Darlene

[Darlene @Darlene_Dee2]

@1CLEbaseballfan Right!!! 🤣🤣 a HR really?? 😞

Ok. I’m going to watch one more Guards at-bat.

[Darlene @Darlene_Dee2]

@1CLEbaseballfan 🤣🤣

The Guards just don’t want me to go to bed.

[Darlene @Darlene_Dee2]

@GuardsGirl37 🙌🏾🙌🏾 I just don’t think I can stay till the end. West Coast games 😞. I know I will wake up in morning and Guards will have won.

[Darlene @Darlene_Dee2]

@1CLEbaseballfan Right. It’s still early in this game. I am watching us bat one more time, then off start sleep. .. unless we get the lead. 🤣

[Darlene @Darlene_Dee2]

@1CLEbaseballfan Of course, as I’m about to turn off the TV, they start scoring. 🤣

[Darlene @Darlene_Dee2]

@DonnyTheCasual Sometimes a lot of attention is a bad thing.

[Johnny St.Pete @JohnMcCloy]

🔥DOLLY PARTON HAD TO PULL HER CAR OVER & ALMOST WEPT… the first time she heard “I Will Always Love You” by Whitney.

She made around $10 million off Whitney Houston’s version of “I Will Always Love You” in the 90s.
Most people would’ve bought a bigger house or a boat.

She bought a whole strip mall in a Black neighborhood in Nashville instead. Off the beaten path.

She said she did it because of Whitney… called it “the house that Whitney built.”

Same woman who built Dollywood and started the Imagination Library. That program has sent out over 325 million free books to kids so they grow up loving to read.

And when Hurricane Helene hit her people in East Tennessee… she put up $1 million of her own money and her companies matched it with another million.

Quiet class. No big speeches needed.

[Alison Sweeney @Ali_Sweeney]

💗 what an amazing tribute

[Darlene @Darlene_Dee2]

@LA_Broadus Can he hit from 80?

[Donovan Mitchell @spidadmitchell]

👀

[Darlene @Darlene_Dee2]

@DonnyTheCasual

[Snoopy @snoopyb047]

Dolly parton 💔🤲

[Darlene @Darlene_Dee2]

@JAYALNOCAPP Oh no! 😞🙏🏾 He has been doing great.

[Darlene @Darlene_Dee2]

@__110th @HoodiGarland 🤣🤣

[ESSENCE @Essence]

The world has lost a songwriter whose music refused to stay inside one genre.

Dolly Parton, the country music legend whose career spanned more than six decades, has passed at 80.

Parton became one of country music’s most celebrated figures. But her influence reached far beyond Nashville.

In 1992, Whitney Houston took Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” and turned it into a record-breaking global phenomenon, spending 14 weeks at No. 1 and creating one of the most unforgettable vocal performances of all time.

More than three decades later, on Beyoncé’s history-making COWBOY CARTER, Parton introduced “Jolene” before Beyoncé completely reimagined the country classic on her own terms.

Today, we remember the woman behind the rhinestones, the songwriter behind the standards and a catalog that will keep finding new voices for generations to come.

We will always love you, Dolly Parton.

Photo: Getty Images
Video: @abc / @grammys / @enews

[Whitney Archive ♡ @nippyfiles]

Rest in peace Dolly Parton 🕊️🤍