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Article: YOU'RE DOING SWELL, DOLLY; WEEKEND VIEW.(Features)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 27, 1997
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Dolly Parton hasn't always had big hits.
The farmer's daughter from Tennessee had some lean times when she started out as a country singer. Her matching luggage when she stepped off the bus in Nashville was three paper bags from the same grocery store.
She thought she would become a star overnight but she was still crying and hungry two years down the road.
"It was hard. It was lonely. It was cold. But I never lost my dream," recalled the songbird in Dolly Parton - She Ain't No Dumb Blonde (BBC2).
The title comes from one of her early ...