Eight days before singer Dolly Parton died from cancer, a video was released explaining why she would not be performing. Her illness was kept secret, but she did mention medical tests, saying her “Immune system was out of whack.” Did Dolly know that she was going to die? Her husband’s passing seems to have triggered her fatal disease.
It may have seemed like we’d always have a Dolly Parton. We do have her many recordings and memories.
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Dolly Parton: singer/actress/songwriter/author/theme park owner/entertainer died August 25, 2026 at the age of 80. Her husband Carl Dean’s death preceded her by seventeen months. Dolly kept her cancer diagnosis private, cancelling her proposed Las Vegas shows. A new song by Dolly will be released posthumously. It is with her passing that we have to say goodbye to the kind of woman that disappeared with the Satanic feminist agenda. I am posting three songs in tribute. The first is from the Bob Hope Christmas Special titled, “Rock Candy Christmas”.
Next is “Two Doors Down” from her short-lived variety show. ABC did not honor their 2-year contract. It was cancelled after one season.
Finally is Dolly’s signature song written for her former singing partner Porter Wagoner. Whitney Houston would use the song to even greater financial (not artistic) success in “The Bodyguard”. (1992.)
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