20th-Century Singers - Andy Williams, Bo Burnham, David Haskell, David Hemmings, Debbie Reynolds, Dionne Warwick, Dolly Parton, Eric Idle, Er (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 63. Chapters: Andy Williams, Bo Burnham, David Haskell, David Hemmings, Debbie Reynolds, Dionne Warwick, Dolly Parton, Eric Idle, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Gavin DeGraw, Igor Gorin, Inge Borkh, Julia McKenzie, Julie Grant, Margaret Matzenauer, My Tam, Peter Alexander (Austrian performer), Petr Kotvald, Petula Clark, Phoebe Snow, Selma Kurz, Tiririca. Excerpt: Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. She has composed over 3,000 songs, the best known of which include "I Will Always Love You" (a two-time U.S. country chart-topper for Parton, as well as an international pop hit for Whitney Houston), "Jolene," "Coat of Many Colors," "9 to 5," and "My Tennessee Mountain Home." As an actress, she starred in the movies 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias, Gnomeo & Juliet, Straight Talk, Unlikely Angel, and Joyful Noise. She is one of the most successful female country artists of all time; with an estimated 100 million in album sales, Dolly Parton is also one of the best selling artists of all time. She is known as The Queen of Country Music. She was born in Sevierville, Tennessee, the fourth of twelve children of Robert Lee Parton, a tobacco farmer, and his wife Avie Lee (Owens). She has described her family as being "dirt poor." She outlined her family's poverty in her early songs "Coat of Many Colors" and "In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)." They lived in a rustic, one-room cabin in Locust Ridge, just north of the Greenbrier Valley, in the Great Smoky Mountains in Sevier County, a predominantly Pentecostal area. Music played an important role in her early life, and her grandfather was a Pentecostal "holy-roller" preacher. Dolly Parton began performing as a child, ...