Dolly Parton: Here’s What You (Probably) Didn’t Know

Published on May 30, 2022
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Islands in the Stream

When Dolly Parton released her duet, “Islands in the Stream”, with fellow country legend Kenny Rogers, it quickly was ranked the #1 duet of all time on CMT’s 100 greatest country duets of all time. However did you know that neither Parton or Rogers wrote the song? The pop group, the Bee Gees, did!

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Islands in the Stream

Siblings

When you’ve got 11 siblings, it can be tough to have a good relationship, but that wasn’t the case for the Parton’s, they’re all very close! Although we should point out that Dolly’s fame caused a rift with her sister, Stella. As a matter of fact, Stella wrote about their rocky relationship in her tell-all book. Basically, when Dolly got very famous, Stella remembers how she was pushed aside, she said, “Dolly found every reason in the world to keep me as far away as possible and over the years I finally gave up and let her have it.”

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Siblings

Siblings