Are you ready for a quick hello, dolly from the tiniest megastar in the boot scootin world?

And then it's down to the things that really matter making money or making music, which pleases you.

More music.

Did you do it for nothing?

I would, I would, And I have a stream that way.

Meeting Dolly for the first time.

It's hard to take your eyes off.

Somebody once said.

Dollies is a tiny body that takes up a lot of spice with a pretty face.

That's head, Let's say a bit of attention, you know, I just looked at myself every now and then.

Every few years.

It's just like having an automobile.

You've got to keep it up or a show dog or a show horse you got to grow with.

The party is the richest jewels in the country music crown off.

In fact, she's worth well over half a $1,000,000,000.

Theo, 67 She is an entertainment phenomena with Dollywood theme, a swag of movies and TV specials selling 100 million, including this one working woman's tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen for my tumble out of bed and stumble in the kitchen and pull a cup of ambition.

Yeah, well, what I do every morning I tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen.

Another kitchen.

While I do it to get your novel and pour some coffee, we'll around get your ambition.

Cup of ambition.

Yes, Yes, yes, yes.

And I really thought that was one of my best line.

It's not a great yes.

Every once in a while I'll come across the line, I think.

Whoa!

Thank you, Lord, cause I know I wouldn't have thought of that on my own.

I, you know, dead clever.

So go gets the credit when you get the cash.

Exactly.

You can have the credit.

What way?

Now for this little gal from Pigeon Forge, Tennessee one of 12 in a dirt poor family National country music Capital of the world was making I was just a white trash country kid from way back in the mountains.

I mean, we were really with no electricity.

People are always coming up to me and my skin.

Dolly Dolly told a high school graduation class that seems off to the big smoke to become a star she caught the bus out.

Thank you.

First I hit that stage in front of an artist and had a real microphone that made real lawyers that I could hear my voice amplified and there were people responded.

I was.

It was like a drug.

It just shut right into my soul.

And it's the way it's been ever since.

He makes no secret of the fact that men are witness, So she spent a lifetime singing about loving him.

One of 3000 songs she's written, Jolene was Dolly Parton's first smash.

Incredibly, it's been recorded by 30 other scenes in half a dozen languages.

Jolene is an iconic country lament about that other Pretty well.

There was a girl that worked at the bank when my husband I first got married and she got a big crush on him, and I think he kind of had a crush on her.

I know he spent more time in the bank than we had money.

So how called him on it?

And so I just kind of took that little bit of, you know, like that other woman kind of thing.

What residents Don't you think every woman can relate to and every man.

Really.

I think women love it because I think we all know that there's somebody out there that could turn the head of the person that you love.

I think everybody has that fear, and it happens all the time.

But ever.

Now, Moon, uh, I'll look at him sleeping in that lazy board chair, and I think Jolene, when I need her way, have him now.

Dolly's husband of 47 years, Cal Din, is the mystery man of show business.

In all that time, there's just one public photo of the tooth.

Cowl does not exist, does he?

That's what a lot of people think you might what he might as well not, you know, in some people's minds.

But it's the reason people tell so much about me.

Of course, they don't see car because he will not get in front of a camera.

So he's not living in this right?

No, it's not true.

Way saw something about where our $450 million divorced.

There was something in the tabloids, he said.

Hell, I wouldn't leave you if I thought I was gonna get that kind of.

They're enduring marriage has been a show business fairy tale That's despite dollies.

Own admission.

How do you like?

But I have a big flirt.

I am a big tease.

And like I say, I don't What?

I ain't them.

I'm capable of doing it.

And I don't deny or admit anything.

I never went to bed with anybody to get somewhere if I did that, I did that because that's what I wanted to do.

Never did for those kind of reasons, Nor could anybody to make me do it.

Come on over here and give me a little lip lock.

Is it true that you're embarrassed about kissing in the movies?

You know, it's always embarrassing when you have to kiss somebody in front of a bunch of people.

You know, unless you're a pervert.

You know, we're doing a porn film.

When I kissed Burt Reynolds in The Best little whorehouse in Texas, you know, Bird had his mustache and he hasn't black tears and black on it.

I know what's coming.

It was like somebody way did I have seen?

You know what?

I guess they got whatever that scene was.

But then we pull back.

I look like I've been stuck in a cell, you know, I was way Music means like Islands in the Stream chart topping Do it with Kenny Rogers, which he says reminds her of a long ago favorite, too.

I think it was about 27 years since I had been in Australia when we were there.

I was with Kenny the last time we were there.

It's one Allen's and Stream was out.

That's Evergreen Country Song was written by Australia's Robin Gibb of the BJ.

Dolly has pin most of a memorable sauce.

What thing?

Dolly Parton Classic was number one on the American country music charts for two long months.

A.

But it became an international mega when Whitney Houston decided to record and with these version has raked in millions of dollars in royalties for Dolly, you'll e.

I thought my heart was gonna I was gonna bust when I first heard it.

I just had the radio on, and all of a sudden I just heard that are compelling part I E.

By and I was listening.

It was like one of those things that that what is that?

It was like I should stay.

I leave you again, Your e I thought that's my asshole.

And then when it went into, uh, almost wrecked, the car had to pull.

It was like somebody had just poured hot wire on me.

It was just the most incredible feeling you can imagine.

You can imagine a CZ biggest thatwas and his beautiful is that Woz and his greatest.

She sang that and with all that music and that, my little simple.

So you know how they had just It was just a women.

It almost just It was almost just overwhelming.

Singing and songwriting.

Maybe have passionate.

Dolly reckons that looking pretty is important.

You know, it's like Who gives a rat's bind?

If I had a few little nips and tucks, you know, it's like I've had plastic surgery is I will have it again when I need it.

If I need a little nipper Tucker something here and there.

But for the most part now, after you get that stuff about has done is they can do you.

Then you use the boat toxin you used to college, and it's all the surface stuff.

I didn't have any kind of plastic surgery last 40 years old.

It's Well, I didn't have my boobs expanded a little.

And, of course, I had a bone of a little bigger As the years went by.

When did looking good become important for you?

I am the backwoods Barbie.

I love hair, Make up a lot of your shiny fancy clothes.

But I guess when I was about 14 15 years old, it became very important to me how I look.

Even before the Fredericks of Hollywood push up bras came out.

I used to steal the shoulder pads out of my grandma's coat so I could push him up a little bit so I could get a little more of that look.

So I was always kind of wanting to be a little more How many wings you go?

Well, I say there's 365 days in a year, so I must have a least three laughs easily on.

She laughs off, so it comes as a shock to hear that, like the rest is, she's also head her down moments.

You know when you start going through the middle age crisis, middle age spread middle age, change life kind of thing before your hormones and everything is different.

But I did.

I had a very hard time till you're the wrong person to ask.

But, I mean, how do you know?

Well, you know, you have this reputation of being nice of January in us genuine us.

Well, now I am just who I am.

I'm not always nice.

I choose to be good.

I choose to have a good attitude because I want people to know I am a girl of many colors.

I didn't get where I am by being pushed.

I don't want to be vanilla.

I want to be Rocky Road stream on you.

Convinced there's a colorful hand.

Clever time fucking road ahead for Dolly Rebecca.

She insists there's no plan.

Hang up.

All those Clapton wings will throw away this letter.

Infection plans on bringing them and the big buses City buses to Australia early.

Next.

Hi, this is Dolly Parton.

And I can't wait to see you when I come back to play for you and male board this February.

You did today.

This poor kid from Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, is a show business later, and you don't have to like love.

Don't.

No, I'll never retire as long as the Lord lets me be on my feet in my mind.

And if I can keep my voice, uh, then I'm gonna do it because you love it because I love it.

I can't imagine my life without my music or my life without the business end of my music either.

I mean, I love what I do.

I love my job.

I love it.

Hello.

I'm Liz Hayes.

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