{"id":96239,"date":"2026-08-27T17:35:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/dolly-parton-making-the-most-of-everything\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:35:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:35:27","slug":"dolly-parton-making-the-most-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/dolly-parton-making-the-most-of-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Originally broadcast on February 10, 2019.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all been singing along with Dolly Parton for decades. But if you want to know the truth about her, know this: She works way more than just 9 to 5. Even with a half-century of music behind her, the glitzy, big-haired queen of country glamour is still at it 24\/7, still writing her a legacy one song at a time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my therapy; my little guitar&#8217;s my friend,&#8221; she told correspondent Tony Dokoupil. &#8220;And when I&#8217;m in that zone \u2013 I call it my &#8216;God zone&#8217; \u2013 I just love that time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So please, don&#8217;t even mention the R-word to this 73-year-old. &#8220;Yeah, people always say, &#8216;Why don&#8217;t you retire?&#8217; I say, &#8216;And do what?&#8217; I mean, what does that even mean?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sit on your pile of money and awards?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could never do that. I don&#8217;t care. I always count my blessings, more than I count my money. I don&#8217;t work for money, never did. It was the art, it was the job. I loved the work. And I&#8217;ve done well, and I&#8217;m thankful for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dolly is open about nearly everything, including her cosmetic surgery. But as she sings in her song &#8220;Backwoods Barbie&#8221; (&#8220;I&#8217;m just a backwoods Barbie in a pushup bra and heels&#8221;), don&#8217;t be fooled by thinking that the goods are not all there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She told Dokoupil, &#8220;It is true that I look artificial, but I believe that I&#8217;m totally real. My look is really based on a country girl&#8217;s idea of glam. I wasn&#8217;t naturally pretty, so I make the most of anything I&#8217;ve got.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hold on a second: You were not naturally pretty?&#8221; asked Dokoupil. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m telling you, I&#8217;m not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen the pictures, Dolly. I&#8217;m sorry, I have to disagree with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-large\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2019\/02\/10\/dfaca582-bab2-46f6-8767-14b24bd55e21\/thumbnail\/620x350\/0589f334c1c28aa26478e01dc606d28a\/dolly-parton-tony-dokoupil-guitar-620.jpg#\" alt=\"dolly-parton-tony-dokoupil-guitar-620.jpg \" height=\"350\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2019\/02\/10\/dfaca582-bab2-46f6-8767-14b24bd55e21\/thumbnail\/620x350\/0589f334c1c28aa26478e01dc606d28a\/dolly-parton-tony-dokoupil-guitar-620.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2019\/02\/10\/dfaca582-bab2-46f6-8767-14b24bd55e21\/thumbnail\/1240x700\/3cbdeeb6e96c8761c1eb3396d32428dc\/dolly-parton-tony-dokoupil-guitar-620.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Dolly Parton with correspondent Toy Dokoupil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Well, you should&#8217;ve seen me this morning before I got ready to see you!&#8221; she laughed. &#8220;But I&#8217;m serious, though. I&#8217;m not, like, a natural beauty. But I can enhance it. Whatever it takes, I do. I try to make the most of everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to argue with the results. <\/p>\n<p>If you need a reminder, Parton has sold more than 100 million albums, won a shelf-full of Grammys, and written thousands of songs, including &#8220;I Will Always Love You,&#8221; which was a 1974 hit for Parton \u2013 and a 1992 sensation for Whitney Houston, in the film &#8220;The Bodyguard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/jr8tffNHJno?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com&amp;playsinline=1\" height=\"344\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" title=\"Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You (Live)\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jr8tffNHJno\" rel=\"noopener\">Dolly Parton &#8211; I Will Always Love You (Live)<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TransLucenT3D\" rel=\"noopener\">TransLucenT3D<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dokoupil asked, &#8220;Does it ever bother you that people think that&#8217;s Whitney Houston&#8217;s song?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; she replied. &#8220;I always say, she can have the credit, as long as I get my cash!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good line, and Parton is full of &#8217;em, like, &#8220;It costs a lot to look this cheap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or, &#8220;How do you want people to remember you 100 years from now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want &#8217;em to say, &#8216;God, don&#8217;t she look good for her age!'&#8221; she laughed. <\/p>\n<p>Humor was a help where Parton grew up, the fourth of 12 children in rural Tennessee. &#8220;I wrote a song years ago called &#8216;In the Good Old Days When Times Were Bad,&#8217; and it said, &#8216;No amount of money could buy from me the memories that I have of then. But no amount of money could pay me to go back and live through it again.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Music made everything a little brighter. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I started writing these songs, my mom was real impressed with how I could write, writing these songs at such an early age,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And she would say, &#8216;Oh honey, go get that guitar. I want you to sing them.&#8217;\u00a0 And she&#8217;d say to people, &#8216;I want you to hear this song this little thing wrote.&#8217; And so I thought, <em>ooh, I&#8217;m getting a whole lot of attention now!\u00a0<\/em>So, I think that kind of encouraged it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But also, I loved the sound of that music. I loved the sound of the instruments. I loved being able to create something, and it gave me a little space, and a little world of my own that I could just live in, and be creative in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dokoupil asked, &#8220;How early did you realize this was more than just a dream, this is going to be my profession, this is a job?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I guess I was about ten years old, the first time that my uncle took me to sing in front of an audience. And it was when they kept clappin&#8217; and clappin&#8217; after I had finished my song, that I thought that, you know, I felt something. I was scared, I was nervous, I&#8217;m a country little kid. But when I got that applause and got that feeling, is when I thought this is what I think I&#8217;m gonna do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She moved to Nashville, and soon she was singing before a national audience on &#8220;The Porter Wagoner Show.&#8221; \u00a0One night after a performance she met a young fan: &#8220;I remember this little redheaded girl with green eyes, prettiest little thing, and I said, &#8216;Well, what&#8217;s your name?&#8217; And she said, &#8216;Jolene.&#8217; I said, &#8216;I love that name.&#8217; All the way back to the bus I was [singing], &#8216;Jolene, Jolene, Jolene,&#8217; so I wouldn&#8217;t forget the name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She gave the name to another redhead she knew \u2013 a bank teller who flirted with her husband, Carl:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/IW25foOMkwI?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com&amp;playsinline=1\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" title=\"Dolly Parton - Jolene (HD) (Original) (1975) MUSIC LEGENDS\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IW25foOMkwI\" rel=\"noopener\">Dolly Parton &#8211; Jolene (HD) (Original) (1975) MUSIC LEGENDS<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/dokunews1\" rel=\"noopener\">MUSIC LEGENDS<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The song helped launch Parton&#8217;s solo career. (And don&#8217;t worry, she is still happily married.)<\/p>\n<p>But as she jumped from country to pop to Hollywood, the couple never did get around to having children. Is that a regret? &#8220;No, absolutely not,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t meant to be. And I don&#8217;t regret it. I never regretted it. I mean, it was a choice. So, you make your choices, you make your sacrifices, and I never looked back. I knew early on that I was gonna walk that road &#8217;til God told me to stop. And I&#8217;m still walking it, and He ain&#8217;t said nothing to me about quittin&#8217; yet!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, she&#8217;s going back for more, including a sequel to her classic 1980 film, &#8220;9 to 5.&#8221; \u00a0Her character, Doralee, got the best of an abusive male boss, and in the eyes of some became a feminist hero. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dokoupil asked, &#8220;Is that a word, feminist, that you apply to yourself?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I guess I am. But I don&#8217;t think of it like they do. I&#8217;m just, I&#8217;m a feminine girl. I&#8217;m a workin&#8217; girl. I think we all should be treated with respect. And if we do a good job, we should get paid for it. So, I&#8217;m all about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dolly Parton has written more than 3,000 songs, and she says her favorite is &#8220;A Coat of Many Colors,&#8221; a story of a poor kid from the Great Smoky Mountains who learned early on what really matters.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/c1zJzr-kWsI?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com&amp;playsinline=1\" height=\"344\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" title=\"Dolly Parton - Coat of many colors\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/c1zJzr-kWsI\" rel=\"noopener\">Dolly Parton &#8211; Coat of many colors<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/happyandijvie\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephan Konings<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>For more info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Story produced by Reid Orvedahl.<\/em><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"chartbeat\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  component--type-recirculation-collection\">\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><br \/>\n    <\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/dolly-parton-making-the-most-of-everything\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally broadcast on February 10, 2019.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve all been singing along with Dolly Parton for decades. 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