your perfume should linger

 

Shag, one of the best movies ever, is on You Tube!

Posted 12 days ago.

Watch it now, before they take it down!

        In the very early part of the movie, there's a glitch where the sound goes out.  But it's only gone for about one minute.  Then the sound is back, and the rest of the movie is perfect.

        It came out in 1989.

        The story is set in the summer of 1963, at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, which is a real place.

"We're going to make like a tree, and leave."

"Where have I seen you before?"

        "Maybe in one of your better dreams."

The make-out parking spot is named "Wee-Waw Point."

What can I say?!

        (Nothing that clever....)

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please don't take him just because you can

 

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene - Jolene

I'm beggin' of you, please don't take my man

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene - Jolene

Please don't take him just because you can...

        That song by the late, great Dolly Parton captures your attention when you hear it, and it's an easy song to remember.

        It has seemed to me for a long time that I've known that song all my life.  But not my whole life, because it got released in January 1974, when I was in my freshman year of high school.

Sometime in the years between then and now, the idea formed in my mind, and was committed to memory, that "Jolene" came out in the mid-Sixties.  My family lived in Mineral City, Ohio, then, & I thought I heard the song then.

        But recently it came to my attention the song didn't come out until 1974 when we were two towns away from Mineral City - we had moved to Rootstown, Ohio 1967, and then moved again in 1973.

So why did my memory conflate the song with the earlier years?  Turning that question over in my mind,  it finally came to me that when we lived in Mineral City I had a doll that I named Joleen.  (That's how I spelled it, I think....)

        I knew that name, not because of the Dolly Parton song, which wasn't even out yet, but because there was another little girl at my school who was named Joleen.

I liked that name.

The doll had yellow hair in braids, and wore colorful "peasant"-style clothes.

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enough to drive you crazy if you let it

 

In London, England, the Buckingham Palace Band honored Dolly Parton by playing her song, "Nine To Five."

on You Tube:

King's Guard plays '9 to 5' outside Buckingham Palace in moving tribute...

uploader / channel:  @TheLondonStandard

        It's a "moving tribute," for sure, because it will get you movin' / dancin' ....

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what a way to make a living

 In videos and articles about Dolly Parton's life, a story is told where Elvis Presley wanted to record "I Will Always Love You" but when his manager, "Colonel" Tom Parker met with Dolly, he said, Well the way it always is:  any song Elvis records, he has to have the publishing rights to it.

Dolly was happy that Elvis wanted to record her song, and she was enthusiastic about the idea, but when the ol' colonel tried to scam her like that, she had to say No.

        One narrator stated that Dolly Parton's father was very "business-savvy," even though he was illiterate.  "He knew exactly how business worked, and you can tell how Dolly picked up on that...."

She kept her song publishing rights, and got paid.

(If she didn't make sure she got properly paid, she wouldn't have been able to make the substantial charitable contributions that she did.)

        When Queen Elizabeth passed away people said, "She's just always been there."  

        That's how Dolly Parton is for a lot of us, I think.  Part of our lives - just always there.  On our televisions, on our movie screens, on our radio waves, on our records and music CDs; putting books in people's mailboxes. ...

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I could sing with Bob

 You Tube's "cup runneth over" with Dolly Parton videos:  songs, interviews, documentaries, podcasts, random conversations.

The consensus seems to be:  "everybody loves Dolly Parton."

        In one interview, the host got her talking about duets:  she loved singing with Kenny Rogers, of course, and also they discussed other artists' songs that Dolly has covered.

Go on You Tube and type in

Dolly Parton - Don't Think Twice

and Play!

        It's a Bob Dylan song.

        The guy asks her if she would like to sing a duet with Dylan.

She answered, "I could sing with Bob."

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...gonna be all right

 "Light Of A Clear Blue Morning"

a Dolly Parton song to listen to

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there's a better life, and you think about it don't you

 "She was one of the  most unifying forces in American culture."

That's what a news announcer said a few hours ago, about Dolly Parton.

 In a television interview, Dolly said, "I look like a woman but I think like a man, and in this world of business that has helped me a lot, because by the time they think - that I don't know what's goin' on, I done got the money and gone."

Sometimes when I think of Dolly Parton, I remember the movie 9 To 5, starring Dolly, and Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda.

I saw that in Boston, when it came out.

        The song "9 To 5" from the movie was played on the radio - living in Boston I listened to WBCN, which was an AOR (album-oriented rock) station - they played "9 To 5" and country music stations played it, too.

Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen,

Pour myself a cup of ambition,

And yawn and stretch and try to come to life

Jump in the shower and the blood starts pumpin'

Out on the street the traffic starts jumpin'

With folks like me on the job from 9 to 5

Workin' 9 to 5,

What a way to make a livin'

Barely gettin' by 

It's all takin' and no givin'

They just use your mind 

And they never give you credit

It's enough to drive you  

Crazy if you let it

9 to 5, for service and devotion

You would think that I

Would deserve a fair promotion

Want to move ahead

But the boss wont seem to let me

I swear sometimes that man is out to get me

They let you dream

Just to watch 'em shatter

You're just a step

On the boss-man's ladder

But you got dreams

He'll never take away

You're in the same boat

With a lot of your friends

Waitin' for the day your ship'll come in

'N' the tide's gonna turn

And it's all gonna roll your way

Workin' 9 to 5

What a way to make a livin'

Barely gettin' by

It's all takin' and no givin'

They just use your mind

And you never get the credit

It's enough to drive you crazy

If you let it

9 to 5, yeah

They got you where they want you

There's a better life

And you think about it, don't you?

It's a rich man's game

No matter what they call it

And you spend your life

Puttin' money in his wallet

9 to 5, whoa

What a way to make a livin'

Barely gettin' by

It's all takin' and no givin' ...

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