Dolly-Parton

Dolly Parton, born Jan. 19, 1946, in Locust Ridge Tenn. to twelve poor children who would grow up as a unit eventually, realized very young the way to conquer of her difficulties through her large and imaginative imagination. Prior to learning how to write and read the first song she ever composed, she was composing her own tunes. At the age of 8, she had her very first guitar. At age 11, she began to sing on the radio station of Knoxville Tenn. In the same year, she recorded her first recording on Gold Band Records a tiny independent label. As a student in high school, she became famous locally but longed to be on a bigger stage. Following her graduation from highschool in 1964 she went to Nashville. Her first charting recordings on Monument Records included Dumb Blonde and Something Fishy both in 1967. In the year 1967, Porter Wagoner was looking for the next girl to perform on the show he had syndicated to television. Parton was found in the year 1967 and signed by RCA Records by 1968, becoming a member of the Grand Ole Opry. In 1974, she resigned from Wagoner's Show because the success of her solo songs like Joshua Coats Of Many Colors or Jolene was surpassing their joint albums. Parton wrote I Will Always Love You for Wagoner after the breakup. It reached number one. The song of Parton in 1974. I Will Always Love You climbed to No.