{"id":28968,"date":"2024-07-12T08:45:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T12:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=28968"},"modified":"2024-07-12T05:28:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T09:28:39","slug":"the-first-song-dolly-parton-ever-wrote-was-about-a-doll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/07\/the-first-song-dolly-parton-ever-wrote-was-about-a-doll\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Song Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was About A Doll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dolly Parton estimates that she has written nearly 3,000 songs in her life, but what was the first one?<\/p>\n<p>She was interviewed by &#8220;Wired&#8221; and told them&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Well, the first song was actually before I started writing, before I could even write it down. I was about five years old. I had a little cobb-doll that mama made me, and I named her Tiny Tasseltop, &#8217;cause she had corn tassels for hair. So I wrote a little song, [it goes], &#8216;Little Tiny Tasseltop, I love you an awful lot . . . Hope you never go away, I want you to stay&#8217; . . . Tada.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C9IewZgvBd2\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Dolly singing that song back in the 8o&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TthyDduiSKg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton estimates that she has written close to three THOUSAND songs in her life, but what was the first one?","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":28969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[5556,3915],"class_list":["post-28968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-dolly","tag-dolly-parton"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 22:11:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/07\/the-first-song-dolly-parton-ever-wrote-was-about-a-doll\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28982,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28968\/revisions\/28982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}