H.
Written-By -- Balfe (tracks: B1),
Dolly Parton (tracks: A1),
Bryson (tracks: B1, B2),
Mulhearne (tracks: B1),
McDowall (tracks: B1, B2).

B1 recorded for a Radio 1 Janice Long Session & release by arrangement with BBC Enterprises Ltd.

℗ + © 1985 A Korova recording
Marketed and distributed by WEA Records Ltd. A Warner Communications Co.
A-side: Carlin Music Corp. ℗ 1985 WEA Records Ltd.
B-side: Zoo Music/Warner Bros. Music Ltd. ℗ 1985 WEA Records Ltd.

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"Jolene" is a song written and performed by Dolly Parton from her album Jolene (1974), produced by Bob Ferguson.
It is ranked #217 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

Covers

Olivia Newton-John's version of "Jolene" is featured on her 1976 album Come on Over.

Sherrié Austin's version of "Jolene" is the second track on her 2001 album Followin' A Feeling.

"Jolene (Live Under Blackpool Lights)" was released as a live single by American garage rock band The White Stripes. The single reached #16 in the UK singles chart in November 2004. The White Stripes previously released a studio version of "Jolene," as the B-side to their 2000 single of "Hello Operator", from the album De Stijl.

The punk cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes cover the song on their sixth album Love Their Country, released in October 2006.

Post punk band The Sisters of Mercy often covered this song in concert as part of a series of tasteful but goth-"uncool" covers to provoke the audience.
It can be heard on their live bootleg Amphetamine-Boeblingen.

New Zealand singer-songwriter Country Punk Rocker Darcy Clay included a cover version of the song on his EP Jesus I Was Evil.

Norwegian Electric and Experimental duo Susanna and the Magical Orchestra covered the "Jolene" in 2004 for them debut album List of Lights and Buoys.

British popstar Sophie Ellis-Bextor covered the song in 2008, and it was used on the new BBC series Beautiful People.

British singer-songwriter Laura Marling has covered this song with Mumford & Sons.

Dutch singer Anneke van Giersbergen, ex singer of the Dutch band The Gathering, has covered this song, a view times, live on stage.

Strawberry Switchblade : Scottish female pop group covered this on an expanded edition of their 1985 s/t album.

Other versions

Natalie Merchant, Keith Urban, Paula Cole, Jill Johnson Music Row, Reba McEntire, Mindy Smith, Katie B, Sherrié Austin, Rhonda Vincent, the Geraldine Fibbers, Lacrimosa, Queen Adreena, Ashley Arrison, dance music act One Dove, the Macedonian-German singer Alexander Veljanov, the Iranian singer Leila Forouhar, the Dutch singer Patricia Paay in 1977, the Japanese bubblegum pop trio Candies, Norwegian singer Elisabeth Andreassen in 2004, Irish American musician Moira Nelligan, Swedish singer Jill Johnson in 2007, British singer Ellie Goulding in 2009 and season 7 American Idol contestant Brooke White, Season 8's Alexis Grace, and also in the third season of Australian Idol by Klancie Keough.
The version with Mindy Smith was performed on stage with Dolly Parton, who is also featured in the official music video.
Las Chicas Del Can covered this song in the 1980's.
Mindy Smith covered "Jolene" in 2003 both for her debut album One Moment More and the Dolly Parton tribute album Just Because I'm a Woman.
The Song has also been parodied by Australian satirical comedy show The Chaser's War on Everything.
The title was altered to "Pauline" in a reference to former One Nation Party leader Pauline Hanson.
The chilean cumbia compositor Paskual Ramirez made a 'spanish-translated' cover with cumbia rhythms, partially based on the translation made by Las Chicas del Can for the LP: "Fantasía Vol. 1" (1991) and a Techno-cumbia re-arrangemnt of the cover for the disc "Paskual y su Alegría - Internacional" (2000). His mate Claudia sang in the 1st version and his daughter Eva sang in the 2000's rearrangement.

A version by Swedish show group Spirella Girls in 1992 was named "Brolin, Brolin" and was about Swedish soccer player Tomas Brolin.

In 2010, Parton's original version was featured and performed by Jessica Lowndes as Adrianna Tate-Duncan in the 90210 episode "What's Past is Prologue".

In 2011, John Mayer, Keith Urban, and Norah Jones performed the song at the Grammy Awards as a tribute to Dolly Parton.