Dolly Parton

2022 - 12 - 24

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The gift of reading: Dolly Parton's Imagination Library coming soon (Duncan Banner)

In developing a community of readers and engaging young minds, area leaders work to bring opportunities to young children through a national reading ...

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Dolly Parton Reveals What the Pig Latin Says in 'The Friendliest ... (Showbiz Cheat Sheet)

On 'The Kelly Clarkson Show,' Dolly Parton explained how she included pig Latin in her song 'The Friendliest Enemy.'

I have five sisters, but I could only, as we say in the show, muster up two of them ’cause a couple are having a little bit of health issues at the moment and couldn’t do it,” Parton said. Parton’s musical Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas premiered on NBC on Dec. And then I had a lot of my family on the show. To show how on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Parton sang part of the song while using her fingernails to make music. “I had learned pig Latin when I was in school,” Parton explained. So I had the big idea to have background in pig Latin.”

Raymond J. de Souza: A Dolly Parton Christmas (National Post)

The country music star continues a long tradition — from the angels through Matthew — of telling stories through the gift of song.

It defines who human beings are. Yet storytelling — whether in song or otherwise — should be a joy. Some writers find it all a crushing burden. “But I know for a fact that no writer in this world enjoys it more than me.” Love is what most endures. That’s why so many songs are about love — desired, despairing, requited, unrequited, honoured, betrayed. Parton — and a long tradition — would call it the breath of God. “I just go into my ‘God space,’ ” Parton explains. Wasn’t Dolly Parton the real Queen of Christmas? There was an actual king at the first Christmas: Herod massacred the innocent infant boys. More specifically, it rejected pop star Mariah Carey’s application to trademark “ Article content

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