Dolly Parton has explained that her 1973 hit "Jolene" was inspired by her husband Carl Thomas Dean, who has died at age 82.

Dolly Parton's fans have always been desperate to know who the real Jolene was that inspired her iconic song of the same name. Considered by music critics to be one of the most standout songs of ...

"Her name was not Jolene, but she was working at the bank, and she was this beautiful girl," Dolly told Access. "And that was bad enough, that he was having to go to the bank as much as he was going.

Dolly Parton's famed ballad, "Jolene," was "loosely based on a little bit of truth" by a woman who had a crush on the singer's late husband, Carl Dean. Dean's death was announced by the singer on ...

A bolt of inspiration struck Parton in the 1960s when she was signing an autograph for a beautiful little girl ... So what is your name?' And she said, 'Jolene.' And I said, 'Jolene.

He kept a low profile and attended just one music industry event during their nearly 60-year marriage, but Dolly Parton’s husband, Carl Dean, who died this week, was the inspiration behind one ...

"Everybody’s had a Jolene," Bush Hager said in the episode, to which her co-host Hoda Kotb, 59, responded, "Of course. You know what it is now though. If your man is takable and if the girl ...

The name Jolene, though, had a different origin. Parton revealed to NPR that she once signed an autograph for a "beautiful little" 8-year-old girl named Jolene, and the name stood out to her.

She came up with the title after meeting a girl named Jolene while signing autographs, she recalled in a 2020 interview with the music site Pitchfork. But she said the woman the song describes is ...