Andre Hartslief
Dolly Parton is a woman of many talents, most anyone knows this. She’ a songwriter, a singer, an actress, a businesswoman and so many things more. However, while we know these things about her, some things exist about her that only her closest fans know. Here is a list of 6 rare facts about Miss Dolly that you may not know:
1. Johnny Cash was her very first crush. She was a young teenager and was given a chance to perform at the Grand Ole’ Opry in Nashville, TN. This was when she first saw Johnny perform. She only got to know Johnny Cash several years later when he took an interest in her career, through this, act, he became special to her. One of her favorite songs of his, “I Walk the Line.” is the name of the roller coaster at Dollywood
2. Dolly never rides on the rides at Dollywood. You heard that right, she refuses to ride the rides at her own theme park! This is not because she feels the rides are unsafe or that they aren’t fun, she’s just been extremely afraid of motion sickness and roller coasters, all her life. As a kid, she used to get sick on the school bus!
3. Did you know she once actually lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest? She thought she would win as herself when she saw the contest on Santa Monica Boulevard. Dolly once saw a group of guys dressed up like her, so she said she just exaggerated a bit as she looks alike and walked up onto the stage. She didn’t even come close to winning!
4. When she was born, her parents paid the doctor with a sack of oatmeal. It’s no secret that Dolly grew up very little money. This Smoky Mountain hero has always been open about her family’s poverty as a child.
5. She turned down a proposal from Elvis. We all know her song “I Will Always Love You,” did you know, however, that Elvis wanted to sing it? When Dolly made her own hit out of the song, Elvis’s manager reached out to her, hoping that Presley could sing it. Part of the deal required Dolly had to surrender half of the publishing rights to the song, and she didn’t like the sound of that very much. Something in her heart was telling her not to do it, she said. Whitney Houston later covered the song for the soundtrack of the film “The Bodyguard.”
6. The famous song“Jolene” was written about a bank teller. Everyone loves Dolly’s hit song, “Jolene,” but did you know what inspired it? Actually the song was written about a redheaded bank teller who used to flirt with Carl Dean, Dolly’s husband. She said he just enjoyed going to the bank because the woman paid so much attention to him, it soon became a running joke between the couple, as Dolly would say, “You’re spending a lot of time at the bank. I don’t believe we’ve got that kind of money.”
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Thank you for sharing. Dolly is a lovely woman and amazing that she is still entertaining to this day.
Thank you Sandra, I’m so glad you liked it, I have never heard her sing it before, what an iconic lady she is. 🙂
I knew most of this about Dolly, and she is still entertaining to this day.
I cannot for the life of me figure out how you make this” ??CLICK HERE ” happen. No, I don’t think I have ever heard this song, but I like it.
I get motion sickness as well so I have something in common with Dolly!
When you are creating a new post. At the top you will see B I and a little object that looks like a chain. Click that and you can insert (URL) whatever link (YouTube or whatever link you want to share). Then on the next line (TEXT) type whatever you want to appear on the page, like CLICK HERE, or whatever you want. Hope this helps.
When you do that does it look like this ??CLICK HERE ” because I just get it to turn the words blue, but not truly embed.
It looks like whatever text you write, the little icons he added you will just have to copy and paste them to your post. Kind of like a smiley face. 🙂 ??
Thanks, Carol, you are a great help. Let’s get our friend, operational, baby steps.
You are halfway there when you copied my camera and clapper board. I’m now going to share an easier way when you find a video you want to post on polls, right-click on the video screen. A black screen with white lettering appears. Next, click on the (copy video URL). Now the link is on your clipboard, (mouse)
Now go over to an opened Polls page. write the words, CLICK HERE and highlight the words CLICK HERE. Look at the top left, of the page, there is an icon like a chain link, click on it. It will open up and you will see the words CLICK HERE, already in there. Now put the link in your mouse in the URL space and click the blue word INSERT. Now when you look below where you wrote CLICK HERE it will be live-or clickable. Write your content etc. and post it with a related image on top and that should work. Let me know how it went, please. 🙂