Dolly-Parton

Dolly Parton, who was born in Locust Ridge Tenn. on the 19th of January. 19. 1946 into a very humble family of 12 children eventually included, discovered early that she could escape the hardships of her life by using a vivid imagination. Before she could write or read, she composed her own music. She got her first guitar at age 8 and started performing on a Knoxville Tenn radio station at age eleven. She recorded her first album in the same calendar year Gold Band Records, a small independent label. While she was popular in the local scene while she was at high school, her ambitions were greater. In the exact day that she graduated from high school, it was 1964. Dumb Blonde was her first record to chart at the top of Monument Records. Porter Wagoner had been looking for a female vocalist for his show that was syndicated at this point. Parton began her career in the year 1967 and signed by RCA Records by 1968, and became a member of the Grand Ole Opry. But she resigned from the show in 1974, as her own releases such as Joshua Coat of Many Colors and Jolene were charting collaborations with them. Parton, after the split of their collaboration with Wagoner she wrote the song"I'll Always Be Loved" by You and had it reach No. #1 for the first time in 1974.