My First Interview With Dolly Parton: Coming Face to Face With the Country Queen Who Soundtracked My Life

By Marc Malkin

Marc Malkin

Senior Editor, Culture and Events

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I am sitting on a couch in a hotel suite in midtown Manhattan.

I have two tape recorders on the coffee table ready to document my interview with one of my idols.

I hear someone whistling from behind French doors.

It’s not just any person whose whistle I hear. It’s Dolly Parton and she is whistling “9 to 5.”

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