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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Parton was 20; Dean was 23. He was one of the twin inspirations behind one of Parton’s most famous songs, “Jolene,” which she wrote after a teller at a local bank started to give her husband ...

Jolene Delgado often joked that she was getting a tattoo that read, “Jolene Party of 1.” It would not have been accurate. The PBR super fan never partied alone. She was the proverbial “life ...

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 ...