Heather Cox Richardson
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7,391 appearances
86 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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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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In nineteen seventy six, Parton began working with manager Sandy Gallen, and in nineteen eighty she launched her film career, starring with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in Nine to Five, a comedy with a subversive subtext about discrimination against women.
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In the film, for which Parton wrote the theme song, three working women replace their sexist domineering boss and implement programs their colleagues like, including equal pay, flexible hours, and an on-site daycare center.
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All of which result in dramatically improved office productivity.
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A massive success at the box office, nine to five opened doors for Parton in the movie industry, leading to parts in the Best Little Whore House in Texas, Steel Magnolias, and other films.
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She and Gallen created a production company, Sandollar, which produced her television specials and the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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For almost sixty years, Parton was a member of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, a labor union that represents about seventy thousand singers and players and is affiliated with the AFL CIO.
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She joined the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or SAG AFTRA, in nineteen sixty nine.
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AFM International President Tino Gagliardi told John Nichols of the nation
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Before she was an icon, Dolly was a working musician.
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Dolly never forgot the musicians who helped bring her music to life.
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By standing firm for solidarity and treating every player with dignity, she elevated our entire profession.
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In nineteen eighty nine, Sandalar helped to bring awareness and empathy to the AIDS crisis with the documentary Common Threads Stories from the Quilt.
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The film explored the lives of five of the individuals memorialized in panels on the AIDS Memorial Quilt and called attention to the Reagan administration's lack of response to the epidemic.
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In nineteen ninety, Common Threads won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and in the nineteen ninety one song Family that she wrote with Carl Perkins, Parton sang Some are preachers, some are gay, some are addicts, drunks, and strays, but not a one is turned away when it's family.
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Some are lucky, others ain't, some are fighters, others faint.
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