A duet with Ricky Van Shelton, " Rockin ' Years " ( 1991 ) reached number one but Parton's greatest commercial fortune of the decade came when Whitney Houston recorded " I Will Always Love You " for the soundtrack of the feature film The Bodyguard ( 1992 ); both the single and the album were massively successful.

Despite what might have seemed an opportunistic project, designed to capitalize on the later fame of the performers — Parton's and Nelson's careers were at their commercial peaks in 1982 — the album was largely well received by critics upon its release and did well on the country charts.

Parton's initial success came as a songwriter, writing two top ten hits with her uncle Bill Owens: Bill Phillips's " Put it off Until Tomorrow " and Skeeter Davis ' 1967 hit " Fuel to the Flame ".

Released in late 1973, the song topped the singles chart in February 1974, and reached the lower regions of Billboard's Hot 100 ( it eventually also charted in the UK, reaching No. 7 in 1976, representing Parton's first UK success ).

O ' Donoghue also found some success as a country music songwriter, his most notable credit being Dolly Parton's " Single Women " ( 1982 ).

With the success of Parton's song, Easton was forced to rename her recording " Morning Train ( 9 to 5 )" for its North American release.

During this period, Parton's visibility continued to increase, with television appearances in 1977, 1978 and 1979.

Parton's singles continued to appear consistently in the country Top 10: between 1981 and 1985, she had 12 Top 10 hits ; half of those were number-one singles.

Other chart hits during this period included Parton's chart-topping cover of the 1969 First Edition hit " But You Know I Love You " and " The House of the Rising Sun " ( both 1981 ), " Single Women ", " Heartbreak Express " and " Hard Candy Christmas " ( 1982 ) and 1983's " Potential New Boyfriend ", which was accompanied by one of Parton's first music videos, and which also reached the U. S. dance charts.

Parton's recorded output during the mid-to late-1990s remained steady, though somewhat eclectic.

* Many of entertainer Dolly Parton's hairstyles during the 1970s and 1980s ( many of which were wigs ) were beehive styles.

In addition to appearing on the film soundtrack, the song was the centerpiece of Parton's 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs album, released in late 1980.

Parton's soundtrack album from her own 1992 film, Straight Talk, however was less successful, though her 1993 album Slow Dancing with the Moon won critical acclaim, and did well on the charts, reaching No. 4 on the country albums charts, and No. 16 on the Billboard 200 albums charts.

( One original member of Gypsy Fever, backing vocalist Richard Dennison, has remained with Parton's organization through the early 2010s, serving as a supporting vocalist, as well as the vocal arranger for Parton's band.

Plans for a brief tour with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt to promote their 1987 collaboration Trio fell through, due to the three artists ' conflicting schedules, as well as Parton's prior commitment to her 1987-88 ABC TV series.

In 2003, Twain participated in the Dolly Parton tribute album Just Because I'm a Woman, covering Parton's classic " Coat of Many Colors ", with backing vocals by Alison Krauss.

Along with some gospel standards, the group covered John Denver's " Back Home Again " and Dolly Parton's " Coat of Many Colors.

Foster also played a significant role in Dolly Parton's early career, signing her to Monument in 1964, shortly after her arrival in Nashville, and overseeing her recordings, culminating with her first top 40 country hit " Dumb Blonde " in 1967.

In the 1990s, Carpenter also duetted with Shawn Colvin, a " longtime recording pal ", and sang backup in Radney Foster's " Nobody Wins ," Dolly Parton ( on Parton's 1993 single " Romeo "), and Joan Baez on a 1995 live recording of " Diamonds & Rust.

" 9 to 5 " was Easton's first single release in the United States, although it was renamed " Morning Train ( Nine To Five )" for its release in the US and Canada to avoid confusion with Dolly Parton's hit movie title song " 9 to 5 ".

The album also featured a cover of Dolly Parton's 1976 composition " Falling out of Love with Me ", on which Parton herself contributed backing vocals.

The song made Riley the first woman to top both Billboard's Hot 100 and the U. S. country single's charts with the same song, a feat that would go unrepeated until Dolly Parton's " 9 to 5

Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede Dinner Attraction is a form of dinner theater with three locations in the Southern United States.

On January 19, 2012 Gaylord Entertainment announced a new partnership with Dolly Parton's The Dollywood Company to build a new water and seasonal snow park on acreage the company owns across Briley Parkway from Gaylord Opryland.

He has also appeared on a number of other artists ' recordings, including Béla Fleck's Perpetual Motion, playing arrangements of Baroque, Impressionist, Classical and other styles of music with Fleck and Edgar Meyer, the CD " Jam Session " with Mark O ' Connor Frank Vignola Bryan Sutton and Jon Burr, the Dixie Chicks ' Home, Kate Rusby's Awkward Annie, Julie Fowlis ' Cuilidh, Dolly Parton's Little Sparrow, Dierks Bentley's Up on the Ridge, and Sarah Jarosz's Follow Me Down.

The opening theme song was Parton's 1978 hit, " Baby I'm Burning " ( later to be replaced with " Hoedown-Showdown "); as with her 1976 series, Parton closed each week with her signature song, " I Will Always Love You.

The result, 1977's Here You Come Again, became her first million-seller, topping the country albums chart and reaching No. 20 on the pop albums chart ; the Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil-penned title track topped the country singles chart, and became Parton's first top-ten single on the pop charts ( reaching number three ).

The song was also released by Harris as a solo single in 1981, under the title " Mister Sandman ", for which she re-recorded all three vocal parts herself as neither Parton's nor Ronstadt's record companies would allow their artists ' vocals on the single.

Easton's single reached the number one spot on Billboards Hot 100 Chart three months after Parton's song left that spot.

The album strongly revitalized Parton's somewhat stagnant music career, spending five weeks at number one on Billboard's Country Albums chart, selling several million copies and producing four Top 10 country hits including Phil Spector's " To Know Him Is to Love Him ", which went to number one.

A live acoustic album, Heartsongs, featuring stripped down versions of some of Parton's hits, as well as a number of traditional songs, was released in late 1994.

The movie's theme song, " 9 to 5 ", became one of Parton's biggest hits of the decade.

After she recorded the track in December 1983, " Downtown " appeared on Parton's album of covers of hits from the 1950s and 1960s, The Great Pretender.

* December 31 — Dolly Parton's " Here You Come Again " spends its fifth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.

Parton's first solo single for RCA, " Just Because I'm a Woman ", was released in the summer of 1968 and was a moderate chart hit, reaching number seventeen.

* " Apple Jack ", a song written and performed by Dolly Parton ; The song first appeared on Parton's 1977 album New Harvest-First Gathering

* 1994: The Gaslight Theatre becomes the Heartsong Theatre, featuring " Heartsong ", a multi-media musical presentation that tells the story of Dolly Parton's life.

Dolly Parton's 1968 recording " Just Because I'm a Woman ", like " Honky Tonk Angels ", questioned the male-female double-standard.

Besides her own work, Tillis co-wrote and sang on the 1990 Warner Bros. single " Tomorrow's World ", written in honor of Earth Day, and Dolly Parton's 1992 single " Romeo ".

She showcased her singing abilities, famously covering Luther Vandross ' " Dance With My Father " and Dolly Parton's " I Will Always Love You ".

Andrews planned on dancing in her school's talent show, but her sister convinced her to sing Dolly Parton's " I Will Always Love You " instead.

Jenkins's Italian-language version of Dolly Parton's " I Will Always Love You " (" L ' Amore Sei Tu "), first performed live at Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire on 28 August 2005, was the first cut on her third album Living a Dream.