RIP Dolly Parton

A super nice person. I met her at SFO airport during a maintenance call. A workmate and I were dealing with an avionics issue in the cockpit of an outbound trip and in burst Dolly with a Howdy Yall!! This was before 911 and the extra security that was put in place. What a treat.

Rest in Peace Dolly
 
There is a litany of positive things to say about Dolly Parton. Savvy businesswoman from the time she told Col. Tom to pound salt. Though she was no doubt much nicer about it. And with not selling I Will Always Love You to Whitney Houston. Houston complained but they both did very well from the deal.

Parton made a metric tonne of money but wasn't shy about given back to her community. She was only a multi-millionaire (just over half a billionaire) but she donated much more than most multi-billionaires.

Had a great sense of humor in general and especially about her appearance. "It takes a lot of money to look this cheap".

She never had a bad word to say about anybody unlike a co-star or two. She wrote a great auto-biography but no tell-all stuff.

Elsewhere someone said of her "The world is a little less kind without her". True dat. I'd say she was one of the nicest people ever on the planet.
 
I remember watching her on a country oriented variety show way back. On my grandparent's round screen black and white tv. Introduced as a new country artist. 'the hair' was always with her, along with her amazing voice.
 
Weaselinsuit said:
Found a link on the NYT to this version of After the Goldrush with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt that she did on Letterman.
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I remember that show. That link has been posted a number of times places not surprisingly. I was happy to see it getting spread around. It was a great performance on a very small scale.

From our friends across the pond:


There are much better quality videos but they all seem to be very short.
 
My first recollection of Dolly was seeing her interviewed on the Johnny Carson Show.

Truly a gracious lady . . . unflappable!

Shuey

 
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