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When country singer Norma Jean, who sang with Porter Wagoner on the road and on his syndicated TV show, decided to quit and get married in 1967, Wagoner asked Dolly if she’d like to join his show. She’s on the road most of the year and he’s at home working their land. Dean is a publicity-shy, earthy man who is as independent as Dolly and the two seem to have a solid, often at-a-distance relationship. That same day she met, and within two years married, an asphalt worker named Carl Dean. The day after she graduated from high school, she left with her uncle, Bill Owens, for Nashville to become a star. Her rise was rapid: She began writing songs at seven, recording them and singing on the Cas Walker radio and television show at 10, making her first appearance at the Grand Ole Opry at 12. “I never had a doubt I would make it,” she reasons, “because refusing to think I couldn’t make it is the reason I could.”įor Parton, making it meant getting out of the backwoods and into the limelight. The fourth of 12 children, she was the first in her family to finish high school, the first to become famous. Parton has come a long way from her Tennessee mountain home she was born in a Locust Ridge “holler” in Sevier County in the Smoky Mountain foothills on January 19, 1946. Parton is the incarnation of West in certain ways: She doesn’t show much, but she hints at a lot she pokes fun at herself and makes a fortune at the jokes she knows what she wants and she won’t let anything interfere with her becoming as big a star as she can possibly become. In so doing, she became the exaggeration that Bette Midler is trying to be and that Mae West was. “I don’t think it takes people long to know I’m not ignorant,” she says.īut Parton felt that without her props, it would have taken her longer to attract a broad audience, so, not one for waiting, she did what she could to promote herself. People apparently see beyond the ostentatious appearance. She was afraid that Johnny Carson and Barbara Walters would put her down for the same thing.
Parton was concerned that Harris and Ronstadt might put her down for the way she looks-for her gaudy rhinestone outfits, the blonde teased wigs, the five-inch heels, the heavy make-up. When the three met, they hit it off immediately and have become friends. Ronstadt and Harris had wanted to meet Parton after having recorded some of her songs. But there had been managerial problems as well as scheduling conflicts and the album was still an on/off project. They’d been meeting and recording in full-day sessions that had been closed to the press. There was much talk in Los Angeles about the top-secret album Dolly and Emmylou and Linda Ronstadt were working on. Although her schedule was as tight as her clothes, Dolly accepted without hesitation. Emmylou said there were some people she wanted Dolly to meet. On Thursday, she’d been invited to her friend Emmylou Harris’s house. Dolly was rehearsing for a TV special and wasn’t sure if she’d be through in time to run over with a friend to the North Hollywood club.
And she was wondering if there was any chance she might lose.
But she knew if she attended, she would also enter.
In Los Angeles, however, it might be different. She’d been to some others in different parts of the country and she’d been mostly disappointed. Two days before the Palomino club in Los Angeles sponsored its first Dolly Parton Look-Alike Contest, Dolly Parton was wondering whether or not she should attend.
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