I Will Always Leave You

Dolly Parton's America by WNYC Studios & OSM Audio

Oct 22, 201900:53:37Music

Porter Wagoner led the most successful country music television show of its time, and in 1967 he needed a new “girl singer.” He turned to a 21 year old songwriter named Dolly Parton, who’d just recorded her first hit “Du...

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