💔DOLLY PARTON “THE QUEEN OF COUNTRY” HAS DIED AT 80.
This one hurts.
She came out of a one room cabin in the Smokies and became the Queen of Country without ever changing who she was.
Wrote her own songs…built Dollywood… started the Imagination Library … this was a great soul.
A lot of people don’t know this about
“I Will Always Love You”.
It was wasn’t about a romance. She wrote it in 1973 as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner when she left his show to go solo.
Played it for him the next day. He cried. Elvis wanted it but demanded half the publishing & Dolly said no and kept every bit.
Whitney made it a global hit in 92 with “The Bodyguard”but the song was pure Dolly.
Godspeed Dolly
Miley got to perform with her godmother Dolly Parton many times and this will always be such a special moment where Miley got emotional performing “I Will Always Love You” along with her at New Year’s eve 🥺