#JOLENE 33 RPM SNOPES SERIES#

It did not win either time, but in 2017, a cover by the a cappella group Pentatonix which featured Parton as a guest singer won the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance.

#JOLENE 33 RPM SNOPES SERIES#

The first nomination was for the original recording, and the second was for a live recording from the TV series In Concert. 'Jolene' was nominated for the Grammy Awards for Best Female Country Vocal Performance twice, in 19. According to Parton, 'Jolene' is her most frequently covered song. 217 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of ' the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time' in 2004, and No. The song has sold 255,300 digital copies in the UK as of January 2017. The song also re-entered the chart when Parton performed at the Glastonbury festival in 2014. The song was released as a single later in the UK, and became Parton's first top ten hit song in the country, reaching number seven in the UK Singles Chart in 1976. As of December 2019, the song had sold 935,000 digital copies in the US since it became available for digital download. It reached the top position in February 1974 it was also a moderate pop hit for her and a minor adult contemporary chart entry. The song became Parton's second solo number-one single on the country charts after being released as a single in October 1973 (prior to the album's release). A musicologist wrote and performed a fourth verse which makes this interpretation explicit when the podcast's hosts played audio of this performance for Parton, she responded that this was 'another take on it'. In 2019, the podcast Dolly Parton's America had an episode addressing the question of whether the narrator's focus on Jolene's beauty and desirability is indicative of her own attraction to Jolene. Onstage in 1988, Parton told the audience that 'Jolene' was a true story and the reason she did not like to sing it too often. Throughout the song, the narrator implores Jolene 'please don't take him just because you can.' The song is unclear about whether or not Jolene intends to steal the narrator's lover, an ambiguity that has been addressed in several answer songs. The song tells of the narrator confronting Jolene, a stunningly beautiful woman, who she worries will steal away her lover/husband. ĭuring an interview on The Bobby Bones Show in 2018, Dolly Parton revealed that she wrote 'Jolene' on the same day that she wrote ' I Will Always Love You'. The thumb-picked guitar on the recording is by Chip Young.

In an interview, she also revealed that Jolene's name and appearance are based on that of a young fan who came on stage for her autograph. According to Parton, it is her most-covered song.Īccording to Parton, the song was inspired by a red-headed bank clerk who flirted with her husband, Carl Dean, at his local bank branch around the time they were newly married. 217 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of ' the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time' in 2004 and No. It was released on October 15, 1973, by RCA Victor, as the first single and title track from her album of the same name.

It was produced by Bob Ferguson and recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 22, 1973. She’s like an ambassador from a world where hard times make you stronger, but they’re still to be avoided where you escape your past not by running away but by planting a ladder where you stand and climbing up.' Jolene' is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Dolly Parton.

As she tells it, Dolly the multimillionaire and international star is a direct product of Dolly the little girl, who decided to model herself after the local hooker in the backwoods-Tennessee town where she grew up. “It costs a lot to look this cheap,” she likes to say. She’s never tried to hide or apologize for her tackiness or her self-sculpting. Even “I Will Always Love You” (lest we forget, a Parton composition long before Whitney), is both a love song and a breakup song.Īnd then there’s Parton herself, with breasts like launching missiles and the wardrobe of a seven-year-old with resources. Many of her songs float lightly on dark currents-if you scan her compositions from the past fifty years, you’ll find plenty of dying children, abandoned women, and paralyzing poverty dished up in catchy tunes and warbling tones. That’s how Dolly Parton works, both as a musician and a celebrity. Of course, that can be found in the original version, but the brisk clip of the performance and the chime of Dolly’s voice bounce over the concreteness of the despair.

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