Dolly Parton pt7

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
This is the raf Emory Show, and my name is
Dolly Partner. Who are you, mister?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Well? I just they let me in the studio here
to watch y'all do this show. I just sit over here.
What are you? What are you doing here?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, I come to see raf Emry you see anywhere around?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
They told me he'd be oh okay down the hall.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Now, it's good to be with you again. Today we'll
have somebody thinking you're not here.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Who's who?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
You know?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Who's sponsoring the show?

Speaker 4 (00:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
I think it's a lastly hire Tonic holiday, inn and
camp f Old Finnicky Phanique.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
You win the cigar. That won't make you very happy
with it.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
You don't like cigars. I just slid out.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
They don't like me. I'm allergic to him.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Well, you gotta quit smoking him.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
I know it. I'm gonna have to give him up.
I'm trying.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Who's gonna open the show?

Speaker 1 (00:53):
This is Danny Davis in the Nashville Brass and it's
called I'm a ramnoy Man.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Looking laps don't want.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Unpost.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
That's the instrumental version of the Waylon Jennings hit Danny
Davis in the brass section and I'm a rambling man.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
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Speaker 6 (03:36):
Care of your hair while.

Speaker 7 (03:38):
It's there with vast her tony.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Together.

Speaker 8 (03:47):
Time time to spend, enjoy line, good to get out,
and we got together.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Well at good times.

Speaker 8 (04:00):
I beg you together with you together with friends.

Speaker 6 (04:08):
But next time you're dining out, get together.

Speaker 5 (04:10):
With holiday, good food, good friends together.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
My guest is Dolly Parton, who likes to talk a lot,
don't you, dog?

Speaker 8 (04:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (04:19):
I do.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
I don't know how the world you ever stayed quiet
for a week.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Oh it wasn't easy.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
You're gonna have any more times when you have to
be silent for a week.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
I probably will because I talk too much. I destroy
all my voice before it's time to sing, and I'm
supposed to be rest in my throat, and as you
can tell, I'm not. But I'm not gonna say anything else. Raf,
I don't care what you say. You're not gonna be
able to get me say nothing else. And I just
don't want you to ask me to because I'm not
gonna do it. I don't care what.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
I can't get a word in.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
I just kidding in.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh, all right, well i've lost my friend. Thought.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
I bet you that you was gonna talk about the
Coat of Many Colors some we're gonna right now, right.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
We're gonna do that this song and now, this really
brings out the sentimental side of Dolly Party.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
This is true story. And I've had songs, it's so
more records, but I've never had one that men as
much to me as this particular song.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
You have an album called A Code of Many Colors,
and there's a picture of you when you were a
very young girl, and uh this, uh it's a painting.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, but the real pictures on the back of the album.
It was off of a real.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Picture a little Dolly. How old were you?

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Oh, it was about eight years old.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
I don't want to go into any further details because
a lot of our listeners can't see the album unless
they find it in the record shop. Of course, that'd
be kind of nice if they did that. Yeah, but you,
I presume when you were about eight years old was
when you got the Code of Many Colors.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
My mama made it out of corduroy rags, and the
story the song tells the story as it is, you
were you.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
You grew up in very poor circumstances in it.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, as far as money goes material things, but the
story tells of how rich we really was in the
things that really count, that's love and understanding. Back through
the years, I go wandering once again, back to the

(06:18):
seasons of my youth. I recalled a box of rags
that someone gave us, and how my mama put the
rags to use. There were rags of many colors, but
every piece was small, and I didn't have a coat,

(06:41):
and it was a way down in the fall. Mama
sold the rags together. So in every piece we love,
she made my coat of many colors that I was
so proud of. As she sold, she told the story
from the Bible she had read about a Code of

(07:03):
Many Colors, Joseph Warren bench. She said, perhaps this cold
will bring you good luck and happiness. And I just
couldn't wait to wear it, and Mama blessed it with kids.
My Code of Many Colors that my mother may for

(07:24):
me made only from breaks, but I wore it soul
rout me. Although we had no money. Why as rich
as I could be in my Code of many Colors
my mama made for me so with patches on my

(07:48):
breeches and holes in both my shoes, in my Code
of Many Colors, I hurried off school just to find
the other's life nothing and of making fun of me
and my Code of Many Colors my mama made for me,

(08:09):
and all I couldn't understand it, for I felt I
was rich. And I told them all the love my
mama sold in every stitch, and I told them all
the stories Mama told me why she sewed, and how
my Code of Many Colors was worth more than all

(08:30):
their clothes. But they didn't understand it, and I tried
to make them see that one is only born only
if they choose to be.

Speaker 6 (08:45):
Now.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
I know we had no money, but I was rich
as I could be in my Code of Many Colors
my mama made.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
For me, made just for me. I bet your mama
really loves that song. Yeah she does, because I would
imagine she'd have a hard time listening to that for Uh.
She had little tear out of that.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
My daddy does too. The first time he has seen
me sing it on television, it really bothered it, you know,
cause they showed a picture of the Code of Minic Colors,
I think, superimposed me singing, you know, over the picture,
and I guess it just brought back sad memories and uh,
but it's a good memories. I wouldn't trade it for nothing.
It's not that I wouldn't play it on people's sympathy

(09:30):
by writing a song. It's just that I was trying
to show how important, really important things really are, things
like love and you know, like my folks, my mama
and I knew, n I know now that when she
told the story about Joseph and the cod of Minic Color,
she was just trying to make me proud of that
cold because she probably already knew that somebody's gonna laugh

(09:52):
at it. But that's the best we could do.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
The kids laughed at you.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, but that's all right. I'm laughing all the way back.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Now, you ever you ever see any of the kids
you went to high school with when you go back
up there to Severeville to do that annual show.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Oh yeah, I see a lots of them. And when
we travel on the road, I'm always seeing kids I
went to school with, you know, that have moved different
places across.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
The couches a little bit.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, we've all changed, we're getting older, but everybody still
looks basically the same. I've never failed to recognize anybody
that I ever, you know, went to school with.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Well, on this show, here comes the que I told
you about the queue system. You've heard Dolly Parton with
the Coat of Many Colors? Dolly, do you where do
your mom and daddy reside?

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Now? My folks still live in East Tennessee and Severe County.
That's well about twenty five thirty miles from Knoxville, Tennessee
and Smoky Mountains. And you'd never get my daddy out
of the mountains, not for long at a time. What
does he do, well, he's he still works on construction
work and farm some he has to be working. He

(11:06):
can't stand to be idle. And that's the only work
that he ever knew was farming in construction, and he
loves it and he works hard.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
And so are all the farms up there on the
side of a mountain.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
No, we got some pretty farm country there.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
We have some level farm country.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yeah, sure I have some.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
There's a joke about East Tennessee a farmer clouds with
one short leg and one long leg.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Well, now we lived in some places about that bad.
But that's okay. We got some pretty places in that
part of.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
It's beautiful country.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
The fact is for people in other parts of the
United States, we might pinpoint it easier for them by
telling that you were born in the shadow of the
Great Smoky Mountain National Park. How just a few miles
with it.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, this is, in fact, at one time where I
was born and raised, I think, was, you know, in
the Smoky Mountains. Of course, they've you know, fixed it
towards it's just certain areas. It's called the national park,
but it is in the Smoky Mountains. Foothill to the
Smoky is is what every buddy always called it. But
I like the shadows better. That's pretty the way he
said that.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
All right, would you bring on? Here is the one
writer in country music that I think has a great
deal in common with you. And I think what he
has in common is the style of writing.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
He likes to write stories too, and he paints a
pretty picture with his words. And this is called country
is and I love Tom t Hall.

Speaker 9 (12:37):
Countries sitting on the backboard, Listen to the wind will
laid in the day, Country, finding your pieces help o
is Granger.

Speaker 10 (12:59):
It becomes your way.

Speaker 11 (13:02):
Huntry, living in the city, knowing your people, knowing your kind.

Speaker 12 (13:15):
Country, what you make.

Speaker 10 (13:21):
Country, all your minds, countries, working for.

Speaker 12 (13:41):
Thanking you own thoughts, loving your town, Huntry, teaching your children,
find out what's right, stand your ground.

Speaker 7 (14:03):
A good town, Listen to the mesic, singing your part,
walking in.

Speaker 11 (14:16):
The moon, Huntrey.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
You know, I think it would be interesting, perhaps just
to prove a point sometime, if you and Tom could
write a song together.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
We probably couldn't write very well together, because he's probably
like me. Once you start a story, when I started,
I see it, you know, the way that I want
it to be, and to try to write it with
somebody else interrupts my you know, my chain of thoughts.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Could write a song Kentucky meets Tennessee or something like that.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Oh we might. I might write one verse and him
write another, and totally. I mean it's kind of hard.
I never really wrote that well with anybody. It breaks
my concentration. I'd really write by myself.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Or all the songs. Well you've written with Porter Wagon, yeah,
now there.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
You know. At times I have wrote some songs with
different people and you know I can't do it, but
I just mean I have to. It's really harder for
me to write with somebody else because I have to keep,
you know, stop my own thoughts and consider theirs and
it you know what I'm saying. It just kind of
slows me down. Somebody, I do enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
I imagine there would be a ken to trying to
paint a picture with somebody else, as it is like
that dabbing and you dabbing.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, maybe I don't like his dabbing. He don't like that.
But I've enjoyed writing the songs for the people that
I have. But I was talking about me and Tom.
He's so he knows so well how to put it.
He would probably I would probably just get in his way.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Oh, I don't know. He might try it sometime. If
you're working a day together.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Well we might. I don't want to tell you a
funny story about me and Tom T. Hollyw we got time. Sure,
we were working somewhere in uh North Carolina and me
and Tom T. Howell is on the same show. And
you know how when they put out on the marquee
like these letters and things, well it had on the
show it said tonight Country Music Special, Tom T Hall

(16:14):
and Dolly parton wrestling, because right down below it meant
wrestling another night, but it didn't say. And it's so
I took pictures of it, and I've got I want
to make some blow ups, you know, to put I'm
gonna give one to tom T and put one in
my music room. And this to some you know, some
of our friends. He don't know in about this, but
it says it's so funny to look at it, and
that's in my story. But you want to see it,

(16:38):
I'll bring.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
You tom T hang it up in his living room
and brag.

Speaker 8 (16:41):
But it's funny.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Just look funny though.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
All right, you've heard Tom T all with country is
so he said.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
If you can, I can, Oh, my lips hurt when
I laugh.

Speaker 6 (16:56):
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Speaker 13 (17:10):
I'd like that.

Speaker 6 (17:11):
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Speaker 12 (17:20):
Together.

Speaker 8 (17:21):
Time time to spend, enjoy the good food, get out
and got together well the good.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
Times on.

Speaker 8 (17:35):
Together with you, together with friends.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
Color the next time you're dining out, get together with
holiday in good food, good friends together.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Who's next, Dolly, Crystal Gail. You know this little girl?

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, I do. And she's sweetish, she can be pretty.
I can't seem to learn not to love you.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
You get to me every time.

Speaker 14 (18:15):
You're someone I just can't say no to.

Speaker 15 (18:20):
And you're so but I change in my mind.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
You wrong.

Speaker 8 (18:26):
Go down that wrong road in.

Speaker 15 (18:30):
The one back where I've already been.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Even very win. Here I go.

Speaker 14 (18:42):
Down that wrong road again. No, I see the word
that you're weaving, you and your sol easy.

Speaker 15 (19:02):
Liefore I stop to fay.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
I'm believing.

Speaker 15 (19:09):
And I'm falling vo you for more times.

Speaker 14 (19:14):
Here right, go down that wrong loloading the end.

Speaker 15 (19:19):
Goe back where I've already been, even.

Speaker 14 (19:27):
Where here I go down that wrong road again. Here
I go down that wrong load again.

Speaker 15 (19:40):
Go one back where I've already been, even where.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Here I go.

Speaker 14 (19:52):
Down that wrong road again.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
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of the Ralph Emery show Box sixty one, Nashville, Tennessee.
All right, miss Dolly Parton, you can serve up another
record here if you like.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
I want to play on David Houston Reker.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, he's got a lot of voice controller.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Well he really does. And this one's called Can't you
feel It?

Speaker 12 (21:24):
Can't you feel it?

Speaker 3 (21:28):
Strong?

Speaker 12 (21:29):
Emotion up a baby, don't let go, don't let load calls.

Speaker 14 (21:38):
We need it.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Let's not light it.

Speaker 15 (21:43):
Just loosen up, relax, letting go.

Speaker 12 (21:47):
If you won't a little taste to have him while.

Speaker 13 (21:52):
You're living down here below, If you won't it, come
in get it, because that's.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
The only way you live.

Speaker 13 (22:04):
No, can't you hear? Can't you see the joy swinging?

Speaker 12 (22:15):
Can't you love?

Speaker 13 (22:20):
Can't you hear the dahing it?

Speaker 12 (22:32):
Don't you be.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
Love throwing?

Speaker 11 (22:41):
Just between dost swing?

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Maybe you and me, you and me?

Speaker 12 (22:46):
If you won't mean let me know it? Can love
them all the way from you and me?

Speaker 13 (22:55):
Can't you hear.

Speaker 11 (22:57):
The first dreaming?

Speaker 12 (23:00):
Can't you feel the George screaming?

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Now you see?

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Can't you.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Joy?

Speaker 11 (23:14):
Can't you hear else?

Speaker 12 (23:19):
Can't you feel?

Speaker 2 (23:23):
That's David Houston on our show. I guess about the
time you hit music sitting No. I was going to
say that David was singing almost persuaded, but that's about
two years after you were here.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah, I've been here a good while when that came out.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
All Right, you've heard David Houston sing. Can't you feel it?