Dolly-Parton

Dolly Parton escaped the struggles of her life early on through her imaginative and creative imagination. Before she was able to write or read, she had already composed the songs she wrote herself. She got her first guitar when she was 8 and started performing on the Knoxville Tenn radio station at the age of eleven. The that same year, Gold Band Records was a small independent record label. While in high school, she made herself known to the community, but her dream was greater. In the exact day that she graduated high school, it was 1964. Dumb Blonde was her first album to be charted on Monument Records. Porter Wagoner had been looking for female performers for his show that was syndicated in the years prior to this. Parton took the offer in 1967 signed with RCA Records in 1968 and was a part of in the Grand Ole Opry in 1969. She quit Wagoner's act in 1974 when her solo songs such as Joshua Coat of Many Colors and Jolene outsold the collaborations. The two split in 1974, Parton wrote the song I Will Always Love You for Wagoner and it climbed to the top spot at No. The first time it made it to the top spot was in 1974.