Natalie McDonald
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647 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Natalie McDonald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm going to rise above it because that that is what I think.
Dolly Parton, who is the focus of our second category, would want me to do.
Because for end of an era
I really don't think you can go past Dolly Parton, who of course died this week at aged eighty.
And there will rightly be a lot said about the music.
A hundred million records sold, three thousand songs written, twenty-five number one country hits.
Um rightly so, but
This is fear and greed.
So I want to talk about something else.
And that is the fact that Dolly Parton was a seriously good businesswoman and also a seriously good human.
She famously held on to the rights to her songs, including Turning Down Elvis Presley.
Uh, when his manager wanted half of the publishing rights to I Will Always Love You.
Then Whitney Houston recorded it years later and Dolly still owned that song.
Her catalogue has been valued at around $120 million.
Then, of course, there's Dollywood, which she helped turn into a major tourism business, an employer in the part of Tennessee, where, as we all know historically, she grew up dirt poor.
Dolly gave us the phrase cup of ambition.
More than four decades later, she turned it into an actual coffee brand.
The woman could monetize a metaphor to no end.
Yes, but also Michael, don't interrupt me.
She also gave
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