Domain<\/span>Dolly Parton began her career in the late ’60s and continues to tour today.<\/span><\/h2>\nDolly Parton was born in the Great Smoky Mountains of rural East Tennessee in 1946. Her parents were farmers and so impoverished that the family lived in a one-room cabin with no electricity. Parton was the fourth of 12 children in a bursting and bustling backcountry home.<\/p>\n
“The kids peed on me every night. We slept three and four in the bed,” Parton\u00a0recalled<\/a>\u00a0in a 1978 interview for\u00a0Playboy<\/em>. “I would wash every night. And as soon as I go to bed, the kids would wet on me and I’d have to get up in the morning and do the same thing.”<\/p>\nThere was hardly any cash to go around and certainly no extra money for emergency room visits. So when Parton\u00a0almost severed<\/a>\u00a0three of her toes on broken glass, her mother had to doctor her. “My dad and my brothers, they had to hold me down… They put kerosene on it for antiseptic and momma took her sewing needles… and she literally had to sew my toes back on.”<\/p>\nParton recalled how with so many children, she was expected to care for them as though she were a mother too. “My mother, since there were so many of us, used to say, ‘This one’s gonna be your baby.'”<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, Parton lost ‘her baby’ \u2013 her newborn brother, Larry \u2014 when she was nine. “There is a lot of heartache and stuff that goes on with that.”<\/p>\n
Amidst this chaos, Parton claimed that the family’s saving grace was their battery-operated radio on which they listened to the\u00a0Grand Ole Opry<\/em>.<\/p>\nParton Heads For Nashville With A Cardboard Suitcase<\/h2>\n![\"Dolly](\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dolly-parton-holding-a-baby.jpg\")
<\/p>\nWikimedia Commons<\/span>Dolly Parton helped raised her younger siblings and has no children of her own.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nLong before she started writing her own songs, Parton was gifted her first guitar by her Uncle Lewis. By age 10, she was performing professionally, appearing on local television and getting airtime on Knoxville radio stations.<\/p>\n
At age 11, Parton wrote “Puppy Love”, her first single, with the help of another Uncle, Bill Owens. Dolly and her grandmother took a 30-hour bus ride to a Louisiana studio to record it. Goldband Records released the single in 1959 \u2014 when Dolly was 13.<\/p>\n
That same year, Parton made her Grand Ole Opry debut.\u00a0Johnny Cash<\/a>\u00a0introduced her,\u00a0telling the crowd<\/a>\u00a0that “we’ve got a little girl here from up in East Tennessee. Her daddy’s listening to the radio at home and she’s gonna be in real trouble if she doesn’t sing tonight, so let’s bring her out here.”<\/p>\nHer performance commanded three encores.<\/p>\n
She boarded the first bus bound for Nashville the day after she finished high school. Her suitcase was made of cardboard and it was filled with songs. It would take some time, but Parton eventually secured her first songwriting deal. Soon she had her first regular gig on the Porter Wagoner Show.<\/p>\n
From there, the blonde-haired beauty quickly became a success. The rest is history.<\/p>\n
Parton’s Private Life<\/h2>\n
You wouldn’t know it from the media, but Parton is, in fact, married \u2014 and has been for over 50 years. She met her husband, Carl Dean, at the Wishy-Washy Laundromat on the first night she arrived in Nashville in 1964.<\/p>\n
Parton said of their meeting, “I graduated on a Friday night, went to Nashville on a Saturday morning with dirty clothes and I went to a laundromat looking for anything but love.”<\/p>\n
None of the pictures of Dolly Parton above feature Dean, who is notorious for his ability to stay under the radar.<\/p>\n
Parton too keeps something private from the public: a collection of tattoos. Yes, Dolly Parton has\u00a0a couple tattoos<\/a>\u00a0that she says she originally got for her own enjoyment and to cover up scars. There are very few pictures of Dolly Parton exposing her tattoos and allegedly, only a few other stars have laid eyes on them.<\/p>\n
There was hardly any cash to go around and certainly no extra money for emergency room visits. So when Parton\u00a0almost severed<\/a>\u00a0three of her toes on broken glass, her mother had to doctor her. “My dad and my brothers, they had to hold me down… They put kerosene on it for antiseptic and momma took her sewing needles… and she literally had to sew my toes back on.”<\/p>\n Parton recalled how with so many children, she was expected to care for them as though she were a mother too. “My mother, since there were so many of us, used to say, ‘This one’s gonna be your baby.'”<\/p>\n Unfortunately, Parton lost ‘her baby’ \u2013 her newborn brother, Larry \u2014 when she was nine. “There is a lot of heartache and stuff that goes on with that.”<\/p>\n Amidst this chaos, Parton claimed that the family’s saving grace was their battery-operated radio on which they listened to the\u00a0Grand Ole Opry<\/em>.<\/p>\n Wikimedia Commons<\/span>Dolly Parton helped raised her younger siblings and has no children of her own.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Long before she started writing her own songs, Parton was gifted her first guitar by her Uncle Lewis. By age 10, she was performing professionally, appearing on local television and getting airtime on Knoxville radio stations.<\/p>\n At age 11, Parton wrote “Puppy Love”, her first single, with the help of another Uncle, Bill Owens. Dolly and her grandmother took a 30-hour bus ride to a Louisiana studio to record it. Goldband Records released the single in 1959 \u2014 when Dolly was 13.<\/p>\n That same year, Parton made her Grand Ole Opry debut.\u00a0Johnny Cash<\/a>\u00a0introduced her,\u00a0telling the crowd<\/a>\u00a0that “we’ve got a little girl here from up in East Tennessee. Her daddy’s listening to the radio at home and she’s gonna be in real trouble if she doesn’t sing tonight, so let’s bring her out here.”<\/p>\n Her performance commanded three encores.<\/p>\n She boarded the first bus bound for Nashville the day after she finished high school. Her suitcase was made of cardboard and it was filled with songs. It would take some time, but Parton eventually secured her first songwriting deal. Soon she had her first regular gig on the Porter Wagoner Show.<\/p>\n From there, the blonde-haired beauty quickly became a success. The rest is history.<\/p>\n You wouldn’t know it from the media, but Parton is, in fact, married \u2014 and has been for over 50 years. She met her husband, Carl Dean, at the Wishy-Washy Laundromat on the first night she arrived in Nashville in 1964.<\/p>\n Parton said of their meeting, “I graduated on a Friday night, went to Nashville on a Saturday morning with dirty clothes and I went to a laundromat looking for anything but love.”<\/p>\n None of the pictures of Dolly Parton above feature Dean, who is notorious for his ability to stay under the radar.<\/p>\n Parton too keeps something private from the public: a collection of tattoos. Yes, Dolly Parton has\u00a0a couple tattoos<\/a>\u00a0that she says she originally got for her own enjoyment and to cover up scars. There are very few pictures of Dolly Parton exposing her tattoos and allegedly, only a few other stars have laid eyes on them.<\/p>\nParton Heads For Nashville With A Cardboard Suitcase<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\nParton’s Private Life<\/h2>\n