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The Five Best Covers Of Dolly Parton’s Jolene
Dolly Parton is one of the best known country singers, male or female across the world, and everyone knows her top country song – Jolene. The single from the album of the same name (Jolene) was the #1 song on the country billboard charts on Feburary 2nd, 1974.
In a quote from the Wikepedia.org page about the song……..
Parton has said that the inspiration for the story was a tall, red-headed bank teller who Parton believed was flirting with her husband, and her husband’s apparent vulnerability to the teller’s charm as indicated by his sudden interest in making frequent trips to the bank. In her live performances of the song, Dolly often states she fought this woman tooth and nail for her husband. The name “Jolene” came from a beautiful little red-headed girl with green eyes who sought her autograph at a concert.
“ I said, what is your name? And she said, Jolene. And I said, well, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene. I said, that is pretty, I said, that sounds like a song. I’m going to write a song about that. ”
So I guess the story is don’t mess with Dolly or she will write a song about you. She celebrated her 45th wedding anniversary on May 30th, 2011 to Carl Thomas Dean and has said how proud she is to still be married to her first and only husband.
When a song gets covered by as many artists as Jolene has, then you know that it has found some type of common ground among singers and songwriters that they enjoy and want to in some small way pay respect to Dolly Parton.
In 2008 there was a movie that used the song as the inspiration for script. The movie Jolene was not released nationally until October of 2010. The movie trailer pretty much shows the whole plot.
Here are the lyrics for JoleneJolene, jolene, jolene, jolene He talks about you in his sleep And I can easily understand Jolene, jolene, jolene, jolene You could have your choice of men I had to have this talk with you Jolene, jolene, jolene, jolene |
Here is the list of the five best covers of Jolene. Go ahead and leave some comments on how you feel about the selections.
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What About the Whites Stripes Version?
It was nice of The White Stripes to cover Jolene, but the vocals were not at the level of the other versions.
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