Dolly Parton Names Her Worst Songs | Late Night with Conan O’Brien

i uh i want to ask you you have this new album right now you've done i read this today 73 albums that's probably about right but i've been at it a long time can you even remember all of these no well i i do if i hear them i think oh yeah that was back in 02. right right do you ever do was there ever one of those 73 that you regretted like you've done so much great work because was everyone that you thought i wish i hadn't done that one oh you know you've always got when you're a songwriter you think they're all good it's like how everybody thinks their kids are pretty even if they're not right right it's not my family's well aware of that yeah but yeah there's so i wrote this song once about an uh it's like all oh it's about a man that owned a bunch of oils and i was trying to you know marry him he says i'll always love you i'll always care i'll always love you i want you all wells dear that was before i will always yes you're like okay i'm going to work on that throw rice i want to throw rocks at her she took the only love i had i don't want to throw rice i want to throw rocks at her but if it's terrible and that's you've written so many great songs but like that doesn't really roll off the tongue i don't want to throw rice at her yeah but it's like i'm going to throw rice but i'm going to cook it first right but you write all these things remember those old songs years ago like don't squeeze my in and you know people used to write that and country music was famous for it but yeah i got some suckers in there but i look up here your least popular album of all time i actually looked it up today i found it and it's pretty fascinating it just didn't work that was me as the cowboy pervert right there uh you know you talk a lot about how you you grew up and you were quite poor when you grew up and that you actually ate things that you caught well yeah you do in the mountains when you're country people it sounds awful when you read it and people think oh you go around eating possum and groundhog and squirrel and rabbit but that's what you do you don't you know you either that or you go hungry what is it like for example what does it taste like what does squirrel taste like it's good it's sweet it tastes like chicken it tastes like rabbit people still serve rabbit in restaurants i've even seen rabbits served in uh so in central park if i see a squirrel go by i should grab it you'll see well i don't eat that anymore but there's nothing better than possum under glass is that true no does do people eat possibly i grew up my one of my favorite shows of all time beverly hillbillies and granny's always cooking up possum and i thought is that real do people eat possums if you're really really in bad shape you eat pasta my dad never would let us eat possums he said i ain't nothing but a damn rat and it's true then he said pass the squirrel yeah i'm not eating that squirrel right like you say you do what you do when you're grown up like sure now what do you do tell me what kind of things like growing up in tennessee what'd you do for fun if you know there were obviously not a lot of money to go around and today you know a lot of people say kids are spoiled they got the video games and you know movie theaters what did you do for fun well we had lots of homemade toys we had each other to play with that's for sure we didn't have toys but anyhow but we the big things for us was like to go swimming at the sup hole there was this um last name it was a place uh you know at the river that had a bunch of rocks we had one of those in times square and then they cleaned it up you know they didn't like it because it was like a bunch of rocks and a bunch of rocks and then like underneath there were caves but it was like real deep cold water and it was the best place in the world to swim but you could get sucked under right and so everybody in the whole county called it the old suck hole so it's like you'd ask they even had baptizings down there but you could you could get pulled in it's like a giant toilet you could catch underneath the rocks and it was dangerous your parents didn't like you to go but you know how a bunch of rowdy kids are but we made it sometimes i look back on that and i wonder how we did but it was it was a good life sure and you now things have gone so well for you i know that you're a sucker for infomercials you love infomercials and you love to buy all like you buy too much of that stuff is that true i have a weakness for it because as a kid my grandmother was bedridden and i used to help her spend time with her and like brush her false teeth and take her bed pan out no the other kids would do it but she used to order things for me out of the catalog and i just got hooked on that as a little kid in the wish book so now i get on airplanes all those gift magazines every infomercial everything i see i order it and i think when i'm seeing it that i can't live without it and then i get all this stuff and i think what on earth was i think well i'm the same way when i fly on an airplane they have that magazine and you're flipping through it and they'll say you know your dog can eat processed cheese while you're away like you know like they have these crazy things that you can buy and i it all looks good to me i know and you and you order some of the stuff's real good but the biggest part of his junk but i just have a weakness for that i think that a lot of you just want to have it you see it you got it yeah do you ever call up you see it on tv late at night and you call and you're talking to somebody like send me that right now do you ever tell them that you're dolly parton them no dolly dean which is my married name but i do i order every exercise machine i just hang my clothes and my wigs on it yes i never use it like none of us actually use them i use mine to dry pasta you know i just rely all on it but that all looks good don't it sure oh yes i get it sucker we uh we have uh well talk about this the new cd which of course has a patriotic theme for god and country tell us about the uh the record well actually this is something i've wanted to do for a long time and i think this is a great time to do it there's a lot of great gospel type things in it too like a piece in the valley which bring hope and a few things but a lot of fun things like gmail want to go home ballad of the green beret god bless usa a lot of songs that i've written and so it's a very uplifting uh album and i thought it would be a good time it's almost like a little musical i talk a lot through it and kind of set up the songs and why i did them and what i think they you know have the importance of them sure so uh i'm going to be doing one later that's off the album that's great i just i mean i know you're you're going to leave now and come back and uh and sing for us but i wish you could stay here on the couch all night it's so nice having you here i wish you could just stay i wish you could stay for the rest of the i show wish i could say that i'm going to be doing a recording with norah jones a little later so if i could stay here i would yeah it would be great it just be so nice if you're sure you just can't stay for a little while no i can't stay honest i'll be just it'd be great for me if you would just i would love it if you stayed i would stay but if i [Music] should stop [Music] and yet i know that i'll think of here each step of the way bittersweet [Applause] that's all i have and all i'm taking with me that's beautiful so goodbye please don't cry we both know i'm not what you need love you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] everybody should be back later on the [Applause] show you

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Length: 7min 59sec (479 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 19 2021