Dolly Parton: Queen of Country (FULL MOVIE)

well I wanted to be a star but I always thought of a star more of as a singing star and being on the Grand Ole Opry been on stage and performing but I figured that if my career went the way I wanted it to that I would eventually wind up doing the movies and and Vegas and it was a real fun thing it's not as exciting to me as my music but it's certainly you know something for another challenge you see the glamour and the wigs and the LeMay and the nails that woman is smart and when the music starts her head goes down the wheels start turning and she can give you a numeric or new melody in 20 minutes she's brilliant I love her everyone should have 30 seconds a day with that woman oh and there's dollar dolly parton's girly soprano voice and songs about old-time virtues made her a major country star in the early 70s later in that decade she would pop audiences and became a household name with her playful self-deprecating comments about her blonde sex bomb image well certainly been bizarre has it but I've always loved a lot of hair a lot of makeup a lot of shiny clothes and sequins rhinestones whatever she won the hearts of millions of fans with her kindness and got the sweet nickname of dolly llama somebody says Oh dolly you always just look so happy I said that's the Botox and the college's [Music] more than 20 country in western number-one hits including classics like here you come again Jolene 9 to 5 and of course I will always love you which would become one of the biggest hits of the 90s making lots of cash for Dolly Parton who of course as the writer of the song was going to ching-ching on the royalties the days of living in a one-room log cabin were over it was penthouse suites all the way for the rest of her life dolly would be rich forever thanks to Whitney Houston taking her song and making it one of the biggest hits ever from self-titled theme park Dollywood television variety shows and several successful films including an Oscar nomination for her role in nine-to-five Dolly Parton a singular American superstar of the world more like a family relative than a that of celebrity I think they just kind of think Odalys come home follow the story of the Queen of Hearts and queen of country Dolly Parton [Music] Partin is one of the most honored female country performers of all time she's been with us forever she will be with us forever Dolly Parton will never die 25 of her singles or albums have been certified gold platinum or multi-platinum 26 of her songs reached number one in the Billboard Country chart a record for a female artist she has had 42 top 10 Country Albums and 110 charted singles over the past 40 years a record for any artist well I love to work I mean I when I was just a kid this was always my dream to travel all over the world and to write songs that was my gift and I just always wanted to make it into a business and you're in and you're out a lot of my dreams that I planned they come true so you have to be responsible for them and so I just try to keep up with the times as far as whatever's going on out there and I hope to never retire so I'm up there now but I've actually have enjoyed every bit of it I wake up every day with new dreams so I feel like I'm just starting out dolly has sold 100 million records around the world as a sign of dolly success and achievement she was invited to perform as a headline act in 2014 at Glastonbury Festival in the UK good golly it's Dolly this was a really big deal because this isn't her typical crowd by any means to bring a music icon one of the greatest songwriters one of the most successful music artists of all time - the festival is a really really huge thing unlikely but fantastic a total triumph she performed in front of 100,000 people at almost seventy years old I'm just a country girl now feel like a rock star [Music] and to understand where such strength of heart and spirit comes from we need to go back to the very beginning [Music] we're coming in this morning I was looking at the mud that was not different from me I grew up in mud my daddy was a farmer I grew up in the East Tennessee over in America so that was that we made our living on a farm so I thought well this is not all that different you know mud is mud wherever you are [Music] dollie Rebecca Parton was born January 19 1946 in locust Ridge in the foothills of Tennessee's Smoky Mountains Dolly Parton grew up dirt poor to quote one of her songs she was the backwoods Barbie she was the fourth of 12 children living in a one-room cabin compassionate you know that's obviously great inspiration for country songs with that background how poor was she she was so poor that when she was born her father couldn't afford to pay the doctor who delivered the baby in cash so instead gave him a bag of oatmeal and that was the purchase which allowed Dolly Parton to enter the world [Music] a replica of Dolly's childhood home can be seen in Dollywood the artists theme park in Tennessee a family project that displays many original treasures from their days in Locust Ridge [Music] with both their parents belonging to a Pentecostal church the partn children found music to be a large part of their experience of religion dollie started singing in church her grandfather was a preacher she loved performing she loved writing songs she's been writing songs since the age of seven she got her first guitar at eight and then she was performing on local TV shows and radio programs at the age of ten in 1959 age 12 Parton made her television debut on Knoxville TV and in 1960 at age 13 she made her recording debut with a small label and appeared at the Grand Ole Opry a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville Tennessee and she met Johnny Cash and so that was really the start of her career she already knew that she wanted to be a country singer Johnny Cash encouraged her to always follow her instincts in her music and career to thine own self be true you know those things I think if you really take those and know who you are and know what it is that you want to do and just stick to your dreams and don't get sidetracked with other things usually they don't if you've got the talent and you've got the ambition that'll usually happen [Music] one day after graduating high school in severe County in 1964 Parton moved to Nashville where she believed she had a better chance of starting her career it was on her first day there that she met and fell in love with Carl Dean [Music] not a lot of people know who he is he actually owns an asphalt road paving business in Nashville Tennessee but he just shines away from all the publicity in fact she says he's only seen her perform once in his entire life [Music] we're very secure in who we are and we love each other like we when I was 18 and he was like 22 or be and we we loved each other and we kind of grew into you know a lot of the real deep feelings that we share and he's very independent and I don't I want him to do what makes him happy he wants me to do what makes me happy we're not jealous of each other as far as what you know her personality or of other people and I don't know we're together enough to really keep it exciting that apart enough to keep it exciting well I don't know that I want a child because I grew up in a family 12 and when we married I took five of my younger brothers and sisters and we raised them until they marriage moved away so now they're having children and my nieces and nephews for these children call me a granny in Kakaako [Music] Carl Dean the mystery husband did all of showbusiness you know for the longest time I didn't think he actually existed I mean we never saw him he's unusual among showbiz spouses in that he's never at his wife's in 2011 Carl and Dolly celebrated their 45th anniversary the couple is still very happy and with no kids well I insist on having a very private life my I've been married for 45 years come this May and so my husband and I get along great it's his first marriage and mine and we like each other but he does not want to be in the press he's proud of me he's proud for me he loves hearing about it he loves show business long as he can watch it from from his chair and from his from a distance but we get along great because he does not want the limelight and he's a homebody and I love to travel so we you know we get along wonderful with that and I make it a point to protect his privacy and to protect our home life and when I go home that is private and so it's true that you you can have it all if you just work it right [Music] back in Nashville in 1964 Parton started writing some hit songs for other country artists and then in late 1965 aged 19 she signed with monument records where she was not initially pitched as a country singer she was told that her voice wouldn't suit country music the vibrato was wrong she was supposed to be a bubblegum pop artist imagine a sort of 1960s version of Britney Spears and you kind of get how Dolly was that was marketed so you know she did okay and but she wasn't really sort of comfortable she released a bunch of hits but they didn't do well except for one which was happy happy birthday baby and that one hit the Billboard 100 charts [Music] it was only after her composition put it off until tomorrow which went to number six on the country chart in 1966 that the label succumbed and allowed her to record country music her first country single dumb-blonde reached number 24 on the country chart followed by something fishy which went to number 17 the two songs appeared on her first full-length album hello I'm dolly released in 1967 that same year Porter Wagner noticed the young 21 year old Parton singing and invited her to join his weekly country music program the Porter Wagner show so yes it was 1967 that Porter Wagner established country star invited dolly to perform with him become a regular on his hit TV show he was a disaster from the start the problem was Dolly was replacing someone called Norma Jeane singer who was very popular with the audience she'd left the show so dolly would go out and sing to the audience and she'd get booed and jeered they didn't care that she was good they just cared that she wasn't Norma Jean but as we've learned before you know Dolly's a survivor in show business you know she doesn't just run away crying she sticks it out she sticks everything out she gets in front of the the microphone she wins them over with her music and eventually she becomes a success on that show and her wagner release several records together some hit duets and he's around for quite a long time in her career getting her established producing her records writing with her and was very much part of the Dolly Parton success story in the early years and he used to wear a lot of rhinestones suits and and all that and that was the thing to do and in country music so once I got into that I'd already been wearing the hair and the makeup I thought oh yes you got a shine if you're gonna go on stage you need to shine let people see you like you're a star so I've always enjoyed dressing up playing dress-up [Music] in 1969 while traveling with Porter Wagner on a tour bus a song came to Parton unable to find paper Dolly wrote the lyrics on the back of a dry-cleaning receipt from one of Wagner suits the song was recorded in April 1971 and reached number four on the US Country Singles Chart [Music] it tells how Parton's mother's stitched together a coat for her daughter out of rags given to the family as she sewed she told her child the biblical story of Joseph and his coat of many colors country music it's all about authenticity Dolly Parton's iconic 1971 live performance of coat of many colors was basically her calling card in the industry the one that made everyone sit up and take notice outside of Nashville in the in the world beyond because she told a story which was based on her own childhood as we've as we've learned that was pretty impoverished and the the coat of many colors made by her made by her mother the most famous coat in showbiz still a signature moment in her concerts today a great song very authentic you write what you know she sings about what you know there's real emotion in that song real truth and it really made it made it work back down as it works now [Music] although we had no money I was rich as I could be in my cold in many colors mama made [Music] Partin kept the original coat now on display in her chasing rainbows Museum at Dollywood [Music] although her solo singles and the Wagner duets were successful her biggest hit of this period was Jolin one of our biggest hits to date and it's really iconic in the country music world it was released in late 1973 and in the USA at the top of the charts in February 1974 and I think it really represents an iconic moment in country music but also it's an iconic song for her as well according to Parton the song was inspired by a redheaded bank clerk who flirted with her husband Carl Dean at his local bank branch around the time they were newly married throughout the song dolly desperately begs Jolene not to take her man [Music] Joline not just a fantastic song also my ringtone now the hair is a song that really proves how it survives so it hit number one for dolly in America in 1974 I believe it took a couple of years to cross over to England but she cracked the top 10 in 1976 with that one and yet Jolene that was the that was the one that got us started in in Britain we fell in love with her then and we've never fallen out of love with her since I love people and maybe it shows because I always say that I always see somebody I love and everybody I meet like family members somebody always reminds me of somebody else but I just love people and I've already been so grateful that people have accepted me and loved me all through the years and followed my career and kept food on my table so to speak [Music] Parton stayed with Porter Wagner for seven years to mark her professional break with him she wrote a song in 1974 I will always love you this is the guy who had given her a chance on his TV show and had worked with her honor early records establishing a path to fame they had a professional split but they remained friends and so she wrote the song I will always love you as a as a tribute never guess it perhaps that it would become the huge song that it did [Music] you [Music] Partin was interested until Presley's manager told her that it was standard procedure for the songwriter to sign over half of the publishing rights to any song recorded by Presley Dolly refused that decision has been credited with helping to make her many millions of dollars in royalties from the song over the years [Music] in 1992 the movie The Bodyguard was released starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston the original soundtrack for the movie became the best-selling soundtrack of all time and the lead single performed by Whitney Houston is a cover of I will always love you by Dolly Parton with 20 million units sold Whitney's version of the song is the seventh best-selling single of all time [Music] [Music] so Dolly Parton wrote the classic song I will always love you but it was Whitney Houston who made it an international success becoming one of the biggest hits of all time and making huge fame for Whitney huge money but also making lots of cash for Dolly Parton who of course as the writer of the song was going to ching-ching on the royalties the days of living in a one-room log cabin were over it was penthouse suites all the way for the rest of her life dolly would be rich forever thanks to Whitney Houston taking her song and making it one of the biggest hits ever and in 1994 it was Dolly Parton herself who gave the award for best female pop vocalist - Whitney I'd like to thank Whitney for making my song such an enormous hit and I really feel good about that because when I wrote that song 22 years ago I had a heartache but it's amazing how healing money can be [Applause] [Music] [Music] in the mid 70s Partin began to embark on a high-profile crossover campaign attempting to aim her music in a more mainstream direction and increase her visibility outside of the confines of country music in 1976 she began working closely with Sandy Gallin who would serve as her personal manager for the next 25 years what they decide is now that she's established as a country artist they need to take it to the next level they need to cross over become mainstream go in there in the pop direction that's what she did a large part of her success is due to Sandy Gallin they teamed also in a TV production company called sand dollar if you remember the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer that was produced by Dolly Parton you know and sandy sandy Galan so it was a partnership that extended beyond music into TV and movies as well they were very much on the same wavelength he sensed that Dolly was very very ambitious she wasn't happy just hanging around Nashville - strumming a guitar and singing her country songs you know she wanted to be in the mainstream pop world and an international star sandy had been around showbiz for a while he was the man to help her get there and together they were a fantastic combination with her 1976 album all I can do which she co-produced with Porter Wagner Parton began taking more of an active role in production and began specifically aiming her music in the pop direction her first entirely self-produced effort new harvest first gathering was released in 1977 but did not perform well but success eventually came later that year so in 1977 she had an album called here you come again and it became her first million dollar seller so this was exciting for her she had teamed up with Gary Klein who had helped her produce this album and it was number one on the country charts but it became number 20 on the pop charts she was finally that crossover success the song is a rare example of a partner hit that she did not write herself [Music] [Applause] just when I'm about to get myself together you waltz right in the door just like you've done for grabbed my heart around your little [Music] the same track also brought her first Grammy Award for best female country vocal performance as a little girl growing up she dreamed of being in that position she'd worked really hard for it she'd got through it on her own merits writing songs working with talented people showing incredible Drive and when she stood there on the Grammy stage you know she'd finally joined the legends but she wasn't finished there were still new mountains to conquer I was excited about it because it was the kind of thing that was so close to to my own personality that I you know I didn't feel like I hadn't really had to act or worry too much about it I wasn't all that great but I mean it wasn't like a real scary thing [Music] trying to expand her audience space Dolly was wisely turning her talents to television she proved to be a natural and was often in talk shows and on TV specials in 1976 she got her own variety talk show simply titled Dolly it achieved high ratings but managed to last only one season with Parton negotiating out of her contract citing stress to her vocal cords [Music] but Parton's big-screen debut was astoundingly successful [Music] she played a brassy Southern woman Doralee Rhodes in nine to five opposite Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda in 1980 well I think Jane is very complex person I think she's very intelligent very creative Thunder a very caring but I find are also very shy and I almost naive and a very sweet little girl way and it's a side of her that I really was surprised too nine-to-five was a huge hit it was a successful movie but also the song nine-to-five was a monster hit and she actually had a triple hit there because it was number one on the country charts the adult contemporary and the pop charts simultaneously and it also got her an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song [Music] the music video - nine-to-five is great because it's just classic iconic moments from the film so you get to see Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin and dolly tying up their boss if they can't stand Dabney Coleman he'll cut out kidnapping him and giving him a taste of his own medicine so throughout that entire song you see all those fun moments from the film just to watch him shed on the back [Music] the title track won two Grammy Awards for best country song and for best female country vocal performance so suddenly she was a music star she was a movie star the world was Dolly's oyster and it was a real fun thing it's not as exciting to me is my music but it's certainly something for the success of the movie was adapted for Broadway at the start of the new century Dolly Parton wrote the music and the lyrics for it well I've never done Broadway this is first time I've done anything here and so when Bob Greenblatt who produced the he asked me if I'd Roddick since I had written the theme song 30 years ago for the movie with James Bond and Lily Tomlin and so I said well give it a try and I did it for you four years later or more here we are the musical premiered in Los Angeles in September 2008 and opened on Broadway New York in April 2009 with Megan Hilty taking over the role of Doralee Rhodes well actually I'm very proud of Megan Hilty and I think they make too much out of the fact that she's playing Dolly Parton because she's really not we both were playing Doralee Rhodes who's the character because when I did the movie I wasn't really being Dolly Parton I mean they were trying to get me to play a girl from Texas and I've never been a secretary so we're both acting but the fact that I was in the role first and had the big boobs in little ways but she's got a beautiful little body she's got plenty of stuff of her own they just kind of tried to make it look a little more like that but she's certainly a nice reflection on me I was never that cute so when they say that I think but she's done great with her active she didn't really need quarters from me [Music] it received 15 Drama Desk Award nominations the most received by a production in a single year as well as four Tony Awards nominations including Best Original Score for Dolly Parton now I feel great I feel proud and honored and humbled by the whole thing is that one thing to get a chance to write something for Broadway but it's another entirely to be nominated for a Tony Award so it's been a great through [Music] amazing I think people are under the impression that she kind of popped in and popped out she was an integral part of our daily rehearsal and she was there I think she just recently left maybe three or four days ago she was there for every preview performance in the wings giving us high fives the greatest support and you know you see the glamour and the wigs and the LeMay and the nails that woman is smart and when the music starts her head goes down the wheels start turning and she can give you a new lyric or new melody in 20 minutes she's brilliant the thing that's brilliant about dolly is is this is a woman that does not need to do this she wants to do this it's a first-time experience for an icon and to have shared that with her and collaborated with her and it's her first time collaborating like this to have people sit down and say I need this or I need that where she's not used to that and she's been so open to the process and really gotten into it it's an honor I love her everyone should have 30 seconds a day with that woman I love my work I love what I do I'm just thankful I've had the opportunity to make a living at what I love to do and that's such a wonderful cast and crew over there working with them been a true joy and no matter whatever happens with the show if it lasts forever our Justin a mom and I wouldn't take nothing for this experience the Broadway production however was short-lived closing in September 2009 but a national tour of the u.s. was launched in 2010 and followed by a UK premiere in 2012 [Music] so by the early 80s Dolly Parton is a showbiz colossus best riding the worlds of both movies and music she has another box-office hit with the best little whorehouse in Texas a controversial but successful acting choice and then she hits the top of the charts again duetting with kenny rogers on islands in the stream actually not a song she wrote this this time but written by the beatings [Music] released in 1983 islands in the stream knocked Bonnie Tyler's total eclipse of the heart out of number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent two weeks there [Music] it sold more than 2 million copies in the United States 22 years later in 2005 the song was voted best country duet of all time on the country music television Parton and Rogers were reunited to perform their massive hit it was a smash hit on both the country and pop charts and one too many awards to mention [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] in 2013 Parton and Kenny Rogers reunited for the title song of his album you can't make old friends so Dolly was on top of the world she had 12 top-ten hits in the mid 80s but it's kind of interesting because in 1986 when her contract was up with RCA Records it expired and they didn't renew the contract so Columbia Records snapped her right up and she was well on her way again and then she teams up with Emmy Lou Harris and Linda Ronstadt on the album trio and that brings her another Grammy Award I mean she was running out of space at a mantelpiece there were so many trophies coming her way the album spent five weeks at number one on Billboard's Country Albums Chart selling several million copies and producing four top ten country hits including the cover of Phil Spector's to know him is to love him [Music] yeah [Music] No [Music] in 1989 one year after winning the Grammy for Best Country performance duo or group with vocals for the album trio Dali played the role of Trudy Jones in the highly acclaimed movie Steel Magnolias well they'll feel like they touched every emotion in their body you laugh you cry you it brings you closer to family it brings you closer to friends it's about family love and friendship and people and life when a small town and I think it's just about the human heart [Music] the same year Parton released her album white limousine and spawned two number-one hits with why'd you come in here looking like that and yellow roses but by the beginning of the 90s Dolly started to struggle with her country music career Dolly wanted to get back to her country roots that's what releasing the country album white limousine was all about but this was a changing time in country music the veteran performers which by now included Dolly were being pushed out and suddenly a new batch of emerging young performers were the ones who were really sort of exciting Nashville she suddenly finds herself as a queen without a country she thought that she would return to Nashville in triumph but it's like no that's okay grandma we got these kids now you know strumming the guitar so it was a bit of a confusing time for her for Dolly [Music] [Music] in the mid-1990s finding her new songs less well received on the country charts she shifted to bluegrass music and released the critically acclaimed Grammy award-winning albums the grass is blue in 1999 and little sparrow in 2001 [Music] her album halos and horns in 2002 included Parton's bluegrass version of the Led Zeppelin classic stairway to heaven [Music] there'll be a long it's just that friendlyville throughout the 1990s Parton also worked a lot in television she was involved in producing voice work often playing herself for animated television series such as alvin and the chipmunks in 1987 the Magic School Bus in 1994 and the Simpsons in 1999 [Music] you know what this is all about we're very excited about the imagination library being here I got to make sure I say your town right is rather did I get it right I've been practicing cuz they don't look like that on paper in the state do you thing that's H a.m. we had to say rather helm right like Birmingham anyway so we are very happy to be here and of course the Imagination Library is a program very dear to my heart because this is something we started back in the states about 10 years ago it was something just for my people in my County in my hometown and of course it just kind of took off and now it's all over the United States we're in about 700 counties in about 42 states and we've given away four and a half million books this past year and in about two months we're going to be giving away 11 million so that's a lot of books to go out to a lot of care [Music] the imagination library started in Sevier County in 1996 it is part of the Dollywood foundation and has since expanded to over 1,600 local communities in the US Canada and United Kingdom [Music] it has gone from just a few dozen books to over 60 million books mailed each month and reaching over 750,000 children [Music] already statistics and independent reports have shown Dolly Parton's Imagination Library drastically improves early childhood literacy for children enrolled in the program further studies have shown improved scores during early literacy testing [Music] it started because of a lot of my own relatives that didn't get a chance to go to school couldn't read and write my own father grew up very poor and very large family didn't get a chance to go school so he couldn't read and write but he was so smart and so it and several of my other relatives as well so I wanted to start where children can learn at a very early age to love books to learn to read that helps to bring the family together you have must pick up a child if it gets its own little book in the mail which they do with its own little name you know they're gonna you're gonna have to read to that child so it is my belief that if you can read whether you get a chance to go to college or even to school or to afford it if you could read you can self educate yourself so it was really about it started from a very sincere an honest little place then it got all over Tennessee the governor at that time governor Phil Bredesen took it it was all over Tennessee then it went all over the United States then we went to Canada with it then we came to rather them here in England and now we're opening in Scotland and so it's gonna just a way to get books in the hands of kids from the time they're born till they start kindergarten [Music] it would be great vector I told him at Dollywood I need to bring this home because we need a gold Oscar at the Dollywood Museum so whether I win or not it's gonna be fun and I'm gonna take pictures of everything just as if I wanted put it in the museum anyway [Music] in 2006 Dali was going again to Hollywood so it's fine and I'm very excited that my song was nominated I'm excited that I get to sing it on the show now it's not I gets it always we go to movie stars I'm still that much of a hero meaning it's a three off and among them is there somebody you really want to see tonight in the touch basement oh well I want to see you mom I got to speak with George Clooney yesterday we worked together for a while whoo he's knockout and good nicest guy she had written the lead single travelling through for the movie Transamerica starring Felicity Huffman this got her her second Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song but because the movie was about a transgender woman dolly received a lot of death threats because people were upset by as the subject the song is about a journey on the road to find home and identity Parton said she wrote the song because she believes that it's alright to be who you are [Music] she gave a rousing performance of the song live on stage during the Oscar ceremony in March 2006 [Music] the song did not win the Oscar that year but at the end of the 2000s Dolly was back in the music scene showbiz careers are very much like rollercoasters you know there's full of ups and downs and you know in recent years Dolly Parton has really been embraced as a great survivor she seems to have been with us our whole lives and then a whole new generation you know have discovered and keep discovering Dolly's music you know it's passed down from parents to kids these are these are timeless songs [Music] in 2011 she released an emotional album better day well this new album I've written all the songs on it as well it's called better day and it's just really an album that has more of an uplifting message in it even the love songs even some of the sad ones about losing is saying I'm gonna pick myself up I'm stronger than you might know and I'm gonna start again and do better but a lot of the songs they're really just about true love and just about things are not good right now but things go in cycles everything's gonna get better and that's basically what the song says the blues ain't here to stay there's a better day and then I move away cuz we're gonna actually do better so we thought we'd call the tour that as well and do a lot of uplifting songs stuff that make people feel good at a time when when it's kinda rough on a lot of folks hearten said that better day was inspired by the disparate world problems such as the Japanese tsunami the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and America's economic crisis the lead single together you and I was originally written in the early 1970s and recorded with Porter Wagner on their 1974 collaborative album [Music] Partin then embarked on her better day world tour with 49 shows around the world first of all I love to perform I love my band we've been doing this together for over 30 35 years and some people have been in my band even a little longer than that but it's like a family we love we love being together we love the audience we love performing and we just had such great time the last two times we were in this part of the world with and fans wanted us to come back we thought well we'll just keep going back till they tell us to stop coming so we're very excited about it we actually start the tour and in the States in July and then we come here in August and then we go to Australia in November so we're actually going to pretty much be we'll have some time off in between but we'll be spending the rest of the year on tour because we love it and we're promoting the new album and so we'll have some new things to do in the show of course we'll continue to do the classic songs that people know and want to hear but we'll have some new new things to do some comedy some fun pieces that they haven't seen so it won't be an exact duplicate of what they've seen before so they can look forward to some new stuff [Music] her 42nd solo studio album blue smoke was released in the US and May 2014 and debuted at number 6 on the Billboard 200 chart making it her first top 10 album and her highest charting solo album ever [Music] the blue smoke World Tour would take the artists all the way to the Glastonbury Festival in the UK unlikely but fantastic a total triumph first of all I am really excited I can't believe that I've never done this before but it never has worked out to where we were in this part of the country during the time that you know you were doing the festival but I have done several shows before but nothing as they tell me that's this big but I'm excited about it and we've done a lot of outdoor shows a lot of fairs and that sort of thing so I'm kind of used to kind of playing out outdoors but this is gonna be a big deal and since this is the biggest festival in the world I even wrote a song about the mud so we'll be doing that in the show I thought well we have to write a song about the Glastonbury mud even though the sunshine and today but anyhow we're excited about it [Music] so in June 29 2014 she performed in Glastonbury at the Music Festival this was a really big deal because this isn't her typical crowd by any means she had a huge crowd of over 100,000 people they were all there to hear her classic songs everything from 9:00 to 5:00 to Julie it was kind of tricky knowing what to do in under a festival situation because of you in my show as a rule I usually do a couple of hours and they said you can't do but an hour maybe hour and 10 so I thought well I can't do a whole bunch of sad slow songs cuz everybody's drunk and high so I thought well there's two or three songs they have to hear like maybe coat of many colors and a few things and you know it's just part of my whole life and my background but we've tried to do a set where we can kind of keep it moving pretty good [Music] Sally received an impressive award for 100 million records sold worldwide she performed her all-time classics and also new songs including her cover of Bon Jovi's hit lay your hands on me and she had a little surprise for her fans in fact Richie Sambora's gonna come perform with me tonight he was at the o2 in London so he's gonna come play on lay your hands on because he co-wrote that with Jon Bon Jovi of course [Applause] [Music] [Music] but there was an even bigger song that everyone had come to sing along [Music] because [Music] besides all her musical finesse and acting talent Parton is a savvy businesswoman and heads dolly parton enterprises a 100 million dollar media empire she has owned two radio stations and continues to co-owned sand dollar productions a highly successful television and film production company she is the owner and founder of Dollywood her theme park in Tennessee and owns a lot of lands in the region in fact I was telling someone earlier I have a lot of land up in East Tennessee and we do a lot of festivals through my Dollywood company and I've often thought that I might start having a a festival up in East Tennessee so maybe I'll get some good pointers from this one dolly has been a major influence on new artists she is Miley Cyrus's godmother who as her made a successful crossover between country and pop so Dali definitely influenced Carrie Underwood Taylor Swift she made it possible for all of these country artists to cross over into the pop world they would not have the same success had Dali not pave the way for them [Music] in Taylor Swift's latest album 1989 she nurses her first ever pure pop album signifying her move away from country she's even dabbled in movie acting as well so you know she's the new she's the new Dolly Parton well you know she's deficient in a couple of areas but you know who can match her dolly everywhere let's face it at almost seventy years old and after more than half of a century career she continues to love life and to be grateful every day she was saddened by the death of her close friend Michael Jackson in 2009 and recorded a tribute to the King of Pop I always thought Michael had the heart of an angel and I'm sure that he's rejoicing with him now of course we'll all miss him but I know that he'll live on through his music and this should remind us all to treat every day as our last and let people in our lives really know how special they are to us in 2012 Whitney Houston passed away letting Dahle declare I will always love you Whitney Dahle continues to live near Nashville and to share the love on stage with her fans Dolly Parton is one of the great showbiz icons one of the all-time great performers she's been with us forever she will be with us forever Dolly Parton will never die she will just go on singing those great songs sending her self up let me tell you why I think she survived for so long it's because she has a quality that the great stars need if they want to stay around and that is being self-deprecating she's always happy to make herself the butt of the joke that's what makes her relatable no diva behavior she sends herself up everybody loves her and as well as everybody you know continuing to love her they continue to love her music her songs are timeless they'll be with us forever and I hope dolly will be too [Music] actually I'm always doing say it all my little silly stuff I never know what it's gonna come out of my mouth and actresses but anyway we just you know people just get a kick out of the funny stuff I say the cute things are my take on certain things so that's one of the things that we do [Music] you [Music]

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Id: TGYnFFMcUOE

Length: 60min 54sec (3654 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 08 2017