💅 Dolly Parton’s Fingernails Created the Iconic Typewriter Sound in ‘9 to 5’
The sharp clatter that opens Dolly Parton’s anthem ‘9 to 5’ was not a typewriter at all. It was the sound of her long acrylic fingernails clicking together on a…
The sharp clatter that opens Dolly Parton’s anthem ‘9 to 5’ was not a typewriter at all. It was the sound of her long acrylic fingernails clicking together on a…
In 1968, a love song written in 15 minutes sparked a national debate. Tammy Wynette’s Stand By Your Man topped the charts as the women’s liberation movement surged. Yet the…
When floodwaters swallowed Humphreys County in August 2021, they took more than homes and roads. They took lives, including that of Loretta Lynn’s longtime foreman Wayne Spears. Twenty people perished…
One afternoon Kenny Rogers decided his errands could wait. He stepped away from his list and walked into a field with his twin sons Justin and Jordan. They chased grasshoppers…
In 1994 nearly 100,000 people crowded Gypsy Hill Park to say goodbye to the Statler Brothers. The band had thrown a free Fourth of July party for a quarter century…
The beeping monitors in a Houston hospital room fell into a sudden hush. Lainey Wilson, standing beside her father’s bed, had just whispered that she was ready to abandon her…
Though my heart is broken, I will continue to sing. Wynonna Judd spoke those words on one of the worst nights of her life. The day before, on April 30,…
On May 23, 2008, the Sony Centre in Toronto fell silent as a legend took her final bow. Anne Murray did not exit in a blaze of scandal or illness.…
For a man who filled arenas with sound, Kenny Rogers’ final goodbye came without a single note of applause. On March 20, 2020, the country legend died at home in…
Thousands waited in the rain outside the Grand Ole Opry House on October 30, 2022. They came for a country legend, but what they heard left them silent. Loretta Lynn’s…