Dolly-Parton

Born on Jan. 19th, 1946 Locust Ridge Tenn into a poverty-stricken family which would later include 12 children Dolly Parton learned early to escape the hardships of life by using her vivid and expansive imagination. She was writing songs before she could write or read. The first time she picked up a guitar was when she was just 8 years old and started performing on an Knoxville Tenn radio station at age 11. The following year, she made her first album with Gold Band Records an independent small-scale label. Her name was made for herself locally while still in high school but she always dreamed of having a bigger stage. In the exact day that she graduated from the high school in 1964. Dumb Blonde (1967) and Something Fishy (1968) were her two first charting albums for Monument Records. Porter Wagoner had been looking for a female vocalist to perform on his show syndicated by him in the years prior to this. Parton got her first gig in the year 1967 she signed with RCA Records by 1968, she joined the Grand Ole Opry. The year 1974 was the first that she opted to walk away from Wagoner's show because the success of her solo albums such as Joshua Coat, Many Colors, and Jolene exceeded their collective efforts. Parton recorded "I will Always Be Loving You" to Wagoner soon after their split. The track hit the top spot at No. In 1974, the song by Parton"I Will Always Love You" peaked at the No.