
Dolly Parton's late husband Carl Dean inspired one of her greatest hits
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Dolly Parton's "Jolene" was inspired by her late husband Carl Dean. A bank teller had a crush on Dean, who died March 3 at the age of 82.
"She got this terrible crush on my husband," Parton told NPR in 2008.
"And he just loved going to the bank because she paid him so much attention," the "Islands in the Stream" singer recalled. "It was kind of like a running joke between us when I was saying, ‘Hell, you’re spending a lot of time at the bank. I don’t believe we’ve got that kind of money.’ So it’s really an innocent song all around, but sounds like a dreadful one."
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