Dolly-Parton

Dolly Parton was born on January 19, 1946, on the 19th of January 1946 in Locust Ridge Tenn. She was raised with 12 other children. The vivid imagination of her mother was a great way to get away from the pressures of daily life. Before learning how to read or write Dolly Parton had already begun to compose her own songs. When she got her first guitar at the age 8, she started to perform on local radio stations from Knoxville, Tennessee. In the same year, she recorded her first recording on Gold Band Records a tiny independent label. As a student in high school, she made her name local, but longed for having a bigger stage. She moved to Nashville shortly after her graduation in 1964. Her first charting records for Monument Records included Dumb Blonde and Something Fishy both in 1967. At about this time Porter Wagoner was looking for an actress to sing for his television show that was syndicated. Parton was signed to RCA Records and then joined the Grand Ole Opry. She was hired in the year 1967. 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 had outstripped their collaborative efforts. Parton composed "I Will Always Love You" in support of Wagoner just after the pair split. It was ranked number. This was the first time a song reached No.