This isn't a biography on Dolly, just some interesting trivia about her and some funny stuff she's said.
One of twelve children, Dolly Parton grew up in a one-bedroom cabin (without electricity or indoor plumbing) in Tennessee. The doctor who delivered her was paid with a bag of cornmeal.
"One Christmas, young Dolly cried for a doll that walked and talked. Instead, she got a new baby brother, Randy. Look, you got a doll better than anybody's, said her dad. This one walks and talks and pees and everything!"
"By age ten (1956), Dolly Parton's performances at local gatherings led to a gig on a Knoxville radio and television program called Cas Walker's Farm and Home Tour. Old Man Cas was a grocer, and frequently during a show he would walk behind the singers or the banjo pickers toting signs that said things like 'Fresh Greens, 19 Cents a Mess.'"
Young Dolly Parton once earned a whipping from her father, after painting her lips with Mercurochrome taken from the medicine cabinet. "I lied about it," she recalled with glee many years later. "I said, 'This is my natural color!' The more Daddy tried to rub it off, the redder it was. It's like, 'This red ass of yours after a whipping, is that your natural color?' Oh, I got lots of whippin's over makeup."
This is an album cover from 1970, anybody still got the vinyl?
Dolly Parton, famed for her remarkable natural endowments, was a longtime CB radio fan. Her CB "handle"? Booby Trap, of course. Among her post-war nicknames for her breasts? "Shock and Awe." She once said, "I would have burned my bra in the 60s, but it would have taken the fire department three days to put it out." The first cloned mammal is a sheep, which was named Dolly in honor of Dolly Parton, because it was cloned from a mammary cell.
And Dolly was hardly ashamed of showing off her God-given assets . "I like to buy clothes that are two sizes too small," she once remarked, "and then take them in a little."
"I have little feet," she once declared, "because nothing grows in the shade!" "I just look like the girl next door," she said on another occasion, "if you happen to live next door to an amusement park!"
After having her breasts insured for $600,000, Dolly was bluntly asked by Barbara Walters: "Is it all you?" Yes, she replied. "But if I hadn't had it on my own," she added with a Tennessee smile, "I'm just the sort of person who would get it!"
Dolly rarely worried about her figure. "I bought all those Jane Fonda videos," she once remarked. "I love to sit and eat cookies and watch them."
Dolly Parton was often asked how long it took to do her hair. She had a standard reply. "When people ask me how long it takes to do my hair," she explained, "I say, 'I don't know, because I'm not there!'"
Dolly Parton was once asked whether she believed in giving money to homeless people. "I believe in my cosmetics line," she declared. "There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time somebody helped the homely?"
Dolly was once asked whether she was ever offended by dumb blonde jokes. "I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb," she coyly replied. "I also know I'm not blonde."
"I describe my look," Parton once declared, "as a blend of Mother Goose, Cinderella, and the local hooker" - and on another occasion: "It takes a lot of money to make a person look this cheap!"
What a great sense of humor! This picture is off an album cover in 1998
ah, what’s not to love about Dolly! On top of having talent, looks and boobs, she is quite the shrewd businesswoman. She came from nothing and really made a name for herself. Gotta love that. I remember watching her on the Porter Wagoner show way back when. She is definitely a Tennessee treasure.
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