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DOLLY PARTON Our National Treasure 1946 - 2026 Special edition (Part 1) She was so much Fun · BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback

0:25
SPEAKER_17: Hey everyone.
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SPEAKER_17: My name is Brian Seaver, the son of Cassie Parton.
0:30
SPEAKER_17: And I'm representing the Parton and Owen's family today, announcing the passing of my Aunt Dolly, Rebecca Parton Dean.
0:36
SPEAKER_17: Sister and Granny to one generation and Gigi to the next.
0:41
SPEAKER_17: This video announcement is something Dolly asked of me years ago before I fully absorb it as a future reality.
0:48
SPEAKER_17: As her head of security for more than two decades, a role my father Larry held before me, I have imagined the heaviness of this moment, but haven't truly felt it until now.
0:57
SPEAKER_17: It is an honor.
0:58
SPEAKER_17: An honor that is mixed with absolute pride and great sadness.
1:02
SPEAKER_17: But sadness lies with us, not with Dolly.
1:05
SPEAKER_17: Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus, surely, met by Carl, her parents, and countless others who have watched her and longed for her to meet them in the heavens.
1:15
SPEAKER_17: I first went on the road with Dolly as a kid, getting a taste of the road life in the early 1980s.
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SPEAKER_17: Dolly opened doors not just for me, but for her entire family to reach the potential we didn't even know was possible.
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SPEAKER_17: Dolly also opened doors for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians, and dreamers from every walk of life and across every continent.
1:36
SPEAKER_17: By her example, we believed that anything was possible.
1:39
SPEAKER_17: She never saw a door she couldn't open, and the doors she opened made and changed history.
1:45
SPEAKER_17: My family and I have shared a lifetime of beautiful memories with Dolly.
1:50
SPEAKER_17: So have you.
1:51
SPEAKER_17: She has always been on your television, your record player, your CD, and on your phone playlist, becoming an extended part of your family, whether you liked it or not.
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SPEAKER_17: Our family and the team she has entrusted with her legacy will work diligently to ensure her spirit will live with us forever.
2:07
SPEAKER_17: Dolly was a farmer, just like her daddy.
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SPEAKER_17: He farmed the soil, she farmed songs and happiness.
2:14
SPEAKER_17: Dolly called me and said she wants to rest in a beautiful bed of plush cotton because after a life wearing heavy rhinestones, she finally deserves to be comfortable and have some rest.
2:24
SPEAKER_17: Rest in peace, Aunt Dolly.
2:26
SPEAKER_17: Aunt Granny, G G.
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SPEAKER_17: May God bless Dolly Barton, and may God bless you all.
2:31
SPEAKER_17: She will always love you.
2:42
SPEAKER_08: I did seven years old.
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SPEAKER_08: You were in a boy squirrel.
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SPEAKER_08: I was in the boy choir.
2:47
SPEAKER_08: You got that same sweet face.
2:48
SPEAKER_08: No, thank you very much.
2:49
SPEAKER_08: Can you still sing?
2:50
SPEAKER_18: I can.
2:51
SPEAKER_18: Should we try?
2:51
SPEAKER_08: Well, I'll interview you next time.
2:53
SPEAKER_18: All right.
2:53
SPEAKER_08: Well, you will say working on top.
2:56
SPEAKER_02: Wait, can we do I was in the stream?
2:57
SPEAKER_08: Okay.
2:58
SPEAKER_02: Because that's a duet, right?
2:59
SPEAKER_02: In the stream.
3:00
SPEAKER_02: That is what we are.
3:03
SPEAKER_02: In between.
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SPEAKER_02: How can we be wrong?
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SPEAKER_02: Sail away with me to another place.
3:10
SPEAKER_02: And we'll rely on each other.
3:13
SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
3:15
SPEAKER_02: One one lover to another.
3:17
SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
3:20
SPEAKER_02: That was fantastic.
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SPEAKER_15: You can sing in my house any time.
3:34
SPEAKER_08: Thank you for having me.
3:35
SPEAKER_08: This is always so exciting.
3:36
SPEAKER_08: I'm glad to be here in Myrtle Beach.
3:38
SPEAKER_08: Well, well, actually, you know, we've been here for 18 years or over as Dixon Stem Feed, which we've done very good and we've been very successful and appreciated all.
3:46
SPEAKER_08: But we had the idea a few years back that maybe we should convert this into a pirate theme because every kids love pirates.
3:53
SPEAKER_08: We all do, don't we?
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SPEAKER_08: It's the adventure.
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SPEAKER_08: We're going to get rich quick.
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SPEAKER_08: It's the get rich quick theme.
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SPEAKER_08: So we've got fun entertainment and all sorts of great things.
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SPEAKER_08: We've got all these performers that do all these acrobatics, stuff in the air, things in the water.
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SPEAKER_08: We got sea bones.
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SPEAKER_08: Can you tell I'm excited?
4:11
SPEAKER_08: I think you should be pretty excited about this show.
4:13
SPEAKER_08: I am.
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SPEAKER_08: So I've been blessed with wonderful people.
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SPEAKER_08: I've been blessed with wonderful projects.
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SPEAKER_08: And so I never try to do it all myself or try to act like I know everything about everything.
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SPEAKER_08: I know what I know and I know what I don't know.
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SPEAKER_08: And what I don't know, I know who to go to that that knows what to do about it.
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SPEAKER_08: I've been lucky with smart and good people.
4:38
SPEAKER_12: Hi everybody.
4:40
SPEAKER_12: This is Randall Wallace, your host for uh the Randall Wallace Presents Podcast.
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SPEAKER_12: And this is a tribute to Dolly Parton.
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SPEAKER_12: And uh, you're not gonna hear me say a whole lot on this show as far as narration goes, because I don't think I could without uh you know tearing up a little bit.
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SPEAKER_12: This this has been a the passing of a of a more than just a celebrity, uh Dolly Parton.
5:06
SPEAKER_12: I I had a crush on her since I saw her in Red High Heels and that red sequin dress at the top of the stairs during the best little house in Texas.
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SPEAKER_12: I changed the name a little bit for this, but uh she has just been a part of life, all of my life, or or most of it anyway, and uh and you just loved her.
5:27
SPEAKER_12: We all love Dolly Parton.
5:30
SPEAKER_12: Uh I wrote a little uh uh article on my Randall Wallace Journal's Substack page that I thought I'd read to you um real quick.
5:44
SPEAKER_12: It says, Dolly Parton, the one thing we all agree on.
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SPEAKER_12: The University of Massachusetts at Ugov recently conducted the national poll and rated Dolly Parton with a 70% favorable rating and a 5% negative rating.
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SPEAKER_12: It ranked some of the other national figures in the same poll.
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SPEAKER_12: And here's a sample of it.
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SPEAKER_12: Dolly had a 70% favorable rating.
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SPEAKER_12: Barack Obama had a 50% favorable rating and a 14% net favorable rating.
6:12
SPEAKER_12: Vladimir Zelensky had a 35% favorable rating and a net rating of 13.
6:17
SPEAKER_12: Taylor Swift had a 35% favorable rating and a net favorable of 3%.
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SPEAKER_12: Joe Biden was a 38% favorable but was underwater at negative 18%.
6:29
SPEAKER_12: And Donald Trump, who was 36% uh favorable and 19% unfavorable.
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SPEAKER_12: And Dolly Parton.
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SPEAKER_12: Dolly Parton was at 65% that favorable rating score.
6:51
SPEAKER_12: That's just incredible.
6:53
SPEAKER_12: Um and I almost wanted to ask about the who in the world is this 5%?
6:58
SPEAKER_12: Can you imagine how sour you'd have to be to end up in that category?
7:02
SPEAKER_12: Uh what that survey proved to me was something I think everyone knew already.
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SPEAKER_12: Everyone loves Dolly Parton.
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SPEAKER_12: I know I did.
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SPEAKER_12: Like I said, I've loved Dolly Parton since the night I sat up late watching HBO and saw first those red high heel shoes and the bottom of that sequin red dress as it strolled across the television screen before the camera slowly panned up the very full figure of Miss Mona.
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SPEAKER_12: And that woke up my hormones before she ever got the first laugh and the start of the song out of her mouth in the movie The Best Fool Whore House in Texas.
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SPEAKER_12: I was sold.
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SPEAKER_12: Dolly Parton has been around in my life ever since.
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SPEAKER_12: I loved her movies, loved her music, and most of all, just loved her.
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SPEAKER_12: That laugh, that crazy sense of humor, and the fact that she was also an extraordinary businesswoman, which I learned later in life here when she started up her theater in Myrtle Beach, the Dixie Stampede.
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SPEAKER_12: She was a leader in turning my hometown of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, into an entertainment powerhouse for a few years in the mid to late 1990s.
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SPEAKER_12: The fact that she had a business here also led to her Imagination Library setting up shop in our community here and in Georgetown County.
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SPEAKER_12: And Dolly Parton had another title to the countless children here and in her homestead of Tennessee and now around the world.
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SPEAKER_12: She was the book lady.
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SPEAKER_12: In the years since Dolly Parton started the library, she has given away 332 million books.
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SPEAKER_12: One in every seven kids under five in America is enrolled in that program.
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SPEAKER_12: It also is now in Canada, England, Ireland, and Australia.
8:38
SPEAKER_12: That would be amazing if it was just the only thing that she ever did outside of her top charting music in major motion pictures.
8:44
SPEAKER_12: But it was just one thing on a long list of charitable activity that is just staggering when you look at it.
8:50
SPEAKER_12: She set up a foundation in her own hometown that gave every 7th and 8th grader who went to school, uh, who went on to graduate from high school$500.
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SPEAKER_12: And that program dropped the high school dropout rate in that community from 35% to 6%.
9:05
SPEAKER_12: She set up a fund to pay for any of the 11,000 employees of her company to further their education, paying 100% of the freight for books, tuition, and fees.
9:14
SPEAKER_12: She got a million dollars for the research at Vanderbilt to find a vaccine for COVID, which helped lead to the Moderna vaccine.
9:24
SPEAKER_12: Then she turned around and raised another million dollars for research into infectious pediatric diseases to help Vanderbilt again in their children's uh hospital.
9:34
SPEAKER_12: When wildfires raged through the Smoky Mountains in 2016, she raised$12.5 million and paid all the bills for thousands of people displaced by the fires.
9:43
SPEAKER_12: Then she turned around and raised money to do it all over again when Hurricane Helene ravaged the mountains where she was born and raised.
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SPEAKER_12: Dolly Parton and Dollywood have even helped save the American Bald Eagles, setting up one of the largest refuges for non-release-releasable bald eagles in the country.
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SPEAKER_12: She seemed to have a heart of gold, willing to help those less fortunate, be they man or beast.
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SPEAKER_12: And when Dolly Parton died on August 25th, it was estimated her net worth was roughly between$450 million and$600 million.
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SPEAKER_12: It is also estimated that she had already given away hundreds of millions of dollars throughout her lifetime.
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SPEAKER_12: That is generous spirit that explains something I experienced yesterday.
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SPEAKER_12: When she died, I was busy doing my best to help in a runoff election going on in my home state of South Carolina.
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SPEAKER_12: But for a few minutes, that day, the world stopped.
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SPEAKER_12: And I found myself fighting back tears for a lady I had never met and did not know.
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SPEAKER_12: That was the magic of Dolly Parton.
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SPEAKER_12: I don't know how to describe it or exactly what it was, but she touched you just by being the happiest person you know.
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SPEAKER_12: Even though you didn't really know her at all.
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SPEAKER_12: Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote of his experience when he first met Dolly Parton in 1980 after she had starred in the motion picture, 9 to 5, for his book Life Itself.
11:07
SPEAKER_12: In Dallas for the premiere of 9 to 5, I had an uncanny experience, Roger Ebert wrote.
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SPEAKER_12: And on the plane home to Chicago, I confess it to Sysco.
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SPEAKER_12: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton.
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SPEAKER_12: And as we spoke, I was filled with a strange ethereal grace.
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SPEAKER_12: This was not spiritual, not nor was it sexual.
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SPEAKER_12: It was healing and comforting.
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SPEAKER_12: Jean listened and said, Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her.
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SPEAKER_12: Unquote.
11:38
SPEAKER_12: We looked at each other.
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SPEAKER_12: What did this mean?
11:41
SPEAKER_12: Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again.
11:44
SPEAKER_12: From time to time, we would refer to it and wonder.
11:48
SPEAKER_12: I cannot think of any time I ever saw Dolly Park, be it on television or in the movies, in an interview or on stage, that I didn't smile broadly and laugh out loud and just feel better about life.
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SPEAKER_12: When you read she had nearly 70% positive rating, negatives so low they are borderline non-existent.
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SPEAKER_12: And you realize that this was achieved in this most divisive of all eras and times.
12:13
SPEAKER_12: I can't help but think, now that she's gone, that perhaps she has some other purpose on this earth, other than just to sing a country music song.
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SPEAKER_12: Perhaps it was to be that touchstone we could all agree on.
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SPEAKER_12: The one thing that makes even the most liberal of Democrats and most conservative Republicans smile.
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SPEAKER_12: The one thing that united us all.
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SPEAKER_12: We all love Dolly Park.
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SPEAKER_12: Why that is, I don't really know.
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SPEAKER_12: Other than that crush I had since I was 11 years old, but my guess even that then it was more than just that.
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SPEAKER_12: It was the example of a life so well lived, a person who utilized every talent the good Lord gave her to lead this world far better than she found it.
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SPEAKER_12: Because if ever there was a human being who seemed destined to hear the words, Well done, my good and faithful servant, I cannot imagine who it would be.
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SPEAKER_12: She brought this country and world together with a smile, a lot of sequence, a few beautiful songs, and an unforgettable sense of humor.
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SPEAKER_12: And laugh.
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SPEAKER_12: And a little bit hard.
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SPEAKER_12: She gave far more than she could.
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SPEAKER_12: And for that, I think you thank you.
13:21
SPEAKER_12: We will always love it.
14:11
SPEAKER_12: Greatest of entertainers, greatest of philanthropists, and greatest of Americans.
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SPEAKER_19: So, Dolly, if we asked you to join our team and maybe do the news, it would be a whoever you're resounding.
14:32
SPEAKER_08: I'm usually an early person.
14:33
SPEAKER_08: I just find it amazing how you can really just go right on camera day in, day out, and do all that and just be your best self.
14:40
SPEAKER_08: I don't uh I don't look as good as y'all do that early in the morning.
14:43
SPEAKER_08: I get my work ethic from my dad because he was such a hard worker.
14:47
SPEAKER_08: I get my creative and my spiritual side from my mom.
14:49
SPEAKER_08: So it was a good combination.
14:51
SPEAKER_08: My mother was a Democrat.
14:54
SPEAKER_08: My daddy was a Republican, so I'm a Hippocrat.
14:58
SPEAKER_08: Many Republican fans is Democrats, and I don't want to make any of them mad at me, so I don't play politics.
15:04
SPEAKER_08: That's not that's I'm an entertainment.
15:06
SPEAKER_08: I don't even voice my opinion in a situation like that.
15:09
SPEAKER_08: I just always go to joke, it's all that's bad.
15:13
SPEAKER_08: You don't even know how to do that.
15:15
SPEAKER_08: Why is that?
15:22
SPEAKER_08: I never do that.
16:07
SPEAKER_08: You gotta stay believing, you gotta believe in your stuff, you've got to start with that whatever dream that you love been very fortunate.
16:18
SPEAKER_08: And many people get to live this day, they've seen their dreams come true.
16:22
SPEAKER_08: I wake up with new dreams every day, but I really have seen so many dreams come true, and it's it's very humbling to me.
16:29
SPEAKER_08: I thank God every day for that.
16:41
SPEAKER_04: I go home.
16:42
SPEAKER_04: Go ahead, I'm gonna be the one in the middle of the video.
16:45
SPEAKER_03: You born on the building, you born on you.
16:47
SPEAKER_03: Okay, listen, we got y'all a part in the building.
16:50
SPEAKER_03: I I'm assuming because you were here that you that you came around to the idea of being inducted into the Hall of Fame for on the road.
16:58
SPEAKER_03: I had to.
16:58
SPEAKER_08: I said if they put me in, I would I would accept it gracefully, and I will, and I'm very honored and proud to be doing all these great stuff and I just don't.
17:07
SPEAKER_08: Well, I'm not equal to them.
17:09
SPEAKER_08: When you say rock and roll hall of fame, I just don't know.
17:12
SPEAKER_08: You love.
17:13
SPEAKER_08: Well, thank you.
17:14
SPEAKER_04: But anyway, I'm proud of you.
17:19
SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna hit her on all of you to sing with me too.
17:23
SPEAKER_03: Now I heard you there are twenty-seven songs on this album.
17:27
SPEAKER_03: Twenty-five at least.
17:29
SPEAKER_08: Really?
17:29
SPEAKER_08: And four, yeah, four vinyls.
17:31
SPEAKER_08: So I'm if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it once and do it good.
17:34
SPEAKER_03: You said do it once and do it good.
17:36
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
17:37
SPEAKER_03: Was it tough to get in the studio and write music for rock and roll or kind of in you all along?
17:42
SPEAKER_08: Well, it's kinda in me.
17:43
SPEAKER_08: I wrote a song for the show uh tonight, uh, and it kind of tells a story.
17:49
SPEAKER_08: Sets me up.
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SPEAKER_03: We are so excited to build and we are the most beloved artists on the build tonight.
17:55
SPEAKER_08: Well, I don't know about that.
17:58
SPEAKER_03: I mean, really, really.
18:02
SPEAKER_03: Listen, it's amazing.
18:03
SPEAKER_03: Okay, before I let you go, you know, we do this every time we I see you, we run down the outfit.
18:07
SPEAKER_03: And I just want you to tell me from the shoes to the nails.
18:10
SPEAKER_03: I want you to tell me about it.
18:12
SPEAKER_08: I kinda wanted to be rocking, kind of be darling, but kinda have a little bit of change.
18:16
SPEAKER_08: And I figured like these guys would do.
18:18
SPEAKER_08: So this is Steve Summers put this together for me.
18:21
SPEAKER_08: And it's just a lot of change and a lot of dollars.
18:24
SPEAKER_03: It's a lot of dolly.
18:29
SPEAKER_03: Come on, let me see the stones, let me see it.
18:31
SPEAKER_04: Oh, I don't want to hold my hands up.
18:35
SPEAKER_04: Anyway, I got it.
18:37
SPEAKER_04: Let's get it.
18:51
SPEAKER_08: You got such a dirty mouth, and you're such a smart and got some you did what you did.
18:58
SPEAKER_13: You called me a quarter.
19:10
SPEAKER_08: Hopefully don't send anybody if we do talk.
19:12
SPEAKER_13: There will be a good one.
19:17
SPEAKER_13: I'm thinking your blood pressure's real low, and you don't worry about much at all.
19:21
SPEAKER_13: Then somewhere else in here with uh summer audience members.
19:23
SPEAKER_16: Who do we have now?
19:24
SPEAKER_21: This is Jeff.
19:25
SPEAKER_21: How you doing tonight?
19:26
SPEAKER_16: I'm doing great, how are you?
19:27
SPEAKER_21: Thank you.
19:27
SPEAKER_21: Where are you from, Jeff?
19:28
SPEAKER_16: I'm from Dallas, Texas.
19:30
unknown: Hi, Texas!
19:31
SPEAKER_16: All right, and Dolly, here's my question.
19:33
SPEAKER_16: My girlfriend has a dog that drives me absolutely crazy.
19:37
SPEAKER_16: Every time we're together, he just goes nuts.
19:39
SPEAKER_16: And it's getting to the point where it's either me or this dog, but I I don't know how to tell her.
19:43
SPEAKER_16: What do you think, Dolly?
19:46
SPEAKER_08: I think you're gonna have to have one of you, noodles.
20:18
SPEAKER_21: Yes, I would.
20:19
SPEAKER_21: My husband was watching television.
20:27
SPEAKER_21: What do you think, Dolly?
21:03
SPEAKER_05: This is an I don't know how to say Arizona.
21:07
SPEAKER_21: My question for you is I just think you make a great politician.
21:29
SPEAKER_08: I think so.
21:30
SPEAKER_08: I think we all have politicians.
21:48
SPEAKER_08: My dad used to have a he used to have a side back and just pick up drugs and dogs and friends.
22:10
SPEAKER_20: Oh, she's doing all right.
22:13
SPEAKER_20: My question is my girlfriend is a vegetarian.
22:16
SPEAKER_20: And I don't know whether I should eat meat around her.
22:19
SPEAKER_20: What do you think?
22:29
SPEAKER_13: Do you mind if I just leave for this interview?
22:32
SPEAKER_08: I'm not getting tacky, I'm not.
22:34
SPEAKER_08: How?
22:34
SPEAKER_13: How are you gonna avoid it?
22:35
SPEAKER_08: So you should you eat meat around her?
22:37
SPEAKER_08: Not if it's her pet dog or her.
22:40
SPEAKER_08: But I think just because she's a vegetarian, that doesn't mean you shouldn't eat what you want to do.
22:44
SPEAKER_08: I'm I'm not a vegetarian, and I've got a lot of friends that are, so I eat what I want and let them eat what they want.
22:49
SPEAKER_08: Does she not go for that?
22:51
SPEAKER_20: Do I?
22:52
SPEAKER_08: She don't she won't go for it.
22:53
SPEAKER_20: Uh I think she will.
22:54
SPEAKER_08: Well, she'll probably have to if that's what she said.
22:58
SPEAKER_20: There you go.
22:58
SPEAKER_11: That's the way to lay down the law.
23:01
SPEAKER_11: Let me tell you from experience that plan works.
23:06
SPEAKER_11: That's what I do.
23:07
SPEAKER_11: Yeah.
23:11
SPEAKER_11: We got time for one more.
23:13
SPEAKER_11: All right, here we go.
23:14
SPEAKER_21: This is Gloria.
23:15
SPEAKER_21: What a lovely lady.
23:16
SPEAKER_21: Ain't she pretty?
23:17
SPEAKER_21: Where are you from, Gloria?
23:18
SPEAKER_21: I went to Pennsylvania.
23:19
SPEAKER_21: And Dolly.
23:21
SPEAKER_21: My husband's waist has increased so rapidly over the years.
23:25
SPEAKER_21: Of course, he refuses to buy bigger pants.
23:28
SPEAKER_21: He's really starting to look ridiculous, and I really don't know how to tell him.
23:31
SPEAKER_21: What do you think, Dolly?
23:32
SPEAKER_21: Well, personally, I've been so fat in my life.
23:35
SPEAKER_08: I sympathize with anybody with weight problems for any reason.
23:37
SPEAKER_08: Remember, I used to tell you when I tried the last I had to make two trips.
23:48
SPEAKER_08: That's the thing that's but I sympathize with my husband does the same thing.
23:53
SPEAKER_08: He thinks because, you know, he thinks his waist is still the same.
23:56
SPEAKER_08: His belly's got bigger, but he wears his pants and I know the word.
23:59
SPEAKER_13: They just get lower and lower and lower.
24:01
SPEAKER_13: I guess when they hit your knees, you really ought to get some more pants.
24:04
SPEAKER_08: I guess so.
24:05
SPEAKER_13: What is that about, guys?
24:06
SPEAKER_13: You really you want to keep the same words.
24:08
SPEAKER_13: You've got to keep the same words.
24:09
SPEAKER_08: Well, you want to believe that you're always young.
24:10
SPEAKER_08: You're always grasping at you.
24:12
SPEAKER_08: I am.
24:12
SPEAKER_08: Ain't you?
24:13
SPEAKER_08: I am.
24:13
SPEAKER_08: You horn a little toe.
24:14
SPEAKER_13: Oh there we are, folks.
24:18
SPEAKER_13: Montgomery Gentry's coming up next.
24:20
SPEAKER_13: I gotta take a breather here.
24:26
SPEAKER_09: Yeah, country music artists have to work for it.
24:34
SPEAKER_15: How can we be wrong?
24:37
SPEAKER_00: It's Sunday morning on CBS.
24:40
SPEAKER_00: And here again is Lee Cowan.
24:44
SPEAKER_18: Islands in the Street.
24:45
SPEAKER_18: Her duet with Kenny Rogers has helped make Dolly Parton a legend of country music.
24:50
SPEAKER_18: Not to mention another well-known song of hers with a message that is pretty appropriate for Labor Day.
24:55
SPEAKER_18: A message she shares with Tony DeCopel of CBS This Morning.
25:10
SPEAKER_10: We've all been singing along with Dolly for decades.
25:19
SPEAKER_10: But if you want to know the truth about Dolly Parton, know this.
25:23
SPEAKER_10: She works way more than just nine to five.
25:33
SPEAKER_10: Even with a half-century of music behind her, the glitzy, big-haired queen of country glamour is still at it 24-7.
25:46
SPEAKER_10: Still writing her legacy, one song at a time.
25:57
SPEAKER_08: I just love that time.
26:03
SPEAKER_10: So please don't even mention the or to this 73-year-old.
26:10
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, people always say that.
26:12
SPEAKER_08: Why don't you retire?
26:12
SPEAKER_08: I say, and do what?
26:15
SPEAKER_08: What does that even mean?
26:16
SPEAKER_10: Sit on your pile of money and awards.
26:19
SPEAKER_08: I always count my blessings more than I count my money.
26:22
SPEAKER_08: I don't work for money, never did.
26:24
SPEAKER_08: I just wanted it was the art.
26:26
SPEAKER_08: It was the job.
26:27
SPEAKER_08: I love the work.
26:29
SPEAKER_08: And I've done well and I'm thankful for it.
26:31
SPEAKER_04: I'm just a backwards Barbie and a bush of brown heels.
26:37
SPEAKER_10: Dolly's open about nearly everything, including her cosmetic surgery.
26:42
SPEAKER_10: But as she sings in her song Backwards Barbie, don't be fooled by thinking that the goods.
26:49
SPEAKER_10: Don't be fooled by thinking that the goods are not all there.
26:54
SPEAKER_08: It is true that I I look artificial, but I believe that I'm really real.
26:59
SPEAKER_08: And my look is really based on a country girl's idea of glam.
27:02
SPEAKER_08: I wasn't naturally pretty, so I make the most of anything I've got.
27:06
SPEAKER_08: Hold on a second.
27:07
SPEAKER_08: I'm telling you, I'm not.
27:09
SPEAKER_10: You were not naturally pretty?
27:10
SPEAKER_10: No.
27:10
SPEAKER_10: I've seen the pictures, Dolly.
27:12
SPEAKER_10: I'm sorry.
27:17
SPEAKER_08: But I'm serious though.
27:18
SPEAKER_08: I'm not like a natural beauty, uh, but I can enhance it, whatever.
27:22
SPEAKER_08: Whatever it takes.
27:23
SPEAKER_08: I do.
27:24
SPEAKER_08: I try to make the most of everything.
27:27
SPEAKER_10: You do something to me that I can't.
27:31
SPEAKER_10: It's hard to argue with the results.
27:33
SPEAKER_15: What do you do?
27:34
SPEAKER_15: It's time to go on stage with the cramping.
27:36
SPEAKER_10: If you need a reminder, Harton has sold more than a hundred million albums.
27:42
SPEAKER_15: I'm in the street.
27:45
SPEAKER_10: Won a shelf full of Grammys and written thousands of songs, including That's right.
27:58
SPEAKER_10: I Will Always Love You was a 1974 hit for Parton.
28:04
SPEAKER_10: And a 1992 sensation for Whitney Houston in the Bodyguard.
28:10
SPEAKER_10: Does it ever bother you that people think that's Whitney Houston's song?
28:14
SPEAKER_08: No, I always say she can have the credit as long as I get my cash.
28:18
SPEAKER_10: It's a good line.
28:20
SPEAKER_10: And Dolly Parton is full of them.
28:23
SPEAKER_10: When other people want to make a joke or make a comment, you make the comment better than they ever could.
28:28
SPEAKER_08: Well, I guess some of that is kind of always just, you know what they're thinking, so you want to do it too.
28:32
SPEAKER_08: But I'm also funny.
28:33
SPEAKER_09: Oh, should we do a couple of them for the fans?
28:35
SPEAKER_09: Oh, I guess.
28:36
SPEAKER_09: Okay, I uh Dolly, how long does it take for you to do your hair?
28:39
SPEAKER_08: I wouldn't know.
28:40
SPEAKER_08: I'm never there.
28:42
SPEAKER_08: Dolly, are they real?
28:45
SPEAKER_08: They're real expensive and real big.
28:48
SPEAKER_10: How do you want people to remember you 100 years from now?
28:51
SPEAKER_08: I want them to say, God, don't she look good for her age?
28:54
SPEAKER_10: Do you have them down?
28:55
SPEAKER_08: I do.
28:58
SPEAKER_10: Humor was a help where Parton grew up, the fourth of twelve children in rural Tennessee.
29:04
SPEAKER_08: I wrote a song years ago called In the Good Old Days When Times Were Bad.
29:11
SPEAKER_08: And it said, No amount of money could buy from me the memories that I have of them.
29:17
SPEAKER_07: But no amount of money could pay me to go back and live to it again.
29:23
SPEAKER_10: Music made everything a little brighter.
29:27
SPEAKER_08: When I started writing these songs, my mom was real impressed with how I could write and run these songs at such an early age.
29:33
SPEAKER_08: And she would say, Oh, honey, girl, can take it to them.
29:36
SPEAKER_08: I want you to sing them.
29:37
SPEAKER_08: And she'd say to people, I want you to hear this song, this little thing wrote.
29:40
SPEAKER_08: And so I thought, hmm, I'm getting a whole lot of attention now.
29:43
SPEAKER_08: So I think that kind of encouraged it.
29:45
SPEAKER_08: But also, I loved the sound of that music.
29:48
SPEAKER_08: I love the sound of the instruments.
29:51
SPEAKER_08: I love being able to create something.
29:53
SPEAKER_08: And it gave me a little space in a little world of my own that I could just live in and be creative in.
29:59
SPEAKER_10: How early did did you realize this is more than just a dream?
30:02
SPEAKER_10: This is gonna be my profession.
30:04
SPEAKER_10: This is a job.
30:05
SPEAKER_08: I guess I was about ten years old.
30:09
SPEAKER_08: First time that my uncle took me to sing in front of an audience, and it was when they kept clapping and clapping after I had finished my song that I thought that, you know, it felt I felt something.
30:21
SPEAKER_08: I thought, you know, I was scared, I was nervous, I'm a country little kid.
30:25
SPEAKER_08: But when I got that applause and got that feeling, is when I thought, this is what I think I'm I'm going to do.
30:33
SPEAKER_04: In my Tennessee, Mountain.
30:39
SPEAKER_10: She moved to Nashville, and soon she was singing before a national audience on the Porter Wagner Show.
30:45
SPEAKER_10: In my Tennessee.
30:48
SPEAKER_10: One night after a performance, she met a young fan.
30:52
SPEAKER_08: And I remember this little red-headed girl with green eyes, pretty little thing.
30:57
SPEAKER_08: And I said, Well, what's your name?
30:59
SPEAKER_08: And she said, Jolene.
31:00
SPEAKER_08: I said, Well, I love that name.
31:04
SPEAKER_08: All the way back to the gloves, I was doing Jolie, Jolene, so I wouldn't forget the name.
31:09
SPEAKER_04: Your beauty is beyond compare.
31:11
SPEAKER_04: With flaming lobs of almond hair.
31:13
SPEAKER_10: She gave the name to another redhead she knew, a bank teller who flirted with her husband, Carl.
31:19
SPEAKER_04: Jolene, Jolie, Julie! I'm begging of you, please don't tell my name.
31:28
SPEAKER_10: The song helped launch Pardon's solo career.
31:31
SPEAKER_10: And don't worry, she is still happily married.
31:34
SPEAKER_10: But as she jumped from country to pop to Hollywood, the couple never did get around to having children.
31:42
SPEAKER_10: Is that a regret?
31:43
SPEAKER_08: No, absolutely not.
31:44
SPEAKER_10: Is it at some point?
31:46
SPEAKER_08: It wasn't meant to be.
31:47
SPEAKER_08: And I don't regret it.
31:49
SPEAKER_08: I never regretted it.
31:50
SPEAKER_08: I mean, it was a choice.
31:52
SPEAKER_08: So you make your choices, you make your sacrifices, and I never looked back.
31:58
SPEAKER_08: I knew early on that I was gonna walk that road till God told me to stop.
32:02
SPEAKER_08: And I'm still walking it.
32:04
SPEAKER_08: And he ain't said nothing to me about quitting yet.
32:07
SPEAKER_08: Tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen for myself a pepper family.
32:11
SPEAKER_10: In fact, she's going back for more including a sequel to her classic 1980 film 9 to 5.
32:19
SPEAKER_08: If you touch that bone, I'm gonna jerk it clean out of the wall.
32:23
SPEAKER_10: Her character, Dora Lee, got the best of an abusive male boss.
32:28
SPEAKER_10: And in the eyes of some became a feminist hero.
32:31
SPEAKER_10: Dora Lee, let me lose her.
32:32
SPEAKER_10: I'm calling for help.
32:33
SPEAKER_08: No, I don't want you to.
32:37
SPEAKER_10: Is that a word feminist that you apply to yourself?
32:40
SPEAKER_08: Well, I guess I am, but I don't think of it in like they do.
32:43
SPEAKER_08: I'm just a I'm a feminine girl.
32:45
SPEAKER_08: I'm a working girl.
32:46
SPEAKER_08: I think we all should be treated with respect.
32:48
SPEAKER_08: And if we do a good job, we should get paid for it.
32:51
SPEAKER_08: So I'm all about that.
32:53
SPEAKER_07: So she told a story from the Bible.
32:57
SPEAKER_07: She had read about the coat of many colors.
33:00
SPEAKER_10: Dolly Park has written more than 3,000 songs.
33:04
SPEAKER_10: And she says her favorite is this one a coat of many colors.
33:09
SPEAKER_15: My coat of many colors, that my mama made one.
33:13
SPEAKER_10: The story of a poor kid from the great smoky mountains who learned early on what really matters.
33:21
SPEAKER_07: And although we had no money, I'm as rich as I could be.
33:25
SPEAKER_07: And my coat of many colors.
33:33
SPEAKER_07: And on a better day, I can take forever.
35:15
SPEAKER_22: I love carrying our show on the course of six all Saturday evening as much as the breakfast time.
35:20
SPEAKER_22: And uh everything has been great.
35:29
SPEAKER_08: Yes, I am married.
35:30
SPEAKER_08: Were you married yet?
35:31
SPEAKER_08: I was married when I was 20 years old.
35:33
SPEAKER_08: I've been married for uh 10 years.
35:36
SPEAKER_14: Does he listen to your records?
35:37
SPEAKER_08: Uh he's not my biggest fan.
35:40
SPEAKER_08: But he's a wonderful person, and uh, it's not anything out of disrespect.
35:44
SPEAKER_08: It's just a thing with us.
35:45
SPEAKER_08: We had an understanding.
35:47
SPEAKER_14: As long as you get along, that's fine.
35:48
SPEAKER_08: Oh, we get along just fine because we have nothing to argue about.
35:51
SPEAKER_08: We don't know nothing about each other.
35:54
SPEAKER_08: Well, how many in 365 days a year, how often do you see Carl?
35:58
SPEAKER_08: Well, we've been married 48 years.
35:59
SPEAKER_08: We've been together about three of that.
36:01
SPEAKER_08: Three?
36:05
SPEAKER_08: Uh, actually, uh, I'm home a lot.
36:08
SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
36:08
SPEAKER_08: And we enjoy each other, but I do I do travel.
36:11
SPEAKER_08: He doesn't like to travel.
36:12
SPEAKER_08: He's uh he's a homebody, he's cancer.
36:14
SPEAKER_08: Those that have horoscopes, you know, those are people that's like, I love to be at home.
36:17
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, he's yeah, two Latin really pretty sisters.
36:21
SPEAKER_08: Some of them are petite, some of them are bigger, and I'm the fat one.
36:24
SPEAKER_14: Well, you're not fat.
36:25
SPEAKER_08: I'm good and healthy.
36:28
SPEAKER_14: Zoptic, I guess would be the word.
36:30
SPEAKER_06: Zoptic?
36:31
SPEAKER_06: Well, I don't even know what that word is.
36:32
SPEAKER_06: What is it?
36:33
SPEAKER_14: Europe.
36:34
unknown: Okay.
36:38
SPEAKER_14: Have you always been rather uh zoftic?
36:41
SPEAKER_14: Uh what would they call that when you grew up in Tennessee?
36:44
SPEAKER_06: I uh I kept saying.
36:46
SPEAKER_14: Healthy.
36:47
SPEAKER_06: Healthy, I guess.
36:48
SPEAKER_08: Um boosony.
36:50
SPEAKER_14: Burzamy, huh?
36:51
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, I guess that'd be what they'd say.
36:53
SPEAKER_08: But um what did you ask me for that?
36:57
SPEAKER_08: Oh, well, yeah, I've always been uh pretty well blessed.
37:00
SPEAKER_08: People are always uh asking if they're real and Oh, I no, I would never.
37:04
SPEAKER_14: I wouldn't never see.
37:05
SPEAKER_06: No, you're not.
37:06
SPEAKER_06: I'll tell you what, these are my.
37:08
SPEAKER_14: I have certain guidelines on this.
37:12
SPEAKER_14: But I would give about a year's pay to peek under there.
37:16
SPEAKER_08: You ever wish you were born a guy?
37:17
SPEAKER_08: Do I ever wish I was born a guy?
37:19
SPEAKER_08: Lord, no, I've always been assisting.
37:21
SPEAKER_08: And if I'd have been born a man, I'd have been a drag queen.
37:29
SPEAKER_08: Lots of people dress up with you, don't they?
37:31
SPEAKER_08: Oh, yeah, all the time, boys and girls.
37:33
SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
37:34
SPEAKER_08: It's a little bit weird looking at No, I think it's fine.
37:36
SPEAKER_08: I think it's a great compliment.
37:37
SPEAKER_08: Because if I hadn't been a girl, I'd have been a drag queen.
37:42
SPEAKER_02: That's a really good one.
37:44
SPEAKER_10: Do you do you have you actually ridden the splash rides or jumped in the water there?
37:48
SPEAKER_08: Oh, no.
37:49
SPEAKER_08: You think Moses parted the water?
37:58
SPEAKER_10: I think it'd be quite safe.
38:05
SPEAKER_08: They're always talking about my boobs.
38:08
SPEAKER_08: You know, don't know why.
38:22
SPEAKER_08: And I just kind of did my nails sound like a top writer to me.
38:26
SPEAKER_08: And uh so I just started.
38:34
SPEAKER_08: I was just everything else.
38:35
SPEAKER_09: I wonder what you could do with those bulbs, honey.
38:39
SPEAKER_08: Well, I wrote this song because you it's been real good for me ever since I started on your show.
38:43
SPEAKER_08: And you said one time once I got to be real famous, I probably wouldn't come back on the show, but I always will.
38:48
SPEAKER_08: I'm here about as much as you.
38:53
SPEAKER_08: Anyone else?
38:54
SPEAKER_20: Alec, no, did you sing in the shower?
38:57
SPEAKER_08: Do I sing in the shower?
38:58
SPEAKER_08: No, but I don't wash on stage either.
39:04
SPEAKER_17: Do you believe in living together before you're married?
39:06
SPEAKER_08: Lord, I don't even believe in living together after you're married.
39:11
SPEAKER_01: Darley, I'd like to ask you a question.
39:12
SPEAKER_08: Okay.
39:13
SPEAKER_01: I know that you have a lot of experience wearing wigs.
39:15
SPEAKER_11: Yeah?
39:16
SPEAKER_01: And I wonder, should I use rogueine?
39:18
SPEAKER_01: Should I get a wig?
39:19
SPEAKER_01: Or should I stay the way I am?
39:21
SPEAKER_01: What do you think, Darling?
39:23
SPEAKER_08: I think you should stay the way you are, because just because you've lost burns don't mean you're not being a good thing.
39:32
SPEAKER_08: You can't get a wig repaired because Lenin's got some kind of a hair page.
39:53
SPEAKER_08: How would I know I'm never there?
40:03
SPEAKER_08: How many weights do I have?
40:05
SPEAKER_08: Well, I don't know right off the top of my head.
40:11
SPEAKER_16: Do you lift weights?
40:12
SPEAKER_16: And if so, would you work out with me sometime?
40:15
SPEAKER_06: Do I lift weights?
40:17
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, every time I stand up.
40:24
SPEAKER_14: I was asking you about this.
40:26
SPEAKER_14: You did this with the how many members of the Parton clan?
40:28
SPEAKER_14: A couple hundred people?
40:29
SPEAKER_08: Oh Lord, there was about 200 people in the show, and almost everybody was a relative, a brother, sister, cousin, niece, nephew.
40:35
SPEAKER_08: Really?
40:35
SPEAKER_08: And a few real close friends.
40:37
SPEAKER_14: You know all your cousins well?
40:38
SPEAKER_08: Sometimes your cousins seem to be Well, I know the ones that are more my age.
40:42
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, the ones that were still there when I grew up, but there's a lot of the younger kids that are distant cousins that I have to kind of ask whose kid that is.
40:51
SPEAKER_14: What's the very earliest Christmas you remember?
40:54
SPEAKER_08: Well, let's see.
40:55
SPEAKER_08: I remember a very special Christmas uh that that was very special to all of us.
41:01
SPEAKER_08: I must have been about eight or ten years old.
41:04
SPEAKER_08: And my mother uh had never had a wedding ring.
41:07
SPEAKER_08: My mom was fifteen, daddy was seventeen when they got married.
41:09
SPEAKER_08: And they were very poor.
41:11
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, fifteen and just a child, and she had a baby when she was sixteen.
41:15
SPEAKER_08: So daddy never had been able to buy her a wedding ring.
41:17
SPEAKER_08: So there was a house full of kids by that time.
41:19
SPEAKER_08: And uh you say houseful, how many?
41:22
SPEAKER_08: Uh I don't know exactly at that particular time.
41:24
SPEAKER_08: There's probably five, six, seven kids somewhere.
41:27
SPEAKER_08: And and daddy decided that uh he was gonna buy mama a wedding ring for Christmas.
41:32
SPEAKER_08: Of course, that meant that nobody else was gonna get uh gifts, they'll have money.
41:36
SPEAKER_08: So we he talked to us about it, and it was a surprise to mom, and we were all excited.
41:40
SPEAKER_08: That also was the very first year that we had a Christmas tree with electricity, with electric lights.
41:45
SPEAKER_08: So it was those little bubbling lights, and daddy said he was gonna hide the ring, and so whoever found the ring got the only other Christmas present called the prize.
41:54
SPEAKER_08: So he had screwed the ring behind one of those bulbs and then screwed the bulb back in.
41:59
SPEAKER_08: So it took us hours, made a whole day of fun for us looking for that ring.
42:03
SPEAKER_08: And so uh anyway, when we found it, we were so excited, and Mama cried, and we cried, and we were all so happy.
42:08
SPEAKER_08: No sweet.
42:09
SPEAKER_08: And it was it was just real sweet.
42:11
SPEAKER_08: So that was that was one of the early Christmases that was first.
42:14
SPEAKER_14: Is there something you just almost prayed for when you were a child?
42:17
SPEAKER_14: You know, that you'd hope you'd get.
42:19
SPEAKER_08: Well, I wanted everything.
42:21
unknown: I think I had your letter right here.
42:23
SPEAKER_08: I did so that didn't mean I got it, though.
42:28
SPEAKER_08: No, I know what you mean.
42:28
SPEAKER_08: But I always used to look through the catalogs, you know, that we used to do.
42:32
SPEAKER_08: And uh I used to, oh, I wanted those walking-talking dolls so bad.
42:36
SPEAKER_08: But see, we always had our own babies, and we had one brother that was together.
42:39
SPEAKER_08: There were what dozen?
42:40
SPEAKER_08: There's 12 kids born in in our family, and six girls and six boys, and we had a little brother, Randy, that was born around Christmas.
42:49
SPEAKER_08: Well, six of us were born at home, and six were born in the hospital.
42:52
SPEAKER_08: This little boy, this Randy was born in the hospital, and mama had problems.
42:56
SPEAKER_08: So we were all crying because mom wasn't home for Christmas, and daddy hitched a ride, took us all to Knoxville to see mama, and then our other cousins had money to buy dolls, and my cousin had a walking talking doll, and I wanted it so bad, and and daddy felt bad because because we couldn't um have toys.
43:13
SPEAKER_08: He said, Oh, come in here.
43:14
SPEAKER_08: We got something a lot better than that.
43:15
SPEAKER_08: We got a real doll that cries and laughs and peeves for real.
43:21
SPEAKER_14: So, you know, that's you have a new one every year, so just about that's funny.
43:27
SPEAKER_14: Do you enjoy getting together with your relatives?
43:29
SPEAKER_14: Sometimes it's very stressful.
43:30
SPEAKER_14: A lot of people don't hit it off with their relatives, and uh two or three days of the holidays is you know.
43:35
SPEAKER_08: Well, you find that with, I guess.
43:37
SPEAKER_14: Are you more familiar with your country cousins or your city?
43:39
SPEAKER_14: Or is there any difference?
43:40
SPEAKER_08: Well, I don't have that many city cousins.
43:43
SPEAKER_08: Uh my I have uh uh three sisters that live in Nashville and they have kids now, but we all go home for for Christmas, and you always find with all families you have the ones that get along better and you kind of migrate and they stay longer and you really have a good time.
43:55
SPEAKER_08: But we try to get together as much as we can.
43:57
SPEAKER_08: Christmas is a big deal, and so the special was good, and and I uh it was all my my family.
44:03
SPEAKER_08: We didn't have any outside stars.
44:05
SPEAKER_08: It's not a Hollywood production, but it's very Christmas family.
44:09
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, and it's got music and fun and the hay rides with the kids.
44:12
SPEAKER_14: Okay, that's what Christmas should be, right?
44:13
SPEAKER_08: I hope so.
44:14
SPEAKER_14: Yeah.
44:14
SPEAKER_14: Uh 12 children.
44:17
SPEAKER_14: What was it like Thanksgiving in your house?
44:19
SPEAKER_14: I know I know you were a poor family.
44:21
unknown: Yeah.
44:22
SPEAKER_14: Twelve kids.
44:23
SPEAKER_08: We were very religious people, so we We were thankful.
44:25
SPEAKER_08: We didn't have anything, but we were thankful for that.
44:28
SPEAKER_08: But we really had a lot of love and a lot of understanding.
44:31
SPEAKER_08: And we we always had chicken, usually we didn't raise turkeys.
44:37
SPEAKER_08: But we always had a a good time.
44:39
SPEAKER_08: Mama was always a great cook.
44:40
SPEAKER_08: She could make anything taste good.
44:41
SPEAKER_08: And Thanksgiving and Christmas were big times for us.
44:44
SPEAKER_08: In fact, it's very rare that I'm I work on Thanksgiving.
44:47
SPEAKER_08: I'm working in Vegas, as you mentioned, on the weekend through Monday at the Golden Nugget.
44:51
SPEAKER_08: And my mama will miss me, but uh we had Thanksgiving before I left.
44:55
SPEAKER_14: Oh, that's great.
44:56
SPEAKER_14: If you had all your relatives together at one time, how many would you have?
45:00
SPEAKER_08: Oh, I can't count that.
45:01
SPEAKER_14: All your brothers and sisters and their kids, I suppose.
45:03
SPEAKER_08: And Oh, there's uh there's several hundred.
45:05
SPEAKER_08: All my people have big families.
45:07
SPEAKER_08: I have lots of cousins, and uh, like I said, there's twelve of us, and in my dad's family, there's like 15 kids or something, and mom's family, there's like ten.
45:15
SPEAKER_08: So everybody has big families.
45:16
SPEAKER_08: There's not much to do in Smokey Mountains.
45:18
SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
45:20
SPEAKER_14: Yeah.
45:21
SPEAKER_14: Did you go were your family all musical?
45:23
SPEAKER_14: Did you grow up listening to music all the time?
45:25
SPEAKER_08: My mother's people, especially, were musical.
45:27
SPEAKER_08: Some of my dad's people, but all of my mom's people can can play and sing some sort of musical instrument.
45:32
SPEAKER_08: And they were uh they always used to sing in church.
45:35
SPEAKER_08: And that's actually where I learned to to sing.
45:37
SPEAKER_08: But there was always music in our house.
45:39
SPEAKER_08: We all would sit around the heater and in the wintertime and sing.
45:42
SPEAKER_08: That's how mom would keep us out of trouble, keep using tearing each other's head off, leaving that many in a house.
45:47
SPEAKER_08: She'd say, Sing something.
45:49
SPEAKER_08: So we would.
45:50
SPEAKER_14: You're right.
45:50
SPEAKER_14: You're good right.
45:50
SPEAKER_14: You do a lot of you do a lot of music yourself.
45:52
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, I do.
45:53
SPEAKER_08: As a matter of fact, I I write a big part of the songs I sing.
45:56
SPEAKER_08: Did you know that I wrote a song about you once?
45:58
SPEAKER_08: Somebody mentioned it, but I Well, a long time I was on your show uh years ago, like in the early 70s.
46:03
SPEAKER_08: And then the second time I was on, I wrote a song for you.
46:06
SPEAKER_08: But I was not a big star.
46:07
SPEAKER_08: I became this show has been good for me, and I want to thank you for that.
46:10
SPEAKER_08: I have really people love me when I'm on this show because they love the way we are together.
46:15
SPEAKER_08: Do you have time for me to do that?
46:20
SPEAKER_08: I think we're good.
46:21
SPEAKER_08: Do you want to do it?
46:22
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, I do.
46:22
SPEAKER_08: Okay.
46:23
SPEAKER_08: Would you folks like a good time?
46:29
SPEAKER_08: Now, I don't know what kind of tune this guitar is in.
46:32
SPEAKER_08: We got this out of the proper, but it doesn't make any difference.
46:34
SPEAKER_08: Okay.
46:35
SPEAKER_08: Okay.
46:35
SPEAKER_08: All right.
46:36
SPEAKER_08: Here we go.
46:37
SPEAKER_08: How are you doing, Ed?
46:38
SPEAKER_08: I'll write one about you someday.
46:41
SPEAKER_14: What's a song you said you made up?
46:43
SPEAKER_08: Well, I wrote this song because you, it's been real good for me ever since I started on your show, and you said one time once I got to be real famous, I probably wouldn't come back on the show, but I always will.
46:51
SPEAKER_08: I'm here about as much as you are.
47:06
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, but that's what I mean.
47:07
SPEAKER_06: We can say anything.
47:08
SPEAKER_06: But I uh I was only kidding because everybody kids you bad.
47:11
SPEAKER_08: I only like the show.
47:12
SPEAKER_08: Well, I think other people do a good job, but I only really like to watch it when you're on.
47:16
SPEAKER_08: And I don't call it the tonight show.
47:18
SPEAKER_08: To me, it's the Johnny Carson show.
47:20
unknown: No, I'm serious.
47:24
SPEAKER_06: No, I'm gonna kick it a little.
47:29
SPEAKER_06: As good as I can with the name.
47:31
SPEAKER_06: But it's all it's all in the words, and it's uh, you know, I think it's not supposed to be too serious, so I have come a long way from the hills of Tennessee, and I've worked hard to make the folks back home real proud of me.
47:49
SPEAKER_08: Now everybody knows my name, no matter where I go, but I never really made it till the Johnny Carson show.
48:01
SPEAKER_06: Now I have dream to stardom since I was just a kid.
48:06
SPEAKER_06: A me and dollar dream beneath this$13 wheel.
48:10
SPEAKER_06: In my bell bottom jumpsuits with my rhinestones on the gold.
48:15
SPEAKER_06: I became an overnight success from the Johnny Carson show.
48:20
SPEAKER_06: From polyester paradise to silk and satin frills, from a 48-foot mobile home to a mansion on the hill, from moonshine to rare wine, from a packard to rose.
48:34
SPEAKER_06: But I never really made it till the Johnny Carson show.
48:40
SPEAKER_06: Now there's only one small problem.
48:42
SPEAKER_06: Sometimes I get disturbed.
48:45
SPEAKER_06: The folks sometimes get me confused.
48:47
SPEAKER_06: Monty Rock the third.
48:49
SPEAKER_06: But still I think it's worth it.
48:51
SPEAKER_06: And I just thought you should know that I'll always owe a special thanks to the Johnny Carson show.
48:58
SPEAKER_06: I went from pop beats to diamonds, from car codes to fur, from Kmart to Gucci's, from here, no telling where.
49:08
SPEAKER_06: From Hill Benny, heaven to a penthouse on the coast.
49:12
SPEAKER_06: But I never really made it till the Johnny Carson show.
49:56
SPEAKER_06: Well, I just want to do something nice for you, because I really do feel like you have kept my career.
50:00
SPEAKER_14: If I tune in some other show and I see you take my name out and put some other name in.
50:05
SPEAKER_06: You know, on the reads, filming show, you know.
50:13
SPEAKER_06: I'm gonna do that, I might put Barbara Walter's name in.
50:16
SPEAKER_14: Barbara Walters and do this once.
50:17
SPEAKER_06: No, but that's your song.
50:18
SPEAKER_06: I won't sing that no longer.
50:20
SPEAKER_14: Record that.
50:20
SPEAKER_14: You gotta record that.
50:21
SPEAKER_06: I think I will.
50:22
SPEAKER_14: Okay, we'll be back with Basic Duffy and any younger than Joe Roman.