In a 2019 interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Dolly Parton shared just what motivated one of her most beloved songs—and ...

Dolly Parton has explained that her 1973 hit "Jolene" was inspired by her husband Carl Thomas Dean, who has died at age 82.

courtesy Dolly Parton Dolly Parton's famed ballad, "Jolene," was "loosely based on a little bit of truth" by a woman who had a crush on the singer's late husband, Carl Dean. Dean's death was ...

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One of the stand-out tracks upon the record’s release was a cover of Dolly Parton’s iconic song, “Jolene.” Still, to call it a cover feels disingenuous, because it’s more like a modern ...

Want more movie news? Sign up for Entertainment Weekly ... even explaining that he inspired her signature song, "Jolene." The woman behind the enchanting seductress at the center of the song ...

Parton was 20; Dean was 23. He was one of the twin inspirations behind one of Parton’s most famous songs, “Jolene,” which she wrote after a teller at a local bank started to give her husband ...

She wrote the hit 1973 song after a bank teller caught the eye of Dean, who died on Monday. She attributed its success to its simplicity and the universal emotions it evokes.