Dolly-Parton

Dolly Parton was born on January 19, 1946, in Locust Ridge Tenn. She grew up with twelve other kids. The vivid imagination of her mother was a great way to get away from the harsh realities of everyday life. Before she learned to write and read Dolly Parton had already begun to compose her own music. After getting her first guitar at age of eight, she started to play on local radio stations from Knoxville in Tennessee. That same year she made her first record on Gold Band Records a tiny independent label. Her name was made for herself locally while still at high school, but always dreamed of having a bigger stage. The day she was able to graduate from high school, it was 1964. Dumb Blonde was her first record to chart for the first time on Monument Records. Porter Wagoner had been looking for female performers to perform on his show syndicated by him from the beginning. Parton was hired in the year 1966. She she joined RCA Records in 1968, and then the Grand Ole Opry was founded in the year 1969. However she left Wagoner's show in 1974 when her solo albums like Joshua Coat of Many Colors and Jolene had begun charting their collaborative efforts. Parton recorded I Will Always Love You for Wagoner after their breakup. The song reached the top of the charts at. 1. for the first time in 1974.