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It's All Wrong, But It's All Right
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Wikipedia article
"'It's All Wrong, But It's All Right'" is a song written and recorded by American entertainer Dolly Parton. It was released in February 1978 as the second single from the album 'Here You Come Again'. (Percy Sledge recorded a song by the same name, but with different lyrics on his 1968 album 'Take Time to Know Her'.) The song was Parton's seventh number one country single as a solo artist. The single stayed at number one for two weeks and spent a total of ten weeks on the country chart. The song was part of a double-A-sided single, "Two Doors Down"/"It's All Wrong, But It's All Right", and while "It's All Wrong, But It's All Right" was topping the country singles charts, "Two Doors Down" had been released to pop radio, where it would reach the top 20 on the U.S. Hot 100.
Content
In the song, the narrator calls a man whom she knows casually and suggests a one-time sexual encounter because she's lonely and "needs someone so much". In 1978, Partonwho'd had a previous song, "The Bargain Store", dropped by a number of country radio stations, when they mistakenly interpreted the lyrics as being sexually suggestiveexplained to 'Playboy's Lawrence Grobel, that she was surprised at country radio's willingness to play "It's All Wrong but It's All Right", given how sexually suggestive that song's lyrics, in fact, 'were'.:awrence Grobel, "A Candid Conversation with the Curvaceous Queen of Country Music", in 'Playboy' [United States] (October 1978), pp. 81-110
In popular culture
The song was featured in the 1979 drama film 'Norma Rae', in which actress Sally Field won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal as Norma Rae Webster.
Chart performance
References
Category:1978 singles
Category:Dolly Parton songs
Category:Songs written by Dolly Parton
Category:RCA Victor singles
Category:Song recordings produced by Gary Klein (producer)
Category:1977 songs
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