In the early 1970s, Dolly Parton and Merle Haggard toured together and often ended up in close quarters, hanging out on one another’s tour bus, playing cards, talking about life and the music ...

and even elderly grandfathers have seemingly had a crush on Dolly Parton. However, the most notable man to have a crush on Parton was her fellow musician and tourmate, Merle Haggard. Haggard never ...

While touring together in the early 1970s, Merle Haggard had already fallen in love with Dolly Parton. Haggard even wrote a love song for Parton, “Always Wanting You,” which he released on his ...

Merle also appeared on Parton’s later ’80s television variety show Dolly. When Haggard died in 2016, Parton said, “We’ve lost one of the greatest writers and singers of all time.

Consequently, they were friends, collaborators, and in Haggard’s case, even held unrequited love for one another. All that being so, Dolly Parton used her songwriting talents and gifted two ...

Merle Haggard’s Song For Dolly (That He Made Her Listen to at 3 a.m.) Nevertheless, that didn’t stop the lovelorn Haggard from writing a song about his crush on Dolly Parton…and then forcing ...

"I think Merle is a great singer and songwriter, and probably he was in as bad a shape as I was, but we’ve never been close since that night.” ...

And, by diving into each's humble upbringing, Burns introduces two of country music’s most important figures: Dolly Parton and Merle Haggard. Burns and film writer Dayton Duncan continue to ...

Merle Haggard admitted that his 1975 No. 1 "Always Wanting You" came out of his period of infatuation for Dolly Parton. In his book, "Sing Me Back Home: My Own Story," Merle said that he couldn't ...

Dolly Parton is a living legend in the music industry ... George Jones, and of course Merle Haggard, all those wonderful, wonderful artists of that day,” she said about some of the genre ...