So happy birthday, Dolly Parton! (And she endures a ton of tasteless breast jokes with good humor.) More Dollys we could use. Whatever IT is, she has it. Her voice may not be as soulful as Patsy Cline’s was, or as pitch-perfect as Ella Fitzgerald’s. It also reached number one on the US Billboard charts. She’s celebrated in this gallery of Dolly Parton Through the Years! It tells the story of a coat sewed together out of rags by her mother – a coat which now hangs in the Chasing Rainbows Museum at her theme park Dollywood.
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And she wrote this song, which became one of the biggest hits of all time when Whitney Houston sang it in “The Bodyguard”. You’ve woken up to “9 to 5” and probably broken up to “I Will Always Love You” at some point. Both versions reached number one on the U.S. country charts. The universally famous entertainment icon was born January 19, 1946, in Sevier County, Tennessee, delivered at home by the rural doctor she’d later immortalize in song, Dr. Robert F. Thomas.
The project is being run through The Imagination Library, which began in 1995, and is supported by Parton’s Dollywood Foundation, which promotes early childhood literacy internationally, and travel company, DialAFlight. So far it has given away 70 million books to children around the world.
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Visit Dolly’s Imagination Library to find out more information.
