Sweet Summer Lovin'

"Sweet Summer Lovin'"
Single by Dolly Parton
from the album Great Balls of Fire
B-side"Great Balls of Fire"
ReleasedAugust 6, 1979
Recorded1978
GenreCountry
Length3:17
LabelRCA
Songwriter(s)Bud Reneau
Blaise Tosti
Producer(s)Dean Parks
Gregg Perry
Dolly Parton singles chronology
"You're The Only One"
(1979)
"Sweet Summer Lovin'"
(1979)
"Starting Over Again"
(1980)

"Sweet Summer Lovin'" a song written by Bud Reneau and Blaise Tosti, and recorded by American entertainer Dolly Parton. It was released in August 1979 as the second single from the album Great Balls of Fire. "Sweet Summer Lovin'" reached number 7 on the U.S. country charts.[1] (It was the first Dolly Parton single in two years not to top the charts.) It also topped the charts in Yugoslavia.

Though not a double-A-sided single, per se, the flip side, Parton's cover of "Great Balls of Fire", did receive a modest amount of radio airplay during the single's chart tenure.

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 262.