Dolly-Parton

Dolly Parton escaped the struggles that shaped her life at an early age by using her creative and imaginative imagination. The songs she wrote were composed before she could write and read. Her first guitar purchase came when she was 8 and began singing on an Knoxville Tenn radio station at the age of 11. The following the year that Gold Band Records was a small independent record label. Her name was made in the local scene while in high school but she always dreamed of having a bigger stage. She moved to Nashville the day after graduating in 1964. Dumb Blonde, Something Fishy and Dumb Blonde both charted on Monument Records in 1967. Porter Wagoner had been looking for a female vocalist to join his syndicated show at this point. Parton accepted the job and in the year 1967, she signed to RCA Records in 1968 and joined in the Grand Ole Opry in 1969. The show was cancelled by Wagoner, however, in 1974 due to her solo albums like Joshua Coat Of Many Colors and Jolene beat out their collaborative albums. Parton composed I Will Always Love You in honor of Wagoner after their breakup. It made it to No. The first time in 1974.