Dolly-Parton

Born on Jan. 19 1946 in Locust Ridge Tenn into a poverty-stricken family which would later consist of 12 children Dolly Parton learned early to escape the hardships of living through her vibrant and far-ranging imagination. Before she learned to read or write Dolly Parton had already begun to compose her own songs. She got her first guitar when she was 8 and started performing on a Knoxville Tenn radio station at age eleven. She recorded her first album in the same calendar year Gold Band Records, a small label that was an independent. Her name was made on the local circuit while in high school but she wanted to perform on a larger stage. After she finished her high school, in 1964, she relocated to Nashville. Dumb Blonde (1967) and Something Fishy (1968) were her two first charting albums on Monument Records. Porter Wagoner began looking for female singers to join his TV show syndicated by a network at approximately the exact as the time. Parton joined RCA Records and then joined the Grand Ole Opry. She was hired in the year 1967. But she resigned from the show in 1974 when her solo songs like Joshua Coat of Many Colors and Jolene had begun charting their collaborative efforts. Parton wrote "I I Will Never Forget You" in support of Wagoner soon after their split. It was ranked No. It was the first time that a song hit the top spot.