Tracy Mumford
speaker
9,176 appearances
127 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 3d ago
Tracy Mumford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like a lot of her life experience, she turned her no electricity, no running water childhood into song.
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big early breakthrough came in the sixties on the Porter Wagner show.
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She was hired as the quote girl singer on the program, but quickly became a lot more.
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Pretty Miss Dolly Party.
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Together, she and Wagner released over 20 hit duets.
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Then she went solo.
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Her massive hit, I Will Always Love You, was her tender goodbye to Wagner, as her star outgrew his.
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In a story that has reached mythic status at this point, Parton sat down and wrote both that song and Jolene in one day.
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When it came to songwriting, she was an unstoppable force.
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The musician Emily Lou Harris once described Parton writing one song while singing another.
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And something as simple as just sitting round and tapping her long acrylic nails on the table?
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Supposedly gave her the clickety clack rhythm of nine to five.
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Over the decades, she released album after album all the way into her late 70s, while also pouring energy into philanthropy, too.
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Her Imagination Library project has distributed more than 200 million kids' books.
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And during the pandemic, she gave a million-dollar donation that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.
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On the business side she had her own theme park, of course, Dollywood.
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And just this summer she was at the opening of a Dolly branded truck stop in Tennessee, where you can get a cup of ambition coffee.
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Throughout her career, where she topped the charts, was nominated for more than 50 Grammys, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Parton knew there was a lot of focus on her looks, the blonde bombshell persona that she created.
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But she told The Times once, this isn't all I am.
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Adding, hopefully people can see beneath the hair to know there's a brain, beneath the boobs to know there's a heart, and behind all the other stuff to know there's some talent.
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