Dolly Parton Biography

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Dolly Parton
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Dolly Rebecca Parton has had as varied a career as anyone in show business, even as this career was originally rooted in country music. Born in 1946 in Tennessee, Parton was the fourth of twelve children born to poor farmers. She learned to play guitar and began singing as a youngster, getting on the radio and even on the Grand Ole Opry. She began her recorded output in 1958 with Goldband Records signing "Puppy Love". She was twelve years old. She married Carl Dean and signed with Monument Records in 1966 and she soon had a hit with "Dumb Blonde." Her massive hair and hourglass figure also helped boost her image but her voice and songwriting skills were already becoming known among the Nashville community. She joined the Porter Wagoner Show and took part in comedy sketches and sang, all the while scoring occasional hits like "Joshua," "Coat of Many Colors" (about her mother sewing during poverty times) and a duet with Wagoner (with whom she toured nationally before becoming a solo act), "Last Thing On My Mind," "Better Move It On Home," and "Please Don't Stop Loving Me." She had a big hit, "Jolene," in 1974 and left the show. She did not stick to country, even getting into pop and a sort of disco, recording a Jackie Wilson soul piece, "Higher and Higher." She was on the pop charts at No. 3 in 1977 with "Here You Come Again" and between then and 1980 she had six Top 40 hits, including the 1980 No. 1 hit, "9 To 5," from the movie of the same name that she starred in. She starred in the Burt Reynolds film "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" and then "Rhinestone" and 1990's "Steel Magnolias." She has had success as a singer, songwriter (several of her songs have been covered lucratively by other stars), a "personality" and a movie star. And she opened Dollywood, an entertainment complex/museum. She won a Grammy in 1987 for TRIO, an album with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt, and had both mainstream (RAINBOW) and country (WHITE LIMOZEEN) albums in the late '80s. She did a big country album, EAGLE WHEN SHE FLIES, in 1991 and in 1992 Whitney Houston had the biggest single of the year with Parton's "I Will Always Love You."

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