Dolly Parton released "Jolene” in 1973. The song was actually inspired by real people. The country music icon revealed the ...

Dolly Parton's late husband Carl Dean served as the inspiration behind one of her greatest hits. Parton loosely wrote "Jolene ...

Dolly Parton and her late husband, Carl Dean, never had children during their 60 years of marriage. The 79-year-old singer ...

She and Dean got married on May 30, 1966 (Memorial Day) in a small ceremony attended by only Parton’s mother Avie Lee Parton, ...

Dolly Parton once revealed the touching honest reason why she never had kids with her late husband Carl Dean. Now, while it's ...

Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’ was famously inspired by her late husband, Carl Dean, but she wrote several other songs about him ...

Mr. Dean, who inspired songs including “Jolene” and “From Here to the Moon and Back,” was known to shy away from the ...

How Dolly Parton remembered husband Carl Dean after his death Monday and what to know about the longtime couple.

He was 82. According to a statement provided to The Associated Press by Parton’s publicist, Dean will be laid to rest in a ...

"I was surprised and delighted that while he talked to me, he looked at my face (a rare thing for me)," said Parton of their first meeting.

Dolly Patron’s ultra-private husband Carl Dean, who died March 3 at the age of 82, was last photographed in public over five ...

One of Dolly Parton’s biggest hits was inspired, in part, by her late husband, Carl Thomas Dean. The country music icon said her 1973 smash hit “Jolene,” which went to the top of Billboard’s country ...