Dolly Parton

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{{Infobox Band | band_name = Dolly Parton | image = Image:Dolly Parton in Nashville april 2005.jpg | caption = Dolly Parton in April 2005. | years_active = 1959–present | origin = Sevierville, Tennessee | music_genre = Pop, country, bluegrass, folk |instruments = guitar, banjo, autoharp, piano, drums | record_label = Goldband (1959)
Mercury (1962)
Somerset (1963)
Monument (1965–1967)
RCA (1967–1985)
Warner Brothers (1987)
Columbia (1987–1995)
Rising Tide (1996–1997)
Decca (1998)
Asylum (1999)
Sugar Hill Records (1999–present)
}} Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American country singer, songwriter, composer, author and actress.

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Family life

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), twins Floyd Parton (a songwriter) and Freida Parton, and Rachel Dennison (an actress).

Her family was, as she described them, "dirt poor" and lived in a rustic, dilapidated one-room cabin in the Smoky Mountains, near Locust Ridge. Parton's parents were parishioners in the Assembly of God Church, 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 and today, when appearing in live concerts, she frequently performs spiritual songs. (Parton, however, professes no denomination, claiming only to be Christian while adding that she believes that all Earth's peoples are God's children.)

On May 30, 1966, at the age of 20, she married Carl Dean, who ran an asphalt-paving business (whom she met upon her first day in Nashville two years earlier), in Ringgold, Georgia. She has remained with Dean, who has always shunned publicity and rarely accompanies Parton to any events.

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Music

Parton began performing as a child, singing on local radio and television in East Tennessee. At age 12 she was appearing on Knoxville TV, and at 13, she was recording on a small label and appearing at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. When 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, with her songs being covered by Kitty Wells, Hank Williams, Jr., Skeeter Davis, and a number of others. 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 did not crack the Billboard Top 100. Additional pop singles also failed to chart.

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 country 1967, followed later the same year with "Something Fishy," which went to No. 17. The two songs anchored her first full-length album, Hello I'm Dolly, that same year.

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In 1967, Parton was asked to join the weekly syndicated country music TV program hosted by Porter Wagoner, replacing Norma Jean. She also signed with RCA Records, Wagoner's label, during this period, where she would remain for the next two decades. Wagoner and Parton immediately began a hugely successful career as a vocal duet in addition to their solo work and their first single together, a cover of Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing on My Mind," reached the top ten on the U.S. country charts in late 1967, and was the first of over a dozen duet singles to chart for them during the next several years.

Parton is a hugely successful songwriter, having begun by writing country songs with strong elements of folk music in them based upon her upbringing in humble mountain surroundings. Her songs "Coat of Many Colors" and "Jolene" have become classics in the field, as have a number of others. As a composer, she is 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.

Image:LoveisLikeaButterfly.jpg She stayed with the Wagoner show and continued to record duets with him for seven years, then made a break to become a solo artist. In 1974, her song "I Will Always Love You" was released and went to #1 on the country charts. Around the same time, Elvis Presley indicated that he wanted to cover the song. Parton was interested until Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, told her that she would have to sign over half of the publishing rights if Elvis recorded the song (as was the standard procedure for songs Elvis recorded). Parton refused and that decision is credited with helping make her many millions of dollars in royalties from the song over the years.

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Breaking out

Despite originally being typecast in many circles as a "Country and Western" singer, Parton later had even greater commercial success as a pop singer and actress. Her 1977 album "Here You Come Again" was her first million-seller, and the title track became her first top-ten single on the pop charts; 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.

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In 1987, along with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt, she released the decade-in-the-making Trio album to critical acclaim (a second collaboration, "Trio II", would be released in 1999). In 1993, she teamed up with fellow country music queens Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette for a similar project, the Honky Tonk Angels album.

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In 1987, Parton left her longtime label, RCA, and signed with Columbia Records, where her recording career continued to prosper, but by the mid 1990s, Parton, along with many other performers of her generation, found that her new music was not welcome on country radio playlists. 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 and 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 the folk classic "Where Have All The Flowers Gone", as well as the title track.

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Acting

During the mid-1970s, Parton had her eyes set on expanding her audience base. The first step towards meeting this goal was her attempt a variety show, Dolly. Even though it had high ratings, the show lasted merely one season, with 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 one of the biggest hits 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, 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 later played an overprotective mother in Frank McKlusky, C.I. with Dave Sheridan, Cameron Richardson, and Randy Quaid.

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.

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Movies and music

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.

In 1992, "I Will Always Love You" was performed by Whitney Houston 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. As Parton owned the song, she reaped the benefits of the royalties from Houston's version. The song was also covered by music legend Kenny Rogers on his 1997 album "Always and Forever," which sold over 4 million copies worldwide, as well as by Leann Rimes. Melissa Etheridge covered the song on a tribute album to Parton.

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 would 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 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards 2005. The song was also nominated, though it did not 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.

A third Parton performance, "The Day I Fall In Love," a duet with James Ingram from the film "Beethoven's Second," 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 did not win.

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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 and a dinner show called Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede. 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, has suffered economically for decades; Parton's business investment has revitalized the area.

She also owns Sandollar Productions, a film and television production company, which produced the Fox TV Show Babes and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the features Father of the Bride I & II, Straight Talk, Sabrina, and Academy Award-winning (for Best Documentary) Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, among other shows. Sanddollar is co-owned by Sandy Gallin, Parton's former manager.

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In Concert

Parton toured extensively from the late 1960s until the early 1990s. Since the early 1990s, Parton's concert appearances were primarily limited to one weekend a year at her Dollywood theme park benefiting her Dollywood Foundation. After a decade long absence from touring, Parton decided to hit the road in 2002 with an 18-city, intimate club tour to promote the "Halos & Horns" CD. The House of Blues Entertainment, Inc. produced show sold out all of its U.S. and European dates (her first in two decades). 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. In late 2005 Parton completed a 40-city tour with "The Vinatage Tour" promoting her new album, Those Were The Days.

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Honors

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Parton is perhaps the most-honored female country performer of all time. She holds 25 U.S. gold, platinum and multi-platinum honors from the RIAA. She has seen 25 songs reach No. 1 on the Billboard country charts, a record for a female artist. She has 41 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, hit's collections, paid digital downloads and compilation usage during Parton's career have reportedly reached 100 million records around the world.

She has received seven Grammy Awards and a total of 42 Grammy nominations. In the American Music Awards, she has taken home the AMA trophy three times but seen 18 nominations. At the Country Music Association, she has received 10 awards and 42 nominations. At the Academy of Country Music, she has been given five awards and 36 nominations. She is one of only five solo women (others include Reba McEntire, Barbara Mandrell, Shania Twain, and Loretta Lynn), to win the Country Music Association's highest honor, "Entertainer Of The Year".

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, awarded in 1984; a star on the Nashville Star Walk for Grammy winners; and a bronze sculpture on the courthouse lawn in Sevierville, Tennessee.

She was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 1969. In 1986, she was named one of Ms. Magazine's Women of the Year. She was given an honorary doctorate from Carson-Newman College in 1990.

1986 saw Parton's induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1999, Parton received country music's highest honor, induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. This was followed by induction into the National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001.

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.

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. And her national literacy program, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, has resulted in her 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, Chasing Rainbows Award from the National State Teachers of the Year in 2002, and Child and Family Advocacy Award from the Parents As Teachers National Center in 2003. The program distributes more than 2.5 million free books to children annually across more than 40 states.

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Image and appearance

Parton, like Willie Nelson and the late Johnny Cash, is one of the few country stars to draw a diverse fanbase from all walks of life. Parton's fans often identify with her, and she identifies with them. She has said in interviews that she is inspired by outcasts from society (such as prostitutes, whose long fingernails and big blonde wigs mirror her onstage garb). She is an icon in the gay community, and is often portrayed by drag queens. She has stated that if she were a man, she would be a drag queen. One of her more famous quotes: "It takes a lot of money to look this cheap"

Parton is also well known for a physical trademark; her large breasts have been a source of attention throughout her career. Her petite dimensions -she is only 5 feet tall (152 cm) - accentuate her dramatic contours. She has often poked fun at herself with quips such as "I would have burned my bra in the 60s, but it would have taken the fire department three days to put it out," or "The reason I have a small waist and small feet is that nothing grows well in the shade." In 1989 when she guest-hosted Saturday Night Live, she participated in a self-deprecating sketch that parodied Sci-Fi exploitation films: an alien race of excessively large-breasted women teased her about the fact that her breasts were comparatively small, "merely the size of melons." In 1994, she told Vogue magazine that her measurements were 40-20-36. [2] And she has publicly denied the often-reported allegation that her chest is insured for $600,000. More recently, as a guest on The O'Reilly Factor, regarding her breasts, she told Bill O'Reilly, "I don't know if they're supporting me or I'm supporting them."

She has reportedly turned down several offers to pose for Playboy magazine and similar publications; however, she jokes that she told Playboy she would pose naked -- on her 100th birthday. Russ Meyer wanted to make movies about her breasts. Although she has admitted over the years to having a great deal of cosmetic surgery, it wasn't until 2002 that she admitted to having breast implants. However, she says she didn't get them until she lost a great deal of weight in the mid-1980s, because as a result of the weight loss she had lost a great deal of her famous bosom. [3]

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Hit singles (top 40 pop/top 10 country)

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  • 1967 "The Last Thing on My Mind" (with Porter Wagoner) (#7 COUNTRY)
  • 1968 "Holdin' On To Nothing" (with Porter Wagoner) (#7 COUNTRY)
  • 1968 "We'll Get Ahead Someday" (with Porter Wagoner) (#5 COUNTRY)
  • 1969 "Yours Love" (with Porter Wagoner) (#9 COUNTRY)
  • 1969 "Just Someone I Used to Know" (with Porter Wagoner) (#7 COUNTRY)
  • 1969 "Tomorrow Is Forever" (with Porter Wagoner) (#9 COUNTRY)
  • 1970 "Mule Skinner Blues" (#3 COUNTRY)
  • 1970 "Daddy Was An Old Time Preacher Man" (with Porter Wagoner) (#7 COUNTRY)
  • 1970 "Joshua" #108 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1971 "Better Move it On Home" (with Porter Wagoner) (#7 COUNTRY)
  • 1971 "Coat of Many Colors (album)" (#4 COUNTRY)
  • 1972 "Touch Your Woman" (#6 COUNTRY)
  • 1972 "Lost Forever in Your Kiss" (with Porter Wagoner) (#9 COUNTRY)
  • 1973 "If Teardrops Were Pennies" (with Porter Wagoner) (#3 COUNTRY)
  • 1974 "Jolene" #60 U.S., #7 U.K. (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1974 "I Will Always Love You" (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1974 "Please Don't Stop Loving Me" (with Porter Wagoner) (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1974 "Love Is Like A Butterfly"(#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1975 "The Bargain Store" (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1975 "The Seeker" (#2 COUNTRY)
  • 1975 "Say Forever You'll Be Mine" (with Porter Wagoner) (#5 COUNTRY)
  • 1975 "We Used To" (#9 COUNTRY)
  • 1975 "Is Forever Longer Than Always" (with Porter Wagoner) (#8 COUNTRY)
  • 1976 "All I Can Do" (#3 COUNTRY)
  • 1977 "Light of a Clear, Blue Morning" #87 U.S. (#11 COUNTRY)
  • 1977 "Here You Come Again" #3 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1978 "Two Doors Down" #19 U.S.
  • 1978 "It's All Wrong (But It's All Right)" (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1978 "Heartbreaker" #37 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1979 "Baby I'm Burning" #25 U.S.
  • 1979 "I Really Got The Feeling" (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1979 "You're the Only One" #59 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1979 "Sweet Summer Lovin'" #77 U.S. (#7 COUNTRY)
  • 1980 "Starting Over Again" #36 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1980 "Making Plans" (with Porter Wagoner) (#2 COUNTRY)
  • 1980 "Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You" (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1981 "9 to 5" #1 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1981 "But You Know I Love You" #41 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1982 "Single Women" (#8 COUNTRY)
  • 1982 "Heartbreak Express" (#7 COUNTRY)
  • 1982 "I Will Always Love You" (1982 recording) #53 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1982 "Hard Candy Christmas" (#8 COUNTRY)
  • 1982 "Everything's Beautiful" (with Willie Nelson) (#7 COUNTRY)
  • 1983 "Islands in the Stream" (with Kenny Rogers) #1 U.S., #7 UK (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1984 "Save the Last Dance for Me" #45 U.S. (#3 COUNTRY)
  • 1984 "Tennessee Homesick Blues" (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1984 "God Won't Get You" (#10 COUNTRY)
  • 1985 "Don't Call it Love" (#3 COUNTRY)
  • 1985 "Real Love" #91 U.S. (with Kenny Rogers) (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1986 "Think About Love" (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1987 "To Know Him is to Love Him" (with Emmylou Harris) and Linda Ronstadt) (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1987 "Telling Me Lies" (with Emmylou Harris) and Linda Ronstadt) (#3 COUNTRY)
  • 1987 "Those Memories Of You" (with Emmylou Harris) and Linda Ronstadt) (#5 COUNTRY)
  • 1988 "Wildflowers" (with Emmylou Harris) and Linda Ronstadt) (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1989 "Why'd Ya' Come In Here Lookin' Like That?" (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1989 "Yellow Roses" (#1 COUNTRY) (Backing Vocals : Ken Dodd)
  • 1991 "Rockin' Years" (with Ricky Van Shelton) (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 2004 "Baby It's Cold Outside" (with Rod Stewart) (#2 ADULT CONTEMPORARY)
  • 2005 "When I Get Where I'm Going" (with Brad Paisley) #39 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
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Charting albums

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  • 1967 "Hello I’m Dolly" (#11 COUNTRY)
  • 1968 "Just Between You And Me" (with Porter Wagoner) (#8 COUNTRY)
  • 1968 "Just Because I‘m A Woman" (#22 COUNTRY)
  • 1968 "Just The Two Of Us" (with Porter Wagoner) #184 U.S. (#11 COUNTRY)
  • 1969 "In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)" (#15 COUNTRY)
  • 1969 "Always, Always" (with Porter Wagoner) #162 U.S. (#5 COUNTRY)
  • 1969 "My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy" #194 U.S. (#6 COUNTRY)
  • 1970 "The Fairest Of Them All" (#13 COUNTRY)
  • 1970 "Porter Wayne and Dolly Rebecca" (with Porter Wagoner) #137 U.S. (#4 COUNTRY)
  • 1970 "A Real Live Dolly" (live album) #154 U.S. (#32 COUNTRY)
  • 1970 "Once More" (with Porter Wagoner) #191 U.S. (#7 COUNTRY)
  • 1970 "The Best Of Dolly Parton" (#12 COUNTRY)
  • 1971 "Two Of A Kind" (with Porter Wagoner) #142 U.S. (#13 COUNTRY)
  • 1971 "Golden Streets Of Glory" (#22 COUNTRY)
  • 1971 "Joshua" #198 U.S. (#16 COUNTRY)
  • 1971 "The Best Of Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton" (#7 COUNTRY)
  • 1971 "Coat of Many Colors" (#7 COUNTRY)
  • 1972 "The Right Combination/Burning The Midnight Oil" (with Porter Wagoner) (#6 COUNTRY)
  • 1972 "Touch Your Woman" (#19 COUNTRY)
  • 1972 "Together Always" (with Porter Wagoner) (#3 COUNTRY)
  • 1972 "Sings My Favorite Songwriter: Porter Wagoner" (#33 COUNTRY)
  • 1973 "We Found It" (with Porter Wagoner) (#20 COUNTRY)
  • 1973 "My Tennessee Mountain Home" (#19 COUNTRY)
  • 1973 "Love And Music" (with Porter Wagoner) (#8 COUNTRY)
  • 1973 "Bubbling Over" (#14 COUNTRY)
  • 1974 "Jolene" (#6 COUNTRY)
  • 1974 "Porter ‘N‘ Dolly" (with Porter Wagoner) (#8 COUNTRY)
  • 1974 "Love Is Like A Butterfly" (#7 COUNTRY)
  • 1975 "The Bargain Store" (#9 COUNTRY)
  • 1975 "In Concert" (live album with Chet Atkins, Ronnie Milsap, Charley Pride, Jerry Reed and Gary Stewart) (#19 COUNTRY)
  • 1975 "Best Of Dolly Parton (Vol. 2)" (#5 COUNTRY)
  • 1975 "Say Forever You‘ll Be Mine" (with Porter Wagoner) (#6 COUNTRY)
  • 1975 "Dolly" (aka "The Seeker/We Used To")(#14 COUNTRY)
  • 1976 "All I Can Do" (#3 COUNTRY)
  • 1977 "New Harvest - First Gathering" #71 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1977 "Here You Come Again" #20 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1978 "Heartbreaker" #27 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1978 "Dolly Parton/Both Sides" #24 UK
  • 1979 "Great Balls of Fire" #40 U.S. (#4 COUNTRY)
  • 1980 "Dolly, Dolly, Dolly" #71 U.S. (#7 COUNTRY)
  • 1980 "Porter & Dolly" (with Porter Wagoner) (#9 COUNTRY)
  • 1980 "9 to 5 and Odd Jobs" #11 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1982 "Heartbreak Express" #106 U.S. (#5 COUNTRY)
  • 1982 "The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas" (film soundtrack) #63 U.S. (#5 COUNTRY)
  • 1982 "Greatest Hits" #77 U.S. (#7 COUNTRY)
  • 1982 "The Winning Hand" (with Kris Kristofferson, Brenda Lee, and Willie Nelson) #109 U.S. (#4 COUNTRY)
  • 1983 "Burlap & Satin" #127 U.S. (#5 COUNTRY)
  • 1984 "The Great Pretender" #73 U.S. (#7 COUNTRY)
  • 1984 "Rhinestone" (film soundtrack) #135 U.S. (#32 COUNTRY)
  • 1984 "Once Upon A Christmas" (with Kenny Rogers) #31 U.S. (#12 COUNTRY)
  • 1985 "Real Love" (#9 COUNTRY)
  • 1986 "Think About Love" (#54 COUNTRY)
  • 1987 "Trio" (with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt #6 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1987 "Rainbow" #153 U.S. (#18 COUNTRY)
  • 1989 "White Limozeen" (#3 COUNTRY)
  • 1990 "Home For Christmas" (#74 COUNTRY)
  • 1991 "Eagle When She Flies" #24 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY)
  • 1992 "Straight Talk" (film soundtrack) #138 U.S. (#22 COUNTRY)
  • 1993 "Slow Dancing With The Moon" #16 U.S. (#4 COUNTRY)
  • 1993 "Honky Tonk Angels" (with Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette) #42 U.S. (#6 COUNTRY)
  • 1994 "Heartsongs: Live From Home" (live album) #87 U.S. (#16 COUNTRY)
  • 1995 "Something Special" #54 U.S. (#10 COUNTRY)
  • 1996 "I Will Always Love You And Other Greatest Hits" (#47 COUNTRY)
  • 1996 "Treasures" #122 U.S. (#21 COUNTRY)
  • 1997 "A Life in Music - Ultimate Collection" #38 UK
  • 1998 "Hungry Again" #167 U.S. (#23 COUNTRY)
  • 1999 "Trio 2 (album)" (with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt #62 U.S. (#4 COUNTRY)
  • 1999 "The Grass Is Blue" #198 U.S. (#24 COUNTRY)
  • 2001 "Little Sparrow" # 97 U.S., #30 UK (#12 COUNTRY)
  • 2001 "Gold - The Hits Collection" #23 UK
  • 2002 "Halos & Horns" #58 U.S., #37 UK (#4 COUNTRY)
  • 2003 "Ultimate Dolly Parton" #130 U.S., #17 UK (#20 COUNTRY)
  • 2003 "Just Because I‘m A Woman: Songs Of Dolly Parton" #55 U.S. (#6 COUNTRY)
  • 2003 "For God And Country" #167 U.S. (#23 COUNTRY)
  • 2004 "Live & Well" (live album) #161 U.S. (#22 COUNTRY)
  • 2005 "Those Were The Days" #48 U.S. (#9 COUNTRY) #35 UK (#2 U.K. Country)
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Filmography

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TV filmography

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TV series

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TV guest appearances

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TV music & variety series

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TV specials

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Documentaries

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Trivia

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See also

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External links

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Official websites

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Fan websites

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Unofficial websites

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