Heather Cox Richardson
speaker
7,479 appearances
87 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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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 86 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 26.
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Jack White played Jolene in London.
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Elsewhere in London, the Buckingham Palace Band played nine to five.
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All this and more for a woman born on january nineteenth, nineteen forty six in Severe County, Tennessee, in a cabin in the Smoky Mountains without electricity or running water.
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Dolly Rebecca Parton was the fourth of twelve children, born to illiterate sharecropper Robert Lee Parton Sr.
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and A.
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Lee Caroline Owens.
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A musical prodigy encouraged by her mother.
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Dolly was singing on local radio and television shows in Nashville by the time she was ten, and debuted at the Grand Old Opry when she was thirteen.
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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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