One of Dolly Parton’s first country hits was 1967’s Dumb Blonde ... when I saw her onstage at Nashville’s Country Music Awards ceremony at the Opry in 1983. Most of Music City’s leading performers ...

Dolly Parton is arguably the most important female ... crossover country-pop hits ever with "Islands in the Stream," a 1983 duet with Kenny Rogers. In 1986 she launched her own theme park ...

Over the decades, Country Music Hall of Fame member Dolly Parton, 78, has notched more than ... for best country vocal ...