Dolly-Parton

born on January. 19th, 1946 Locust Ridge Tenn into a low-income family that would ultimately comprise 12 kids Dolly Parton learned early to escape the hardships of life by using her vivid and expansive imagination. The songs she wrote were composed before she knew how to write or read. The first time she picked up a guitar was at age 8 and began singing on the Knoxville Tenn radio station at age 11. That same year, she released her debut album on Gold Band Records an independent small label. While she was popular in the local scene while she was at high school, her ambitions were bigger. When she was graduating in 1964, she moved to Nashville. Her first charting hits on Monument Records included Dumb Blonde and Something Fishy both in 1967. Porter Wagoner began looking for new female vocalists for his television show that was syndicated around the same at the same time. Parton got her first gig in the year 1967, signed with RCA Records by 1968, and became a member of the Grand Ole Opry. The year 1974 was the first that she decided to leave Wagoner's show because the success of her individual records like Joshua Coat, Many Colors, and Jolene had outstripped their collaborative efforts. The two split in 1974, Parton wrote the song I Will Always Love You for Wagoner and it climbed to No. It was the first time a song was able to reach No.