Everything about Dolly Parton totally explained
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born
January 19,
1946) is a
Grammy Award-winning
country music singer/
songwriter,
author,
actress and
philanthropist. To date, she remains one of the most successful country artists, with 26 number-one singles (a record for a female performer) and 42 top-10 country albums (more than anyone else).
She is known for her distinctive mountain soprano, sometimes bawdy humor, flamboyant dress sense, and her voluptuous figure.
Early years
Childhood
Parton was born in
Sevierville, Tennessee, the fourth of twelve children born to Robert Lee Parton and Avie Lee Owens. Her siblings are Willadeene Parton (a poet), David Parton, Denver Parton, Bobby Parton,
Stella Parton (a singer), Cassie Parton, Larry Parton (who died shortly after birth),
Randy Parton (a singer and businessman), twins Floyd Parton (a songwriter) and Freida Parton (a singer), and Rachel Dennison (an actress).
Her family was, as she described them, "dirt poor." They lived in a rustic, dilapidated one-room cabin in Locust Ridge, a hamlet just north of
Greenbrier in the
Great Smoky Mountains of
Sevier County, Tennessee. Parton's parents were parishioners in the
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee), a
Pentecostal denomination, and music was a very large part of her church experience. She once told an interviewer that her grandfather was a Pentecostal "
holy roller" preacher . Today, when appearing in live concerts, she frequently performs spiritual songs. (Parton, however, professes no denomination, claiming only to be "spiritual" while adding that she believes that all the Earth's people are God's children.)
On
May 30,
1966, at the age of 21, she married Carl Dean in
Ringgold, Georgia. She met Dean on her first day in Nashville, at age 18, at the Wishy-Washy Laundromat. His very first words to her were: "You're gonna get sunburnt out there, little lady." Dean, who runs an asphalt-paving business in Nashville, has always shunned publicity and rarely accompanies her to any events. The couple have raised several of Dolly's younger siblings at their home in Nashville, leading her nieces and nephews to refer to her as "Aunt Granny." Dean and Parton have no children together.
Dolly is the godmother of singer and actress
Miley Cyrus .
Career discovery
Parton began performing as a child, singing on local radio and television programs in
East Tennessee. At age 9 she was appearing on
The Cas Walker Show on
WBIR-TV in
Knoxville, Tennessee, and at 13, she was recording on a small record label,
Goldband, and appearing at the
Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. It was that night at the Opry that she first met
Johnny Cash, who encouraged her to go where her heart took her, and not to care what others thought. The day after she graduated from high school in
1964 she moved to Nashville, taking many traditional elements of folklore and popular music from
East Tennessee with her.
Parton's initial success came as a songwriter, writing hit songs for
Hank Williams, Jr. and
Skeeter Davis. She signed with
Monument Records in late
1965, where she was initially pitched as a
bubblegum pop singer, earning only one national chart single, "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby," which didn't crack the
Billboard Hot 100. Additional pop singles also failed to chart including "Without Love" and "Damn".
The label agreed to have Parton sing country music after her composition, "Put It Off Until Tomorrow," as recorded by
Bill Phillips (and with Parton, uncredited, on harmony), went to No. 6 on the Country Charts in 1966. Her first country single, "Dumb Blonde" (one of the few songs during this era that she recorded but didn't write), reached No. 24 on the country charts in 1967, followed the same year with "Something Fishy," which went to Number 17. The two songs anchored her first full-length album,"Hello,I'm Dolly"
Music career
1967 – 1976: Country music success
In
1967, Parton was asked to join the weekly syndicated country music TV program hosted by
Porter Wagoner, replacing
Norma Jean, who had returned to
Oklahoma. Initially, Wagoner's audience was reluctant to warm to Parton and chanted for Norma Jean, but with Wagoner's assistance, she was accepted. Wagoner convinced his label, RCA, to also sign Parton. Since female performers were not particularly popular in the late '60s, the label decided to protect their investment by releasing her first single as a duet with Wagoner. The duo's first single, "
The Last Thing on My Mind," reached the country Top Ten early in 1968, launching a six-year streak of virtually uninterrupted Top Ten singles.
Parton's first solo single, "
Just Because I'm a Woman," was released in the summer of 1968 and was a moderate hit, reaching number 17. For the remainder of the decade, none of her solo efforts — even "In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)," which would later become a standard — were as successful as her duets. The duo was named
Vocal Group of the Year in 1968 by the
Country Music Association, but Parton's solo records were continually ignored. Wagoner and Parton were both frustrated by her lack of solo success, because he'd a significant financial stake in her future — as of 1969, he was her co-producer and owned nearly half of the publishing company Owepar. . Parton refused and that decision is credited with helping make her many millions of dollars in
royalties from the song over the years. It was decisions like these, in fact, that caused her to be called "The Iron Butterfly" in showbiz circles. She also claims to have made over $6 million from
Whitney Houston's cover version of this song.
1977 – 1986: Branching out into Pop music
Parton later had commercial success as a
pop singer, as well as an actress. Her 1977 album,
Here You Come Again, was her first million-seller, and the title track ("
Here You Come Again") became her first top-ten single on the pop charts (reaching No. 3); many of her subsequent singles charted on both pop and country charts, simultaneously. Her albums during this period were developed specifically for pop/crossover success. With less time to spend on her songwriting, as she focused on a burgeoning film career, the early 1980s found Parton recording a larger percentage of material from noted pop songwriters, such as
Barry Mann and
Cynthia Weil,
Rupert Holmes,
Gary Portnoy, and
Carole Bayer Sager. In 1978, Parton won the
Grammy award for
Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her
Here You Come Again album.
From 1974 to 1980, she consistently charted in the country Top Ten, with no less than eight singles reaching number one. Parton had her own syndicated television show, Dolly, in 1976 and by the next year had gained the right to produce her own albums, which immediately resulted in diverse efforts like 1977's New Harvest...First Gathering. In addition to her own hits during the late '70s, many artists, from
Rose Maddox and
Kitty Wells to
Olivia Newton-John,
Emmylou Harris, and
Linda Ronstadt, covered her songs, and her siblings
Randy and
Stella received recording contracts of their own.
Parton's commercial success continued to grow during 1980, as she'd three number one hits in a row: the Donna Summer-written "Starting Over Again," "Old Flames (Can't Hold a Candle to You)," and "
9 to 5."
However, by 1985 many old-time fans had felt that Parton was spending too much time courting the mainstream. Most of her albums were dominated by the adult contemporary pop of songs like "Islands in the Stream," and it had been years since she'd sung straightforward country. She also continued to explore new business and entertainment ventures such as her Dollywood theme park, which opened in 1986. Despite these misgivings, she'd continued to chart well until 1986, when none of her singles reached the Top Ten. RCA Records didn't renew her contract after it expired that year, and she signed with Columbia in 1987.
1987 – 1994: Return to country roots
In 1987, along with
Emmylou Harris and
Linda Ronstadt, she released the decade-in-the-making
Trio album, to critical acclaim. The album strongly revitalized Parton's temporarily stalled music career, spending five weeks at #1 on Billboard's Country Albums chart, selling several million copies and producing four Top 10 Country hits including
Phil Spector's "To Know Him Is To Love Him," which went to #1.
Trio was nominated for a
Grammy Award for Album Of The Year and was awarded "Best Country Vocal Performance - Duo or Group." (A second and more contemporary collaboration, "
Trio II," would finally see release in 1999 and would be another Grammy-winning success). In 1993, she teamed up with fellow country music queens
Loretta Lynn and
Tammy Wynette for a similar project, the
Honky Tonk Angels album.
1989's
White Limozeen, which produced two number one hits in "Why'd You Come in Here Lookin' Like That" and "Yellow Roses." Though it looked like Parton's career had been revived, it was actually just a brief revival before contemporary country came in the early '90s and moved all veteran artists out of the charts
The album was certified "Gold" by the RIAA, and helped revive the careers of Wynette and Lynn.
1995 – present: Career today
Parton re-recorded "I Will Always Love You" with
Vince Gill, and they won a CMA award for vocal event in 1996. Taken from the album
Trio II, a cover of "After the Gold Rush" won a Grammy for
Best Country Collaboration with Vocals in 1999, and Parton was inducted into the
Country Music Hall of Fame later that year.
She recorded a series of critically acclaimed
bluegrass albums, beginning with "The Grass is Blue" (1999) and "Little Sparrow" (2001), both of which won Grammy Awards. Her 2002 album "
Halos & Horns" included a bluegrass version of the
Led Zeppelin classic
Stairway to Heaven. In 2005, Parton released
Those Were The Days, her interpretation of hits from the folk-rock era of the late 1960s through early 1970s. The CD featured such classics as
John Lennon's "Imagine,"
Cat Stevens' "Where Do The Children Play,"
Tommy James' "
Crimson & Clover," and Pete Seeger's folk classic "
Where Have All The Flowers Gone."
In 2006, she earned her second Oscar nomination for "Travelin' Thru," which she wrote specifically for the film
Transamerica. Due to the song's nature of accepting a transgender woman without judgement, Dolly received numerous death threats as a direct result. She also returned to No. 1 on the country charts later that year by lending her distinctive harmonies to the
Brad Paisley ballad, "
When I Get Where I'm Going."
Songwriting
Parton is a hugely successful songwriter, having begun by writing
country music songs with strong elements of
folk music in them, based upon her upbringing in humble mountain surroundings, and reflecting her family's evangelical Christian background. Her songs "
Coat of Many Colors" and "
Jolene" have become classics in the field, as have a number of others. As a composer, she's also regarded as one of country music's most gifted storytellers, with many of her narrative songs based on persons and events from her childhood. Parton has published almost 600 songs with
BMI to date and has earned 37 BMI awards for her material.
In concert and on tour
Parton toured extensively from the late 1960s until the early 1990s.
Dollywood Foundation Shows
From the early 1990s through 2001, her concert appearances were primarily limited to one weekend a year at her
Dollywood theme park benefiting her
Dollywood Foundation. The concerts normally followed a theme. (Legends in Concert, a 50's concert) They have included Holiday shows during Christmas time as well.
Halos & Horns Tour
After a decade long absence from touring, Parton decided to hit the road in 2002 with the
Halos & Horns Tour, an 18-city, intimate club tour to promote the CD of the same name. House of Blues Entertainment, Inc. produced the tour and it sold out all of its U.S. and European dates (her first in two decades).
Hello I'm Dolly Tour
In 2004, she returned to mid-sized stadium venues in 36 cities in the US and Canada with her
Hello I'm Dolly Tour, a glitzier, more elaborate stage show than two years earlier. With nearly 140,000 tickets sold, the "Hello I'm Dolly" tour was the tenth-biggest country tour of the year and grossed more than $6 million.
The Vintage Tour
In late 2005 Parton completed a 40-city tour with
The Vintage Tour promoting her new album,
Those Were The Days.
European Tour
In the late months of 2006 Parton scheduled mini concerts throughout the U.S. and Canada, as a gear up to her European tour in early March 2007. This was her first world tour in many years and hit 17 cities in 21 dates, running from March 6 through April 3.
The
European Tour 2007 sold out in every European city and gained mostly positive reviews. It took in just over $16 million for 21 shows. The most remarked upon feature of the shows was that very few in attendance, despite Parton being 60, had ever seen her in concert. This, coupled with Parton's enormous popularity in Europe, led to a very well received reception when she took the stage.
Backwoods Barbie Tour
Parton is currently gearing up for a world tour known as the
Backwoods Barbie Tour. It was set to begin with a U.S. run in February, March, and April of 2008 to coincide with the release of the album of the same name. However, due to recent back problems she's postponed all US dates for at least 6 weeks.
She'll travel to Europe for the summer, and shows will continue back in the United States, Canada, and reportedly Australia through the end of 2008 and into 2009.
Acting career
Film
During the mid-1970s, Parton had her eyes set on expanding her audience base. The first step towards meeting this goal was her attempt at a variety show,
Dolly!. Even though it had high ratings, the show lasted merely one season, with Dolly Parton asking out of her contract due to the stress it was causing her vocal cords. (In 1987 she tried a second TV
variety show, also titled
Dolly, which lasted only one season.)
In 1980,
Jane Fonda decided Parton was a perfect candidate for her upcoming
film,
9 to 5. She was looking for a brassy
Southern woman for a supporting role and felt the singer was perfect. Parton received acclaim for her performance, receiving Golden Globe nominations for Best Motion Picture Actress — Musical/Comedy and New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture — Female. She also scored the biggest solo hit of her career with the title song, which she wrote; it earned her an
Academy Award nomination for
Best Original Song. She received a
Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song — Motion Picture. The song won two
Grammy Awards, for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song. It reached #1 on the
Billboard Hot 100 and was also #78 on
American Film Institute's 100 years, 100 songs. She was also named the Top Female Box Office Star title by
Motion Picture Herald in both 1981 and 1982.
Parton's other films include
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), for which she received another Golden Globe nomination,
Rhinestone where she was paired with
Sylvester Stallone, and
Steel Magnolias. Parton's last lead role in a theatrical film was in 1992's
Straight Talk, opposite
James Woods. She played the plainspoken host of a radio program that has people phoning in with problems. The film, while not a blockbuster, did respectably well upon its release. She played an overprotective mother in
Frank McKlusky, C.I. with
Dave Sheridan,
Cameron Richardson, and
Randy Quaid.
She also played herself in a cameo appearance towards the end of the Hollywood adaptation of
The Beverly Hillbillies.
Television
On the small screen, she appeared in the movie
Unlikely Angel as an angel sent back to earth following a deadly car crash. And she starred in the movie
Blue Valley Songbird where she lives through her music.
Parton has also done voice work for
animation, playing herself in the TV series
Alvin & the Chipmunks (episode:
Urban Chipmunk) (1987) and her voice role as Katrina Eloise "Murph" Murphy in
The Magic School Bus (episode:
The Family Holiday Special) (1994). She has appeared on many non-musical television shows, usually in cameo roles as herself, for example as "Aunt Dolly" visiting Hannah and her family in the Disney Channel series
Hannah Montana (in 2006 "Good Golly, Miss Dolly" and 2007 episode "I Will Always Loathe You"). The Disney role came about due to her real-life relationship as series star Miley Ray Cyrus' godmother. She also appeared in an episode of Reba as Dolly a real estate agency owner. On April 1, 2008, Parton was the guest mentor to the finalists on
American Idol, who each interpreted one of her songs. On the following night's episode, the finalists sang "9 to 5", and Parton herself performed "Jesus and Gravity".
Other acting projects
Aside from
9 to 5, Parton's music has been featured prominently in other films. In 1982, she recorded a second version of "I Will Always Love You" for
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; the second version proved to be another #1 country hit and also managed to reach the pop charts, going to #53 in the
United States.
"I Will Always Love You" has been covered by many country artists, including such music legends as
Linda Ronstadt, on "Prisoner In Disguise" and
Kenny Rogers on his 1997 album "Always and Forever," which sold over 4 million copies worldwide, and by LeAnn Rimes. In 1992,
Whitney Houston performed it on
The Bodyguard soundtrack. Houston's version became the best-selling hit ever written and performed by a female vocalist, with worldwide sales of over 12 million copies.
Parton has twice been nominated for the
Academy Award for
Best Original Song, for "9 to 5" in 1980, and for "
Travelin' Thru" from
Transamerica, filmed in 2005. She was considered the front-runner in the 2005 Oscar song category, but the song lost to "
It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp," from the movie
Hustle and Flow. Had Parton's song won, she'd have become the first country artist to win an Oscar. (Although other country songs have won the Best Song category in the past, all previous winners had actually been written by non-country artists, most often classical or pop composers.) "Travelin' Thru" did win as Best Original Song award at the 2005
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards. The song was also nominated, though it didn't win, for both Best Original Song by the Foreign Press' for the
Golden Globes as well as Best Song by the
Broadcast Film Critics Association.
Another Parton performance, "The Day I Fall In Love," a duet with James Ingram from the film
Beethoven's 2nd was nominated for an Oscar in 1994 and was performed live by the duo on the awards telecast. Oscar nominations, however, are for the songwriter, not performer, and it didn't win.
According to a broadcast of the public radio program
Studio 360 from 10-29-05,
(External Link
) as of October 2005 Parton was in the midst of composing the songs for a planned
Broadway musical adaptation of the film
9 to 5. In late June 2007,
9 to 5, the Musical was read for industry presentations. The readings starred
Megan Hilty,
Allison Janney,
Stephanie J. Block,
Bebe Neuwirth, and
Marc Kudisch.
Image
Parton has turned down several offers to pose for
Playboy magazine and similar publications, although she did appear on the cover of
Playboy magazine's October, 1978 issue wearing a
Playboy bunny outfit, complete with ears.
Breast-obsessed filmmaker
Russ Meyer wanted to make movies about her 36 FF cup size breast. The association of breasts with Parton's public image is illustrated in the naming of
Dolly the sheep after her, since the sheep was cloned from a cell taken from an adult ewe's mammary gland.
On a 2003 broadcast of
The Oprah Winfrey Show, Winfrey asked what kind of
cosmetic surgery Parton had undergone. Parton stated that she felt that cosmetic surgery was imperative in keeping with her famous image, but jokingly admitted, "If I've one more
facelift I'll have a beard!". Parton has repeatedly joked about her physical image and surgeries, saying "If I see something sagging, bagging and dragging, I’m going to nip it, tuck it, and suck it!" and "It takes a lot of money to look this cheap."
She also used to call herself a "female drag queen".
Other works
Business
Parton invested much of her earnings into business ventures in her native East Tennessee, notably
Pigeon Forge, which includes a theme park named
Dollywood (the former Silver Dollar City) and a dinner show called
Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede, which also has venues in
Branson, Missouri and
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The area is a thriving tourist attraction, drawing visitors from large parts of the Southeastern and Midwestern United States. This region of the U.S., like most areas of
Appalachia, had suffered economically for decades; Parton's business investment has revitalized the area. She also has Dollywood's Splash Country in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Her Dixie Stampede location in Orlando, Florida closed down in January 2008 after the land and building used by the show were sold to a developer.
She also owns
Sandollar Productions, a film and television production company, which produced the Fox TV shows
Babes and
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the features
Father of the Bride I & II,
Straight Talk,
Sabrina (1995 film), and Academy Award-winning (for Best Documentary), among other shows.
Sanddollar is co-owned by
Sandy Gallin, Parton's former manager.
Parton also owned her own
wig company in the early 1990s.
Philanthropic efforts
Since the mid-1980s Parton has been praised for her many charitable efforts, particularly in the area of literacy. Her literacy program, Dolly Parton's
Library", which mails one book per month to children from the time of their birth until they enter kindergarten, began in Sevier County, Tennessee, but has now been replicated in 566 counties across thirty-six U.S. states (as well as Canada). In December 2007 it crossed the Atlantic when she chose the Yorkshire town of
Rotherham to be the first British locality to receive the books, a gesture which didn't meet with universal approval within the
borough council, where one member objected to a one hour delay in the council meeting so the other members could meet Parton. It has resulted in Parton's receiving the Association of American Publishers' AAP Honors in 2000,
Good Housekeeping's Seal of Approval in 2001 (the first time the seal had been given to a person), the American Association of School Administrators' Galaxy Award in 2002, the Chasing Rainbows Award from the National State Teachers of the Year in 2002, and the Child and Family Advocacy Award from the Parents As Teachers National Center in 2003. She was honored as a "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress for her work. The program distributes more than 2.5 million free books to children annually.
Her
Dollywood theme park has also been noted for bringing jobs and tax revenues to a previously depressed region.
Her efforts to preserve the bald eagle through the American Eagle Foundation's sanctuary at Dollywood earned her the Partnership Award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2003.
She has also worked to raise money on behalf of several other causes, including
the Red Cross and a number of HIV/AIDS-related charities.
In December 2006, Parton pledged $500,000 toward a proposed $90 million hospital and cancer center to be constructed in
Sevierville, Tennessee, in the name of Dr. Robert F. Thomas, the physician who delivered her; she also announced plans for a benefit concert to raise additional funds for the project. The concert went ahead playing to about 8,000 people.
Dolly published a cookbook in 2006 entitled
Dolly's Dixie Fixin's. The proceeds support the Dollywood Foundation, under which falls the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.
Awards and honors
Parton is one of the most-honored female country performers of all time. She has achieved 25
RIAA certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum honors. She has had 26 songs reach No. 1 on the Billboard country charts, a record for a female artist. She has 42 career top-10 country albums, a record for any artist, and 110 career-charted singles over the past 40 years. All inclusive sales of singles, albums, hits collections, paid digital downloads and compilation usage during Parton's career have reportedly topped 100 million records around the world.
She has received seven Grammy Awards and a total of 42 Grammy nominations. At the American Music Awards she's won three awards, but has received 18 nominations. At the Country Music Association, she's received 10 awards and 42 nominations. At the Academy of Country Music, she's won seven awards and 39 nominations. She is one of only five female artists (including
Reba McEntire,
Barbara Mandrell,
Shania Twain, and
Loretta Lynn), to win the
Country Music Association's highest honor, "Entertainer of the Year."
She was awarded a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording in 1984, located at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard in
Hollywood; a star on the Nashville Star Walk for Grammy winners; and a bronze sculpture on the courthouse lawn in Sevierville, Tennessee. She has called the statue of herself in her hometown "the greatest honor," because it came from the people who knew her.
Parton was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 1969, and in 1986 was named one of
Ms. Magazine's Women of the Year. In 1986, Parton was inducted into the
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1999, Parton received country music's highest honor, an induction into the
Country Music Hall of Fame. She received an honorary doctorate from Carson-Newman College in 1990. This was followed by induction into the National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2002, Parton ranked No. 4 in
CMT's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music.
She was honored in 2003 with a tribute album called
Just Because I'm a Woman: Songs of Dolly Parton. The artists who recorded versions of Parton's songs included
Melissa Etheridge ("I Will Always Love You"),
Alison Krauss ("9 to 5"),
Shania Twain ("Coat of Many Colors"),
Me'Shell NdegéOcello ("Two Doors Down"),
Norah Jones ("The Grass is Blue"), and
Sinéad O'Connor ("Dagger Through the Heart"); Parton herself contributed a rerecording of the title song, originally the title song for her first RCA album in 1968. Parton was awarded the
Living Legend medal by the U.S.
Library of Congress on
April 14,
2004, for her contributions to the cultural heritage of the United States. This was followed in 2005 with the
National Medal of Arts, the highest honor given by the U.S. government for excellence in the arts.
On Dec. 3, 2006, Dolly Parton was honored by the
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for her lifetime of contributions to the arts. Other 2006 honorees included
Zubin Mehta,
Steven Spielberg,
Smokey Robinson and
Andrew Lloyd Webber. During the show, some of country music's biggest names came to show their admiration.
Carrie Underwood performed Dolly's hit "Islands in the Stream" with original duet partner
Kenny Rogers.
Alison Krauss performed "Jolene" and duetted "Coat of Many Colors" with
Shania Twain.
Vince Gill performed "I Will Always Love You" which he duetted with Dolly.
Jessica Simpson sang "9 to 5" but left the stage in shame mid-way through after forgetting the lyrics. The broadcast on national television didn't include her performance.
Reba McEntire &
Reese Witherspoon also came to pay tribute.
Discography
Filmography
Television
TV filmography
A Smoky Mountain Christmas (1986) ... Lorna Davis
Steel Magnolias (1989)....Truvy
Wild Texas Wind (1991) ... Thiola "Big T" Rayfield
(1995) ... cameo as herself
(1995) ... Herself/Guest Performer
(1997) ... Herself/Cameo
Unlikely Angel (1996) ... Ruby Diamond
Blue Valley Songbird (1999) ... Leanna Taylor
Jackie's Back (1999) ... Herself/Cameo
TV series
Heavens to Betsy (1994) (comedy - three episodes, unaired) ... Betsy
TV guest appearances
Country Music Association Awards (1968-86) ... Performer/presenter
Laugh-In (1972) ... as herself
The Wilburn Brothers Show (1973) ... as herself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1973) ... as herself
Hee Haw (1974) ... as herself
Grammy Awards (1976) ... Performer/presenter
Captain Kangaroo (1976) ... as herself
American Music Awards (1977) ... Performer/presenter
Cher Special (1978) ... as herself
The Midnight Special (1978) ... Host/performer
Alvin & The Chipmunks (1987) ... as herself
Country Music Association Awards (1988) ... Host
Saturday Night Live (1989) ... Host/Musical Guest
Designing Women (1990) ... as herself/"Guardian Movie Star"
Babes (1991) ... as herself
The Magic School Bus (1994) ... Katrina Eloise "Murph" Murphy
The Simpsons (1999) ... as herself
Bette (2000) ... as herself
Academy Of Country Music Awards (2000) ... Host
Austin City Limits (2001) ... Musical Guest
CMT Flame Worthy Awards (2004) ... Host
Reba (2005) ... Dolly Majors
Academy Awards (2006) ... as herself
Hannah Montana (2006-2007) .. as herself
Dancing With the Stars (September 26, 2007) ... Musical. Guest (Performed "9 To 5" and "Better Get To Livin'")
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (November 22, 2007) ... Musical Guest (Performed "Better Get To Livin'")
American Idol (April 1, 2008)... guest mentor
American Idol (April 2, 2008)... guest singer
TV music and variety series
The Porter Wagoner Show (1967-1974) (country music) ... regular singer
Dolly (1976-1977) (variety) ... host
Dolly (1987-1988) (variety) ... host
TV specials
Rowan and Martin Special 1973
Mac Davis Special 1977
Cher . . . Special 1978
Carol and Dolly in Nashville 1979
Mac Davis Special 1979
Mac Davis Special 1980
Best Little Special In Texas 1982
Dolly In London 1983
Dolly Parton Meets The Kids 1983
1984
1985
Bob Hope Christmas Special 1988
1989
Home For Christmas 1990
Treasures 1996
Precious Memories (1999)
Graham Goes To Dollywood (2001)
Cross Roads, Melissa Etheridge & Dolly Parton (2003)
A Capitol Fourth (2003)
Stars Over Texas (2003)
U.S. Library Of Congress Living Legend Ceremony (2004)
Documentaries
The Nashville Sound (1970)
Heartsong (1994)
CMT Backstory- Dolly Parton (2001)
Our Country (2002)
(2002)
Travel Channel American Roadtrip: Dollywood (2002)
E! True Hollywood Story- Dolly Parton (2005)
Chasing Rainbows (2005)
A&E Biography- Dolly Parton (2006)
CMT Greatest Moments - Dolly Parton (2006)
For the Love of Dolly - Dolly Parton (2006)Further Information
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