Dolly Parton has contributed to over 100 albums throughout her career. These contributions range from solo recordings and duets to providing backing and harmony vocals for other artists. This additional work spans Parton's entire career, beginning in 1966 when she provided uncredited harmony vocals on Bill Phillips' recording of her composition "Put It Off Until Tomorrow" through her most recent collaboration with Beyoncé in 2024 on "Dolly P" and "Tyrant".
| Title | Year | Other artist(s) | Album | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Put It Off Until Tomorrow" | 1966 | Bill Phillips | Put It Off Until Tomorrow | [1] |
| "Friends Tell Friends" | 1967 | Bill Phillips' Style | [2] | |
| "Tomorrow's Tears Today" | 1970 | Billy Earl and the Kinfolks | Dolly Parton Presents Billy Earl and the Kinfolks | [3] |
| "Would You Believe" | ||||
| "I'll Introduce You" | ||||
| "Dolly Parton's Opry Memories"[a] | 1976 | — | Great Moments at the Grand Ole Opry | [4] |
| "Good Ole Country Baptizin'" | Mary Kay Place | Tonite! At the Capri Lounge…Loretta Haggers | [5] | |
| "Coke and Chips" | ||||
| "All I Can Do" | ||||
| "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind" | Chet Atkins | The Best of Chet Atkins & Friends | [6] | |
| "When I Stop Dreaming" | Emmylou Harris | Luxury Liner | [7] | |
| "I Never Will Marry" | 1977 | Linda Ronstadt | Simple Dreams | [8] |
| "Cora Is Gone" | Herb Pedersen | Sandman | [9] | |
| "If I Lose" | Herb Pedersen and the Howdy-Cracker Vocal Revue[b] | |||
| "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" | 1979 | Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt | Blue Kentucky Girl | [10] |
| "Light of the Stable" | Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, and Neil Young | Light of the Stable: The Christmas Album | [11] | |
| "Green Pastures" | 1980 | Emmylou Harris and Ricky Skaggs | Roses in the Snow | [12] |
| "Evangeline" | 1981 | Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt | Evangeline | [13] |
| "Mr. Sandman" | ||||
| "My Blue Tears" | 1982 | Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris | Get Closer | [14] |
| "Islands in the Stream" | 1983 | Kenny Rogers | Eyes That See in the Dark | [15] |
| "A Vision of Mother" | Ricky Skaggs | Don't Cheat in Our Hometown | [16] | |
| "Don't Step Over an Old Love" | ||||
| "Coat of Many Colors" | Porter Wagoner | One for the Road | [17] | |
| "Unwed Fathers" | 1984 | Gail Davies | Where Is a Woman to Go | [18] |
| Multiple songs[c] | 1985 | Emmylou Harris | The Ballad of Sally Rose | [19] |
| "Most of All Why" | 1989 | Holly Dunn | The Blue Rose of Texas | [20] |
| "Sisters" | Stella Parton | Always Tomorrow | [21] | |
| "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind" | 1990 | Randy Travis | Heroes & Friends | [22] |
| "Love Is Strange" | Kenny Rogers | Love Is Strange | [23] | |
| "Waitin' for the Phone to Ring" | 1991 | Patty Loveless | Up Against My Heart | [24] |
| "Mother Church"[d] | Porter Wagoner, Roy Acuff, Little Jimmy Dickens, Hank Snow, Connie Smith, Grandpa Jones, and Bill Monroe | Pure Gold | [25] | |
| "Dreams Do Come True" | Bill Owens | Dreams Do Come True | [26] | |
| "Vagabond" | Bill Owens, Stella Parton, and Cassie Parton | Bill Owens | [27] | |
| "It Seems Like a Lifetime" | ||||
| "Corner of the World" | 1993 | Andy Landis | Stranger | [28] |
| "The Day I Fall in Love" | James Ingram | Beethoven's 2nd | [29] | |
| "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" | Neil Diamond | Up on the Roof: Songs from the Brill Building | [30] | |
| "If You Ain't Got Love" | — | The Beverly Hillbillies | [31] | |
| "Billy Dale" | Asleep at the Wheel | Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys | [32] | |
| "When You Tell Me That You Love Me" | 1994 | Julio Iglesias | Crazy | [33] |
| "Everyone But Me and You" | Mac Davis | Will Write Songs for Food | [34] | |
| "You Gotta Be My Baby" | — | Red Hot + Country | [35] | |
| "Where Grass Won't Grow" | George Jones, Emmylou Harris, and Trisha Yearwood | The Bradley Barn Sessions | [36] | |
| "The Blues Ain't Workin' on Me" | 1996 | Rhonda Vincent | Trouble Free | [37] |
| "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" | 1997 | Ladysmith Black Mambazo | Heavenly | [38] |
| "Silent Night" | — | Annabelle's Wish | [39] | |
| "Something Bigger Than Me" | ||||
| "Sleepless Nights" | 1998 | The Nobles | Slow Glowin' Dream | [40] |
| "Wrong Direction Home" | Margo O'Donnell and Maura O'Connell | The Highway of My Life: Shade of the Family Tree | [41] [42] [43] | |
| "God's Coloring Book" | Margo O'Donnell | |||
| "Dreaming My Dreams with You" | 1999 | Alison Krauss | Forget About It | [44] |
| "Satisfied" | Vestal Goodman | Vestal & Friends | [45] | |
| "Smoky Mountain Memories" | 2000 | Bryan Sutton | Ready to Go | [46] |
| "Making Plans" | Johnny Russell | Actin' Naturally | [47] | |
| "Born for You / Circle Game" | Kathie Lee Gifford | Born for You | [48] | |
| "Only My Pillow Knows" | ||||
| "Cry, Cry Darlin'" | Ricky Skaggs | Big Mon: The Songs of Bill Monroe | [49] | |
| "Healing Hands" | Sonya Isaacs | Sonya Isaacs | [50] | |
| "Touch of a Dove" | Brian Waldschlager | Down There | [51] | |
| "Heart Door" | 2001 | Paula Cole | Sweet November | [52] |
| "When Love Is New" | Emmy Rossum | Songcatcher | [53] | |
| "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On" | Hank Locklin | Generations in Song | [54] | |
| "Two of the Lucky Ones" | Hal Ketchum | Lucky Man | [55] | |
| "Loving You Too Well" | Ralph Stanley | Clinch Mountain Sweethearts | [56] | |
| "The Pretty Young Girl" | 2002 | Altan | The Blue Idol | [57] |
| "I'll Never Say Goodbye" | The Stevens Sisters | Little by Little | [58] | |
| "Violet and a Rose" | Pam Tillis | It's All Relative: Tillis Sings Tillis | [59] | |
| "Falling Out of Love with Me" | Pinmonkey | Pinmonkey | [60] | |
| "Once Upon a Christmas" | Selah | Rose of Bethlehem | [61] | |
| "Bluegrass, White Snow" | Patty Loveless and Ricky Skaggs | Bluegrass & White Snow: A Mountain Christmas | [62] | |
| "Dixie Darling" | Arlo Guthrie | Banjoman: A Tribute to Derroll Adams | [63] | |
| "Leave That Cowboy Alone" | 2003 | Ray Benson | Beyond Time | [64] |
| "Slowly I'm Falling to Pieces" | Paul Brewster | Everybody's Talkin' | [65] | |
| "Steady as the Rain" | The Larkins | The Larkins | [66] | |
| "Stand by the River" | Dottie Rambo | Stand by the River | [67] | |
| "Undercover" | Kenny Rogers | Back to the Well | [68] | |
| "The Angels Rejoiced" | Sonya Isaacs | Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs of the Louvin Brothers | [69] | |
| "Coat of Many Colors" | Shania Twain and Alison Krauss & Union Station | Just Because I'm a Woman: Songs of Dolly Parton | [70] | |
| "Just Because I'm a Woman" | — | |||
| "High and Mighty" | Aaron Crisler | In Good Hands | [71] | |
| "Jolene" | 2004 | Mindy Smith | One Moment More | [72] |
| "Creepin' In" | Norah Jones | Feels Like Home | [73] | |
| "My Tennessee Hills" | Janis Ian | Billie's Bones | [74] | |
| "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" | Roy Rivers | Thank God I'm a Country Boy | [75] | |
| "Slippin' Around" | Floyd Tillman | The Influence | [76] | |
| "Angels and Eagles" | Kim McLean | Happy Face | [77] | |
| "Christmas Time's a Comin'" | — | Christmas Grass, Vol. 2 | [78] | |
| "It Looked Good on Paper" | Randy Kohrs | I'm Torn | [79] | |
| "Baby, It's Cold Outside" | Rod Stewart | Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III | [80] | |
| "Viva Las Vegas" | 2005 | The Grascals | The Grascals | [81] |
| "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body (Would You Hold It Against Me)" | The Bellamy Brothers | Angels & Outlaws, Volume 1 | [82] | |
| "Cold" | Darrell Webb | Behind the Scenes | [83] | |
| "I Will Always Love You"[e] | Jerry D | Sax in the Country | [84] | |
| "When I Get Where I'm Going" | Brad Paisley | Time Well Wasted | [85] | |
| "Cornography" | Brad Paisley, James Burton, and the Kung Pao Buckaroos[f] | |||
| "The Blues Man" | George Jones | Hits I Missed...And One I Didn't | [86] | |
| "Silent Night" | Billy Dean | The Christ (A Song for Joseph) | [87] | |
| "I Still Miss Someone" | Martina McBride | Timeless | [88] | |
| "Train, Train" | Eric Lee Beddingfield | Eric Lee Beddingfield | [89] | |
| "Travelin' Thru" | 2006 | — | Transamerica | [90] |
| "Heartbreaker's Alibi" | Rhonda Vincent | All American Bluegrass Girl | [91] | |
| "Circle of Friends" | Charlie Louvin and Alison Krauss | If Only in a Song | [92] | |
| "Beneath the Sweet Magnolia Tree" | Christie Lynn and Porter Wagoner | Christie Lynn Sings Country • Gospel • Bluegrass | [93] | |
| "Tomorrow Is Forever" | Solomon Burke | Nashville | [94] | |
| "God's Coloring Book" | Charley Pride | Pride and Joy: A Gospel Music Collection | [95] | |
| "Jolene" (Live) | — | Grand Ole Opry Live Classics: Ladies of the Grand Ole Opry | [96] | |
| "My Tennessee Mountain Home" (Live) | Rare Country Legends Live | [97] | ||
| "The Last Thing on My Mind" (Live) | Porter Wagoner | |||
| "Touch Your Woman" (Live) | — | |||
| "This Old House" | 2007 | Brenda Lee | Gospel Duets with Treasured Friends | [98] |
| "River of Happiness" | — | I'll Fly Away: Gospel Hymns & Songs of Faith | [99] | |
| "Drifting Too Far from the Shore" | Porter Wagoner | Best of Grand Ole Gospel 2008 | [100] | |
| "Palms of Victory" | Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt | Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems | [101] | |
| "Softly and Tenderly" | ||||
| "Daddy's Old Fiddle" | The Charlie Daniels Band | Deuces | [102] | |
| "Love Is Like a Butterfly" | Deana Carter | The Chain | [103] | |
| "My Perfect Reason" | Bill Anderson | Whisperin’ Bluegrass | [104] | |
| "Gold" | 2008 | Emmylou Harris and Vince Gill | All I Intended to Be | [105] |
| "To Daddy" | Tom Astor | Alles klar - kein Problem! | [106] | |
| "Rockin' Years" | George Jones | Burn Your Playhouse Down: The Unreleased Duets | [107] | |
| "Do You Know" | Jessica Simpson | Do You Know | [108] | |
| "Fisherman's Song" | — | Born to the Breed: A Tribute to Judy Collins | [109] | |
| "Applejack" | Pam Gadd | Benefit of Doubt | [110] | |
| "Narrative Intro: A Bridge Across" | — | This Is My America | [111] | |
| "A Bridge Across" | Mark O’Connor and the Nashville Symphony | |||
| "Boots and Sand" | 2009 | Yusuf and Paul McCartney | Roadsinger | [112] |
| "Pretty Flowers" | Steve Martin and Vince Gill | The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo | [113] | |
| "I Will Always Love You" | Stephanie J. Block | This Place I Know | [114] | |
| "The Bright Blue Rose" | Maura O'Connell | Naked with Friends | [115] | |
| "Tell Me That You Love Me" | Kenny Rogers | The First 50 Years | [116] | |
| "The Right Time" | 2010 | Brother Clyde | Brother Clyde | [117] |
| "Made for Lovin' You" | Curly Putman | Write 'em Sad - Sing 'em Lonesome | [118] | |
| "In the Garden by the Fountain" | Rhonda Vincent | Taken | [119] | |
| "Pain of Lovin' You" | 2011 | The Grascals | Country Classics with a Bluegrass Spin | [120] |
| "I Am Strong" | ||||
| "I Am Strong" | The Grascals, The Oak Ridge Boys, Darryl Worley, Charlie Daniels, Terri Clark, Randy Owen, Steven Seagal, Tom T. Hall, Joe Nichols, and Ashley McLaurin | |||
| "Wonderful Christmas Time" | Chicago | Chicago XXXIII: O Christmas Three | [121] | |
| "True Blue" | Isabelle Boulay | Les grands espaces | [122] | |
| "If It's All the Same to You" | Bill Anderson | The First 10 Years: 1956—1966 | [123] | |
| "I Will Always Love You"[g] | Eirinn Abú | Forever in Love | [124] | |
| "I Will Always Love You"[h] | A New Creation | [125] | ||
| "I Will Always Love You" | 2012 | Lulu Roman | At Last | [126] |
| "It's Too Late" | 2013 | — | Unsung Hero: A Tribute to the Music of Ron Davies | [127] |
| "Do I Love You (Yes in Every Way)" | Paul Anka | Duets | [128] | |
| "Jolene" | Straight No Chaser | Under the Influence | [129] | |
| "You Can't Make Old Friends" | Kenny Rogers | You Can't Make Old Friends | [130] | |
| "From Here to the Moon and Back" | Willie Nelson | To All the Girls... | [131] | |
| "Listen to the Mockingbird" | Stuart Duncan | Divided & United: The Songs of the Civil War | [132] | |
| "Jolene" | 2014 | Mary Sarah | Bridges | [133] |
| "When They Ring Those Golden Bells" | 2015 | — | Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited | [134] |
| "Jolene" (Slowdown)[i] | The Blacklist | [135] | ||
| "My Father's Daughter" | Jewel | Picking Up the Pieces | [136] | |
| "Beyond the Call" | James Rogers | Beyond the Call | [137] | |
| "When I Stop Dreaming" | Don Henley | Cass County | [138] | |
| "Twelve Days of Christmas" | Rhonda Vincent, Charlie Daniels, The Oak Ridge Boys, Ronnie Milsap, Gene Watson, Bill Anderson, Larry Gatlin, Jeannie Seely, Lorrie Morgan, and Pam Tillis | Christmas Time | [139] | |
| "More Power to Ya" | 2016 | Stella Parton | Mountain Songbird | [140] |
| "Little Rosewood Casket" | — | On Top of Old Smoky: New Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music | [141] | |
| "I Will Always Love You" | 2017 | Michael Bolton | Songs of Cinema | [142] |
| "The Story" | — | Cover Stories | [143] | |
| "Jolene" | Pentatonix | PTX, Vol. IV: Classics | [144] | |
| "Born Again Wildflower" | Debbie Cochran | Born Again Wildflower | [145] | |
| "Old Flames (Can't Hold a Candle to You)" | Kesha | Rainbow | [146] | |
| "Rainbowland" | Miley Cyrus | Younger Now | [147] | |
| "Appalachian Memories" | Brad Hudson | Next New Heartbreak | [148] | |
| "Please" | 2018 | Rhonda Vincent | Restoration: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin | [149] |
| "Something More" | — | 1927 Jubilee: The New Bristol Sessions | [150] | |
| "The Last Word in Lonesome Is Me" | Alison Krauss | King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller | [151] | |
| "King of the Road" | Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Eric Church, Randy Travis, Lily Meola, Dwight Yoakam, Bill Anderson, Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket), Radney Foster, Emmylou Harris, Jamey Johnson, Alison Krauss, Ronnie Dunn, Flatt Lonesome, Dean Miller, Shawn Camp, Mandy Barnett, and Brenda Lee | |||
| "19th Amendment (A Woman's Right)" | — | 27: The Most Perfect Album | [152] | |
| "Road to Bethlehem" | Dailey & Vincent | The Sounds of Christmas | [153] | |
| "The Carroll County Accident" | Buck Trent | Spartanburg Blues | [154] | |
| "Smoky Mountain Rain" | 2019 | Ronnie Milsap | The Duets | [155] |
| "I Will Always Love You" | Kristin Chenoweth | For the Girls | [156] | |
| "There Was Jesus" | Zach Williams | Rescue Story | [157] | |
| "Happy All The Time" | Sam Williams | Glasshouse Children | [158] | |
| "Faith" | 2020 | Galantis and Mr. Probz | Church | [159] |
| "Applejack" | Linda Feller | 35 Jahre: Das Jubiläumsalbum | [160] | |
| "Words" | 2021 | Barry Gibb | Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers' Songbook, Vol. 1 | [161] |
| "Where the Soul Never Dies" | Leslie Jordan | Company's Comin' | [162] | |
| "One Angel" | Rory Feek | Gentle Man | [163] | |
| "9 to 5 to 9"[j] | Sabyn | Halfway There | [164] | |
| "Happy All the Time" | Sam Williams | Glasshouse Children | [165] | |
| "In the Sweet By and By" | Larry Cordle, Carl Jackson, Jerry Salley, and Bradley Walker | Country Faith Bluegrass | [166] | |
| "Does He Love You" | Reba McEntire | Revived Remixed Revisited | [167] | |
| "Eagle When She Flies" | José Feliciano | Behind This Guitar | [168] | |
| "Love Is Here to Stay" | 2022 | Michael Feinstein | Gershwin Country | [169] |
| "The Seeker" | Julie and Dan | Hymns: Some of Old, Some of New | [170] | |
| "You Can't Make Old Friends" (Live) | Kenny Rogers | All in for the Gambler | [171] | |
| "I Will Always Love You" (Live) | — | |||
| "Islands in the Stream" (Live) | Kenny Rogers | |||
| "Someday It'll All Make Sense" | Bill Anderson | As Far as I Can See: The Best of Bill Anderson | [172] | |
| "Two Doors Down" | Positive Vibrations | Country Goes Reggae | [173] | |
| "In Time, Jubilation" | Appalachian Road Show | Jubilation | [174] | |
| "Dolly P" | 2024 | Beyoncé | Cowboy Carter | [175] |
| "Tyrant" | [176] |
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