re: Happy belated 79th birthday(Sunday) to the Queen, Dolly Parton....

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Incredible voice and better person, but she needs to avoid the cheerleader outfits, currently.

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Old women trying to look 25 is pretty cringey.

She is a legend though and has done a lot of good

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Op is a strange bird to say the least

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Coming from you I take that as a compliment.

Yes she came from absolute nothing. She was the 4th of 12 children.

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Parton has described her family as being "dirt poor".[12] Parton's father paid missionary Dr. Robert F. Thomas with a sack of cornmeal for delivering her.[13] Parton would write a song about Dr. Thomas when she was grown.[14] She also outlined her family's poverty in her early songs "Coat of Many Colors" and "In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)". For six or seven years, Parton and her family lived in their rustic, one-bedroom cabin on their small subsistence farm on Locust Ridge.[15] This was a predominantly Pentecostal area located north of the Greenbrier Valley of the Great Smoky Mountains. Music played an important role in her early life. She was brought up in the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee),[16] in a congregation her grandfather, Jake Robert Owens, pastored. Her earliest public performances were in the church, beginning at age six. At seven, she started playing a homemade guitar. When she was eight, her uncle bought her first real guitar.[17][18] The Parton family was well-fed despite their poverty, and the 2024 cookbook Good Lookin' Cookin' (co-written by her with her sister Rachel) recalls numerous family meals.[19]

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She didn’t expect handouts, and went to work immediately as a writer.

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After graduating from Sevier County High School in 1964, Parton moved to Nashville the next day.[6][22] Her initial success came as a songwriter, having signed with Combine Publishing shortly after her arrival;[24] with her frequent songwriting partner, her uncle Bill Owens, she wrote several charting singles during this time, including two Top 10 hits for Bill Phillips: "Put It Off Until Tomorrow," and "The Company You Keep" (1966), and Skeeter Davis's number 11 hit "Fuel to the Flame" (1967).[25] Her songs were recorded by many other artists during this period, including Kitty Wells and Hank Williams Jr.[26] She signed with Monument Records in 1965, at age 19; she initially was pitched as a bubblegum pop singer. She released a string of singles, but the only one that charted, "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby", did not crack the Billboard Hot 100. Although she expressed a desire to record country material, Monument resisted, thinking her unique, high soprano voice was not suited to the genre. After her composition "Put It Off Until Tomorrow", as recorded by Bill Phillips (with Parton, uncredited, on harmony), went to number six on the country chart in 1966, the label relented and allowed her to record country. Her first country single, "Dumb Blonde" (composed by Curly Putman, one of the few songs during this era that she recorded but did not write), reached number 24 on the country chart in 1967, followed by "Something Fishy", which went to number 17. The two songs appeared on her first full-length album, Hello, I'm Dolly.[27]

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Probably the same people who downvoted Carrie singing "America The Beautiful" at the inauguration. figs, leftists, incels and LSUballs

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What world do you live in?

Liberal white women and gay men are the two biggest champions of Dolly on the planet

She started having boob jobs in the early 70s. Just FYI.

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I bet you HBD!!! all your pathetic friends on Facebook as well..

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Don't use Facebook.

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Allegedly, she had somewhat of an open marriage.

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ain't no allegedly about it she's a switch hitter too

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Great human on so many levels. The songs she has written, the humanitarian work she has done, being low key and so successful and married to the same man for so long, nearly zero drama etc. HBD Dolly