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Mon Jan 1, 2024, 11:16 PM Jan 2024

Rare clip of Broadway star Christine Ebersole as an SNL newbie in 1981 [View all]

She is singing the full, incredibly grim lyrics of Single Bars, Single Women.

Dolly Parton saw the show and wanted the song - record company would only allow a much sanitized version, cutting out the toughest encounter lines and all references to drugs. ABC sanitized it even further as a Movie of the Week. 🙄

https://snl.fandom.com/wiki/Christine_Ebersole?file=Single

Dolly’s version:


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