Dolly Parton
The Queen of Country: singer, songwriter, actress, and philanthropist.
Her father worked as a sharecropper and later tended his own small tobacco farm.[1] Avie Lee and Robert Parton had 12 children, and Dolly was their fourth child.[2][3]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Dolly Rebecca Parton
- Born
- 19 January 1946
- Birthplace
- Pittman Center, Tennessee, U.S.
- Died
- 25 August 2026
- Place of death
- Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
- Resting place
- Woodlawn Memorial Park, Nashville, Tennessee
- Occupation
- Singer-songwriter
- musician
- actress
- philanthropist
- businesswoman
- Years active
- 1956–2026
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
She began performing in church at age six and started playing a homemade guitar at seven.[4] She signed with Monument Records at age 19 in 1965, where the label initially resisted her desire to record country material.[5] In 1967, Porter Wagoner invited Parton to join his syndicated television program and road show.[6] When she was ten years old, Parton performed on Knoxville's WIVK Radio and WBIR-TV as part of The Cas Walker Show.[7]
What the cited sources add
The "Daddy's Dinner Bucket" account states that Parton's 2023 Rockstar album brought the biggest-selling first-week sales of her seven-decade career.[8] The same source notes that she launched her own TV show Dolly in 1976.[8] Gullion's article confirms that the cabin at Dollywood is a replica designed by Parton's brother Bobby.[3] The same article states that Parton sentimentally bought back the original land and restored the home to its 1950s state.[3]
References
- Wikipedia, "Dolly Parton" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Parton 1994, p. 2; "Daddy's Dinner Bucket: Mr. Lee Parton", Dolly Parton, June 15, 2015; "Dolly Parton: 'I fight illiteracy for my father'", Belfast Telegraph, November 3, 2016 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Dolly Parton" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Parton 1994, p. 2; Parton 1994, p. 2; "Dolly on Dolly: interviews and encounters with Dolly Parton", Chicago Review Press, 2017; Uitti, "Then & Now: Dolly Parton", October 13, 2023; "Upland Chronicles: Dolly Parton: Sevier's hometown celebrity", The Mountain Press, May 16, 2011; "David W. Parton"; "Coy 'Denver' Parton"; Dukes, "Dolly Parton's Brother, Singer Randy Parton, Has Died", Taste of Country, January 21, 2021; "Parton, Larry Gerald", The Knoxville Journal, July 7, 1955, p. 22; "Floyd Estel Parton"; "Shine On with Reese", Netflix; B en.wikipedia.org
- Gullion, "Where is Dolly Parton's childhood home? Is it still there?", August 15, 2021. facts only, no text reused. thesmokies.com
- Wikipedia, "Dolly Parton" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Dolly Parton – Biography", Songwriters Hall of Fame; Tingle, "Dolly Parton's Soul-Baring Pure & Simple show", July 2024 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Dolly Parton" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Parton, "Dolly Parton's America: I Will Always Leave You", WNYC Studios (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Dolly Parton" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: [ Dolly Parton profile], Allmusic.com; accessed March 31, 2014.; "Dolly Parton-Biography" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Dolly Parton" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Dolly performs on Cas Walker Show – WIVK Radio", Dolly Parton Productions, July 8, 1956; Magill, "Dictionary of World Biography", Routledge, 1999, p. 2896 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "Daddy's Dinner Bucket: Mr. Lee Parton", Dolly Parton, June 15, 2015. facts only, no text reused. dollyparton.com
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Dolly Parton (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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