Dolly-Parton

Dolly Parton, born Jan. 19th, 1946 in Locust Ridge Tenn. to a family of 12 poor children, who would all grow up in the same household, understood very young how to overcome of the difficulties she faced with her extraordinary and vivid imagination. Before she was able to write and read, she began singing her own tunes. The first time she picked up a guitar was at the age of 8 and began singing on a Knoxville Tenn radio station at eleven years old. That same year she made her first record on Gold Band Records a tiny independent label. When she was still in highschool she became famous locally but longed to be on a bigger stage. The day after she graduated in 1964 she moved to Nashville. Dumb Blonde, Something Fishy and Dumb Blonde both charted on Monument Records in 1967. Porter Wagoner, a syndicated TV show host at the time, was in search for a woman to sing in his show. Parton took the job in 1966. She was then signed to RCA Records in 1968, and the Grand Ole Opry was founded in 1969. Then, in 1974, she left at the end of Wagoner's show due to the success of her solo songs like Joshua Coats of Many Colors or Jolene was way ahead of their joint release. Following their breakup, Parton wrote the song I Will Always Love You for Wagoner and it made it to No. 1. for the first time in 1974.