Marking Time: Dolly Parton’s Vital Statistics at 70
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Today, January 19th 2016, the ever-fabulous, petite and famously buxom Country singer Dolly Parton turned 70. The Chronopages brings you some vital Dolly statistics:
1
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library mails one book a month to each enrolled child. More than 10 million books are distributed annually.
2
Number of Academy Award (Oscar) nominations Dolly has had – for the songs ‘9 to 5’ in 1981 and ‘Travelin’ Thru’ in 2006
7
Years Dolly spent working with Porter Wagoner’s organisation, appearing on his TV show and road show
10
The season of The Simpsons in which Dolly made a guest appearence, in ‘Sunday, Cruddy Sunday’
12
Dolly has appeared in a dozen films
13
Age at which Dolly Parton made her first recordings
18
Age at which Dolly moved to Nashville
25
Number of Dolly’s songs which have reached #1 on the U.S. Country Music Charts
46
Number of times Dolly has been nominated for Grammy Awards. She won 7 times.
49
The number of years Dolly has been married to Carl Thomas Dean. Their anniversary is May 30.
1977
The year Dolly had her first top ten U.S. pop single: ‘Here You Come Again’ reached #3
1999
The year Dolly was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame
2005
The year Dolly was presented with the National Medal of Arts by the President of the United States
3,000
In 2009, Dolly estimated that she had written more than this number of songs
Happy 70th Birthday, Dolly!
Dolly Parton | Credit: Tech. Sgt. Cherie A. Thurlby, U.S. Air Force – Public Domain
