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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She'd recently been admitted to a cancer center at a hospital in Nashville.
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Over her 60-year career, she ruled country music and became one of American pop culture's most beloved icons.
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Parton lived a true rags to riches story.
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Born in 1946 in a one-room cabin in Tennessee, her family was so poor her father paid the doctor who delivered her with a sack of cornmeal.
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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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