Heather Cox Richardson
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7,391 appearances
86 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard yesterday
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In 1964, she moved to Nashville, where other musicians quickly recognized her talent as a songwriter.
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Over her career she would write songs made famous by Kenny Rogers, Merle Haggard, Wayland Jennings, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, and others.
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In nineteen sixty five, Parton made her first record, and the following year she married asphalt paver Carl Dean, who stayed out of the limelight during their fifty nine year marriage.
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Following the success of Parton's first record, country music star Porter Wagoner invited her to become part of his own show in 1967.
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There she blossomed, joining Wagoner to record a dozen studio albums that produced a number of top ten hit singles.
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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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