Rockin' Years

"Rockin' Years"
Single by Dolly Parton and Ricky Van Shelton
from the album Eagle When She Flies and Backroads
B-side"What a Heartache"[2]
ReleasedFebruary 4, 1991[1]
RecordedNovember 8, 1990[1]
GenreCountry
Length3:25
LabelColumbia/TriStar
Songwriter(s)Floyd Parton
Producer(s)Steve Buckingham, Gary Smith, Dolly Parton[1]
Dolly Parton singles chronology
"Take Me Back to the Country"
(1990) 		"Rockin' Years"
(1991) 		"Silver and Gold"
(1991)
Ricky Van Shelton singles chronology
"Life's Little Ups and Downs"
(1990) 		"Rockin' Years"
(1991) 		"I Am a Simple Man"
(1991)

"Rockin' Years" is a song written by Floyd Parton, and recorded as a duet by American country music artists Dolly Parton and Ricky Van Shelton. it was released in February 1991 as the lead-off single to both Parton's album Eagle When She Flies and Shelton's album Backroads, and on both albums, it is track #2 on each of the albums track lists. The song reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart, giving Parton her twenty-fourth number one and Shelton his eighth. The song would be Parton's last chart-topper until 2006.

  1. ^ a b c Greatest Hits Plus (CD). Ricky Van Shelton. Columbia Records. 1992. 52753.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. pp. 315–317. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.