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Dolly Parton's family sings 'In the Pines' — Appalachian roots on TV, 1977
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Dolly Parton's family sings 'In the Pines' — Appalachian roots on TV, 1977
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On her 1977 variety show, Dolly Parton brought her parents and seven siblings on to sing 'In the Pines', the Appalachian folk song they grew up singing in East Tennessee. A rare look at the family harmony tradition underneath her career.
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• 'In the Pines' is a core Appalachian standard worth knowing in multiple versions
• Shows the home-singing tradition that shaped Dolly's style
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In 1977, Dolly Parton invited her parents, Robert Lee and Avie Lee, and seven of her siblings onto her variety show to perform “In the Pines,” an old Appalachian folk song the family had sung together growing up in East Tennessee.
They performed several songs together that day, offering a rare glimpse behind Dolly’s enormous career. Before the records, awards and worldwide fame, music was something the Parton family shared at home — and watching them sing together shows exactly where so much of Dolly’s musical foundation began.
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Transcript excerpt
Is everybody ready back there? It'll take me three minutes to get up there. Here we go. In the pines, in the pines Where the sun never shines And you shiver when Then And you shiver My captain for the time of day He told his watcher And you shiver