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It's fairly common knowledge that Merle Haggard had a crush on Dolly Parton, but do you know how she discovered the news?
Haggard recorded four songs by Parton, including two he released before her, and one she wrote especially for him, and 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.
The country music world lost a couple more important figures across the past week when news broke that Lulu Roman and David Briggs had both died. •WANT MORE COUNTRY MUSIC NEWS? CLICK HERE. The pushed ...
FIRST ON FOX: The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., will host symphony concerts featuring the music and life of American icon Dolly Parton this summer, Fox News Digital has learned. "The threads ...
For decades, Dolly Parton’s closest friendship has been with Judy Ogle, whom she has known since childhood. Parton and Ogle’s friendship has been known to the public since the early days of ...
Before he became a musician, Merle Haggard lived the kind of life that's often mythologized in song: Hopping freights and doing prison time. When he became a star, he acquired his own observation car.
On this day (April 25) in 1970, Dolly Parton recorded her first live album A Real Live Dolly in the gym of her high school alma mater, Sevier County High School. Parton brought Porter Wagoner and ...
Stealing the show at that very first Farm Aid concert in April 1985 was Merle Haggard, singing his then-new song "Natural High." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MERLE HAGGARD: (Singing ...