Dolly Parton pt6

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
I'm Dolly Parton and you're listening to the Ralph Emery
show me and RAF would like to play one of
my songs for you now. We hope you'll like it.
It's called traveling Man.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
The man had a selling ralph, selling goods from house
to house.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
None you, Mamma would never stand for me.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Stepping up with no traveling man.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Mama about things, and he would have said it.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
My Mama didn't known how sure would telling.

Speaker 5 (00:47):
That's behind her back.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
I was making flesh to meet somewhere with that traveling man.
Or the traveling man was a good bet holder, but
a girl needs arms to hold her.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Mama didn't know because I didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Told her, for she wasn't understanding me stepping down with
her traveling man.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Mamma didn't allow me to go.

Speaker 6 (01:18):
In court, and i'd tell lies that I reckon, I art,
or she would have given me the back of her
hand if she'd have seen me with that traveling man.
So I tell my mama, I reckon, I ort to
go to the spring and fetch you some water.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
What Mamma didn't know.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Is I had a plan to meet down there with
that traveling.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Man, and I made a plays right away with that
traveling man on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
That's Saturday's here and here I'm staying. There goes mama
with a traveling man.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
That traveling man was a true time lover.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Took my love and he took my mother.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
I didn't know if Mama didn't tell me. And I
don't understand.

Speaker 7 (02:10):
Mama running off with a traveling man.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
I'm really gonna miss that traveling.

Speaker 8 (02:16):
Man, Dolly. I don't know what I've ever asked you before,
not uh, since this song is it's a cute little
song about you, a man and your mama. What do
your mama think about this?

Speaker 5 (02:34):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:34):
She hates this song with a passion. Always when I
do it on stage on the road, I always I
sang the Code of Many Colors, and you know, it's
a good story about my mom and me. It's true,
And I always say, this is not a true story
in this song. My mama despises, and boy she does.
She said, people is gonna think I'm like that, why
do you have to write songs?

Speaker 4 (02:52):
But she just kids.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
She likes the song, which she's always praised. Somebody's gonna
think it's true, but it's not true.

Speaker 8 (02:58):
I think there's another side to Dolly Parton. We've seen
some of it on this show. But you a mischievous site,
a funny site. You have a pretty good sense of
humor to.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, I love to have a good time at anybody's expense.

Speaker 8 (03:12):
Who wrote those twots you used to do with Porter?
Like ten four over and out and the things were
you and Porter would fight and fuss on the record.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Well, Porter wrote that particular song. It's the last fighting
song we've done. But I started writing the you know,
the ones we first started doing, Running by Me One
More Time and Fight and Scratch and oh Lord, I
don't know, but it was I started writing them, and
so it's got to be popular and people request them,
so we just always put one in an album.

Speaker 8 (03:39):
This was the comedy side of Dolly Parton.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh that's one side of it. I'm just like everybody else.
I got four size Northeast.

Speaker 8 (03:48):
All Right, you've heard Dolly partner on this show with
traveling man Dolly. Why don't you bring on this old boy?

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Okay, this is called take Me Home to Somewhere. This
is Joe Stampley.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
I just left the bar and it's midnight.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
Lord knows, I'm alone.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
The man.

Speaker 9 (04:29):
All my life, I've been a dreamer, things having worked out,
lie God plan. Yeah, I've had my share up at times,
and a lot of good women. But the life I'm living,

(04:52):
I know.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
It just ain't right.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
A look warm red wine.

Speaker 10 (05:00):
Lots of people leaving, but you can't take them home.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
You had not.

Speaker 10 (05:13):
Take me home somewhere. I'm so tired of buming around
like a clown.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Couldn't get it off.

Speaker 10 (05:29):
That city already out of place.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
And I found.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Take me home somewhere.

Speaker 10 (05:48):
Where there's rest more this week remain.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
And there's a little girl.

Speaker 10 (05:59):
She's waiting somewhere. Help me get it together again. Have
a little girl she went somewhere, Help me get it

(06:20):
together again.

Speaker 8 (06:32):
Joe Stampley on the show, singing, take me home to somewhere.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Together.

Speaker 11 (06:40):
Time, time to spend, enjoy life, good food.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
And get out.

Speaker 12 (06:48):
And you got together.

Speaker 11 (06:51):
Well the good time to again together with you, together
with friends.

Speaker 7 (06:58):
And the.

Speaker 13 (07:02):
Next time you're dining out, get together with holiday and
good food, good friends together.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
So he said, if you can, I can ouch my
lips hurt when I laugh.

Speaker 14 (07:15):
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(07:35):
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Speaker 8 (07:38):
One thing we haven't mentioned on the show in regard
to Dolly Parton is a problem she's been having with
her throat. A lot of entertainers because they work and
sing so much. Jack Green comes to mine, Charlie Rich
has worked so much in the last year, he's had
a lot of throat problems, and Dolly Partners seems has

(08:01):
gotten into the same area of overwork and as a
result throat problems. For how long I Dolly, It's.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Been a year since I started having trouble with my throat.
I have what I want to call nodes nodules that's short.

Speaker 8 (08:16):
But as a result, you can't hit all the notes.
She used to.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Well, it's just I can't. Sometimes I can't sing at all.
My voice just completely leaves me. But then when it
gets real hoarse, well, I have to go on voice
rest and then they've taken me off some of the
songs I've sung like Muskin and Blues where I have
to throw my voice and hit the high notes.

Speaker 8 (08:35):
If I were to go to see you in concerts someplace,
your road show, I would not see mules Skin or Blue.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
No, I've been I went to a speech therapist or
some you know, the people that were trying to figure
out if I was singing in the right keys and all.
And they took me off of Muskin and Blues completely,
and they said I would probably. I always have this
problem is you know, once you get it, it's voice
abuse that keeps, you know, bringing it back. So they
said for me never to sing it again. So I
have to recite it now. I say, whip, scream, whistle,

(09:06):
good morning, captain, good morning to you, sir. Hey hey,
So now that's the only way I can. But anyway,
I can't sing that one in any song where I
really have to, you know, throw my boss beyond its
natural range.

Speaker 8 (09:21):
Is there any other song in your repertoire that would
be affected?

Speaker 1 (09:25):
No, that's the only one I've had to pay.

Speaker 8 (09:26):
That's a shamed though. You can't sing me in the
Skinner and Blues anymore.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Well, if I should get completely well, which I'm looking
to They don't seem to think that I will. They,
you know, they keep saying that, well, I mean, I'm
all right, but it's just I have to cut back
and kind of watch it from straining my throat. But
I don't know if I'll ever be able to say
mule skin or not.

Speaker 8 (09:45):
If you when you go into what they call voice rest,
how long does that last?

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Well, once I was out for three weeks and and
my boss really wasn't well, then it's just that I could,
you know, it was well enough to where I could
go back to work.

Speaker 8 (09:58):
But when you're in what they call voice rest, are
you allowed to talk?

Speaker 13 (10:03):
No?

Speaker 1 (10:03):
And it's so sad. I'm not allowed to whisper nor laugh,
and I have to write down on paper or I
finally got smart after I had to do it so
many times. I got in one of these little magic boards,
you know, where little kids write on this little slate
and then you, you know, lift the paper up. But
it gets so sad. After about three days, I just cried,
you know, because it's so Longsome when you're inside yourself

(10:25):
and you can't you know, communicate with anybody, You can't talk,
and you want to say so much, and it I
wrote myself to death. I wrote so much that my
hand I had trouble with my hand and I had
to go let my hand go on the rest.

Speaker 8 (10:38):
Well, let's let's let's go back for a moment. Let's
see you get up in your home. When you get
up in the morning and you go in the kitchen
and there's Carl, your husband. Do you write down Hi Carl,
good morning Carl? Or what you doing?

Speaker 1 (10:54):
I just throw up my hand and this wave, you know, And.

Speaker 8 (10:59):
Did do you mean to tell me that you went
for three weeks without saying a word.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
I really didn't, I really did. I did well. I
did a time or too. When I just get to crying,
you know, I just it would be so sad. I
just couldn't not stand any morning. I just I cussed
little and cry. Not really my life. No, I didn't
really cuss, but it really You can't imagine what that

(11:26):
do to you, somebody that loves to talk as much
as I do, which is probably my problem to begin with.
But uh, it gets sad, but I don't. I didn't
break the silence many times, you know, cause it I
wasn't supposed to. And they told me how important it
was that I didn't, and I went for about I know,
at least a week without saying anything. I bet that

(11:46):
just about kiss you, I just cried, I really did,
because it's sad Dahlia.

Speaker 8 (11:51):
As a result, do they limit them out of days
you can sing on the road.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
I'm supposed to cut back forty percent on my work,
which I hadn't been able to at this point, which
is bad because see I I'm just now getting reorganized
with my new show, and it all happened at a
bad time. But I'm I'm cutting back starting the first
of the year.

Speaker 8 (12:12):
On some shows, there are some songs like Traveling Man,
where you seem to shout a little bit.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, I holler.

Speaker 8 (12:19):
Do you still do that?

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Not as much. I'm always conscious of my you know,
of my throat problem. In fact, when I did love
is like a butterfly, it's real obvious that I'm horse
on it. A lot of people have come in it
on me changing my style. It wasn't so much that
it's just it was a different sound. It sounds better
as far as me singing, because it's not as piercing,
but it just bothers me.

Speaker 8 (12:41):
All right, Now you be quiet for a minute. Okay,
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Speaker 7 (12:49):
I put on my baby foojis the batches on the
talkings tied yet over them around the pig tails in.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
My oh berefood.

Speaker 7 (13:02):
Need the sunshine stop to pick the flow. That little
girl feeling was a thing. Can't find this little feeling.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
Get start the same ere. I just can't hooking.

Speaker 7 (13:26):
Yesterday he took him. Since you came in and help
my door. Can't find the feeling and embold I got
down on my records by Elvis and the beadle, call

(13:51):
my best friend and we talked an hour or soul.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Go back to job gooden the rings trying.

Speaker 7 (14:00):
To forget you, but still those big girl holdagues wouldn't go.
I went out to see a movie, sit right on
the front road, ate a box of popcorn and out

(14:20):
he roll. But when the show was old, I just
went to pieces that feeling and was cold.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Came find the lever feeling.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
It's not the.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Sad em I just came hooky.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yesterday, took it.

Speaker 7 (14:51):
Since you came in and out, my god, I can't
find the feeling.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
And gets down the side.

Speaker 11 (15:10):
Money just get look here yesterday Choky.

Speaker 8 (15:21):
That Barbara fair Child with little girl feeling you feel
love to introduce the next Rikord.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah, let me see what it is. Oh, this is
Ruby Baby and this is Billy Krash.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
Credit my love.

Speaker 5 (15:44):
The girl said Ruby.

Speaker 15 (15:46):
Is her name? You don't love anybody love her just
the same motus.

Speaker 12 (16:03):
I could go Simons Anna unti Ruby rude?

Speaker 5 (16:08):
Ruby? Will you will?

Speaker 15 (16:10):
My time means Thomas you the fin mo tries.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Unconstly way from.

Speaker 5 (16:24):
Paul the guy.

Speaker 15 (16:30):
The Happy Day, I'm mad to me about the hour
the honor get.

Speaker 5 (16:37):
Moby rude movie. Will you then.

Speaker 12 (16:42):
All the time?

Speaker 5 (16:44):
Gonother girl? I said, Ruby is her name? Where else

(17:14):
you look?

Speaker 15 (17:15):
Scip tolease you does some set my things?

Speaker 12 (17:21):
Who got the little Jessy to a gonok them? Mother
you Rudie, Ruby, Rudie?

Speaker 10 (17:32):
Will you in my house some time?

Speaker 8 (17:37):
Out really crash crad act with Ruby Baby.

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Speaker 5 (18:26):
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Speaker 3 (18:30):
With passing her Tony.

Speaker 12 (18:38):
Together time time to spend and joy line.

Speaker 5 (18:46):
Get out and we got together. Well the good times.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
On again together with you together with friends.

Speaker 13 (19:00):
The next time you're dining out, you get together with
holiday in good food, good friends together.

Speaker 8 (19:07):
As Darli, it is your turn to sing again. I
thought we would have you sing Touch your Woman. I
don't think you want to say about this.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
No, it's just a song. That's It's one of my
favorite songs that I've wrote. I mean, everybody has their
favorites of their own songs. This didn't do well. I
mean it wasn't a real big record for me, but
I hope folks will enjoy listen to it anyway. It's
called Touch a Woman.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
We can't always both be right.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
We sometimes disagree.

Speaker 7 (19:45):
You got the right to speak your mind, and it's
the same with me.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Wendy Anger, then an you.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
Own and sid and A they get around.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yes, yes, touch your.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
Moment, touch all.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Everything's gonna be all right.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Touch your touch your woman, let me go, let me
weatherthing's over.

Speaker 7 (20:25):
There are times when I should be strong, when i'm awfully,
when the certain blows of luck have brought me to
my kneeds.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Woman needs heaven hand needs someone to understand.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
Need the man.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Shr hepperstand sat, touch your moment, touch all Loman. Everything's
gonna be all right, touch all, touch your woman, let
me know.

Speaker 5 (21:01):
Let me.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Whether thy don't.

Speaker 7 (21:10):
And when the bazy days you lay thems. You know
exactly what it takes to keep me sadi.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
You know exactly what I need. All the sleeper jeeps.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Thinking belong to me, Touch a touch all alone. Everything's
gonna be all right. Touch let me do, let me.

Speaker 7 (21:49):
Whether they go.

Speaker 8 (22:03):
Dolly, how far back were we with that? How many?
How many years ago was that?

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Touch a woman was about four years ago in.

Speaker 8 (22:11):
Nineteen seventy then, yeah, all right, our guest star of
the week, our pretty girl of the week here who
looks I wish you know this is there's one or
two times, and I wish that we could put pictures
on the radio. You wish you could see how pretty
Dolly is. That's Dolly parton with Touch your Woman. Oh,

(22:40):
Dolly Dollar's worried about me telling you people how pretty
she is. You look all pretty, Dolly. I didn't make
that up.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
You didn't make that up. I got a ragged out
on my head and everything, But thank you.

Speaker 8 (22:52):
I show our show presented by a camp ophony, the
holiday ends and Basiline Airtonics. You tomorrow, okay, hope so
Chris Ralph Emory thanking all you folks for listening.