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Mar 24, 2021 · The coat that inspired the song was so special to Dolly Parton that she'd kept it since childhood. It's now in the Dollywood Museum along with the handwritten lyrics on the dry cleaning receipt, which have been framed (via Country Daily ).
- Caitlin Flynn
Dec 4, 2015 · NBC has billed this holiday special as the “true story” behind “Coat of Many Colors,” the country hit Dolly Parton wrote about the jacket her mother stitched together for her from a basket ...
Nov 26, 2020 · Dolly Parton wrote her hit song "Coat of Many Colors" while working on The Porter Wagoner Show. She told Vanity Fair in November 2020 that the idea for the song came to her while they were...
- Bernadette Roe
- Humble Meaning
- A Lesson Learned
- Composition
- A Missing Verse
- The Lingering Legacy
The narrative is simple yet direct, gleaned from Parton’s rural upbringing as one of 12 children raised in a one-room cabin in the mountains of East Tennessee. Like many Appalachian families, the Partons were impoverished people with barely enough means to scrape by. Those memories of her rural roots are still an integral part of her persona, one t...
Rather than wallow in self-pity, Parton found her own vindication, and in the process, turned that trial into triumph: But they didn’t understand it, and I tried to make them see One is only poor, only if they choose to be Now I know we had no money, but I was rich as I could be In my coat of many colors my momma made for me. Few other songs are so...
In her 1994 autobiography, Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business, Parton recalled how she was traveling with her singing partner Porter Wagoner on his tour bus, when the song suddenly came to her. With nothing to write on, she picked up a dry cleaning receipt she found from one of Wagoner’s elaborate stage suits. The irony is obvious — using...
The 1975 album titled Best of Dolly Parton has the lyrics of the song printed in its gatefold, including a final verse that never made its way to any of Parton’s various recordings: Through life I’ve remained happy and good luck is on my side. I have everything that anyone could ever want from life. But nothing is as precious as my mama’s memory, A...
Parton’s determination to carry that memory forward has been underscored and affirmed by several subsequent incarnations of the song. Shania Twain, Emmylou Harris, Eva Cassidy, and Scottish comedian Billy Connolly recorded their own covers, and in 2005, “Coat of Many Covers” stood at No. 10 in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s compilation of the 1...
Dec 10, 2015 · With Alyvia Alyn Lind, Jennifer Nettles, Ricky Schroder, Gerald McRaney. Discover the magic and warmth of Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors, based on the inspiring story of living legend Dolly Parton’s remarkable upbringing in rural Tennessee.
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- Drama, Family, Musical
- Stephen Herek
- 2015-12-10
She recorded the song in April 1971, making it the title song for her Coat of Many Colors album. The song reached #4 on the U.S. country singles charts. Parton performed this song in April 1970, and was recorded for her album, "A Real Live Dolly", though it wasn't released in the album.
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Dec 3, 2015 · Tune in December 10, at 9 p.m. EST to watch "Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors" airing on NBC. The cast of "Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors" share personal stories about the making of the film, their favorite Dolly songs and more!
