courtesy Dolly Parton 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 ...

Carl Dean, Dolly Parton's devoted husband of nearly 60 years who avoided the spotlight and inspired her timeless hit “Jolene, ...

She told him to knock it off. She later channeled her feelings into “Jolene,” a hit 1973 song. Her fans have been singing its haunting chorus ever since. Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene I’m ...

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 ...

The country music star, 79, has explained that her 1973 hit "Jolene," in which she begs the beautiful title woman not to take her man, was inspired by a real bank teller's interactions with her ...