Dolly Parton Wrote a Song Just For Johnny - Carson Tonight Show

we're back, we're packed, buffy little

tonight

, kenny youngman, joe wamba and of course

dolly

parton

, they really love you, you really have loyal fans, well I think it's all because of the

johnny

carson

show

, you have a great audience and watch. Really looking forward to doing this

show

, I've been excited for a month because people think that you and I are great friends and I feel like we are even though I only know you from the panel and you stopped by the dressing room to say hello. I have to go, he

just

knocks on the door, waves to hear this voice coming from somewhere.

I can't talk right now, but anyway, the crowd is always great and they are no different

tonight

. Yes, you look sensational. I received a telegram today. I think I was going to ask my secretary, Drew, to respond, but since I can save some money, that's why I landed here. They're from city officials, uh, Carl Hatcher, vice mayor, Councilman Luther Gilbert, a bunch of people and Gary Wade, the mayor of Sieverville, I believe. Severe Sevierville, Tennessee, I believe is my hometown, this is my dear Johnny, on behalf of the city of Sevierville, we would like to invite you to join us in celebrating the dedication of Dolly Parton Parkway.

Now you know you made it, you say on October 6th. at 4pm. uh you're interested Dolly Parton Avenue hasn't gone unnoticed and we'd be remiss as representatives if we didn't include an invite for you and I can't believe I know you can't be there, but it's nice to send that at least want to be. I felt very flattered. I would like to see that avenue. Yeah, well, actually, especially the exit ramp. Anyway, I thank the mayor, but it's nice to have something that can be there permanently. You know forever, that was one of the biggest compliments I've ever been given and you may know that they chose the flattest stretch of land.

No, there are no curves, there are no hills right away. No, they were thinking about dedicating Interstate 40 to me, but I thought. That was great and we're doing a Dolly Parton show that we do every year on October 6th in Severe before the children's scholarship foundation, for their education, they're going to present that, I guess, about that particular thing. I've never had a highway called I was on the cover, although you probably don't know this from the Burbank phone book. They can keep their haters, their Oscars and the Tonys on the cover of the Burbank phone book.

That is, of course. That's only for one year, right? There will be a new phone book in a year, but look, they are not going to accept the threesome, it will always be the doll party, at least if you go to Gatlinburg in East Tennessee, which is a beautiful part of the country for vacation, stop by and you can say hello to me, I'll pass, dim the lights as I pass, honk or something, by the way, I should Mention that you're already here, Freddie reminded me that, along with many other people who have been on our show, you will appear in a small clip from our anniversary program.

We are celebrating our anniversary program. The end of 17 years. The beginning of our In the 18th year, everyone has to be somewhere and we're doing it on Monday night the first of October this year and it's going to be a little different. We've never done this before, but NBC said, would you like to do the anniversary show? earlier in prime time instead of eleven, you normally know we're at 11:30 minus one in the East here and 10:30 minus midnight in the Midwest, so this year we'll continue at nine p.m. We're going to do it live, so it'll be live out east and then they'll play it again here, so this year it'll be nine to 11 in the east, eight to ten in the midwest, so we'll have a big chunk of eh, you see, there's a lot of audience, a lot of people that still have the opportunity to see the show because they don't hold themselves in that light, yeah, so we said, hey, why not show some of those crazy things that we've done? done over the years, I always love those shows when you put together the best things, yeah well you are and I'm glad I don't know I'm the best, oh yeah you're there, you got me there though.

You're there, what is this I read now? I read something in the magazine. I hope I'm not telling stories outside of school. You had some problem or I had to go to jail or something. Well, there's a lawsuit against me. my former senior partner, I hope I can avoid lawsuits, but yeah, but anyway, that should be interesting, but anyway there's been quite a bit of press about it and there was a time when I didn't respond. a certain amount of questions I faced a jail sentence, but it's nothing to worry about, it might be amazing to go to jail and see what it's like, no, but you still had to give what they call a statement, yeah, and uh and I think everything is going to turn out well and I

just

hope the best for both of us but also on the cma show this year they didn't nominate me in any of the categories uh because I think they thought that I would be in jail, no, but Honestly, CMA asked me to mention the show and I will be a guest there, but I'm not going to jail.

I hope you send my email if I do. Sure, it might be very nice to accept that Dolly Parton is the director, but at any time, as you know, every time you start to grow in the business, you know how popular you are becoming because of the number of people who sue you, but we have had some. Strange publicity, one that happens to anyone in the public eye, don't you hate giving a statement? Oh, it's terrible because you're under oath and it's like you're in court, even though you're not in court and the court reporter sits there and everything is written down by the court reporter and he could sew it up nicely even if you're completely innocent.

I do not have anything to hide. I've watched too many television shows and I expect Raymond Burr at any moment to jump up and say his Honor, he's guilty. and I do stupid things and I can't answer questions because they always freeze them a certain way, well it's always a bit stressful and that's part of showbiz and I guess it's good to see your nerves tested, you know how strong you are. If you have to go through something like that, but everything is going to be okay and for the people who care about me, I appreciate that I asked you during the commercial, you've lost some weight, right?

I know you've been trying to lose some weight, I've been working on it most of the summer because I enjoy eating and I'm a very healthy and hearty person as you can see, but I'm getting ready to do some movies sometime in the fall and I'm trying to get skinny and beautiful so I can be here. It's time? Well, it's always hard to be well too. I always say that I weighed a hundred and a lot. I'm just saying now that I've lost a lot. Yes. I still have one of the smallest waists I have ever seen.

Well, I don't know if it's a little bit my waist. It's just me, just in contrast. I know what you do. You can't be more than 22 23. I'm about tall. 22 right now I still have a little weight to lose, but I've always been lucky, don't lose my image, well, you know, I can't take off all your joke material. no, no, no, no, no, I wouldn't joke about that, no, I appreciate you keeping me warm, in fact, before I talk all the time, I see how people quickly take advantage of everything, yes, but that's okay, but I

wrote

a

song

for you or about you and about the show so every time we finished this video you did it yeah well I think we have to do it can you do it after the commercial?

Yeah, I just want to make sure I haven't misspoke the whole time, oh. No, okay, let's welcome Lou Quaker Cornbrand, the first cereal brand with a big porn flavor, are you looking forward to your appearance at the amphitheater? Yes, I really am, this is the first time I have to play in the theater and it's Monday, I mean, it's from Friday to Monday, of course, and we've saved you two tickets if you come back from Las Vegas on Monday. I would like you to perform this weekend, yes, and you would be with us, but I'm looking forward to it. and I've never seen you at a concert.

I've listened to your albums, of course, and I've seen you perform here, but I understand that you put on a wonderful concert. Well, I like acting and these days soon I think I'm going to work in Las Vegas, so maybe if you don't see me before, when I go, we can cross paths, yeah, at least that way it will be, we'll be closer, maybe we'll become Best friends, I'll say that. No, I'm serious, I think so, everyone is ready. When you see that this audience takes everything in the world, friendship is very important, it really is especially with people you like and have good communication with close friends.

Very well, perhaps. Well, hush, do you have many close friends or do you have a small number? No, well, I have many friends. I have a lot of very good friends and I have about four excellent friends. How many friends do you have? Yeah, because I mean, you know how many friends you have, you can tell anything and know that it won't go any further and go out and you can drink with someone or you can be with them and tell them the most personal things and know that. It won't go beyond that, he's a friend, yes, he's a friend and I have my best girlfriend, it's like that and I have other good friends to whom I also tell almost everything or I feel like I can, I don't always do it. but my girlfriend Judy and I grew up together, we've been together since we were seven and we know all the same old people at home, we always laugh and joke about you know this and that and I would tell her anything.

Does she know things about you that no one else knows about me? Anyone could know about someone else, but she would never tell me. If there is something about you that you know, you are going to sign a contract. About your Judy, is there anything you wouldn't want people to know about you? Well, of course, there are many things you think more, we talk about things we think and some things you know. We do that, we don't want everyone to know very well, you know what girls and guys are like. I don't know if men have very close friends, they talk about everything or we laugh and joke and all kinds of feelings, but it's great.

I have my life like an open book. Well, I'm very open and very honest with the little personal things that you talked about. Little secrets inside. Yeah, I better not know and I have some of those. Yes, I have the library. card for your book we could probably send each other to the chair or at least have a hard time in prison, well that's just how we are, yeah, what's the

song

you said you made up? Well, I

wrote

this song because it was very good for you. For me since I started on your show and you once said that once I got really famous I probably wouldn't come back on the show, but I always will.

I'm here as much as you are. Good good friends, good friends. I can say that, yeah, well that's why we can say anything, but I was just joking because everyone tricks you about it. Yeah, I just like the show. I think other people do a good job, but I only like to see it when you. You're old and I'm not calling it tonight, show it to me, it's Johnny Carson, what you're saying is fine, no, I'm serious, no, I'm not kicking as hard as I can, but that's all there is. the words and it's uh you know, I guess it's not supposed to be too serious.

I've come a long way from the hills of Tennessee and I've worked hard to make people back home really proud of me, now everyone knows my name. No matter where I go, I never made it until the Johnny Carson show. Now I've had a dream of stardom since I was just a kid, a million dollar dream under this week 13 in my bell-bottom jumpsuits with my rhinestones shining. became an overnight success, from the

johnny

carson

show, from polyester heaven to silk and satin ruffles, from a 48 foot mobile home to a mansion on the hill, from moonshine to wines weird ones, from a packard to a rose, but i never made it until the johnny carson show. show now there's just one little problem sometimes it annoys me people sometimes confuse me with monty rock the third but I still think it's worth it and I thought you should know that I always owe a special thank you to the johnny carson show I kept counting pop to diamonds, from car coats to furs, from kmart to gucci's, from here who knows where, from mountain paradise to a penthouse on the coast, but I never made it until the johnny carson show, oh yeah, hey, that That's very sweet of you, thank you.

Well, I just want to do something good for you because I really feel like you've helped my career if I tune into some other show and see you take my name out and put another name on there, you know, on the Regis Philbin. Show that you know, yes, I will. I could put Barbara Walter's name in Barbara Wallace and do it just once. No, but that's your song. I won't sing that album you're going to record there. I believe i do it. Alright. I'll be back with Matthew Duffy, Henry.