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Dolly Parton, the Tennessee Butterfly
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R.I.P. Carl T. Dean
"Dolly Parton is the darling of American country music who has captivated fans with her angelic voice for over five decades. The 79-year-old singer recently had a major personal setback when her husband of 60 years, Carl Thomas Dean, passed away on March 3, 2025. "
Country music legend Dolly Parton has recently unveiled a heartfelt tribute to her late husband, Carl Thomas Dean.
"Dolly Parton is the darling of American country music who has captivated fans with her angelic voice for over five decades. The 79-year-old singer recently had a major personal setback when her husband of 60 years, Carl Thomas Dean, passed away on March 3, 2025. "
Country music legend Dolly Parton has recently unveiled a heartfelt tribute to her late husband, Carl Thomas Dean.
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Marie Mallory
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About time they hang it up. But I guess if it makes them happy..............reminded me of another song,haha.
Nancy Hart
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Here You Come Again
Nancy Hart
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Live on The Porter Wagner Show 1974
(Song written by Dolly Parton)
(Song written by Dolly Parton)
Axel Slingerland
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You know, you could go on for days and probably not run out of hit songs. Even I know she's a permanent fixture in the country music world, and I don't particularly like country music.
New Girl in Town
"Dolly Parton left two boyfriends behind in her hometown of Sevierville, Tenn., so getting into a new relationship was the last thing on her mind when she moved to Nashville in 1964, right after graduating from high school.""Alas, she met Carl Dean while walking down the street on her way to the laundromat the day she arrived in Music City."
(As remembered by Parton (Dean—who died March 3, 2025, at the age of 82—never spoke to the press), he was driving by in a white Chevrolet when he called out, "You're gonna get sunburnt out here, little lady!"
"They got to talking "and I fell for him, and he fell for me," she wrote in her 2020 book Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics. In another interview, the 5-foot artist, who was 18 when they met, recalled how tan Dean was as he towered over her at 6-foot-2. (The 22-year-old had an asphalt paving business with his father, so was bronzed from working outside.)"
"She did not, however, hop right into his car. "You gotta know somebody or they may take you on a back road and kill you," she pointed out, per Stephen Miller's 2011 biography, Smart Blonde. Parton did invite Dean to visit her at her aunt and uncle's house the next day, which he did, though she would only sit with him outside. He came back every day for a week and when he took her out for their first date, he drove her to his parents' house first because, Parton said, "he said he knew right from the minute he saw me that that's the one he wanted." MORE
Marie Mallory
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I've never heard this one.
Jacob Petersheim
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Yeah, I remember those Porter Wagoner days. They were a big act even back then.
Marie Mallory
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I like Dolly, but this woman aced it!
Dolly Parton on March 20, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. Jason Kempin/Getty Images
"There won’t be new music coming from Dolly Parton in the near future, but listeners can still enjoy her art. During a recent conversation with Khloé Kardashian for her podcast “Khloé in Wonder Land,” Parton reflected on her grief over her late husband, Carl Dean, who died in March at age 82."
"The country music legend said when it comes to songwriting, “Several things I’ve wanted to start, but I can’t do it.” “I will later, but I’m just coming up with such wonderful, beautiful ideas. But I think I won’t finish it,” she said. “I can’t do it right now, because I got so many other things and I can’t afford the luxury of getting that emotional right now.”
“Everything begins with a story or a song,” Parton noted. “I think that’s one of the reasons I love to write, because I feel like I’m so connected to God right then,” she said."
"Kardashian enjoyed their conversation. “Dolly, you are even more magical in person! (if that’s even possible),” she wrote in the caption of a video of her and Parton. “I still feel like I’m dreaming!” Parton has given her fans something to soon look forward, however. She recently announced a forthcoming residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada."
“I haven’t worked Vegas in years and I’ve always loved singing there,” she said in a statement shared in the press release about the residency. “I’m looking so forward to the shows in The Colosseum at Caesars and I hope you are as well. See you there!” Parton’s last Las Vegas residency was 32 years ago. The new shows are scheduled for December."