Ed Smith

So now we're going to imagine when we hear this, this is Dolly giving it away.

But let's imagine Andy Burnham singing this to Keir Starmer sometime tomorrow.

And he's thinking, man,

Cooney an accent so look the story behind this just as fascinating and brilliant as the song Porter Wagner was a big deal a big wheel in the country music TV scene there's a lot of country music television back in the 60s 70s in America and he had a TV show was hugely popular he took on this young ingenue 1819 at the time young Dolly Parton as he took her under his wing they developed a relationship beyond the cameras and

And what was happening there is Dolly Parton was so charismatic and so brilliant that she maybe kind of started taking some of the attention, some of the shine off Porter Wagner's cowboy boots.

He didn't like it.

So he actually let her go from the show.

And they couldn't.

Well, she said, look, I can't do this anymore.

We're fighting the whole time.

I've outgrown you.

It's time to go.

She wrote this song to say goodbye to him on the same day that she wrote Jolene.

So we're going back to 1974.

And a little interesting fact about this is that Elvis wanted to record this and release it.

But Colonel Tom Parker, being Colonel Tom Parker, wanted 50% and Donnie went, even at that age, at that stage of her career, went, no.

And she held out.

Could we love her anymore?

She held out for the Bodyguard soundtrack and has made countless, countless movies.

Anyway, she's one of the greats.