Dolly Parton Interview with Bobby Bones

partin's here a dollar how are you good to see you again we've got these old bones out early for those old bones sure for you today yeah I dressed up for you dad you look nice for this time of day it is for this time of day what time do you normally wake up oh I'm an early bird so I'm usually up and around by 3:00 a.m. every day I get up and do my work and sometimes I'll go back take a little nap but I usually get more done between 3:00 and 9:00 I'm glad you came in let's talk about this kids album I was listening last night to it oh yeah because uh it's out digitally already but Friday it's out as an actual hard copy CD Friday the 13th I'm hoping that's gonna be good luck it just happened that way why and this is just me from my own curiosity why don't you do like a Netflix comedy special you're so funny well people have said that but I have thought I mean I don't know that I'm funny I mean that a good sense of humor comes from both sides of my family my mom is people hysterical my dad's people as well but I just think funny I guess or I just life is just kind of I try to it's if it's not a rhyme it's a joke to me and never write jokes oh yeah I do I sit down and know when I'm working my stage shows I sit and write for days sometimes just trying to think what what fun things that would follow the themes but I have thought that I might do a comedy album someday I've been approached with that a lot of times so that might be something else I might do do you feel like in your heart you're a songwriter or an artist first I'm a songwriter first and because I've been asked that more than one time if you had just stopped everything and just do one thing what would that be and I say I probably choose to write because I love that not just songs but but poems and jokes and stories and you know coming up with I'm a creative person but I love it all I would never want to you know to separate it because I need all the other elements to you know make the writing make sense or have an outlet for that but I just love to write that's my personal time to write as my therapist it's my friend it's my god time it's my you know so feeling like I'm leaving in the world you know today that you know or tomorrow that wasn't there you know yesterday and so I'm not necessarily a great writer I've got I say I've written at least 5,000 songs I got probably five good ones but it's important I think to express yourself you know like that and I just enjoy that you started as a songwriter like right before you kind of got signed as a recording artist yes I did I got on salary for when I was trying to get a record deal too and when I first came to national I started writing for BMI when I was just a little kid sending songs back and forth to Nashville in the mail and so I wanted to sing too I wouldn't be a star I wanted to be to travel the world I wanted to be rich and famous like we all do but it was more about the art with me always you know I wanted to I wanted to make good money but I wanted people to hear my songs I just wanted to get out there and perform what was the first song that someone's saying that you wrote you remember yes the first record I went with my uncle Bill Owens who's the one that kind of helped me get around he was my mother's brother he played guitar and he was a writer singer but he saw my he saw my great desire and he's the one that would take me around to sing so we wrote a song together on different trips back and forth to Nashville when I was young and we were trying to get record deals or someone's recording and we wrote a song called put it off until tomorrow [Music] Oh Nellie I don't know everything about you that was the thought that was to be in my song of the year that year 1966 I guess maybe 65 or 66 Bill Phillips on Decca Records so I felt like I'd made it then that was a huge deal right to have someone to sing your song yes and actually what's so funny that is kind of what got me started as a singer as well because they were trying when I first came to Nashville I was young and so Fred Foster and different people that I would go to talk to with monument records or and they thought since I was young I should do more like a rockabilly or more pop things and I kept saying I'm a country singer I don't I don't know that world I'm not you know I'm not comfortable with that but they when I said this song out as a songwriter my Uncle Bill and I I didn't have my name on it I was just singing the harmony on it and so Bill Phillips in the Decca record said who is the girl singing the harmony on that and Bill Phillips said I want that girl to sing the harmony so I'm singing harmony I'm Bill Phillips record and that's when my name wasn't on the record and people were calling through the radio station who's the girl singer who's a girl singer and so that's how it went to the record label and said say I told you country and that's kind of how that got started so many females like cite you as their biggest influence like the women that come in here like Kelsea Ballerini I saw Carly Pierce just tweet that she's listening to you Lauren Alaina message me and so you coming up in an industry that was really really male driven at the time like that for you had to be quite this shocked right to go into all men do you know it really wasn't and I people ask me that all the time that didn't seem that big of a deal to me cuz I have six brothers and I'm very close to my uncles and my dad and so I understand and love me and I understand the you know I and all the personalities and I just knew that I had the goods I knew I had songs and I always felt like I had something to to give so I would just go in like a look kind of like with the business attitude but when they had flirt with me I took it as a compliment because I knew I wasn't gonna let it get out of hand cuz you know if I didn't kick their butts I had six brother six brother is that that kind of set you oh I know every you know I know the nature of man I know all the personnel tis so but I really think that helped me a lot because I think it could have been a lot worse for me had I not you know I was Saddam too I probably didn't even know sometimes when things were maybe out of kilter because I also had such confidence in myself that I would always know when something didn't seem right and I would you know I'm redneck enough to know how to put a halt to that if I didn't want to do it like I said I never slept with anybody I didn't want to nobody ever forced me to do it I didn't have to do it for a deal that was like that was just our own personal deals that happen tell me about this because depending when you grew up the song happens in many versions and I feel like now this person's back like this is the one that people know again because you wrote the song mm-hmm how long ago in 1972 I think I wrote it at the same time I wrote Jolin it was a good writing day what are you gonna say you ready for the thing yeah I believe so it was writing that writing period of time because I remember all my paperwork and like they came out pretty close you know at the same time so everybody said well you what was you taking that was a good help is a good writing day but it was but that song you know came from a very serious place and everybody's always heard the story when I was working with the Porter Wagoner show and we were I was trying to get out go out on my own and it was taking a big hunk out of his show and the fact that we had one of those love-hate relationships and it was just hard to move on and so he wasn't listening to anything I had to say so I went home and wrote that song took it back the next morning and said sit down I need you to hear something so I sang it and he was crying so he's okay you can go providing I can produce that record so he did and so that's how it came about but it was only when Whitney recorded it that it became like such a worldwide hit and so that's that's just I always loved when used to how did they approach you for that well that's a funny thing Kevin Costner was producing or directing and I imagine producing also The Bodyguard movie and he was in it and so they had a song that was going to be the theme and just before they got ready to to do the movie someone else covered the song they were going to use so they had to find another song and his secretary or his assistant somebody said there's a Dolly Parton song I love I will always love you I think it would just fit this and he said oh yeah I love that song so they contacted me about using I said absolutely so I sent it and I hadn't heard anything more about it until I heard it going driving from my office to my house in Brentwood I heard I didn't know if they had ever used or anything and so I just heard Brittany saying if I didn't the acapella part and it was just it wasn't ringing true that was weird that's you know something caught my attention and it was only when she went into the course of it that I will always love you that I realized what I was listening to and it was so overwhelming I almost wrecked I just pulled off just the greatness and the bigness and the fact that that was my song and it was just so out of nowhere and I have to honestly say that it's one of the biggest thrills and one of the the most overwhelming feelings I've ever had about anything in my life well you've always been so kind to me so well we love you everybody loves the bones that's not true no do you ever hear some of mine called these Obama I have well you need play that just that mark that these old bone to tell you story these old bones or never lie yeah you heard her I heard her dolly great to see you thank you

Channel: Bobby Bones Show

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Length: 10min 19sec (619 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 09 2017