Paper Mansions

"Paper Mansions"
"Paper Mansions"
Single by Dottie West
from the album With All My Heart and Soul
B-side	"Someone's Gotta Cry"
Released	February 1967
Recorded	July 1966
Studio	RCA Studio B (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Country, Nashville sound
Length	3:01
Label	RCA Victor
Songwriter	Ted Harris
Producer	Chet Atkins
Dottie West singles chronology

"Paper Mansions" is a song written by Ted Harris, recorded by American country music artist by Dottie West. The single was first a 45 RPM. It was released in February 1967 as the first single from her With All My Heart and Soul album (which sold quite well). This song was West's last Top 10 hit of the decade as a solo act. The song became a Top 10 hit in 1967, reaching No. 8 on the Hot Country Singles list on Billboard's chart. It didn't do as well on Cashbox's Country Top 50 chart, only making the Top 15 there, at No. 13.

This song is one of West's better-known hits from the 1960s. It wasn't included on any other Dottie West album until 1996, when RCA records released a compilation album of all her hits under RCA titled The Essential Dottie West. Lynn Anderson released a recording of this song on her December 1967 album Promises, Promises.

Charts

Chart (1967)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	8
U.S. Cashbox Country Top 50	13

References

1 2 Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 378.
1 2 "Country Top 50" (PDF). Cashbox. Vol. XXVIII, no. 44. May 27, 1967. p. 59. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 21, 2026. Retrieved November 5, 2026.
↑ Anderson, Lynn (December 1967). Promises, Promises (Album Info/Liner Notes). Chart Records.

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[Country_Chart-1] 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 378.

[Cashbox_Chart-2] 1 2 "Country Top 50" (PDF). Cashbox. Vol. XXVIII, no. 44. May 27, 1967. p. 59. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 21, 2026. Retrieved November 5, 2026.

[Liner_Notes-3] Anderson, Lynn (December 1967). Promises, Promises (Album Info/Liner Notes). Chart Records.

v t e Dottie West singles
Albums Singles
1960s	"My Big John" "Touch Me" "Let Me off at the Corner" "Love Is No Excuse" (with Jim Reeves) "Here Comes My Baby" "Didn't I" "Gettin' Married Has Made Us Strangers" "No Sign of Living" "Before the Ring on Your Finger Turns Green" "Would You Hold It Against Me" "Mommy, Can I Still Call Him Daddy" "What's Come Over My Baby" "Paper Mansions" "Like a Fool" "Childhood Places" "Country Girl" "Reno" "Rings of Gold" (with Don Gibson) "There's a Story (Goin' 'Round)" (with Don Gibson)
1970s	"Till I Can't Take It Anymore" (with Don Gibson) "It's Dawned on Me You're Gone" "Forever Yours" "Careless Hands" "If It's All Right with You" "Country Sunshine" "Last Time I Saw Him" "House of Love" "Lay Back Lover" "When It's Just You and Me" "Every Word I Write" "Tonight You Belong to Me" "Every Time Two Fools Collide" (with Kenny Rogers) "Come See Me and Come Lonely" "Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight" (with Kenny Rogers) "All I Ever Need Is You" (with Kenny Rogers) "'Til I Can Make It on My Own" (with Kenny Rogers) "You Pick Me Up (And Put Me Down)"
1980s	"A Lesson in Leavin'" "Leavin's for Unbelievers" "Are You Happy Baby?" "What Are We Doin' in Love" (with Kenny Rogers) "(I'm Gonna) Put You Back on the Rack" "It's High Time" "You're Not Easy to Forget" "She Can't Get My Love Off the Bed" "Tulsa Ballroom" "Together Again" (with Kenny Rogers)