Dolly-Parton

Dolly Parton was born on January 19, 1946 in Locust Ridge Tenn. She lived with 12 other kids. Her imaginative mind was a great way to get away from the savage realities of daily life. She was writing songs before she learned to write or read. In 8 years, she was playing her first guitar. As a teenager, she began to sing on the local radio station in Knoxville, Tennessee. That same year she made her first record on Gold Band Records a tiny independent label. While she was in college, she already established herself on the local scene. But her dream was to be more widely well-known. She moved to Nashville just after she graduated in 1964. Her first charting records with Monument Records included Dumb Blonde and Something Fishy both in 1967. Porter Wagoner had been looking for female performers to perform on his show syndicated by him from the beginning. Parton was offered the gig in 1967 signed with RCA Records in 1968 and became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1969. In 1974, she resigned from at the end of Wagoner's show due to the success of her solo songs like Joshua Coats of Many Colors or Jolene was far surpassing the joint songs. The two split in 1974, Parton wrote the song I Will Always Love You for Wagoner and the song reached Number. #1 for the first time in 1974.