"Paper Mansions" is the name of a 1967 single and hit by Dottie West

Dottie West

Dottie West was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and co-recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists...

. The single was first a 45 RPM

Gramophone record

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"Paper Mansions" was released by Dottie West

Dottie West

Dottie West was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and co-recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists...

 in 1967 for her new With All My Heart and Soul

With All My Heart and Soul

With All My Heart and Soul is an album by Country music singer, Dottie West, released in 1967.This was one of Dottie West's best-selling albums. The album was produced by RCA Country music producer Chet Atkins, along with a string of other albums West recorded for the record company in the 60s. The...

album (which sold quite well), which only featured this single. This song was West's last Top 10 hit of the decade as a solo act. This song is and example of one of the few songs not written by West herself. The song was the last single released in 1967 and became a Top 10 hit in 1968, reaching No. 8 on the Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

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 list on Billboard's chart. It didn't do as well on Cashbox's chart, only making the Top 15 there, at No. 13.

This song is one of West's better-known hits from the 1960s. This was virtually impossible to find on any Dottie West album up until 1996, when RCA records released a compilation album of all her hits under RCA titled The Essential Dottie West. No other major artists have recorded this song yet.

Charts

Chart (1967)	Peak position
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