Dolly Parton's hit song was released in October 1973 and has since been covered by dozens of musicians. She previously said ...

Jolene Please don’t take him just because you can. The song is one of several that Parton’s husband, Carl Dean, an asphalt paver who died on Monday at 82, inspired in the decades after they ...

Dolly Parton's late husband Carl Dean served as the inspiration behind one of her greatest hits. Parton loosely wrote "Jolene" about a bank teller who had a crush on Dean.

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Dolly Parton's husband Carl Thomas Dean, who has died at age 82, helped birth one of the most iconic songs of her career. The country music star, 79, has explained that her 1973 hit "Jolene," in ...

Their relationship inspired several of Parton's songs, most notably "Jolene," which she wrote after a flirtatious bank teller developed a crush on Dean. The couple's privacy was so fiercely guarded ...