Dolly Parton releases new song ‘If You Hadn’t Been There’ in honor of late husband Carl Dean
Carl and I fell in love when I was 18 and he was 23, and like all great love stories, they never end,” she wrote about the ...
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Dolly Parton dedicates song to husband of nearly six decades after his death
Dolly Parton has dedicated her new song If You Hadn’t Been There to her husband, Carl Dean, who has died aged 82. The ...
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Why did Dolly Parton write 'Jolene'? How husband Carl Dean inspired her biggest hit
Dolly Parton's husband, Carl Dean, passed away in Nashville at 82. Dean was the inspiration for Parton's hit song "Jolene," based on a bank teller who admired him. The couple met in 1964 and ...
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Dolly Parton Memorializes Her Husband, Carl Dean, in a New Song
By Maya Salam Over their nearly 60-year marriage, Carl Dean inspired his wife, the country music superstar Dolly Parton, to write several songs. There was “Just Because I’m a Woman” in 1968 ...