No Dolly Parton thread? Well then -- classic or hyperclassic?

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He says while listening to the single-disc comp of seventies/eighties stuff that BMG put out this year. It was 9 to 5 and after that I first knew about her back in the early eighties, and wasn't she on the Muppet Show as well? So clearly she kicks ass for that alone.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

john denver was on
'the muppet show' ned so that's
no criterion

dolly parton though
is one of our very best
songwriters ever

talk about someone
who's still trying new stuff now
forty years later!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

don't forget Dollywood!

― atomic horseradish (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

or the Alamo.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

At a dedication ceremony in Dollywood (possibly for the Dolly-themed waterpark that now sits next door) she ended her Q&A session at the podium by saying: "alright guys, I gotta go take a leak." I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU, DOLLY.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

john denver was on
'the muppet show' ned so that's
no criterion

Hey now, that tribute album Kozelek coordinated gives me a new respect for the man.

I am listening to "The Bargain Store" right now and damn that's a good song.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

And dammit I completely forgot about "Here You Come Again" until this very moment! I change the thread question to 'hyperclassic or hypermegaclassic?'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

the new dolly tribute disc is deadly boring, at least half of it

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

'jolene' is easily one of the best songs evah! the pain, the analytical wit, the country sweetness of the melodi, the arrangement, the subtle lo-fi sound, the resignation. it's all there. no one can front on this (well, of course they can, but they should consider themselves outcasts around my parts)...

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Jolene is a great fucking song. That is all I know of Dolly Parton's actual music but it's enough.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

a supervisor at a job I used to have, w/ dolly on the stereo; "see that jolene? I'd kick her in the pie."

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Will Always Love You" = completely tear-jerking classic!!! Whitney butchered it with that over-preening pomp. Dolly's version sounds more like country-smoothed Spiritualized.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 November 2003 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never listened to much Dolly - just what she performed on Hee Haw etc in the 70s.. but I do like what I have heard. And I think she is one of the most likable singers ever ...

..And she was great on Saturday Night Live - when she told folktales her mamma used to tell her and her siblings, about Hoss and Little Joe ..

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

After "Jolene," my all-time fave is: "Traveling Man"

There's a good ep in last year's album.

― dylan (dylan), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

He says while listening to the single-disc comp of seventies/eighties stuff that BMG put out this year. It was 9 to 5 and after that I first knew about her back in the early eighties, and wasn't she on the Muppet Show as well? So clearly she kicks ass for that alone.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), November 11th, 2003

Knew about her back? I wanna know about her front! HI-YO!

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Bargain Store" is one of my top ten favorite songs of all time. According to a recent interview with My Bloody Valentine's Debbie Googe, it was also the song that Bilinda Butcher sang to audition for the band.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

does anyone here know roscoe holcomb? once john cohen asked him what he sounded like as a young man, and he said, "there's a singer on the tv, that's what i sounded like." he was talking about dolly parton.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

this is when she was on porter wagoner's tv show

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

what do you people think of "down from dover"?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

whoever said her latest album has a good EP on it = otm. There's some great songs on there, but the more contemporary covers are kinda lame (even if she does leave in the "I get no kick from cocaine" line in "I Get a Kick Out of You"). I do like her version of Down from Dover.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 November 2003 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

contemporary is the wrong word there. Replace that with "pop hits" or something...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 November 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

she wrote "down from dover"!!

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm easily confused on who wrote what in Dolly's catalog. Well, I know she didn't write that stupid Candlebox song or "I Get a Kick Out of You" at least...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 November 2003 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, man, do I miss my Mom's Dolly rekkids right now! Oh, does anybody know the best comp to get??????

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The idea of Candlebox trying to cover "Jolene" fills me with mirth. Martin Skidmore and I both agreed that the White Stripes cover of same was their finest moment -- he was not aware of the Sisters of Mercy one, which I have to say I do enjoy but I would. Then there's the One Dove cover...

Oh, does anybody know the best comp to get??????

Well, this one I just got is called Ultimate Dolly Parton, release date this year, hour long. But those who know her work better might suggest something else.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Geraldine Fibbers' cover of "Jolene" R0XX0R!!!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 November 2003 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Walked in on my Mom watching Oprah the other day when I was at my parent's house, and Dolly was being interviewed with one of those country pop people I don't care about. Anyway when I walked in she refered to herself as a "walking cartoon" or something to that effect, talking about all the plastic surgery, etc. From what I can tell she is one of the most down to earth people (not just famous musicians) I have ever seen. She also called her chest "Weapons of Mass Distraction". I left when the song started up, though because you could hardly hear Dolly's (beautiful) voice over the pop-tard's. The techie in me got very angry at Oprah's sound folks. I'm just amazed that at her age she still has such a beautiful voice, such a great sense of humor (esp. about herself), and she has so much energy.

― Mike Salmo (salmo), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Here You Come Again. Yes. Oh baby yes.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

There are certain features to Dolly Parton that are classic. Two of them, actually...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

she's the perfect case of someone that i wanted with all my heart to hate but just ended up loving. her voice, her music, her sense of humor, she just rules. Why is it that country music's veterans are so much cooler than rock's.

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

-.+?

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

There are certain features to Dolly Parton that are classic. Two of them, actually...

Remind me to have you killed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Better Bring it On Home" is a showstopper! Porter and Dolly !!!! Yeah!

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

super ultra heap big dolly discography/reviews here

― duane, Tuesday, 11 November 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah & i say classic of course

― duane, Tuesday, 11 November 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Dolly Parton live is the best show I've ever seen. Ultramegasuperclassic. Totally search her 50s stuff with Porter Waggoner also - some hidden gems like that one about her being a lady muleskinner...

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"Down from Dover" is one of the best songs ever. No questions about it. Almost as good as "Love is Like a Butterfly".

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"Down from Dover" makes me cry (okay not really, but it is pretty touching). I've never heard Dolly's ORIGINAL version though. I mostly know it from the fantastic Hazlewood/Sinatra version on Nancy and Lee Again.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The version on Halos and blah blah is really nice btw

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for the Parton thread, it reawakened a jones... when I first read the title "Coat of Many Colors" started playing in my head and I flashed back to a really happy moment when I was very very young and I just ordered the Coat ot Many Colors album and I'm so so so looking forward to it!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Rah! Glad to bring back the memories. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

by coinkidink I just met Dolly at the CMT music awards shoot. aside from the aforementioned cartoon-ish fronal assets she looks a little freaky close up - something of the michael jackson living surgical experiment about her these days unfortunatley. as she said: "it takes a lot of money to look this cheap!". definatley agree she's still got it going on live...living legend

― bakhtin, Wednesday, 12 November 2003 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

ned, i'll helpfully remind to kill geir any time you like.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Stone-cold classic. Her first bluegrass album, 'The Grass is Blue', is pretty cool too.
Re. Down from Dover, I think Nancy's cover is slightly superior, probably thanks to the OTT sobbing.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 09:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Second "The Grass is Blue," especially the spooky version of "Silver Dagger."

Sally Timms does a nice version of "Down From Dover." When I saw her a few years ago, she prefaced it by recounting a fantasy of running off to be lovers with Dolly and resting her head on Dolly's breasts.

One of my friends has interviewed her several times for assorted publications. One time, while they were walking and chatting, she turned a corner ahead of him and rammed his elbow with her breasts. "Oops," she said, "I didn't leak on you, did I?"

And the log-cabin reproduction at Dollywood of her childhood home is affecting despite the cheesiness, because you stick your head in there and try to imagine a couple of grown-ups and 10 kids all running around and it really is kind of amazing and it does tell you something about her resilience and also her affection for the place.

"Coat of Many Colors" made me all misty-eyed when I was a kid. (er, still does, actually.)

― spittle, Wednesday, 12 November 2003 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone else seen her amazing film Straight Talk? where she plays a radio psychologist?

Amazing film, stellar soundtrack!

― Kevin Erickson, Wednesday, 12 November 2003 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

if Teardrops Were Pennies, and Heartaches Were Gold

― christina, Wednesday, 12 November 2003 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I found a song of hers not too long ago, called "Don't Drop Out" and it's the best Shangri-Las song they never did. It's a perfect over the top pop song that I sounds like it was recorded in the mid to late sixties. Has anyone else heard it? And if so, are there more songs by Dolly that sound anything like it?

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

spittle:

hmmm. interesting. what would she leak I wonder?

― bakhtin, Thursday, 13 November 2003 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

when I reviewd her last album, I talked about how she deserves, but doesn't really get the same *rockist* (i didn't use that term though) acclaim and respect as Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard have over the last decade. I concluded though:
"But then, none of those guys have their own theme park, so Dolly wins."

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 13 November 2003 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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haha, never change 🙏

― corrs unplugged, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:27 (three years ago)

I wasn't gonna vote for her anyway, but now I can not vote for her completely guilt-free.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 14 March 2022 15:33 (three years ago)

Good for her. It's not like the RnR Hall of Fame is the apex of all musical achievement; they act as if, if you're truly exceptional in some other genre, we'll let you Rock.

― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:42 (three years ago)

Didn't wanna have to go to Cleveland.

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:42 (three years ago)

Doing everything she can to facilitate Devo’s induction

― Josefa, Monday, 14 March 2022 15:47 (three years ago)

nine months pass...

ignore the lede and focus on dolly being amazing and "piddle around and doodiddle around"

That one time Dolly Parton shut Barbara Walters right on up 😂 pic.twitter.com/qA126plBK0
— Jzon Azari (@JzonAzari) December 31, 2022

― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 January 2023 17:15 (two years ago)

four weeks pass...

https://www.vinylmeplease.com/pages/vinylmeparton?

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 14:35 (two years ago)

relentless baconing

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 14:41 (two years ago)

wonder if it will include her xmas record with Jimmy Fallon

― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 14:48 (two years ago)

eleven months pass...

I've long posited that Dolly and "Weird" Al remain two of the least sullied and most universally beloved people in American music, if not *the* two. That is, no one has a bad thing to say about them personally, and musically their reputations seem pretty secure, too. In celebration and out of respect we were trying to think of what "Weird" Al would do with a Dolly song. The best we came up with (and granted, we spent two minutes) was rewriting "Jolene" as "Eat Beans," about a guy that just sits around and eats beans a lot.

Anyway, Happy Birthday Dolly Parton! You should be on our money.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 January 2024 14:30 (one year ago)

I'd add Stevie to that list, but then again, of course I'd add Stevie to that list

― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Friday, 19 January 2024 14:44 (one year ago)

Oh shit, duh, yeah. Though Stevie's public prominence and musical output has faded significantly over the last few years.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 January 2024 15:16 (one year ago)

Honestly, come to think of it, I don't know much about Stevie Wonder personally. Is he a nice guy?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 January 2024 15:18 (one year ago)

True on the public prominence. His musical output has trailed off considerably but, then again, so kinda has Dolly's

― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Friday, 19 January 2024 15:28 (one year ago)

I was about to say! Parton released an album a couple months ago but it's not like she's been more prolific.

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 January 2024 15:28 (one year ago)

huh, I guess that's true.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 January 2024 16:04 (one year ago)

Come to think of it, Al has not released a new album in 10 years, either.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 January 2024 16:05 (one year ago)

And with that, Dolly moves decisively into first place!

― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Friday, 19 January 2024 16:08 (one year ago)

There are certain features to Dolly Parton that are classic. Two of them, actually...
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, November 11, 2003 3:14 PM (twenty years ago)
Remind me to have you killed.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, November 11, 2003 3:19 PM (twenty years ago)

― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Friday, 19 January 2024 16:10 (one year ago)

willie?

― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 20 January 2024 00:18 (one year ago)

Yo-Yo Ma?

― Wooly Bully (2005 Remaster) (morrisp), Saturday, 20 January 2024 02:37 (one year ago)

lol I came home to my wife playing "Rockstar." This album sucks.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 January 2024 23:22 (one year ago)

(many xp) I thought you meant Stevie Nicks.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 20 January 2024 23:27 (one year ago)

one year passes...

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/dolly-parton-sister-praying-health-issues-1236542641/

don't wanna jinx it, but this is one loss i don't think i'd be able to take right now

― Roz, Wednesday, 8 October 2025 01:23 (five days ago)

the sister already posted again saying it's not that serious and she didn't mean to scare people

― some dude, Wednesday, 8 October 2025 05:10 (five days ago)

fkn sisters amirite lol

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 October 2025 05:21 (five days ago)

phew

― Roz, Wednesday, 8 October 2025 12:56 (five days ago)

Sometimes it’s just nice to pray for someone, who knew ppl would read into it

― GY!BP (wins), Wednesday, 8 October 2025 12:58 (five days ago)

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BzXBpHjJM/?mibextid=wwXIfr

― birdistheword, Wednesday, 8 October 2025 17:16 (five days ago)

i turned on the radio last night and some people on a program were in the middle of eulogizing a female country singer and i started to have a sinking feeling in my stomach. but it turned out they were talking about patsy cline

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 8 October 2025 18:58 (five days ago)

Whether it's prayers, roses or whatever, Dolly deserves all of them while she's still around to receive 'em.

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 October 2025 19:08 (five days ago)

why cant Dolly be eternal

― Minty Gum (Latham Green), Wednesday, 8 October 2025 19:10 (five days ago)

Are Dolly and Willie the only two major artists still alive from country's "golden age"? Kind of sad when I can actually remember George Jones, Johnny Cash & June Carter, Merle Haggard and Loretta Lynn all touring and recording - truly seeing the end of an era.

― birdistheword, Wednesday, 8 October 2025 20:53 (five days ago)

Maybe Emmylou Harris counts, but I feel like she came in at the tail end and bridges things with the '80s neotraditional movement.

― birdistheword, Wednesday, 8 October 2025 20:56 (five days ago)

Was gonna suggest Dwight Yoakam, but he exists in this weird blurry zone - post-"golden age"/post-"outlaw," but pre-Garth Brooks.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 8 October 2025 21:21 (five days ago)

He's firmly in the '80s with other neotrad notables, all of whom I rarely hear about anymore which feels weird - they all seemed to be big mainstream names in country music all through the '90s.

― birdistheword, Wednesday, 8 October 2025 21:51 (five days ago)

Dolly and Willie had their first great recordings in the '60s, which feels pretty ancient now.

― birdistheword, Wednesday, 8 October 2025 21:53 (five days ago)

ronnie milsap

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 9 October 2025 01:03 (four days ago)

barbara mandrell

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 9 October 2025 01:09 (four days ago)

connie smith

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 9 October 2025 01:14 (four days ago)

crystal gayle

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 9 October 2025 01:15 (four days ago)

Are any of them still alive? If so, there's a certain thread I have to visit next.

― She's the Tariff (cryptosicko), Thursday, 9 October 2025 01:21 (four days ago)

all guaranteed alive!

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 9 October 2025 01:23 (four days ago)

Wanda Jackson's 87

― the way out of (Eazy), Thursday, 9 October 2025 01:27 (four days ago)

Larry Gatlin, who wrote "I've Done Enough Dyin' Today": still alive!

― the way out of (Eazy), Thursday, 9 October 2025 01:49 (four days ago)

Tanya Tucker
Bill Anderson

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 October 2025 03:06 (four days ago)

Neil Sedaka?

― Minty Gum (Latham Green), Thursday, 9 October 2025 15:29 (four days ago)

David Allan Coe too, shockingly enough

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 9 October 2025 16:01 (four days ago)

https://theonion.com/dolly-parton-shares-video-confirming-sister-a-shit-stirring-bitch/

― sleeve, Thursday, 9 October 2025 21:44 (four days ago)

lol

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 October 2025 22:25 (four days ago)

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