Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the time. A woman who the Guardian in 2008 described as quote the biggest

star country music has ever produced close quote and who has seamlessly

crossed back and forth for more than 40 years between the country and Western genre and pop,

while also starring in movies and TV programs and altogether charming multiple generations

of Americans, the Great Dolly Pardon.

Pardon is best known for writing and singing songs such as Jolene, 9 to 5, and coat of many colors.

Over the course of her career career she has had a total of

110 singles hit the charts. 25 single or album releases certified as

gold, platinum or multi platinum. 26 songs Billboard's country charts and 42 albums Crack Its Top 10,

the former a record for a female artist and the latter a record for any artist, and number

one records in three different decades. She has also accumulated

46 Grammy nominations, the second most of any female artist ever behind only

Beyoncé, and seven Grammy wins, not to mention two Oscar Noms, one Emmy Noms and one Tony Nam.

And she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999, received the National Medal of Arts in 2005, was

fed at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2006, and was presented with the Grammy for Lifetime

Achievement in 2011.

As the New York Times wrote way back in 1977, quote,

Ms. Pardon is blessed with a remarkably individual soprano,

nasal and bluegrassy at full volume, and innocently

girlish at softer dynamic levels, her sense of phrasing and pitch is

impeccable, and above all there is her radiant charm close quote now at 72 pardon is still going

strong on November 30th dolly records in rCA nashville will release the soundtrack

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