The singer's hit song was released in October 1973, and was inspired by a woman who had a crush on her husband, Carl Dean, ...

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 has revealed the song she is “most proud” of – and it’s not “Jolene” or “9 to 5 ... and brother, Floyd, who died ...

Carl Dean, who died March 3, caught the eye of a bank teller in the 1970s – leading Parton to write "Jolene." The song begs another woman not to take her man and is really "an innocent" song ...

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 ...