What was Dollys first single?
Her first single was a song she and her uncle co-wrote called “Puppy Love,” which was recorded in 1957 (she was 11) at the small indie label Goldband in Louisiana. It was released in April 1959 but didn’t chart. In 1962 (age 16), she recorded another song that the pair wrote, “It’s Sure Gonna Hurt,” as her first major label single for Mercury in Nashville, but it didn’t chart either. In 1965, a year after moving to Nashville, she signed with Monument Records, which promoted her as a pop singer and released her first single that year. After seeing little success (only one of her five first singles charted — near the bottom of the pop chart), they allowed her to sing country starting in 1967, when she charted her first country single. What was Dolly’s first chart single? Her first-ever chart single was “Happy, Happy Birthday Baby,” which went to No. 108 on the pop charts in 1965. Her first uncredited country single was “Put It Off Until Tomorrow,” which Dolly wrote and on which she sang
