Dolly Parton - Jolene 19880110

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To everyone wanting to know if this is a reference to "JoJo": No, the Japanese series was developed in 1986, but Dolly wrote and recorded "Jolene" in 1973.
The audio/video quality is pretty good for having come from a VHS tape recorded in 1988, if I do say so myself! :-) "Thanks" to those who have agreed!

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I’m afraid of Jolene
If she can make Dolly Parton feel inferior, none of us are safe

krinchkronch

I love the psychology of Dolly. She’s hyping Jolene up trying to tell her she has her pick of ANY MAN and just begging her not to take hers. It’s so beautifully done.

maddielopez

If Dolly called me a red headed hussey it would be an honor! Such a great songwriter!

casandrabullock

Singing without autotune and a choreographed show around her. True talent and great stage presence.

lynettenasseri

What a class act, to write a song full of compliments to someone trying to steal her husband. The absolute queen of country music.

SpaceGhost

Dolly: You redhead hussy
Blonde lady: 😳 Me

felicitymemela

Listening to this masterpiece in 2024 🙋🏻‍♀️

dayanal

I’m from Ukraine. Moved to USA 13 years ago. Someone asked me if like country music and I didn’t Know what it is. They put “ Jolene “ for me. Since than, I love everything Dolly Parton, and don’t care much for modern country music. Dolly is an icon! There is such a heartfelt and pure quality to her songs. No one is like her.

OLHA

the way she speaks of jolene like she's the one who has a crush on the girl is just top-notch to me lmao

melancholicpie

Imagine being Jolene when this song exploded onto the charts.

jordanallen

Her talking voice in itself is so musical, “he talks about you in his sleep” sing song, a lullaby. This legend of a woman was born for music. The art needed her.

luckyshow

Her willingness to share vulnerability in such a candid way is one of her great strengths, and is a display of profound confidence in itself.

GoddessLaurel

Imagine being told you look like jolene by Dolly HERSELF

Miriam-tgec

Am I the only one blown away by her beauty (at that time, there were NO surgery to have such a beautiful face! or good proportions!) and her powerful singing?!

nsdudet

I love how Dolly praises Jolene, like if a man wrote that part of the song it would perfectly be a love song.

"Your beauty is beyond compare
With flaming locks of auburn hair
With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green
Your smile is like a breath of spring
Your skin is soft like summer rain
And I can not compete with you, Jolene"

You can see the values of that time, those that would change some time in the future, in which they tell how beauty isn't everything but back then it was very much so and she envied Jolene for it. Dolly herself would challenge these values; she's such a gem

carlospocaterra