![]() And I made the whole thing into my song’s lyric. “I went down there and she was pretty,” she writes. That phrase became the opening of a song that Parton also loosely based on her husband Carl Dean flirting with a girl down at the bank. “She came up to the stage and said, ‘Would you sign this ‘To Jolene’?’ I said, ‘I love that name, and if you ever hear a song with it, you’ll know it’s about you.’” To remember the name, Parton repeated “Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene” until she could get back to the bus and write it down. The song title was inspired by a little girl who asked Parton for an autograph while she was touring with Porter Wagoner in the early ’70s. Her original recording is now in the Grammy Hall of Fame.) The single spent a total of fourteen weeks on the chart and was Parton’s sixteenth number one country single as a solo artist. country singles charts starting March 8, 1986. (Parton finally won a Grammy for it in 2017 via a collaboration with the group Pentatonix. The Dolly Parton Think About Love song was first released on her 1985 Real Love album. 1 country smash and nominated for Grammy awards in 19. This Parton song is the one most performed by others, from bluegrass acts to alternative- rock bands. ![]()
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