| Party Doll and Other Favorites | |
| Type: | compilation |
| Artist: | Mary Chapin Carpenter |
| Cover: | mccpartydoll.jpg |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 72:35 |
| Label: | Columbia Nashville |
| Prev Title: | A Place in the World |
| Prev Year: | 1996 |
| Next Title: | Time* Sex* Love* |
| Next Year: | 2001 |
Party Doll and Other Favorites is the first compilation album by American singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter, released by Columbia Records on May 25, 1999. It comprises a mix of her greatest hits, several album cuts, and newly recorded tracks, including "Almost Home", which reached No. 22 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart and No. 85 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The collection uses live or special event recordings in place of the studio cuts in several cases, others like "I Feel Lucky" and "He Thinks He'll Keep Her" are the original album versions. Of the new material, "Almost Home" and "Wherever You Are" were both released as singles, respectively reaching No. 22 and No. 55 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs in 1999.[1] The track "Can't Take Love for Granted" was taken from a live performance on Late Show with David Letterman; the song, originally a ballad appearing on her third album, Shooting Straight in the Dark, differed from the album version, in that it was performed as a rowdy, guitar-driven rock and roll performance.
Some of the songs on this album originally appeared on other sources. "Dreamland" previously appeared on the 1992 compilation Til Their Eyes Shine... The Lullaby Album,[2] "Grow Old with Me" comes from Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon, and "10,000 Miles" comes from the 1996 film Fly Away Home. Carpenter produced most of the album with her usual producer, John Jennings, except for "Wherever You Are" and "Almost Home", which she produced with Blake Chancey, and "10,000 Miles", which was produced by Mark Isham.[3]
All songs written by Mary Chapin Carpenter, except where noted.