Heather Cox Richardson
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7,326 appearances
85 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
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Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Playing off Wagoner's famous rhinestone studded suits made by Ukrainian American designer Nudie Cohn, the Petite Parton adopted huge hairstyles and emphasized her figure, and soon began wearing rhinestones herself.
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She once told a journalist that she modeled her public image after a woman others called the town tramp, but whom she saw as a glamorous contrast to the women in Parton's own life.
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She had bright red lipstick, long red fingernails, she had high heeled shoes, little floating plastic goldfish in the heels of them, short skirts, low cut tops, and I just thought she was beautiful.
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When people would say she ain't nothin' but trash, I would always say well that's what I'm gonna be when I grow up.
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But in an industry dominated by men, Parton also noted her style was a way for a small woman to fill my space.
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By the nineteen seventies, Parton was coming into her own, taking on the music industry on her own terms.
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Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
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And do it with purpose, Parton was famous for saying.
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Don't ever sacrifice who you are, your principles and your morals and your values to just try to get ahead in business.
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It ain't worth it.
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Rather than running from her upbringing in rural poverty, Parton embraced the values that upbringing had inspired in her.
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In nineteen seventy one, she hit number one on the country charts with her song Joshua, inspired by the Appalachian men around whom she had grown up, whose rough looks covered their quality.
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In the same year her coat of many colours reached number four, telling the story of how her mother had made her a coat of rags rich with love.
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Those who valued possessions over love, she sang, were the ones truly impoverished.
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In nineteen seventy two, she wrote My Tennessee Mountain Home about the peace and humanity of rural life, walking home from church on Sunday with the one you love, just laughing, talking, making future plans.
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She parted ways with Wagoner in nineteen seventy four, and her farewell song to him, I will always love you.
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Became a global sensation that reached number one on the country charts in nineteen seventy four, nineteen eighty two, and again in nineteen ninety two, when it spent fourteen weeks at number one after Whitney Houston covered it.
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In nineteen seventy four, Parton also delivered Jolene, the desperate plea of a woman to a beautiful rival not to take my man.
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Jolene too hit number one on the country charts.
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In nineteen seventy five and nineteen seventy six, the Country Music Association named Parton Female Vocalist of the Year, and in nineteen seventy eight it honored her as Entertainer of the Year, just three of the many awards she would win as her musical career took off not just at home, but also internationally.
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