
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having released more than 40 Top 10 country albums and written over 3,000 songs. She’s been inducted into both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys in 2011.
Parton’s music career took off when she partnered with country artist Porter Wagoner in the late 1960s, becoming a regular on his weekly TV show and achieving significant success through their collaborative hits. She then began to find solo success in the early ’70s, releasing what would become one of her signature hits Jolene in 1973. Other notable singles include the Grammy winners 9 to 5, After the Gold Rush (with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt) and Shine, plus Coat of Many Colors, Islands in the Stream with Kenny Rogers, I Will Always Love You (later a global smash as a cover by Whitney Houston), Here You Come Again and TYRANT with Beyoncé.
Parton won her first Grammy Award in 1979, for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female for the album Here You Come Again, and her other albums include Jolene, Coat of Many Colors, 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs, and The Grass Is Blue, plus the collaboration albums Once Upon a Christmas with Rogers, and Trio and Trio II with Harris and Ronstadt. She has taken in roles in the films 9 to 5 and Steel Magnolias. In 2023, she hosted her own four-part What Would Dolly Do? Radio series on Apple Music.
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- Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware Second Helpings - Dolly Parton

This is a BIG one!!! Straight out of Nashville, the one and only Country ICON Dolly Parton joins us on Table Manners. We chatted to Dolly live from Nashville - dressed head to toe in festive gear - back in October 2020, before her beautiful book Storyteller had reached these shores and before we knew she had potentially helped cure covid with her generous donation to help fund a covid vaccine. As well as telling us all about cosying up with Michael Buble on her new christmas record ‘A Holly Dolly Christmas’ she talks to us about her upbringing in the mountains, being one of 12 children, her speciality of Chicken and Dumplings, that Glastonbury show and the very first time she heard Whitney Houston sing her song on the radio. This was a total pleasure and a real pinch yourself moment (hence my over talking). Hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed chatting to everyone's favourite storyteller! Dolly has now announced a brand new Broadway musical based on her life which launches in December.Listen & watch Table Manners here - https://tablemanners.komi.io/Follow Table Manners on:Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tablemannerspodcast/TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@tablemannerspodcastFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/tablemannerspodcastYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@TableMannersPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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About
- FROM
- Pittman Center, TN, United States
- BORN
- January 19, 1946
- GENRE
- Country