Jon Fasman
speaker
158 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Aug
Jon Fasman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When Dolly Parton was in her twenties, she rejected Elvis Presley.
John Fazman is the economist's senior culture correspondent.
She had written a soaring, wonderful song called I Will Always Love You, and the king wanted to cover it.
He demanded that she sign over half the rights of the tune itself.
She said no.
It must have taken nerve for a woman who grew up in a one-room shack without electricity to tell the king to get lost, but it made her millions.
Ms.
Parton became a megastar, with twenty-five number one hits and eleven Grammy Awards.
Yet what was striking about her career was not how many people loved her, but how few didn't.
What was her secret?
Well it started with her voice.
A warbling bright soprano with a twangy Appalachian accent.
It could be honeyed and nostalgic, as in coat of many colours.
About a homemade coat stitched together from rags, which the other kid laughed at, but made her feel rich because of the love her mother put into it.
She could sound weary and bemused, as in nine to five, in which she pours herself
before battling rush hour traffic to toil for an indifferent boss.
Or it could be sharp and piercing, as in Jolene, in which he begs another prettier woman, don't take my man.
She was a gifted writer who started at a time when female country singers rarely penned their own songs.
Her lyrics were plain spoken and playful.
She had a knack for compressing complex stories and life lessons into rhyming couplets.
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