" He had brought Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Connie Smith, Bobby Bare, Dolly Parton, Jerry Reed and John Hartford to the label in the 1960s and inspired and helped countless others.

As documented in her 1994 autobiography, initially, much of Wagoner's audience was unhappy, that Norma Jean, the performer whom Parton had replaced, had left the show, and was reluctant to accept Parton ( sometimes chanting loudly for Norma Jean from the audience ).

Wagoner and Parton were both frustrated by her lack of solo success, because he had a significant financial stake in her future: as of 1969, he was her co-producer and owned nearly half of Owepar, the publishing company Parton had founded with Bill Owens.

By 1970, both Parton and Wagoner had grown frustrated by her lack of solo chart success, and Porter had her record Jimmie Rodgers ' " Mule Skinner Blues ", a gimmick that worked.

Parton had her own syndicated-television variety show, Dolly!

While receiving generally favorable reviews, however, the album did not achieve the crossover success Parton had hoped for.

In the 1980s, movie roles and other ventures caused Parton to tour less than she had done during the previous decade.

By this time, the pollution from burning coal and steel production created a black fog ( or smog ), which even a century earlier had induced author writer James Parton to dub the city " hell with the lid off ".

Tomlin soon had the greatest hit of her film career with 1980's Nine to Five in which she played a secretary named Violet Newstead who joins coworkers Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton in seeking revenge on their monstrous boss, Franklin M. Hart, Jr., played by Dabney Coleman.

In January 2012, while appearing on 106 & Park with Dolly Parton, to promote Joyful Noise, Latifah stated that she had been working on a new album, set to release sometime in spring 2012.

In 1982, Kristofferson participated ( with Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, and Brenda Lee ) on The Winning Hand, a double album consisting of remastered and updated performances of recordings the four artists had made for the Monument label during the mid-1960s ; the album reached the top-ten on the U. S. country album charts.

Deciding it would make the label look bad for firing Summers if Rogers continued to be a major success ( his duet with Dolly Parton, " Islands in the Stream ", had been one of the biggest hits of 1983 ), Rogers received very little support from the label during the next several years he was with them.

The 1993 album Honky Tonk Angels gave her a chance to record with Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn for the first time ; though yielding no hit singles ( mainstream country radio had long since stopped playing artists approaching or over 50 ), the album did well on the country charts and even reached number 42 on the Billboard Pop Charts.

In 2010, Parton said she became involved with the operation because, " I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

Dolly Parton had much success in the 1980s, with several leading movie roles, two No. 1 albums and 13 number one hits, and having many successful tours.

Dolly Parton had much success in the 1980s, with several leading movie roles, two No. 1 albums and 13 number one hits, and having many successful tours.

Parton suggested they had better hurry up before they reach retirement age.

Volume 1 covers the first three hours of the star-studded event ( hosted by Glen Campbell, Roy Clark and Dolly Parton ), including live performances by Gene Autry, Carlene Carter, Loretta Lynn and others.

* Parton observed that Alice Chess could be played using three boards instead of two.

In a discussion with country songwriter Fred Foster, Dolly Parton famously said, " You know, there's really only three female singers in the world: Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, and Connie Smith.

It peaked at number three in the United Kingdom in August 1980 and was released in the United States in February 1981 ( retitled " Morning Train " to avoid confusion with Dolly Parton ’ s “ 9 to 5 ”), where it reached number one.

Parton became one of the few female country singers to have a number-one single on the country and pop charts simultaneously.

She continued to have hits with " Heartbreaker " ( 1978 ), " Baby I'm Burning " and " You're the Only One " ( both 1979 ), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart ; 1979's " Sweet Summer Lovin '" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart ( though it still nonetheless reached the top ten ).

During the late 1970s, for example, Dolly Parton released a number of double-A-sided singles, in which one side was released to pop radio, and the other side to country, including " Two Doors Down " / " It's All Wrong but It's All Right " and " Baby I'm Burning " / " I Really Got the Feeling ".

( Rogers also had an enormous duet hit with Parton, the Bee-Gees-penned " Islands in the Stream ", which topped the country and pop singles charts in late 1983.

The song also became a major country hit by Bill Anderson in 1969 ; in 1981 a cover of the song by Dolly Parton topped the country singles charts.

Nonetheless, the soundtrack album gave Dolly Parton two top ten country singles: " Tennessee Homesick Blues " and " God Won't Get You ".

Among the country stars who had a number of singles cross over to the AC chart ( and the pop chart as well ) from the 1960s through the 1980s included Brenda Lee, Ray Price, Patsy Cline, Ronnie Milsap, Barbara Mandrell, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Eddie Rabbitt, Crystal Gayle, Willie Nelson, and Juice Newton.

With " 9 to 5 ", Parton became only the second woman to top both the U. S. country singles chart and Billboard's Hot 100 with the same single.

Their first four singles were released on their own Long Beach Records-the first, " Rain ", featured a singer called Andy Parton, before they recruited Jas Mann as their lead vocalist.

Parton and Wagoner performed their last duet concert in April 1974, and she ceased appearing on his TV show in mid-1974, though they remained affiliated, with him helping to produce her records through 1975.

Upon leaving Wagoner's organization in 1974, Parton formed her own " Travelin ' Family Band ", made up largely of siblings, cousins and other family members, and touring with a number of other acts, including Willie Nelson and Mac Davis.

In addition to her Grammy for " Let Me Be There ", Newton-John was also named the Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year in 1974, defeating more established nominees Loretta Lynn, Canadian Anne Murray, Dolly Parton and Tanya Tucker.

Vernon Rylands Parton ( 2 October 1897 – 31 December 1974 ) was an English chess enthusiast and prolific chess variant inventor, his most renowned variant being Alice Chess.

In 1960 Parton moved from Cannock to Liverpool, into a terraced house near Penny Lane, and published a series of nine monographs from 1961 to 1974 ( also 1975 posthumously ) detailing his inventions.

When her single " Let Me Be There " became a big pop-country crossover hit in 1974, it became quite controversial, especially after Newton-John won a Grammy award for " Best Female Country Vocal Performance " for the song, and also won the CMA's most coveted award for females, " Female Vocalist of the Year " ( beating out established Nashville artists Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Tanya Tucker, as well as Canadian transplant Anne Murray ).

(" Travelin ' Prayer " would later earn Dolly Parton a Grammy, when she covered it in 1999.

* Dolly Parton (" You're the Only One ", " Heartbreaker ", " The Day I Fall In Love " ( Theme from Beethoven's 2nd ))

She has composed over 3, 000 songs, the best known of which include " I Will Always Love You " ( a two-time U. S. country chart-topper for Parton, as well as an international pop hit for Whitney Houston ), " Jolene ", " Coat of Many Colors ", " 9 to 5 ", and " My Tennessee Mountain Home ".

* " Jolene " – Dolly Parton

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* Jolene ( album )-Dolly Parton

Among these tracks, there are some cover songs such as " Take a Whiff on Me " ( Leadbelly ), " Outlaw Blues " ( Bob Dylan ), " Jack the Ripper " ( Screaming Lord Sutch ), " Jolene " ( Dolly Parton ), " Death Letter " ( Son House ), " Goin ' Back to Memphis " ( Soledad Brothers ), and " De Ballit of de Boll Weevil " ( Leadbelly ).

These included a new version of the Dolly Parton hit " Jolene ", which was included on her 2005 album release " Vi to " ( We Two ).

Historically she would lip-synch songs by her heroines like, Jolene by Dolly Parton or And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going by Jennifer Holliday but also lip-synching to instrumental songs like, Popcorn ( instrumental ) or operatic numbers, such as Der Hölle Rache by Mozart.

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