I'm currently reading Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business. I'm very much enjoying it. I didn't know this book existed until I read about it in an NPR review, and then, about two days later, I found it at Goodwill. That was a while ago, but I'm just now getting to it.
I can hear Parton's voice as I read this book (I'm writing about her actual voice here...but her writing definitely has its own stylistic voice, also). The book was published in 1994 and I'm right now hoping that she'll write again in the coming years.
Reading this makes me want to listen to her music even more. (It also makes me want the money to purchase Dolly, a box set of her music, from my wishlist.) I just read past the part where she ends her professional relationship with Porter Wagoner and sets out on her own. This is when she wrote "Light of a Clear Blue Morning," which I love oh-so-much.
[Dolly Parton "Light of a Clear Blue Morning" (1992)] Why is "STACKED" there on the side? I'm sure there's a reason other than reference to her formidable bosom, right?
In speaking of Wagoner, she also talks about "I Will Always Love You," which she says she wrote about the break-up of their working together, not about a break-up with a lover. I remember singing this song when I was young. For a bit, I only knew it because of Whitney Houston, but then I found out it was a Parton song.
I, along with many, many others, find it funny that so many people choose this song to be played at their weddings. It helps if you listen to the lyrics, no? "Things can't really work out, so I'm going to take off now, but, well, I'll always love you." Not exactly the message one wants to hear at the beginning of a marriage. I especially love that she sings this in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. It just makes it all that much more fun when it's chosen for a wedding.
[Dolly Parton - I will always love you]
Speaking of that movie, makes me want to do a little sidestep, too, so I'll include that.
[Charles Durning in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas] He he he.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
hello, dolly!
Posted by v at 11:57
Labels: glorious books, glorious music, high praise, moving pictures
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oooooo that sounds fantastic! I will have to check it out.
Great stuff, the I Will Always Love You stuff. I am always horrified by the songs people choose at their weddings. Most love songs are break up songs.
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is actually really great. In a cheesy-"hey isn't prostitution hilarious"-Burt Reynolds is sexy?!?-way.
I enjoy Whorehouse also. I finally found it at Goodwill recently. I'm pretty sure Cardo thinks I bought porn from Goodwill.
As for the wedding songs, Cardo picked ours. I'm so not the typical I've-been-planning-my-wedding-since-I-could-speak girl that I so often see depicted on tv and in movies. I didn't even really enjoy planning ours all that much. I'm glad I didn't have to choose either our song nor the song I danced to with my dad.
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