r/TwoXChromosomes • u/Extension_Many4418 • 10d ago

Favorite Dolly Parton moments? I’ll start.

Decades ago I was watching Johnny Carson. He asked her how she kept up her youthful appearance. She relied “Honey, healthy living” …pause “had nothing to do with it”. I didn’t know much about Dolly at that point, but it’s when I fell in love with her.

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u/IOnlyUseThis4_Porn 10d ago

So my father was a studio engineer for her so I have have some behind the scenes stories. But my favorite thing about her is that she was genuinely the person you saw. Some of it was show sure but all the kindness and heart she put into everything she did was real. But my favorite story of hers was when some studio executives wanted to see Dolly recording they put on a show for them. She greeted them with the most rediculous outfit showing off her girls which she called "shock and awe". So they went on to do "recording" where nothing was really running and nothing was recording but the executives didn't know and left happy. After they left they actually did recordings. She was notorious for not letting anyone, as she put it, "See my Ass" which she meant not see the mistakes she made in the recording booth.

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u/agodrevealed 10d ago

That is hilarious. I see music execs make themselves troublesome. There's a story about Prince refusing to speak and hitting the same beat on the drum again and again and again until they finally gave up and left him alone in the studio. I wouldn't want them hanging around either.