Heartbreak Express

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{{Infobox album

| name = Heartbreak Express

| type = Album

| artist = Dolly Parton

| cover = heartbreakexperss.jpg

| alt =

| released = March 29, 1982

| recorded = December 1981–January 1982

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Country

| length = 35:29

| label = RCA Victor

| producer = Dolly Parton

| prev_title = 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs

| prev_year = 1980

| next_title = The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

| next_year = 1982

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Heartbreak Express

| type = studio

| single1 = Single Women

| single1date = February 1, 1982

| single2 = Heartbreak Express

| single2date = May 3, 1982

| single3 = Do I Ever Cross Your Mind

| single3date = July 12, 1982

}}

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score ={{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r108079}}

|rev2= Robert Christgau| rev2Score={{Rating-Christgau|B-}}{{cite web |url= http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=372 |title=Robert Christgau: CG: Artist 372 |work=robertchristgau.com |access-date=20 June 2011}}

| rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev3score = {{rating|2|5}}{{r|larkin}}

| noprose = yes

}}

Heartbreak Express in the twenty-fourth solo studio album by American entertainer Dolly Parton. It was released on March 29, 1982, by RCA Records. The album returned Parton to a more fully realized country sound (a process she had begun on the previous year's 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs), after her late 1970s pop recordings. The album's first single, "Single Women", a slow-tempo honkytonk ballad about a singles bar, was written by Saturday Night Live writer Michael O'Donoghue, and had previously appeared in an SNL skit in late 1980. The single provided a top ten single for Parton. The title cut also was a top ten hit for her. "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind" (a song Parton had written in the early 1970s but had never officially recorded) appeared as a double-A-sided single (along with Parton's rerecording of "I Will Always Love You" from the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas), and reached No. 1 on the country charts in August 1982.

"Hollywood Potters", Parton has explained to interviewers, came out of her experience filming the movie 9 to 5, as Parton watched many of the film's extras and bit players, who had worked very hard at acting through the years, but with very little success. Heartbreak Express was re-released in digital format in 2013.