Heather Cox Richardson
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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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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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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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