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Promotional special for Parton's album of the same name features music-video sequences, historical footage and insight from various singers and songwriters.

CBS advertised Parton's CD as the "soundtrack" for the TV special.

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    • Author: Bremar
    This is a great program which showcases Dolly in concert singing some of her favourite songs with clips of events that were going on in the world during the time when the songs were originally released. Also included are interviews with the writers of the songs and original artists such as Cat Stevens, Mac Davis, Kenny Rogers and includes performances with Alison Krauss, Suzanne Cox, David Hegaldo (Los Lobos), Raul Malo (Mavericks) and Ladysmith Black Mombazo.
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    • Author: Priotian
    Dolly Parton's "Treasures" album was filled with an assortment of covers of popular songs. For the promotional TV special, they amassed a collection of interviews with the original singers and songwriters and interspersed it with historical clips.

    The special has many things going against it, most notably the short running time, which is marred by clunky editorial choices. Studio footage is blended with seemingly-live performances in which Ms. Parton is lip-syncing to the album tracks, and she comments on each of the songs that she... ahem... performs.

    So it's a music video commercial... but wait, it's also a documentary! Not only do we get interviews with composers (such as Kris Kristofferson, who's superimposed into one of Dolly's video segments in a truly bizarre manner!), but at random times we cut away to historical footage from the days when the songs were originally hits. That's right, we now interrupt this Dolly Parton lip-sync performance to show you something completely random.

    The ideas behind this special were kinda awesome, and if they'd had a 2-hour timeslot it could have worked well, but at under an hour, they fell short in the execution.
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    • Author: Washington
    Dolly Parton is a world class singer/songwriter and a hell of a live performer (as proven on the album ´Heartsongs´). So why did she choose to lip sync on this ´Treasures´ special? The songs are great, the costumes are hilarious! But live vocals would have made all the difference. This could have been a classic Dolly Parton performance, instead it´s a commercial for a very nice Dolly Parton album. Shame.
  • Credited cast:
    Dolly Parton Dolly Parton - Herself
    Mac Davis Mac Davis - Himself
    Kenny Rogers Kenny Rogers - Himself
    Charlie Rich Charlie Rich - Himself
    Raul Malo Raul Malo - Himself
    David Hidalgo David Hidalgo - Himself
    John Popper John Popper - Himself
    Alison Krauss Alison Krauss - Herself
    Suzanne Cox Suzanne Cox - Herself
    Cat Stevens Cat Stevens - Himself
    Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, - Themselves
    Merle Haggard Merle Haggard - Himself
    Freddy Fender Freddy Fender - Himself
    Kris Kristofferson Kris Kristofferson - Himself
    Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
    Hank Aaron Hank Aaron - Himself (archive footage)
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