The Dolly Parton Story: From Rags to Rhinestones | Music Documentary | Inside the Music

well I wanted to be a star but I always thought of a star more of uh as a singing star and being on the grand do opery and being on stage and Performing but uh 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 uh you know something different and I like a challenge you see the Glamour and the wigs and the lame and the nails but 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 a new melody in 20 minutes she's brilliant I love her everyone should have 30 seconds a day with that woman swear oh and there's Dolly where is there's the woman Dolly Parton's girly soprano voice in songs about oldtime virtues made her a major country star in the early' 70s later in that decade she wooed pop audiences and became a household name with her playful self-deprecating comments about her blonde sex bomb image well it's certainly been bizarre hasn't it but I've always you know 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 [Music] colleges more than 20 country and 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 9s making lots of cash for Dolly Parton who of course as the writer of the song was going cha-ching cha-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 9 to5 Dolly Parton a singular American Superstar I've been around a long time and I I've been in and out of this part of the world many times through the years so I think people just kind of feel like they know me I feel more like a family relative than a than a celebrity I think they just kind of think oh dollies come home follow the story of the queen of hearts and queen of country Dolly [Music] Parton [Music] Parton 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 multiplatinum 26 of her songs reach 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 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 a year in and year out a lot of my dreams that I plan 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 uh 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's success and achievement she was invited to perform as a headline act in 2014 at Glastonberry 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 to the festival is a really really huge huge thing this is a big deal this is awesome unlikely but fantastic a total Triumph she performed in front of 100,000 people at almost 70 years old I'm just a country girl now I feel like a rock star and to understand where such strength of heart and spirit comes from we need to go back to the very beginning we were coming in this morning I was looking at the mud that was not different from me I grew up in the mud my daddy was a farmer I grew up in East Tennessee over in America so that was how 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] Dolly Rebecca Parton was born January 19th 1946 in Locust Ridge in the foothills of Tennessee Smoky Mountains Dolly Parton grew up dirt poor to quote one of her songs she was the Backwoods Barbie um she was the fourth of 12 children living in a one room cabin can you imagine it you know that's uh obviously great inspiration for country songs with that background how poor was she she was so poor that when she was born um her father couldn't afford to pay the doctor who delivered the baby uh in cash so instead gave him a bag of oatmeal and that was the purchase which allowed Dolly part to enter the [Music] world a replica of dol's childhood home can be seen in Dollywood the artists theme park in [Music] Tennesse a family project that displays many original Treasures from their days in Locust [Music] Ridge with both their parents belonging to a Pentecostal Church the Bon children found music to be a large part of their experience of religion Dolly started singing in church her grandfather was a preacher uh she loved performing she loved writing songs uh she's been writing songs since the age of seven um she got her first guitar at 8 and uh then she was performing on local TV shows and radio programs at the age of 10 [Music] in 1959 aged 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 old Opry a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville tenness and she met Johnny Cash and so that was really the start of her career here 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 that'll if you've got the talent and you've got the ambition uh it'll usually happen [Music] one day after after graduating high school in seir 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 [Music] Dean not a lot of people know who he is he actually owns an asphalt road paving business in Nashville Tennessee but he just shies away from all the publicity in fact she says He's only seen her perform once in his entire [Music] life we're very secure in who we are and we love each other a lot we met when I was 18 and he was uh like 22 baby and we we've loved each other and we kind of grew into you know to a lot of the real deep feelings that we share and he's very independent and and I don't uh I want him to do what makes him happy he wants me to do what uh makes me happy we're not jealous of each other as far as what you know our personality or of other people and I don't know we're together enough to really keep it exciting and apart enough to keep it exciting well I don't uh know that I want a child cuz I I grew up in a family of 12 and when we married uh I took five of my younger brothers and sisters and we raised them until they married and moved away so now they're having children and and my nie and nephews from these children uh call me at Gran and called Carl [Music] Uncle Carl Dean the mystery husband in all of Show Business you know for the longest time I didn't think he actually existed I mean we never saw him uh he's unusual among chiz spouses in that he's never uh at his wife's side at public events 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 U from his chair and from his from a distance but we get along great because he does not want the Limelight 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 [Music] right back in Nashville in 1964 Bon 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 vibrat 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 was marketed so you know she she did okay and uh 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 [Music] charts 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 fulllength 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 an established country star invited Dolly uh to perform with him become a regular on his hit TV show it was a disaster from the start uh the problem was Dolly was replacing someone called Norma jeene a singer who was very popular uh with the audience she'd left the show so Dolly would go out and and sing to the audience and she'd get booed and Jered they didn't care that she was good they just car that she wasn't Norma Jee but as we've learned before you know Dolly's a survivor in Show Business you know she doesn't uh just run away uh crying she sticks it out um she sticks everything out and she gets in front of the uh the microphone she wins them over with her music and eventually uh she becomes a success on that show and her and Wagner release uh several records together some hit Duets uh and he's around for quite a long time in her career getting her established uh 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 rhinestone suits and and all that and that was the thing to do in 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 going to go on stage you need to shine let people see you like you're a star so I've always enjoyed dressing up play dress [Music] 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's suits the song was recorded in April 1971 and reached number four on the US country singles chart it tells how Parton's mother stitched together a coat for her daughter out of Rags given to the family as she swed she told her child the biblical story of Joseph and his coat of many colors country music it's all about authenticity uh 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 uh because she told a story which was based on her own childhood uh as we've as we've learned that was pretty impoverished and the uh the coat of many colors made by made by her mother the most famous coat in chiz still a signature moment in her concerts uh 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 uh made it made it work back then as it works now made only from red but I wore it so proudly although we had no money I was rich as I could be in my coat of many [Music] colors Parton kept the original code now on display in her Chasing Rainbows museum at Dollywood although her solo singles and the Wagner Duets were successful her biggest hit of this period was Jolene 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 US hit the top of the charts in February 1974 and I I think it really represents and I 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 Jolene Jolene joling joling I'm begging of you please don't take my man Jolene Jolene Jolene Jolene please don't Jolene not just a fantastic song also my ringtone now there is a song that really proves how it survives um so it hit number one for Dolly in America in 1974 four I believe uh it took a couple of years to cross over to England but she cracked the top 10 in 1976 uh with that one and uh yeah Jolene that was the uh 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 CU I always say that I always see somebody I love and everybody I meet like got family members somebody always reminds me of somebody else but I just love people and I've always 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 Parton stayed with Porter Wagner for 7 years to Mark her professional break with him she wrote a song in 1974 I will always love you this is the god who had given her a chance on his TV show and had worked with her on her early records establishing her path to fame uh 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 guessing perhaps that it would become the huge song that it [Music] did I would only be you [Music] Parton 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 do refused that decision has been credited with helping to make her many millions of dollars in royalties from the song over the years in 1992 the movie The Bodyguard was released starring Kevin cner and Whitney Houston the original soundtrack for the movie became the bestselling 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 bestselling single of all [Applause] [Music] time will love you [Music] will so Dolly Parton wrote the classic song I will always love you but it was Whitney Houston who made it an international success uh becoming one of the biggest hits of all time and uh 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 cha-ching cha-ching on the royalties the days of living in a one room Log Cabin were over it was Penthouse sweets 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 to Whitney I'd like to thank Whitney for making my song such an enormous hit and I really feel good about that cuz when I wrote that song 22 years ago I had a heartache but it's amazing how healing money can be and the Grammy goes to Whitney houst [Music] [Music] [Music] in the mid 70s Parton 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 gallon 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 uh they need to do crossover uh become mainstream uh go in the in the pop Direction uh that's what she did um her a large part of her success is due to Sandy Gallen uh they teamed also in a TV production company called sandala uh if you remember the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer that was produced by Dolly Parton you know and Sandy Sandy Gallen so it was a partnership that extended beyond music uh 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 uh strubing 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 dooll seller so this was exciting for her she had teamed up with Gary kleene 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 Parton hit that she did not right [Applause] herself when about to get myself together you all right in the door just like you've done for and WRA my heart around your little finger here you come again 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 um writing songs working with talented people showing incredible drive and when she stood there on the Grammy stage you know she' finally joined the Legends but she wasn't finished there were still new mountains to [Music] 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 had really had to act or or worry too much about it although 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 [Music] cords but Parton's big screen debut was astoundingly [Music] successful she played a brassy Southern woman dor Lee roads in 9 to5 opposite Lily to tomin and Jane Fonda in 1980 well I think Jane is very complex person I think she's very intelligent very creative I found her uh very caring but I find her also very shy and uh almost uh naive in a very sweet little girl way and it's the side of her that I really uh was surprised to uh you know to find 9 to5 was a huge hit it was a successful movie but also the song 9 to5 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 [Music] song the music video 9 to5 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 that they can't stand dabn Coleman you know kind of 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 the title track won two Grammy awards for best country song and for best female country vocal performance so suddenly uh she was uh music star she was a movie star the world was Dolly's oyster well I wanted to be a star but I always thought of a star more of uh as a singing star and being on the grand old opery being on stage and performing but uh 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 uh you know something different and I like a [Music] challenge the success of the movie was adapted for Broadway at the start of the new century do 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 Green blad who produced the 9 to-5 musical uh he asked me if I'd write it since I had written the theme song 30 years ago for the movie with Jane fun and Lily Tomlin and so I said well I'll give it a try and uh I did and four four years later or more here we are the musical premiered in Los Angeles in September 2008 and happed on Broadway New York in April 2009 with Megan Hilty taking over the role of dor Le rhs 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 dly rhods who's the character cuz when I did the movie I wasn't really being Dolly part I mean they were trying to get me to play a girl from Texas and I'd never been a secretary so we're both acting but the fact that I was in the role first and had the big boobs and the little waist but she's got a beautiful little body she 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 yes you know but she's done great with her acting she didn't really need pointers from [Music] me 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 well I feel great I feel proud and honored and humbled by the whole thing it's 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 it's been a great through 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 um she was there I think she just recently left maybe three or 4 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 lame 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 a 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 firsttime 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 has been a true joy and no matter whatever happens with the show if it lasts forever or just a month it I wouldn't take nothing for this experience the Broadway production however was shortlived closing in September 20 2009 but a national tour of the US was launched in 2010 and followed by a UK Premiere in [Music] 2012 so by the early 80s Dolly Parton is a showas Colossus bestriding the worlds of both movies and music she has another box office hit with the best little house 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 uh actually not a song She Wrote This this time but written by the [Music] begs released in 1983 Islands in the Stream maed Bonnie Tyler's total eclipse of the heart out of number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 2 weeks [Music] there 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 won too many awards to mention that is what we are no one in how can we beong to another world and Wei on each other from one another 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 10 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 your records snapped her right up and she was well on her way again and then she teams up with Emy Lou Harris and Linda ronat on the album Trio and and that brings her another Grammy Award I mean she was running out of space on her mantle piece there were so many trophies coming her way the album spent 5 weeks at number one on Billboard's country albums chart selling several million copies and producing four top 10 country hits including the cover of Phil specters to know him is to love [Music] him love him just to see him smile makes [Music] life in 1989 one year after winning the Grammy for best country performance duo or group with vocals for the album Trio Dolly played the role of truvy Jones in the highly acclaimed movie Steel Magnolia well they'll feel like that they it's 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 in a small town and I think it's just about the human heart the same year Haron released her album white limousine and spawned two number one hits with why' 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 change changing time in country music the veteran performers which by now included Dolly were being pushed out and suddenly a new uh batch of emerging young performers uh were the ones who are really sort of exciting Nashville she suddenly finds herself as a queen without a country uh she thought that she would return to Nashville in Triumph but it's like no that's okay Grandma uh we got these kids now uh you know strubing their guitar so it was a bit of a confusing time for 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 grasses blue in 1999 and Little Sparrow in [Music] 2001 her album Halos and horns in 2002 included Parton's Blu grass version of the lead Zeppelin classic Stairway to [Music] Heaven if there's a bule in your head'll be Al now it's just a c l 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 [Music] 1999 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 it's Ram did I get it right I've been practicing cuz don't look like that on paper in the states anything that's hm we have to say rather ham right I 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 4 and a half million books this past year and in about two months we're going to be giving away our 11 millionth book so that's a lot of books to go out to a lot of [Music] kids The Imagination Library started in severe County in 19 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 it has gone from just a few dozen books to over 60 million books mailed each month and reaching over $750,000 [Music] children 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 [Music] testing it started because of a lot 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 to 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 it 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 with his own little name you know they're going to you're going to 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 can read you can self-educate yourself so it was really about it started from a very sincere and honest little place then it got all over Tennessee the governor uh at that time Governor Phil breson took it was all over Tennessee then it went all over the United States then we went to Canada with it then we came to Ram here in England and now we're opening in Scotland and so it's going to just a way to get books in the hands of of kids from the time they're born till they start [Music] kindergarten it would be great in fact that I told him at Dollywood I need to bring this home cuz we need a gold Oscar at the Dollywood Museum so uh whether I wi or not it's going to be fun and I'm going to take pictures of everything just as if I want and put it in the museum [Music] anyway in 2006 dolly was going again to Hollywood so it's fun and I'm very excited that my song was nominated I'm excited that I get to sing it on the show and and I'm excited I get to see all these big old movie stars I'm still that much of a hill b it's a thrill and among them is there somebody you really want to see tonight in touch base with well I want to see them all I got to speak with George Poney yesterday we worked together for a while oh he's knock out and the nicest guy she had written the lead single traveling through for the movie trans America 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 cuz people were upset by 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 all right to be who you are [Music] she gave a rousing performance of the song live on stage during the Oscar ceremony in March [Music] 2006 [Music] but the song did not win the Oscar that year but at the end end of the 2000s DOL was back in the music [Music] scene showas careers are very much like roller coasters you know there's full of ups and downs and uh you know in recent years uh Dolly Parton has really been embraced as a 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 uh these are these are Timeless [Music] songs 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 it's called better day and it's just really a 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 going to pick myself up I'm stronger than you might know and I'm going to start again and and do better but a lot of the songs are really just about uh true love and uh just about things are not good right now but things go in Cycles everything's going to get better and that's basically what the song says the blues ain't here to stay there's a better day and that'll move away cuz we're going to 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 kind of rough on a lot of folks Parton said that better day was inspired by the disperate 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 [Music] album together you and I can stop the rain and make the Sun shine a pretty rainb brush with love acoss [Music] the Haron then embarked on her betterday 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 oh 30 35 years and some of the people's 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 a great time the last two times we were in in this part of the world we 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 in um in the states in July and then we come here in August and uh then we go to Australia in November so we're actually G 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 her 42nd solo studio album Blue Smoke was released in the US in May 2014 and debuted at number six on the billboard 200 chart making it her first top 10 album and her highest charting solo album [Music] ever the blue smoke World Tour would take the artists all the way to the Glastonberry 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 uh 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 out Outdoors but this is going to 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 glastenbury mud even though the Sun's shining today um but anyhow we're excited about it [Music] so on June 29th 2014 she performed in glassenberry 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 over over 100,000 people they were all there to hear her classic songs everything from 9 to5 to Jolene it was kind of tricky knowing what to do in under a festival situation because you in my show as a rule I usually do a couple 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 thought we don't want to bring him down that bad so I thought well there's two or three songs they have to hear like maybe C of Min colors and few things that you know just part of my whole life and my background but we've tried to do a set to where we can kind of keep it moving pretty good [Music] s received an impressive award for 100 million records sold worldwide she performed her alltime Classics and also new songs including her cover of Bon Joy's hit lay your hands on me and she had a little surprise for her fans in fact Richie Sor is going to come perform with me tonight he was at the O2 in London so he's going to come play on lay your hands on me because he co-wrote that with John bonji of course and play on this lay your hands on me lay your hands on [Music] me lay your hands on me lay your hands on me lay your [Music] hands [Music] but there was an even bigger song that everyone had come to sing [Music] along please don't take him just for [Music] you besides all her musical finesse and acting Talent Haron is a Savvy businesswoman and heads Dolly Parton Enterprises a $100 million media Empire she has own two radio stations and continues to co-own 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 uh 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 [Music] one DOL 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 Dolly 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 Dolly not paved the way for [Music] them Taylor Swift's latest album 1989 uh she announces her first ever pure pop album signifying her move away from country uh she's even dabbled in movie acting as as well so you know she's the new she's the new Dolly partner well you know she's deficient in a couple of areas but you know who could match Dolly everywhere let's face it at almost 70 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 Dolly declare I Will Always Love You Whitney Dolly continues to live near Nashville and to share the love on stage with her fans Dolly Parton is one of the great Showbiz icons uh 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 herself 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 Deva 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 actually I'm always doing saying all my little silly stuff I never know what's going to come out of my mouth next but anyway we just uh you know people just get a kick out of the funny stuff I say or the cute things or my take on certain things so uh that's one of the things that we [Music] do [Music]

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Length: 60min 34sec (3634 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 22 2023