00:05:25.840It is an honor, an honor that is mixed with absolute pride and great sadness.
00:05:30.760But sadness lies with us, not with Dolly.
00:05:33.700Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus,
00:05:36.960surely met by Carl, her parents, and countless others who have watched her
00:05:41.280and longed for her to meet them in the heavens.
00:05:43.500I first went on the road with Dolly as a kid, getting a taste of the road life in the early 1980s.
00:05:49.980Dolly opened doors not just for me, but for her entire family to reach the potential we didn't even know was possible.
00:05:56.740Dolly also opened doors for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians, and dreamers from every walk of life and across every continent.
00:06:04.940By her example, we believed that anything was possible.
00:06:08.040She never saw a door she couldn't open, and the doors she opened made and changed history.
00:06:14.340My family and I have shared a lifetime
00:06:16.500of beautiful memories with Dolly, but so have you.
00:06:19.780She has always been on your television,
00:06:22.020your record player, your CD, and on your phone playlist,
00:06:25.620becoming an extended part of your family
00:06:36.300Dolly was a farmer, just like her daddy.
00:06:39.020He farmed the soil, she farmed songs and happiness.
00:06:42.820Dolly called me and said she wants to rest in a beautiful bed of plush cotton because after a life wearing heavy rhinestones, she finally deserves to be comfortable and have some rest.
00:06:52.980Rest in peace, Aunt Dolly, Aunt Granny, Gigi.
00:06:57.160May God bless Dolly Parton, and may God bless you all.
00:08:35.180She described herself as dirt poor, but found joy in music,
00:08:39.280which she discovered by going to church with her mother, who was a singer.
00:08:43.140By age 13, Parton appeared at the Grand Ole Opry.
00:08:47.340She moved to Nashville after high school to pursue a career in music and met her husband, Carl Dean, outside a laundromat the day after she arrived.
00:08:57.640Just three years later, she released her first number one single.
00:09:07.200Parton collaborated with a number of big name artists over the years, like Kenny Rogers, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris and even Beyonce.
00:09:17.340She also worked with her goddaughter, Miley Cyrus.
00:09:24.620One of her most popular songs of all times was the ballad, I Will Always Love You.
00:09:35.980Which reached number one on the country charts twice and was later remade by Whitney Houston.
00:09:42.200That version became one of the most successful singles in music history.
00:09:46.880But singing and songwriting was only part of her story.
00:09:50.400In 1980, Parton turned her sights towards Hollywood
00:09:53.420and appeared in the mega-hit 9 to 5 with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
00:20:35.940And that's one thing that set her apart.0.77
00:20:37.760She kept the entire publishing under her control, and that's what she built her foundation and her legacy and all of her businesses with, which was pretty cool.
00:20:49.220And I'm glad she didn't give it to him because Whitney Houston made it one of the largest singles that was ever created for as a charting single.
00:20:58.600Well, it was twice, number one, just with Dolly Parton.1.00
00:21:02.300go back to that about her this a woman that did not have a lot of proper education but was an1.00
00:21:08.180incredibly savvy businesswoman talk to people about just her understanding of keeping the music0.99
00:21:13.500publishing rights because i tell people when you look at entertainment it's television rights and
00:21:18.920music publishing rights that are the cash cows of the industry right a lot of people make movies
00:21:23.860but the first release or movie stars or movie production but it's television and music
00:21:27.700Publishing. She was smart enough, what, Grand Ole Opry at 13, then partnered with Porter
00:21:34.140Wagoner. Talk to us about music publishing, how savage she was. This is how she essentially1.00
00:21:38.480became a billionaire, but gave so much of the money away. Natasha.
00:21:41.900Well, say you're a newbie in the business, and so you write a song, you put it out there,
00:21:47.520a big hit, say Taylor Swift or the Elvis Presley back then would come to you and say,
00:21:51.640I love your song, I want to record it, but I have to have all rights because whoever has the rights
00:21:57.020is whoever gets the money flow for that song.
00:22:00.920And so she had enough backbone to tell the king,
00:32:52.300And, you know, you have so many singers now that just perform.
00:32:57.220Some of them don't even write their own songs and they don't get royalties from that.
00:33:01.480So I hope it will inspire anyone that is heading into music or already into music to think like Dolly, put an expansion of influence in every part of culture.
00:33:12.760And the thing that she did with the kids, with the Imagination Library, was unbelievable how to this day, millions of kids are getting to read because of Dolly's work.
00:33:22.300hang on a second i want to go back to a second by the way people don't realize
00:33:28.040a lot of people don't realize she wrote the whitney houston song i think legend has it it
00:33:33.780was about actually porter wagoner if i remember my legends correctly or my my my my myths correctly
00:33:40.940but i want to go back particularly for a woman in country music at that time
00:33:44.760it's once you're successful and they see that you've got talent and because country music
00:33:50.740was kind of Americana, but it hadn't really brought, it hadn't broadened out to kind of
00:33:56.240the pop music it is today, where, you know, people can start in country and go into pop.
00:34:01.320They want to box you in because, and particularly if you're a songwriter, because you're such a
00:34:05.880cash machine, you're kind of driving the engine. So it's not easy for someone like her to break
00:34:11.340out, Natasha. It's not, it's almost impossible. And just the battlefield of the mind that an
00:34:18.760artist goes through. You've got all of these rules in the genre that you are. You have established
00:34:23.040yourself in a country genre or a Christian genre. And just thinking about going over into something
00:34:29.040else, you have to start almost completely over. And so that's why it's very daunting. That's why
00:34:34.720most people don't do it. But Dolly had a drive in her that I haven't seen in many people, period,0.68
00:34:41.400messless women. She grew up in poverty. And one thing that I admire about her is that she never1.00
00:34:47.740was ashamed of that. She never tried to erase her past. She built upon it. It was in her music. It
00:34:53.460was in every part of her life. And she also didn't shy away from the Lord. She talked about her
00:34:58.420Christian faith, her prayer, her growing up in church. Her grandfather was a Pentecostal pastor
00:35:03.380and she wasn't ashamed of that. She wasn't ashamed of the Lord. And I do believe that
00:35:08.260he had a part in her success. Steve Gruber, the range of Dolly Parton.
00:35:16.060it's it's it's almost i don't like the word because it gets overused but it's almost
00:35:22.640unprecedented uh as my father used to say he liked both kinds of music country and western
00:35:28.800which is where she started with porter wagner right and then that became country music and
00:35:33.260that became pop music she's a member of the rock and roll hall of fame i think about that dolly
00:35:38.880parton is in the rock and roll hall of fame for a reason because she covered so many different
00:35:43.960places and it wasn't just music it was also in television it was also in the movies i mean
00:35:48.860kenny rogers willie nelson linda ronstadt emilu harris the list of the people she worked with
00:35:54.660is remarkable johnny carson she didn't work with him directly as in music of course but he was
00:36:00.460instrumental in putting her on the national stage burt reynolds sylvester stallone loretta lynn
00:36:06.660and as natasha mentioned miley cyrus or queen latifah she would go anywhere and work with
00:36:13.580anybody who she thought would be a great collaborator, a great duet, a great partner in
00:36:20.720songwriting and creation. And the fact that she wrote 3,000 songs with her name on it
00:36:25.180was brilliant business. It really was. And then you look at Dollywood, right? She goes to East
00:36:30.920Tennessee, poor part of the country, Appalachia, and creates this mega attraction. So she helps
00:36:38.640out the people where she came from. I like what Natasha said. She never was ashamed of where she
00:36:42.720came from. She was never afraid of her faith in Christ. She was never afraid or ashamed of any
00:36:47.280of that. In fact, she went back to people to give back. And I wonder because her father could not
00:36:52.140read and write according to what I understand. I wonder if the Imagination Library is in a way
00:36:58.020a tribute to her own father, her own family, to say, look, I can give back to the people of East
00:37:03.920Tennessee. Appalachia, I mean, the designated counties of Appalachia in this country were the
00:37:08.120poorest parts of this country for decades. Many of them still are. And she went back specifically
00:37:13.680to those places. And as you pointed out, Steve, gave away her fortune, much of it. She'd be a
00:37:18.640billionaire. Sure. That's not what she was in it for. Dolly Parton always had class, character,0.99
00:37:24.780and integrity. That's why she is so remarkable today. And I go back to the incredible work
00:37:30.320ethic and the fact that I think she is the definition of the American dream.
00:37:38.600Natasha, being your own manager and kind of doing things your own way, what you want to do, including building Dollywood, which draws three million tourists a year in East Tennessee.0.74
00:37:47.260When she first did it, people thought she was crazy.
00:37:50.240How tough is it for an artist to really take charge?
00:38:34.220And that's why I said, I think God really gave her direction on that because she did things that were, have never been done before to some degree.
00:38:43.340And she had enough backbone and strength to stand up and do it.
00:38:46.660And I admire her for that more than anything.
00:38:49.660In the industry that's dominated by men, it's hard for us females sometimes to get our voice out.
00:40:57.640Without a love to call my own, my life was incomplete
00:41:19.120It seems I couldn't help but think that love was not for me
00:41:23.400My life took on a different twist when I met me a man that I couldn't resist. I didn't know at all I'd miss and I'm getting happy. Oh, I'm getting happy. Yeah, I'm getting happy on my lonely days ago. I'm getting happy. No more lonely nights alone. I got someone to call my own and now my life is like a song and he helps me sing along.
00:41:49.000I'm getting happy, oh, I'm getting happy Oh, people used to talk of love
00:41:55.520And I couldn't understand About the fire and the desire in loving a good man
00:42:01.380Oh, but now I know just what they meant Since I met me a man that was heaven sent
00:42:05.660I wonder where the sadness went Cause I'm getting happy, oh, I'm getting happy
00:42:11.120I'm getting happy on my lonely days ago
00:42:15.920I'm getting happy, no more lonely nights alone
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