Rainbow

Rainbow is the twenty-eighth solo studio album by Dolly Parton. It was released on November 25, 1987, by Columbia Records. The original plan, when Parton signed with CBS, was for her to alternate between releasing pop and country albums (rather than trying to combine the two styles on each album), but due to Rainbow's poor sales and tepid critical reception, the plan was quickly abandoned, and Parton more or less focused on recording country material for the remainder of her association with the label.

The album was among Parton's lowest charting albums to that point. It stalled at #153 on the U.S. Billboard 200 pop albums chart and barely cracked the top twenty on the Top Country Albums chart; its first single, "The River Unbroken" missed the Hot Country Songs top 40 entirely, stalling at #63, and did not make the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.