Summary of Randy Schmidt's Dolly on Dolly

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#1 Dolly Parton’s first interview with a major country music publication was conducted by Everett Corbin for Music City News in 1967. The headline on the front page of the September issue of Music City News declared Dolly Parton no dumb blonde.

#2 Dolly Parton was born in 1946 in Sevier County, Tennessee. She grew up on a farm between Knoxville and Gatlinburg. When she was about five years old, her family moved to a place called Boogertown.

#3 I began singing when I was five or six years old. I was on a television and radio show in Knoxville called The Cas Walker Show. I sang on there during school vacations, in the summer, on holidays, and Christmas vacation.

#4 My family consists of twelve children, my mother and father, and me. My father is a construction worker who works with a company that travels some. He doesn’t travel that far away from home, but sometimes he has to go two hundred or three hundred miles from home for a couple of months.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822537323

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Dolly Parton’s first interview with a major country music publication was conducted by Everett Corbin for Music City News in 1967. The headline on the front page of the September issue of Music City News declared Dolly Parton no dumb blonde.

#2

Dolly Parton was born in 1946 in Sevier County, Tennessee. She grew up on a farm between Knoxville and Gatlinburg. When she was about five years old, her family moved to a place called Boogertown.

#3

I began singing when I was five or six years old. I was on a television and radio show in Knoxville called The Cas Walker Show. I sang on there during school vacations, in the summer, on holidays, and Christmas vacation.

#4

My family consists of twelve children, my mother and father, and me. My father is a construction worker who works with a company that travels some. He doesn’t travel that far away from home, but sometimes he has to go two hundred or three hundred miles from home for a couple of months.

#5

My family had 12 children. We farmed before I was 11 or 12 years old. We didn’t have anything when I was young, but we had a hard time. The last seven and eight children had it better than the first four children did.

#6

I grew up on a farm in Kentucky, and when I was in fifth grade, I started going to a one-room school. When I was in high school, I heard that Fred Foster, the president of Monument Records, was interested in me.

#7

I had always wanted to be a singer. I had been writing songs since I was seven or eight years old. I came to Nashville to get a contract, and I didn’t come to work, I just came to record.

#8

I had tried to get into the music business when I was twelve or thirteen years old. I had recorded a record for Mercury when I was fifteen and was still in school, and nothing had happened. I wasn’t able to leave school.

#9

The first record I ever had was on a small label when I was eleven or twelve years old. I did a record a long time ago. The first record I recorded to try to do anything with and to promote was with Monument Records. It was called I Wasted My Tears and the back side was What Do You Think About Lovin’.

#10

I began doing country because I always wanted to be a country singer. My voice is pitched high, which was thought to be unsuitable for rock ’n’ roll.

#11

I was not signed to Decca Records. I had done a demonstration tape with another man, and they wanted to copy that arrangement as close as they could. They liked the way it had been done, and they asked Fred Foster if I could sing on it. He was very nice about it, and allowed me to do country music because he had begun to see that I would have a better future in that.

#12

I am a dumb blonde, as the song says. I have written lots of songs. My latest record, which came out in September, is called Something Fishy. It has