The Bobby Bones Show - WEDS PT 1: We Celebrate The Life Of Dolly Parton

Episode Date: August 26, 2026

Today, we shared a special tribute to Dolly Parton. Bobby and the crew share their favorite Dolly memories, stories and songs, plus rare interviews with Dolly talking about her childhood, songwriting, “Jolene,” “I Will Always Love You,” her career, movies and so much more. We celebrate the life and legacy of one of the most beloved entertainers of all time. We love you Dolly.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and we come on and we all go morning, studio morning. Today's a little different than other days. As, you know, by now, Dolly Parton passed away yesterday. And so that was crazy to see.

We knew she had been sick. She had missed out on certain things because of that. Not a lot was shared. And frankly, whenever it popped up on her Facebook first. It was her official account.

And they were saying, yeah, Dolly died. They wanted me to make this video. It was nowhere else. And so Amy and I were texting. I'm like, is this real? Because TMZ didn't report it. I then Googled, did Dolly die? Nothing came up.

And five minutes later or so, it went up on her Instagram, and then the news broke. But that's the thing about Dolly. She always controlled her narrative. And she was able to even control the narrative here because it is so rare that someone gets to report their own passing, especially when they're as famous as Dolly, especially when there are services out there that are competing to be the first one. But Dolly was able to do that. And this show, we will talk a lot about Dolly. I'm very fortunate because I got to know Dolly relatively well over my last.

12 or 13 years together, from us doing charity events, to her coming on the show multiple times, to her even being a part of my comedy special. Because I just asked her, and she just said yes. And that's pretty crazy. But she was always so lovely and so nice and so normal and so funny. And yeah, she was 80, but it's still really weird to think of country music without Dolly Parton.

Dolly wasn't just one of the greatest country artists of all time. I mean, she was one of the people who defined what country music could be. She came from almost nothing in the mountains of East Tennessee, and she became bigger than the genre without ever becoming bigger than the people in the genre. She was an elite songwriter. She wrote songs like Jolene, Cote of Many Colors, I Will Always Love You. I could keep reading you songs. But I'm sure over the course of this show, we'll talk about it.

songs that'll be sung for generations. But her impact went far beyond records and awards. And it went to what she was, a wonderful ambassador to country music. Dolly made country music feel welcoming because she could walk into the Grand Ole Opry. She could walk anywhere in Hollywood. She could walk into a rock and roll room.

Roomful of people didn't matter. Heck, the roomful of people could have agreed on absolutely nothing except that they loved Dolly. Everybody loved Dolly. She was funny without being cruel, successful, without losing her humility. She was very proudly country without ever making anybody feel like they didn't belong. There are stars, there are legends, and then there are the handful of people who become part of the identity of a genre.

And for Dolly, that was country music. Dolly was country music. And country music will never be quite the same. without her. We'll talk about Dolly a lot during this show. Rest in peace to the great Dolly Parton. We're spending the day talking about Dolly Parton. And when we talk about Dolly, I mean, it's easy to start with 9 to 5 or Jolene or the wigs or the jokes or the rhinestones. But for me, the most interesting part of Dolly is all that was before Dolly existed. Because, I mean, Dolly Parton's life is really one of the great American. and success stories. She was born in 1946,

small town in Tennessee, grew up in the Great Smoky Mountains, which she continued to love. And when they had the fires, I mean, she was the first one to fire up a big charitable television show. People were playing music. I was there with her.

We were hosting it, raising money. Like, she was always wanting to get back to kids, to people, and especially her hometown. She was the fourth of 12 kids. And Dahlia would talk about her poor upbringing. and, you know, she was the epitome of we didn't have much. I mean, they were legitimately poor. The family lived in a tiny cabin, no electricity, no water.

And so this is a story that I've heard a couple times. Even her Dolly tell parts of it. But when she was born, the doctor came to the cabin to deliver her. And her father didn't have any money to pay. So according to Dolly and what I was looking at on the internet yesterday, and you may have heard this, but he paid the doctor with a bag of cornmeal. A baby whose father paid the doctor in cornmeal eventually becomes one of the most successful entertainers in American history. I mean, that's the American dream.

That's Dolly Parton. And you look back at her family, her mom saying constantly. And a lot of these stories, if I'm being honest, I learned from her when she would tell them. And I was able over the last day or so to go back through a lot of, a lot of clips and a lot of interviews and a lot of just time with her. But she would tell us stories even on this show about her mom singing old songs that have been passed down through generations. Her grandpa was a preacher.

And so Dolly grew up surrounded by church music and gospel, Appalachian folk music, and a lot of storytelling. And that's what Dolly did is she didn't just record songs. She didn't just sing songs, but so much of her songs that she wrote was storytelling. And I think that's the legacy that Dolly lives behind. One of the 20 legacies, Dolly leaves behind, is that of a great storyteller. Yep, she could sing. Yep, she could write.

But man, could she tell a story? And thinking about the cabin and thinking about her dad paying the doctor with cornmeal, and if that doesn't tell you that if you set your sides on something and you're dedicated and you want to learn and you want to grow. Like you can come from anything. And so as we do this show today, and we're talking about Dolly and playing Dolly's music, like to me, that's what I take from it.

Like it really doesn't matter where you come from. It's where you want to go and how hard you're willing to work to do it. And Dolly was that? Over the past decade or so, we've had Dolly in multiple times. And she always told the best stories. and I wanted to play this. And we talked to her about when she woke up in the morning. 3 a.m.

Here's Dolly talking about her routine. Dolly Parton's here. Hey, Dolly. Well, good morning. How are you? Good to see you again. We've got these old bones out early for those old bones. I wore a button up shirt for you today.

Yeah. I dressed up for you. You did. You look nice for this time of day. It is for this time of day. What time do you normally wake up? Oh, I'm an early bird. So I'm usually up and around by 3 a.m.

Every day. I get up and do my own. work and sometimes I'll go back and take a little nap, but I usually get more done between three and nine. I've got my day's work done pretty much by then. You wake up at 3 a.m.? Well, I go to bed kind of early, but I don't require a whole lot of sleep. I've always been one of those people that can work on a short amount of sleep, but I usually take a little naps during the day, like a nap, at least one little cat nap. So, but I can have to motivate like that. Why, and this is just me for my own curiosity.

Why don't you do like a Netflix comedy special? You are so funny. Well, people have said that, but I have thought, I mean, I don't know that I'm funny. I mean, a good sense of humor comes from both sides of my family, and my mom's people are hysterical, my dad's people as well. But I just think funny, I guess,

or I just, life is just kind of, I try to, if it's not a rhyme, it's a joke to me. Do you ever write jokes? Oh, yeah, I do. I sit down and when I'm working my, stage shows, I sit and write for days sometimes just trying to think what fun things. It would follow the themes. But I have thought that I might do a comedy album someday.

I've been approached with that a lot of times. So that might be something I might do. So many people have been to your show, whereas you and a guitar are standing up there, and they were like, this is a comedy special. I mean, think of the Ellen and Dave Chappelle money you could get for that. Oh, I don't know. But my mostly, I don't think of myself as a comedian. Most of mine just kind of comes out of whatever I'm talking about on stage.

And I just try to find the, the humor and the meaning in everything. So I try to make it fun and lighthearted for people. Do you feel like in your heart you're a songwriter or an artist first? I'm a songwriter first. And because I've been asked that more than one time. If you had to just stop everything and just do one thing, what would that be? And I said, I'd probably choose to write. because I love that, not just songs, but poems and jokes and stories and, you know, coming up with, I'm a creative person.

But I love it all. I would never want to, you know, to separate it because I need all the other elements to, you know, make the writing make sense or have an outlet for that. But I just love to write. That's my personal time to write as my therapist. It's my friend. It's my God time. It's my, you know, so I'm feeling like I'm leaving something in the world, you know, today that, you know, or tomorrow that wasn't there. you know, yesterday. And so I'm not necessarily a great writer. I've got, I say I've, I've written at least 5,000 songs. I've got probably five good ones. But it's important to, I think, to express yourself, you know, like that. And I just enjoy that. You started as a songwriter, like right before you kind of got signed as a recording artist. Well, yes, I did. I got on salary for what I was trying to get a record deal to. And when I first came to Nashville, I started writing for BMI when I was just a little kid, sending songs back and forth to Nashville.

in the mail. And so I wanted to sing too. I wanted to be a star. I wanted to be to travel the world. I wanted to be rich and famous like we all do. But it was more about the art with me always. You know, I wanted to, I wanted to make good money, but I wanted people to hear my songs, and I just wanted to get out there and perform them. But I've been doing it since I was, I started playing, I wrote my first song before I remember and before I could write. I was five. I wrote, I made up a song about a little Cobb doll. My mom kept it, and she remembered, you know, me singing it and all that. But I learned to play guitar when I was seven.

And after that, oh, I wrote some serious, dreadfully serious songs of things out here. People talk about, people getting killed in the war and all these heartbreak songs. At seven, eight, nine years old. But I would just write what I would hear, Mama and my aunts and the family talking about her stories. So I could just kind of put that, well, that's all I knew at the time. I wrote a lot of kids' type songs even back then. All morning long, we are sharing our Dolly stories and also playing clips of Dolly on our show. And so she shared the story behind the first time she ever wrote something that someone else recorded.

And then how it led to her being discovered as a singer. And then also what she does on a normal day off. So all morning, it's Dolly Parton here on the Bobby Bone Show. What was the first song that someone sang that you wrote? Do you remember? Yes, the first record I won with my Uncle Bill Owens, who's the one that kind of helped me get around. He was my mother's brother. He played guitar and he was a writer-singer. But he saw my great desire, and he's the one that would take me around to sing.

So we wrote a song together on different trips back and forth to Nashville when I was young. And we were trying to get record deals or songs recorded. And we wrote a song called Put It Off Until Tomorrow. First came to National, I was young, and so Fred Foster and different people that I would go to talk to with Monument Records. And they thought since I was young, I should do more like rockabilly or more pop things. And I kept saying, I'm a country singer. I don't know that world. I'm not comfortable with that.

But they, when I sent this song out as a songwriter, my Uncle Bill and I, I didn't have my name on it. I just was singing the harmony on it. and so Bill Phillips in the Decker Records said, who is the girl singing the harmony on that? And Bill Phillips said, I want that girl to sing the harmony. So I'm singing harmony on Bill Phillips' record. And that's when my name wasn't on the record.

Wow, Dolly Parton's here. What's a normal day for you if you're not working? What would that be? I think I'm working almost every day doing one thing or another. But I actually, you know, when I am off, I enjoy going home. I like to cook, lay around, read a little bit, visit. Do you cook for yourself? Well, I love to cook.

I'm a country girl, remember? I'm from a big family. There's eight kids younger than me. My oldest sister, Wilde, and I used to have to fill in for Mama because she has always, she had one on her and one in her for as long as we can remember. So we had to do a lot of cooking when Mama were laid up sick or having a baby. So I learned to cook like all the grandmas and, you know, like my mom and my aunts and my grandma. So all my brothers and sisters say I'm the best cook in the whole family.

because at Christmas or Thanksgiving, I still cook stuff like mama. So they want me to make mama's this, mom's that. And so everybody else has got into that low cal, low carb, no butter, no lard. Well, I still cook like them. The more lard, the better. The more butter, the better. So many females, like, cite you as their biggest influence. Like, the women that come in here, like, and so you coming up in an industry that was really,

really male driven at the time. Like that for you had to be quite this shock, right? To go into all men? Do you know it really wasn't? And people asked me that all the time. That didn't seem that big of a deal to me because I have six brothers and I'm very close to my uncles and my dad. And so I understand and love me and I understand the, you know, all the personalities.

And I just knew that I had the goods. I knew I had the songs and I always felt like I had something to give. So I would just go in kind of like with a business attitude. But when they'd flirt with me, I took it as a compliment. Because I knew I wasn't going to let it get out of hand because, you know, if I didn't kick their butts, I had six brothers. So the six brothers, that kind of set you up. Well, I know every, you know, I know the nature of men. And I know all the personalities.

So, but I really think that helped me a lot because I think it could have been a lot worse for me had I not. I was so dumb too. I probably didn't even know sometimes when things were maybe out of kilter because I also had such confidence in myself that I would always know when something didn't seem right and I would, you know, I'm redneck enough to know how to put a halt to that

if I didn't want to do it. Like I said, I never slept with anybody. I didn't want to. Nobody ever forced me to do it. I didn't have to do it for a deal. That was like, that was just our own personal deal if that happened. So all morning long,

we are telling stories about Dolly. things we know about Dolly, experiences we had with Dolly. And I did want to play this because this is what was posted on her Facebook yesterday. Amy texted me, I said, did you know Dolly died? And I was in the car. And I went to her Facebook. That's what you linked. Yeah.

And I wasn't for sure, for sure, if it was a scam or something. And then you replied back, did she get hacked? Because it seemed so unbelievable. Like it wasn't true. And then. Well, it was just nowhere else. No else. It wasn't that it wasn't true. It was just nowhere else. I immediately Googled did Dolly die and there wasn't a single story up. Same. In fact, Google or told me she is alive and well. And I was like, huh, interesting. Because her nephew is saying otherwise unless this is AI.

I know. And I thought that it could have possibly been AI and someone hacked her? Because again, Dolly was so great at controlling her narrative. And this is the last example of that. She announced it on her social. Her nephew did, but it was her page. So this is her nephew. If you haven't heard this yet, it's not terribly long, but this is what he said yesterday. Hey, everyone. My name is Brian Seaver, son of Cassie Parton, and I'm representing the Parton and Owens family today announcing the passing of my Aunt Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean, sister, sis, aunt granny to one generation and Gigi to the next. This video announcement is something Dolly asked of me years ago before I fully absorbed it as a future reality. As her head of security for more than two decades, a role my father Larry held before me,

I have imagined the heaviness of this moment, but haven't truly felt it until now. It is an honor, an honor that is mixed with absolute pride and great sadness. But sadness lies with us, not with Dolly. Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus, surely met by Carl, her parents, and countless others who have watched her and longed for her to meet them in the heavens. I first went on the road with Dolly as a kid, getting a taste of the road life in the early 1980s. Dolly opened doors not just for me, but for her entire family to reach the potential we didn't even know was possible. Dolly also opened doors for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians, and dreamers from every walk of life and across every continent.

By her example, we believe that anything was possible. She never saw a door she couldn't open, and the doors she opened made and changed history. My family and I have shared a lifetime of beautiful memories with Dolly, but so of you. She has always been on your television, your record player, your CD, and on your phone playlist, becoming an extended part of your family, whether you liked it or not. Our family and the team she has entrusted with her legacy will work diligently to ensure her spirit will live with us forever. Dolly was a farmer, just like her daddy. He farmed the soil.

She farmed songs and happiness. Dolly called me and said she wants to rest in a beautiful bed of plush cotton because after her life wearing heavy rhinestones, she finally deserves to be comfortable and have some rest. Rest in peace, Aunt Dolly. G.G. May God bless Dolly Barton. And may God bless you all. She will always love you. That had to be a weird video to record because she probably hadn't passed when they recorded it. They probably knew she was going to pass soon. And I, again, I had the thoughts that the site was hacked. Yeah. Because it was nowhere else. But it's crazy that TMZ didn't have the information. Whenever now you realize what happened, she went to the hospital on late Thursday night, which or Friday morning.

And so she went into Vanderbilt and there was kidney and autoimmune issues and that's come out now. And nobody told. Amazing. Nobody told. Nobody knew. Nobody told. and she got to announce on her blue checkmark socials, her passing the way she wanted it announced.

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They say it works. I don't know. Listen to Skyline Drive, How to Live Forever on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Okay, all morning long, we're talking about Dolly Parton, sharing stories. from Dolly. If someone said tell me about Dolly, Amy, what would you tell them? National Treasure just comes to mind of like universally loved. I can't think of anybody right now that brings everybody together.

Like that's just the feeling I've had. It's just overwhelming love. And you feel it. I've only been around her a couple of times, but you feel that from her, her spirit. But even in her loss, like you, I can feel it collectively. Everybody where the last however many hours it's been, it just, you just feel her spirit. We were talking about celebrities that if they died. I know.

Just talking about that. I know. Like a celebrity you've never met and if they died, you'd be emotional about it. It's a little unfair for us because we have met her. We've spent time with her. But I had so many listeners reach out that said, you guys just talked about that? And that's happening right now with me. And they were crying, I know.

That, that was a little, I was like, oh, I don't like that. I don't want to do segments like that anymore. Stop. The timing was, we had nothing to do it, dad. I know. We had nothing to do with that. You can't say we're never going to do those segments again. Well, I know, but I guess I feel, that was, I was like that segment was my idea, and I don't like it anymore.

Oh, it was. Oh, it was. Oh, it was. Oh, no. So, and then it was just so powerful. For me, I felt the power and radio. yesterday, like getting in the car all afternoon and hearing dolly song after dolly song and hearing powerful stories and people calling in.

And I don't, I just, it was really special. It made me realize, like, maybe that's that feeling of us all coming together. Like, you're getting in the car or sort of like if you turn on the news. But for me, it was the radio. And what we get to do every day, I felt the power of that yesterday afternoon. And that might be similar to what people are feeling in their car. this morning. It's just, we're all dialed into the same place right now. You feel guilty about that segment, huh? I do, but I'm trying to move on. I know, but I can tell she feels guilty.

I'm trying to say, like, you know, I feel like maybe that's a good way. The radio analogy might work for this. Like, we're all dialed into the same frequency of, like, this person was so amazing. And how can we strive to be more like her? I mean, yeah, it's, the flags are going to be at half staff for a week, which that's rarely happened. The last time that a president did that was George W. Bush did it for Bob Hope. Oh, wow. I didn't know that. Yeah. Otherwise, it's normally someone,

it's not a star or a celebrity. Yeah. You know, to Amy's point, I was driving home yesterday, and I was parked at a red light waiting for the light to change, and the car in front of me had a dolly license plate. A license plate. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because here especially, you can get one. Yeah. With her imagination.

Yes. To me, it's just like, look, she was loved by so many. Enough to where, like, you have to specially order that license plate or else you just get the regular Tennessee license plate, you know? And it's like, I love that. And I remember a few months ago, I think it was her 80th birthday, right? When there were billboards all over town that just said, happy birthday dolly. Who paid for him? No idea.

Jesus. Possibly. Possibly. Possibly. She was the most. of living people for us that we met, she's the most Jesus-like person. Possibly.

Name another. I don't know how Jesus-like people are privately. True. I'm saying just outwardly loving all and making space at the table for everybody. Yeah, everybody thought Dolly was part of them. It didn't matter what group they were. they were always like, no,

I'd always one of us. Yeah, totally. Yeah. So. Two totally groups that hate each other and probably disagree. Love Dolly. Yes. Good point.

So, and that's, that's to me what I mean Jesus like, because I feel like he has that energy, had. What's the one thing that you think of as far as of any of her work? What's the first? It could be, I don't even want to point in a direction. Name one thing. One element of her work. Oh.

No, no. go. It's what it comes from mine first. Okay, that was the question. You don't get to go open. It's like what comes to mind first. I started thinking TV, like movies. No, I said what comes to mind first. I'm going to have to go nine to five movie. Are you pick Islands in the stream song? Yes. Because. Well, you just said whatever pops in your head first. I like that. Thank you. I tried to play the game fairly and that. Thank you. Because growing up, just a lot of Kenny Rogers at my house and so that was a Kenny Dolly song that was played.

In fact, my sister, she texted me right away yesterday when she heard. And then I instantly had an image of Dolly and Kenny being in heaven. And then like, our mom and dad are in heaven. I'm like, maybe they can catch a Kenny Dolly show. Now. And imagine you get to heaven, you got to now do shows. I know. No rest.

Every night. No, but you don't get tired in heaven. Yeah, but you still probably just want to like watch TV and relax. She's like, on Earth, all I did was play show. Yeah. Right. She's probably like, Kenny, what up? It's been a minute. They do, duode again. I've never seen the movie.

9 to 5? That's a good one. Love it. I don't watch movies. No, I think. Yes, you do. You watch like five a week now. I think this is the one time Bobby can really say, it's dated. Because it really is, it's older. But I think he will appreciate everything. I think, yes, you understand the time and that obviously there's some elements that wouldn't be applicable to today. But you would like the humor in it.

I think you'd like it. I want you to watch it. That's homework. I'm just going to respect that it was good. He's not going to watch it. I do know the song, though. And then the beginning of that song should play with their nails.

Yes, on the microphone. It's supposed to sound like a typewriter. Does it know that in? It's her nails. Uh-huh. Yeah. What comes to mind for you? Quick.

No. Okay. But I've had time. I did all the work to prepare this show. So I had all... So why, Jolene? Just the most famous. I mean, Joshua, that song comes to mind.

It was the first ever country number one. But this is just because I've been putting together all the show. so I have all of the stuff that maybe I wouldn't have said before. Yeah. Go to Many Colors, that song is about her. Dad came on the radio yesterday. And that's the first time I've really turned it up and tried to listen to every lyric. And I'm like, golly.

I know. Her childhood was drastically different from the life she has been living. And the fact that she grew up the way she did and she turned into such a kind, loving, giving soul. And it's probably a lot of the reason. why she turned out that way, but some people could go the opposite. Sure. And then hearing, you know, her nephew talk about how she gave all her family members just all this opportunity to work with her. So I printed off just a bunch of notes.

And I think a lot of this stuff is known about her. But she was on local radio and TV at age 10. She performed at the Grando Opry at age 13. Fun fact, you know who introduced her at the Grandal Opry? Johnny Cash. Oh, cool. She moved to Nashville right after high school to launch her music career. Her debut album, Hello I'm Dolly, 1967.

What was crazy about Dolly is that she definitely went pop. But nobody at country cared because she was so country when she was doing the pop-ish stuff. Like she remained country. Yeah, because I wouldn't say that she went in pursuit a different sound, but she definitely was doing movies and was in L.A. And pop was playing her stuff and she was just embracing everybody liking her. Like the clips of her on Johnny Carson are so funny. if you go watch those from the 80s.

I mean, she has a theme park. I know, a great theme park. I've never been to Hollywood. One of the best. I remember I went, did not know what to expect, and we ended up loving it. Because it's just, it's clean, it's got so many rides,

it's in the middle of the mountains, like it's beautiful. It's really cool. So 9 to 5 was the first movie. I didn't know it was a first. Do you know who else was in it? Jane Fonda? Yep, and?

And I can't. Yeah, Lily Tomlin, yeah. Okay. So then in 1982, she did Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. With Bert Reynolds. With Bert Reynolds. With Bert Reynolds, who apparently was quite the, you know. The dude.

Yeah, he was. I mean, that was always like the rumor, right? Like, are they together? No. No, they weren't. In 1984, Rhinestone, a comedy with Sylvester Stallone. And then 1989. Still Magnolias.

Yeah, she played salon owner Truvi. Mm-hmm. Is that it? Truby. So good. Oh, I've seen that one either. And it's almost like, well, the movies. I watch a lot of Jason Statham now.

I get that. Stee Magnolius is another one that I would love for you to watch. I don't think he'd watch that one. You would laugh. You'd cry. I would rather watch YouTube. If we're like going back into Dolly, I'd rather watch old YouTube stuff of her being herself. That'd be cool.

But you know, to her acting, though, was just her. Yeah, but that's hard to do. No, I'm not saying it's easy. I'm just saying that she never left being her. Like, even in those movies, it felt like it was Dolly. She had a different character name, but it always felt like it was Dolly. Did I feel like Dolly was running the salon? Yeah, I don't know.

I get Eddie's point. Like, she had her accent and stuff. I think what Eddie means, she just had the same voice. Like, she spoke with the same voice. Tom Hanks has the same voice, but he's all different people. Dolly was always Dolly. Yeah, but she was doing hair and stuff. Yeah.

Yeah, Harris of stupid. She wasn't playing shows. Hey stupid, she wasn't singing songs. So, yeah, we're just talking about Dolly today, playing some Dolly songs, hanging out with you guys. You can always call us or leave us a voicemail too if you have a story. 877, Bobby. Appreciate you guys listening. All morning long, we're telling stories about Dolly.

Our experiences with Dolly, moments from her life, and also segments where she stepped in on the show with us. And so this is one of my favorites. This is Dolly Parton. On the story behind writing, I will always love you. And Jolene on the same day as she sat in the studio right here with us. You wrote this to the same day. Yeah, I believe so. It was writing that writing period of time because I remember all my paperwork.

And like they came out pretty close, you know, at the same time. So everybody said, boy, what was you taken? That was a good writing day. But it was. But that song, you know, came from a very serious place. and everybody's always heard the story when I was working with the Porta Wagoner show. And I was trying to get out, go out on my own. And it was taking a big honk out of his show and the fact that we had one of those love, hate relationships.

And it was just hard to move on. And so he wasn't listening to anything I had to say. So I went home and wrote that song, took it back the next morning and said, sit down. I need you to hear something. So I sang it. And he was crying. So he said, okay, you can go. provided I can produce that record.

So he did. And so that's how it came about. But it was only when Whitney recorded it that it became like such a worldwide hit. And so that's just I'll always love Whitney Houston. How did they approach you for that?

Well, that's a funny thing. Kevin Costner was producing or directing and I imagine producing also the Bodyguard movie. And he was in it. And so they had a song that was going to be the theme. And just before they got ready

to do the movie, someone else covered the song they were going to use. So they had to find another song. And his secretary or his assistant, somebody said, there's a Dolly Parton song I love because I will always love you. I think it would just fit this. And he said, oh yeah, I love that

song. So they contacted me about using it. I said, absolutely. So I sent it, and I hadn't heard anything more about it until I heard it driving from my office to my house in Brentwood, I didn't know if they had ever used it or anything. And so I just heard Whitney saying, if I did the acapella part, and it was just, it wasn't ringing track. I thought, well, that's weird. That's, you know, something caught my attention.

And it was only when she went into the course of it that I will always love you, that I realized what I was listening to. And it was so overwhelming. I almost wrecked. I just pulled off just the greatness. the bigness and the fact that that was my song and it was just so out of nowhere and I have to honestly say that it was one of the biggest thrills and one of the the most overwhelming feelings I've ever had about anything in my life. You heard it in your car.

Mm-hmm. I heard it on the radio and it already was out because, see, it was, I had already recorded it so you didn't have to, I'd already sent it so you don't have to, you know, to get permission to do it other, you know, if it's already been done. And I had already said they could do it. So they just did it, and that was that. But it was a big job or anything. That's crazy that you're on the radio.

Well, only because, well, when you're busy, when you're working, and then they had asked about it, and I had sent it, and I guess that was their saying, yeah, we'll do it. David Foster, who produced it, arranged and produced it, also arranged and produced mine and Kenny Rogers' Christmas album and some other things we'd done. So I knew David. And so when I had, when I wrote the, when I sent it out there,

Linda Ronstadt and other people, when I do that recitation verse, they think that they can't talk and they thought it was just a recitation. So when I sent the song, I sent it with instructions. If you do it, be sure to sing the last verse. It's not a recitation. I just did that as a recitation. It's the same melody as the other verses. So please, because that's the one that sums it up. So I said other people that recorded leave that verse out and it's the most important one.

So she did do it. And so anyway, the rest is here. history. Nailed it, huh? We are celebrating Dolly Parton all morning long, telling stories about her, sharing stories that she shared with us, and Dolly Parton stopped by the studio. We talked about where she would write her songs and how she wrote her songs and her wardrobe. So, Dolly, on our show, here's a segment. Where do you write songs now?

Dolly, we're going to write a song. Do you have your own writing room? When I'm putting on my makeup, I've always got a patent, piss. because I always got something going on. I'm always writing. If I'm taking a bath, I always got either a little tape recorder or something where I get that line.

If I'm cooking, I've got, you know, I just write songs everywhere. And when I travel, you know, and I still, when I put down my songs, because I'm so programmed for the old days and has to always work for me, I have my big legal pads to write, I still work with a cassette

and I, because that's just kind of my mind and sit like that, and then, you know, transfer them to, you know, to CDs. But I still work like I always, did and that's I flow like that and in to do it different kind of blocks my flow trying to then I have to think about learning some other way so I just write the way I've always done it do you carry your own cell phone around I do yeah but I only use my cell phone just to call out and to take calls in I don't really do a lot of the no apps no bumble no I have I'm surrounded

with my all my companies all my friends I'm up anything I want done if I want you know I just them what I want out there and all that. So I'm a, I'm a low-tech girl and a high-tech world. Dolly Parton is here? What is it like for you with clothes? Do people just show up and be like, Dolly, these are clothes we think you'd like? Or you get online, you ever shop online and go like that? No, I'm lucky because I have Steve Summers over here. He takes care of everything. They'll usually go out and shop, bring stuff in, or sometimes, you know, I'll go out in, like in L.A. that I know a couple of people that own some stores. I can go out after hours or early on.

Or if I see something in a window, I'll go in and look at it. But as far as, most of my things are either bought off the rack and tailored to fit me because I'm odd shape. You know, I'm little. I got big boobs, but a little narrow shoulders. I'm a little person. So I have to get, like, bigger things to fit certain things and they have to be altered and stuff like that. And my stage clothes are all custom made. Do you take one of those big boxes all?

the stage clothes and like do you pick each show or do you have them all set up before you go on? Well when we travel like on tour we have huge big wardrobe boxes, those big things that they lock. Yeah. You know, those metal things that they put on trucks and take them. And then they open them up and I can look at the whatever mood I'm in that night for whatever town I'm in, whatever type of show. I think I'm in a blue mood tonight or I'm in a white mood tonight or I'm in a pink mood tonight. So I just pick, you know, like a few hours before the show.

I know what that town, what color that town feels like to me. What is your rider? Like when you go into a room, do you have certain kind of food you want? Well, usually I live on my bus and I just pull right up to the, you know, to the bus door. So most of my things are already in. But usually they usually just, I just need water and I, or like fruit, like a fruit plate, like cheese and fruit.

But that's more for people that come in and out for myself. I just have mostly what I want on my bus anyway. I get really motion sick. I can't go anywhere. I sit in the back of a car. I get on a bus. I get motion sick immediately. How do you do moving around?

Well, I love to travel. I love my bus. I have trouble riding in the back of a car. Me too. Even on a school bus. I used to get sick, motion sickness on a school bus. But then we lived in the mountains and they went around and around the thing. And that's sometimes when I fly, I have a tendency to get motion sickness.

I don't like to fly. But I don't have that trouble with my tour bus. I guess it's because they're the way that they're, you know, the springs or the whatever it is. however they make them to where you don't feel the motion as much. So I don't have trouble with that, but I don't like turbulence. I don't know if that's just scaredy cat turbulence, you know, making you feel, or just the motion and probably a little bit of both. After all these years, you still get scared, because I still get scared after all these years of turvias.

I don't fly. I don't fly. I'll tell everybody, I don't care. I'm not ashamed of it. I don't like my daddy. I don't want no higher up than pulling corn or no lower down than digging taters. Like my dad didn't. You know, I want to be on. I want to be on the ground. If I want to stop, I want to get out. You can't very well go up to the pilot and say, hey, I want to get out now. So you do? Yeah.

But I don't like to fly. I don't like it for different reasons. I get motion sickness. I don't like that helpless feeling that I can't get out if I want to. And so I travel by my bus when I can. And when I do fly, we usually fly private jet. It's really hard doing commercial anymore just because it's so, such a zoo, you know, anyway. but I just take my bus any time I can.

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You wake up in the morning. Then you turn the radio on and the dial just keeps on turn. Then you hear, Eddie and me lunchbox, more game two. Steve Redevich trying to put you through. Backdie's right in this week. Next bit Now Bobby's on the mic

So you know what this Bobby Vaughn's story All morning long We're talking about Dolly Sharing stories about Dolly Playing some interview segments With Dolly So

This wouldn't be our normal show If we didn't do some sort of trivia Okay Yes Like a game I think it's gonna be Dolly It's Dolly trivia Okay

I would think I think we're randomly Gonna play Famous first No I know it's gonna be Dolly I didn't know if you were keeping score Amy, it's a game.

I know, but it's I'm sorry, it's a different kind of day. We've never had a day like this. Dolly would want us to keep score. That's right. Right, okay. Yeah, yeah. We'll just see if you know the answers.

Okay. Let's see. Amy, what famous singer wanted to record, I will always love you, but Dolly turned them down. Oh, really? Because his manager wanted part of the publishing rights. It was a guy. Yeah.

So this story goes, I won't tell you who it is. You can take a guess. this person wanted to record, I will always love you. It's pre-Wittany Houston. Okay. And Dolly considered it, but they wanted some of the writing credit for the song, but they didn't write it. So who do you think it was? And that's why Dolly said no.

She said, you didn't write the song? Yeah. Like, if this guy just wanted to record it, he would have let, she would have let them. But he didn't write songs so you don't get any publishing rights. Right. Who could it be? Take a guess. Apparently it's kind of their, that was what they would do.

thing. This specific artist, and especially back then too. Can I have another hint? I don't want to guess it. You don't have to give me the point, but... Well, there's really no point anymore. It's a famous male artist, one of the most famous in history. Famous from, he was famous in the 80s?

No, no, no, but way before that. Oh. She told the story on the show. Yeah, she's been on the show and told the story. And it was very memorable. And his manager's pretty famous. And I forgot about it. Oh, oh.

Come on, you got it. He has manager's famous. Oh, oh, Elvis. Elvis. Got it. Correct. Shoo, I got there. And his manager's name is?

Captain. Oh, so close. Colonel. Colonel. KFC. The colonel. I would have gotten there. I was trying to think of the KFC guy.

Colonel Tom. Come on. Tom. Tom. Tom Lord. No. No. No.

No. Colonel Tom. Parker. Parker. All right, so Elvis, Eddie, what was the name of the TV show where Dolly became nationally known alongside Porter Wagner? Oh, what was that called? The wagon wheel. Is that what you're calling it?

The wagon wheel. Amy, do you want to steal? I don't know. Were you listening to the question? Yeah, what was the TV show? She became famous on alongside Porter Wagner. Yes, I heard the question. Porter Wagner?

The Porter Wagner show. Correct. I'm such an idiot. Of course there was. Amy's got two now. No, no, we're not keeping points. Yeah, I think we are. I thought we said Dolly would want us to.

Okay, Amy, which Dolly song was inspired by a red-headed bank teller? A Jolene. Correct. Amy's up 3-0. Dang, Amy. Eddie, what is Dolly Parton's middle name? Oh, gosh. I just heard it.

Dolly? Deborah. Incorrect. Can you steal, Amy? Elizabeth. Rebecca. Oh. Okay. Dolly Debra.

Dollie Debra? That does work. Dolly Debra, get over here. That is like an Eastern Tennessee or Arkansas type name for sure. What Dolly founded program, Amy, mails free books to children from birth until they begin school? Imagination Library. Correct. Okay.

You're getting whoop, dude. I really. Dolly wrote Code of Many Colors when she couldn't find paper, Eddie. What did she originally write the lyrics on? She originally wrote the lyrics on, I was going to say a napkin on an airplane, but that's Willie. Yeah, that's on the road again, right? That's on the road again. She wrote it on her coat.

Of many colors? Yeah, she wrote it on the coat. Amy? A crown. A crown. A paper. Coloring paper. No, what did she write it on?

Crullering paper. Curloring paper? Coloring paper. What is Amy saying? No, a dry cleaning receipt. A dry cleaning receipt. Okay. Well, that's close. This is for two points.

Who gets this one? Amy? Yeah, Amy. Dolly was one of how many children? Oh, eight. Twelve. Correct. Yes. Back on the board. Dang.

Eddie, Dolly wrote, I will always love you for who? She wrote it for Porter Wagner. Correct. Why did get that one for two points? I don't. Because it was a hard question. No harder than dry cleaning receipt. Did you know?

What was the name of Dolly's character in the movie 9 to 5? Whoever gets this is the winner. That's not true. And then whoever doesn't, Amy wins if nobody gets it. But it's Amy's guest, right? Yeah. What was the name of Dolly's character in 9 to 5? Nothing?

Dolly. Eddie? Well, because Eddie thought she played herself in her movie. Yeah. She does. Deborah. No. Dora Lee Rose.

Oh, Dora. Dora. Dora. I think Amy's our winner. Yeah. Good job, baby. Okay. And you being the winner, you get to choose, well, nothing.

We're just playing a bunch of our songs. Oh, okay. You can choose what artist we play next. Okay. What artist? Dolly. Okay, there you go. That's exactly what we wanted.

All morning long, as you can see, we're playing Dolly clips and interview segments and sharing stories. And, yeah, we appreciate you guys listening today. Hey, everybody, thanks for listening. We're doing a lot of Dolly Parton talk today. Amy, what is your favorite Dolly Parton story? The time I saw her driving and I'm not sure if y'all didn't believe me or maybe I didn't even believe it. We didn't believe you. We didn't believe you.

We didn't believe you. We didn't believe you. We didn't believe me. Because you saw her like how early in the morning? It was so early in the morning on music row and the roundabout. I mean, who knows? Probably 4.30 in the morning. I started to believe I didn't see her because y'all didn't believe me.

And then somehow we confirmed that was her car and it was definitely her. And when she came on the show, she talked about how she's an early riser. She gets up at like three in the morning. And that's when she journals, praise, meditates. And she credits a lot of her creativity to being an early riser and her spiritual grounding. She also confirmed that was her in the car. Yeah, yeah. And I guess.

We didn't confirm crap. We were like, Amy, you're lying. That wasn't Dolly Parton driving around. And then, yeah, when we talked to her, we asked her. And yeah, she had that car and it was her. And so her, but if I'm seeing her at 4.30 in the morning, she's already been up an hour and a half. Did she look ready to go? What did she look like?

Yeah, I don't think she leaves her house not ready to go. I think that's how I knew too. It was her because it was the whole hair. I think that's another thing she told us on the show is you she didn't leave her house not totally ready. I would have thought it was an impersonator or somebody that was like, I just would have thought it was somebody with blonde hair. That's crazy. And the fact that Amy saw her told us it was her.

We said no. And then Dolly came in and said yes. Because you said the kind of car. And she's like, that's my car. Yeah, that was me. But once Eddie came in and saw Taylor Swift driving like a Hyundai. Yeah. And it wasn't her.

No, you guys never confirmed that it wasn't her. It could have been her. We don't know. But we haven't been able to ask her, I guess. Right. And when she comes in, we'll ask her. I don't think you're right. But we also didn't think Amy was right about Dolly either.

And I was. Eddie, do you have a favorite dolly story? Or what comes to mind? Any story? What comes to mind is just when she would come in the studio, she always had this loud jewelry. Oh, yeah. It would slap.

It hit. Slank, slank, slank. And I remember just like she would have 20 bracelets on each arm and just so much jewelry. And she would just light up the room. Like every time she walked in, it wasn't like, hi guys, like, it was, I'm here. And it's loud. And she was happy. And those are just my memory.

She was always just in a great mood. It was almost like Southern female Kramer from Seinfeld. When she entered the room. That's a good analogy. Just boom, hello. I'm here. Hi Bobby. Like even off the mic she's yelling at you. A couple things for me. One, a personal one.

I had asked her to like narrate my comedy special thinking there's no way. It was just a Hail Mary ask and she was like, yeah, sure. That's amazing. And so she did it. And it's her talking the intro of it in the middle and the end. And so I thought that was cool. And then there's the story of her, this is not my story, but that she entered a dolly part and lookalike contest back in the day.

And lost. And then lost. That's bizarre. And she's told that before about how she got in Dolly Parton Lookalike contest and did not even win that. They're like, no way, not even close. So, yeah, all morning,

playing Dolly songs, playing, you know, talking about our favorite Dolly moments, playing interview clubs. We'll see if we can find the one about the car. Because that was crazy when Dolly confirmed it. Unless Dolly was just so nice, she didn't want to make Amy like stupid. No, but it was a very specific color of car and type of car. Yeah, she said that was hers.

But she said yes more so than said what it was. was. I'm thinking Dolly was such a giver now looking back. She just wanted to cover for you. So you think she doesn't have that make and model and color of car? Well, we told her what it was to agree to. She didn't say it. Oh, now you're taking my story away from me again? Well, let's hear the

clip. Okay. We'll see if we can find it for later. My favorite moment is not taking it away? Never mind. I don't want to take it away. It's definitely true. Okay. Hey everybody, Bobby here. All morning long. We're sharing Dolly Parton's stories talking about her, her

music, the times she stopped by the show. And this is one of those segments where she was talking about how recording music has changed over her career and how it was good for her and how it was bad for her and how she felt about a biopic about her life. So more of our time with Dolly Parton now. I'm curious about you as a songwriter because what's your perspective now? Like what do you have to say now? Well, I'm just glad that I made it back in the day. Because I tell you, it's really hard for writers. You know, we're always fighting for the rights to, you know, be paid for what we do and as publishers and all.

And for myself, you know, I don't have to worry about it so much now. It being my bread and butter, but you still want to be credited and paid and, you know, protected for, you know, for the rights that you leave for your family and whatever you're leaving behind. But it's a different,

it's a different world now. But now, you can record anywhere, you know, from your house, from your barn. And that's all good. That's, there's, It's good and bad. But I'm just glad that I came from that old world and have been able to motivate and move into this new one and still be important in it. Has anyone come to you and said, hey, we should do a biopic, like a real biopic on you?

What do you think about that? Well, I just wait till the right time and say, well, I'll consider everything. I just take everything into consideration. And I know when it's the right time to do things. Some things just don't feel right for me to do it all. and then sometimes I can justify things based on what's going on in the world and, you know, in the times. And so. Who would play you, you think?

I don't know right now. But I'm going to do my story on stage and in film. And at that time, I'm sure we'll find the right person. Do you have anybody in mind if I did it today? She did it today. It would have to be obviously someone who could do it all, meaning one of these people that could sing down. be funny. You have such a, like a delicately awesome skill set

because you are multifaceted. I mean, you're Jennifer Lopez before Jennifer Lopez or Jennifer Lopez. Like you're the first one of, you know, and I mean that full sincerity. Well, that's a nice confidence. Thank you. Who would play? Amy, what do you think? I just feel like looking at her, because she's so much taller, but Jennifer Nettles comes to mind because she's singing, she dance, she acts, like she can, she's done Broadway.

way she could, so she's, and she's a powerful voice, but she's just so much taller. I want someone to get a big move job too. Well, yes. I mean, we'd have to do, I don't know that we find the dolly size, but. When you go in public, do you, do you have to disguise yourself in public or do you try to stay out of? I don't disguise myself, which, by the way, I love Jennifer Nettles.

She would be great. She's a wonderful talent. I love her personally. And no, I don't. I don't try to disguise myself many, many years ago. One time I went Christmas shopping with my sisters, and they said, well, won't you kind of disguise yourself so we can get out and really do some shopping and do a lot?

So I wore a black wig, and I wore some clothes. It didn't have the whole thing. So we were in the record shop. We was buying some records for some friends, and I said, hey, Cassie, do you think so-and-so? And somebody said, oh, my God, it's not a woman. I said, my voice. People know my voice as much as they know my look.

So then they all came over and then they said, are you, are you? I said, well, yeah. And so I went back to the house and took all that off and put my own stuff back. I went back out at Christmas shopping as myself. And did people freak out? Did you see me? Oh, they don't freak out. You know, I'm such a personable person.

I love people and they've kind of grown up with me. I really think people look at me like an aunt or a sister or a friend. So they don't just rush me or anything like that. Sometimes they'll say, are you? Are you who I think you are? And I'll say, well, I don't know who you think I am. Or, you know, stuff like that. And I welcome the fans.

If I'm out like that, I welcome it. I wanted to be a star. And so I know where if I really need to get something done, I know the times of day that I can do it. I know the restaurants I can go to where you're not bombarded, where you really can eat. And I don't mind it if people come over, you know, now and then, because that's who I am.

See, that's what I'm talking about right there. And now some. Dolly Parton fun facts. One that we mentioned earlier, Dolly once entered a Dolly Parton look-like contest and lost. She told that story. She modeled her famous look after, quote, her words not mine, the town tramp.

Oh. Also, what a funny word from back in the day. Tramp. Tramp. Right. As a kid, Dolly saw a local woman with huge blonde hair, makeup, tight clothes, and high heels, and thought she was beautiful.

But when people told Dolly, when she was young that the woman was trash she said well that's what i want to look like and so she did wow uh dolly has tattoos but she said almost nobody gets to see them interesting she's confirmed she has a few small tasteful tattoos the story said mostly butterflies ribbons bows and flowers cute she said some were used to cover scars oh she was very covered her she would cover like all along layers layers but even later. Oh, later. Yeah, younger she was in that covered. Oh. Anytime I saw her, she was very covered, even in sheer fabric, shear up to her neck, shear on her hands, like little gloves. So from

far away, it looks like she has, it's her skin, but everything was covered. You know the Dollywood symbol is the butterfly, so I'm wondering if that's the tattoo. Probably. I don't know. Maybe. You know? Or maybe she just loves butterfly, so she has a tattoo. 201 and she made it the symbol possibly her nails are the percussion in nine to five the beginning of that song the rhythm the year it's supposed to be a typewriter but they did it with her fingernails she actually wrote nine to five while filming the movie it was her first starring role and she would work on the song between scenes wow so a bit like the willie nelson one where willie wrote it four on the road again for a movie as a honeysuckle rose i never i've never seen that movie

That's a great movie, man. There are Dolly Parton College courses. So you could take Appalachian culture, you could take Dolly songwriting, you could take business and Dolly philanthropy at different colleges. Wow. How about this?

Dolly philanthropy, that sounds like everybody should take that. What animal was named after Dolly? Is it a zebra? Nope, think about it. You'll nail this. Okay. Oh, the cloned one? Yes, the cloned sheep, Dolly.

At Texas A.N. I didn't know what was named for Dolly Parton. I knew it was named Dolly. I didn't know his name after Dolly Barton. Is that sheep still alive? Dude, who knows? If not, they clone three more. Yeah.

Why not? One version of them all life. Yeah, I didn't know. I knew that Dolly was the name. I didn't know the Dolly was the sheep that was named after her. Cute. She secretly helped produce Buffy the Vampire Slayer. What?

Dolly's production company was involved in the original Buffy movie and television series. She wasn't an on-screen producer, but Dolly was connected to it. And then you've heard the stories about her sleeping in makeup? No. When she lived. when she's in Los Angeles because of earthquakes, and if one hits, she has to get up and look presentable. So she has to run outside at night.

She got to be ready. She is, so great. She's in her makeup. All right, thank you, everybody, for listening to this show for as long as you did. We did spend all morning talking about Dolly, playing Dolly clips from past shows, doing Dolly trivia. We felt like that's what we needed to do. I felt like that's what we needed to do.

So that's what we did. So we really appreciate that. If you were listening for any other kind of music, you probably didn't get to hear what you wanted to hear. But honestly, we don't play that much music anyway. So kick rock is what I say. That's it. Thank you.

And we will see you guys tomorrow. All right. Thank you, everybody. Bye. The Bobby Bone Show. The Bobby Bone Show theme song, written, produced, and sang by Reed Yarberry. You can find his Instagram at Reed.

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