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Of course, Dolly Parton famously penned “Jolene” after a woman at her local bank was getting a little too flirty with her husband Carl Dean, not long after Carl and Dolly got married, though her real ...
Twenty-four songs battled it out, but only one could come out on top. The winner of our Knox News Dolly bracket competition might surprise you.
On Oct. 15, 1973, Dolly Parton released her now-classic song "Jolene." The No. 1 song (as of February of 1974) wasn't her first to reach the country charts' highest peak, but it did help launch one of ...
The tale of women expressing their sentiments of jealousy towards other women has been inherited through generations of storytelling.
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Dolly Parton has continually put out hit after hit over the years — from "These Old Bones" and "If I ...
More than 50 years after Dolly Parton released one of her most famous songs, we're still singing about Jolene. Beyoncé put her own fiery spin on Parton’s classic 1973 country song “Jolene” on her ...
The singer's hit song was released in October 1973, and was inspired by a woman who had a crush on her husband, Carl Dean, who died on March 3 Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...
When Dolly Parton launched her career on a country-music television show in the late 1960s, she says, she used to sign autographs every night after the broadcast. "One night, I was on stage, and there ...
Two of Dolly Parton's biggest hits go head-to-head, and it’s only the second round of our bracket-style competition to determine her best song.