The Beatles song that changed Dolly Parton's life.

[Lunabell]

Dolly Parton has recently announced a collaboration with Paul McCartney on her forthcoming album, which has made a host of music fans giddy with excitement, but perhaps none more so than Parton herself — a devoted Beatles fan. Even though their sound was incomparable to her favoured genre, country, The Beatles did something to the young singer which Parton couldn’t explain.

When Beatlemania exploded, Parton was only a few years younger than The Beatles, and they were firmly the band of her generation. Despite coming from different corners of the world, Parton instantly connected to the Fab Four following the release of their hit single, ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’.


Following the release of the track in the United States in 1964, ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ initially landed at 45. However, it slowly climbed to the top of the singles chart and became the first track by The Beatles to achieve this feat, but it wouldn’t be their last. Parton was one of the many who couldn’t get enough of the sound, which soundtracked a pivotal time in her life.

During an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Parton named the track as the first song she obsessed over and said: “I loved all kinds of songs, and I grew up singin’ all sorts of songs, but the first time I ever remember totally being jarred and feelin’ all kinds of emotions was when that song came out. I couldn’t get enough of it.”


Even more reason to love Dolly Parton!





https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-beatles-song-changed-dolly-parton-life/

[underpants]

1. Of their early work that was a perfect pop song.

[colorado_ufo]

4. Loved it!

It sounded like a kind of celebration - it was so uplifting!

[Gore1FL]

2. Looking forward to whatever Parton and McCartney create.

Not all of his partnerships have created masterpieces, but they have all created good songs.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Luna bell, you made my night

I’ve had those two longer than I’ve had my wife and I dearly love all three of them.

[Lonestarblue]

5. Two truly great artists!

[Evolve Dammit]

6. Nice. It really resonated with her. As it did for millions of us. I wanna go back!

[SouthernDem4ever]

7. Dolly is one in a billion

Everything she does brings me joy.

[bmichaelh]

8. A Great List will also be joining Dolly

Not only Sir Paul but others will be appearing on her album

Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, Steven Tyler, Steve Perry, and John Fogerty

https://americansongwriter.com/dolly-parton-reveals-paul-mccartney-stevie-nicks-and-more-will-appear-on-her-rock-album/

[LakeArenal]

9. Love to see that album played live. Whew!!🎶🎶🎶

[PurgedVoter]

10. I was probably 5 when I first heard it.

I was looking to watch Astro Boy or Cecil the Sea Sick Sea Serpent when it came on a music show. It was the strangest sound. I liked it but at the time it was very different from anything I had heard before and in my ear it seemed radical. Odd, now I can't find that strangeness when I hear it. it sounds good, there is nothing radical sounding.

[thucythucy]

12. One of the things that made Beatles records so different

from much of the rest of the top 100 was the emphasis they put on the beat. If you listen to what was at the top of the charts in the weeks before February 1964, and then listen to the Beatles, I think you'll hear how much louder the percussion is, drums and handclaps. There were some black artists equally beat oriented, but they rarely made it onto AM--white--radio. And even Motown's rhymn tracks were relatively subdued, compared to "I Want to Hold Your Hand" or "Can't Buy Me Love" or "A Hard Day's Night."

They were making a statement when they called themselves "The BEATles." After them everyone pretty much took the same route, so that their records now don't sound all that radical.

This happens all the time. When "Rite of Spring" was premiered in Paris in the early 1900s, the audience literally rioted at how "discordant" and "barbaric" the music sounded to them. Modern audiences are hardly as likely to hear it with the same astonishment.

[ShazzieB]

11. The way Dolly describes her reaction to "I Want to Hold Your Hand" really hits home for me.

I was 13, close to turning 14, when I first saw the Beatles on the Ed Sillivan Show in early 1964, and I received a copy of that single as one of my birthday presents in March of that year. The way she describes her reaction to the Beatles mirrors my own. They were like nothing I'd ever seen or heard before, and I fell for them (especially Paul) like a ton of bricks.

I'm very interested to see what this collaboration between Dolly and Paul is like.

[Lunabell]

13. Me too!

I was very little and my older sister had the I Want to Hold Your Hand 45. I kept stealing it! I've been a Beatles fan since I was about 4.

[Bayard]

14. Woot!

Can't wait for that album!