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Dolly made it a point to remember the girl’s name by repeating it to herself over and over until she got back to the tour bus so she could write it down.

“Jolene. Jolene. Jolene. Jolene.”

In fact, the words began to take on a rhythm of their own, and before long, Dolly was writing a song with that name in it.

Word has it that Dolly earned $10 million in the 1990s for Whitney’s version. And while you’re recovering from the size of that figure, according to Entertainment Weekly, Parton revealed that she had Houston in mind when she was deciding how to spend those earnings.

Here’s Dolly Parton performing her first single to make the country charts on The Porter Wagoner Show.

Hint: a lot!

We loved ABBA here in the United States. But in their heyday, fans in Australia went absolutely crazy for the group.

But how could he get his Swedish four-piece to make the leap beyond their borders and get noticed across the rest of the continent…and beyond?