No Dolly Parton thread? Well then -- classic or hyperclassic?

Anyone wanna do a POX for tha kid

― zvookster,

Sure!

Jolene
Just Because I'm a Woman
Touch Your Woman
Coat of Many Colors
The Bargain Store
My Blue Tears
The Seeker
Here You Come Again
Down From Dover
9 to 5

Dumb Blonde
Coat of Many Colors
9 to 5
The Bridge
(posting youtube cuz this song is fucked up and so great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93phyqr_BRE)
Jolene
I Will Always Love You
As Steady As the Rain
Anything's Better Than Nothing
Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me
My Tennessee Mountain Home

It's super hard to hate on Dolly, who is awesome - got an autographed album cover hanging to my left as I type - but per her voice, she's been pretty open about using some degree of sweetener and canned vox live. "It's not to fool you, it's to entertain you," goes her line of reasoning.

Um...

http://gawker.com/oh-god-dolly-parton-what-are-you-doing-1447971263

what is the best dolly parton compilation out there please

i've got the essential dolly parton, its awesome, but i havent compared it to any others

http://marcelmarceau123.svbtle.com/mimin-dolly

The Essential has pleased me almost ten years.

she really deserves a quality box set; the closest is (duh) from Bear Family: http://www.bear-family.de/blog/BearWordPress_EN/2014/02/07/dolly-parton-porter-wagoner/

I've gotten by with a lot of downloads+vinyl scouring (primarily because my favorite stuff is from her pre-disco period - although there is plenty of great stuff during and after that as well)

altho I should point out that Bear Family box is all w/Porter and doesn't cover her (also great, possibly greater) solo material from the same period

The Dolly box set is pretty damn great.

you mean the 4-disc one?

yes. Sorry, I should have clarified.

yep that four disk one is awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5fxVvvHRhs

What I love about Dolly is not whether or not she's actually playing the sax (um ...) but that she recognized that there is a time and place for everything, and that that was the perfect time and place for "Yakety Sax."

There are some clear lip-synch fails towards the start of that televised Glastonbury set.

"My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart." - Dolly Parton, 30 June 2014

Who gives a fuck. Is there really anyone who thinks Dolly cant really sing? I mean maybe she cant belt em out anymore and if so whatever she is old but she has 50 years of beautiful singing behind her its not like she's some talentless ingenue that's been faking it and hoodwinking the audience this whole time.

i'm thinking at this age there might be a few of the higher register faster songs where she has a bit of "help", but there are definitely only a few - seen her twice in the last few years and there's been definite adlibs in middle of songs, slightly missed notes, improvs reacting to crowd etc. and both shows have been amazing.

and also, who gives a fuck?

i'm more frazzled about the fake boobs thingy

my point is that Dolly lip-syncing at this stage of her career is not really similar to, say, Ashley Simpson lip-syncing.

baaderonixx she had a reduction at one point and then i believe had a bit of extra work done some time after that, but no, the large-osity is famously real

yeah I don't think you could even get fake boobs like that in the late 60s

Happy 70th bday!

happy bday

but jeez with everything going on lately i was worried for a second

So she and Bowie were the same age?! Doesn't seem possible.

But happy birthday, Dolly. You're underrated and underappreciated.

Trying to buy "Little Sparrow" as a present for someone but it seems curiously difficult to find... in the UK, that is.

... on CD, that is (again).

I probably think about this Ebert and Siskel exchange about Dolly Parton every month and should probably do it more often. pic.twitter.com/SySz9ydMnm

— Vinegar Mike 🏳️‍🌈 (@VinegarMike) February 11, 2019

As hyperclassic as her covers.

Last fall, former President Barack Obama told Stephen Colbert that he was "shocked" Dolly Parton hadn't gotten a Presidential Medal of Freedom during his time in office. "That was a screwup," he said. "I think I assumed she had already got one."

Now, the country icon says the Trump administration offered her the honor, not once but twice — and she turned it down both times. "I couldn't accept it because my husband was ill, and then they asked me again about it and I wouldn't travel because of the COVID," she said in an interview with the Today show.

Only two weeks into his term, President Biden has not yet announced any new Medal of Freedom recipients. But Parton says she'd be hesitant to accept a possible third offer. "Now I feel like if I take it, I'll be doing politics, so I'm not sure."

And, she added, "I don't work for those awards. It'd be nice, but I'm not sure that I even deserve it. But that's a nice compliment for people to think that I might deserve it."

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Dolly Parton has re-recorded her hit song 9 to 5, in a Super Bowl ad for Squarespace, as "5 to 9," as an ode to having a side hustle https://t.co/tmfbUbJqaA

— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) February 2, 2021

yeah saw she was losing twitter today

Side hustles: Classic or Dud?

would she have accepted a Dolly Pardon?

Dolly is really getting baconed these days

9 to 5 is le epic socialist anthem

The melody was familiar, but the words were written for the moment: “Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine. I’m begging of you please don’t hesitate.”

Dolly Parton, the country music legend who wrote “Jolene” — and updated its lyrics for the coronavirus era — was in Nashville on Tuesday to get the Moderna vaccine, which she helped fund.

Amid swaths of vaccine skepticism in the United States, prominent politicians and celebrities have received their shots publicly to encourage others to sign up. Parton’s Instagram video came as President Biden said the country would have enough vaccine doses for every adult by the end of May, earlier than July, as previously announced, bringing the promise of a more normal summer.
In February the singer, who’s also beloved for her philanthropy, told USA Today that she wouldn’t “jump the line” to get vaccinated.

On Tuesday, it was Parton’s turn, and she had a message for others.

“I just want to say to all of you cowards out there, don’t be such a chicken squat. Get out there and get your shot,” the 75-year-old said in the video.

To get hers, Parton returned to a place and a doctor that tie her to the Moderna vaccine.

Naji Abumrad, a Lebanese-born physician and professor of surgery, first met Parton after the singer got into a minor car accident in 2013 and visited Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The chance meeting led to a friendship between “two poor, mountain kids trying to get by, though they were raised more than 6,000 miles apart,” The Washington Post’s Timothy Bella reported. Last year, Parton donated $1 million to Vanderbilt in the doctor’s honor, helping to fund the early stages of coronavirus research.

“Her work made it possible to expedite the science behind the testing,” Abumrad told The Post at the time. “Without a doubt in my mind, her funding made the research toward the vaccine go 10 times faster than it would be without it.”

Parton previously told USA Today: “I think I’m getting more credit than I deserve. But I was just so happy to be a small part, and to plant a seed that would grow into something bigger.”

The bond between the two was on display in Tuesday’s video.

Parton, wearing a dress with open shoulders, put on a mask as Abumrad entered.

“You and I have been friends forever, and I thought it was only appropriate that you should be the one to give me my shot today,” Parton said, joking that she hoped he had practiced.

As Abumrad prepared to give her the shot, Parton joked, “Well it didn’t take this long to film ‘9 to 5,’” referring to her 1980 movie.

“You think you got it?” she said.

“I got it,” Abumrad replied.

“I did it,” Parton said. “I did it.”

Dolly is really getting baconed these days

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown),

Nigella Lawson as well!

Um, baconed?

Turned into a meme, generally agreed upon to be EPIC BACON AWESOMESAUCE. For recent examples, see: Keanu Reeves, Werner Herzog.

I do find these spontaneous outpourings of adoration for seemingly random artists somewhat annoying too, but the good outweighs the bad imo - lots of people get exposed to Dolly Parton's music, which is great.

Nigella feels more contained because it's mostly a UK (and within that, left twitter) thing.

James, there's a 77 thread on this phenomenon, which also includes zombies and moustaches iirc

Ha, thanks, I saw that thread but still couldn't quite figure it out, didn't have time to peruse properly.

this and the lionization of Keanu seem like maybe a response to #MeToo when it was revealed that a lot of the celebrities we liked are actually scumbags so its refreshing to encounter one that actually does seem good and genuine

I assumed it meant stoned. like, more than baked.

I was briefly confused as to whether it meant something good or bad because of all the disappointment online about her rewriting 9 to 5 for that ad. I'm glad to see that's being pretty much forgotten.

twitter calling someone a "national treasure" is a warning sign that baconing is occuring

https://twitter.com/search?q=dolly%20parton%20national%20treasure&src=typed_query

also protecting them "at all costs"

https://twitter.com/search?q=protect%20dolly%20parton%20at%20all%20costs&src=typed_query

Dolly Parton is the new Betty White. We must protect them both at all costs.

— Adam O'Neill (@oneilla01) March 3, 2021