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(26 Aug 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nashville, Tennessee, USA - 25 August 2026
1. Various of people signing book of condolences for Dolly Parton at the Nashville Country Museum
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Thomas, Dolly Parton fan: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 3++
"After going to her exhibition here, I found out a lot more about what a generous, generous person she was, what a friend of the state of Tennessee, how much she’s actually done here, especially the reading program for kids. Just blown away by that, I had no idea about her being that generous, such a philanthropist. So, after learning that, to find out what a wonderful person that we knew her as, it just enhanced that knowledge when we walked out to find out she had just passed was, almost shocking."
3. Various of people signing book of condolences for Dolly Parton at the Nashville Country Museum
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Amanda Robinson, Dolly Parton fan: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT++
"Right when we walked into her exhibit we heard people on their phones walking out and they said that she just passed away. I personally didn’t even know she was sick so, a shock."
5. Wide of Dolly Parton mural
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lauren Goodner, Dolly Parton fan: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 7-8++
“When I lived New York, Dolly was my connection to home. Right about the time that I was in New York, too is kind of where I want to say Dolly got her second wave and I was just so proud to claim her. When I would be homesick I would just sing at the top of my lungs in my Tennessee Mountain Home and so she's just been home for me.”
7. Wide of Lauren Goodner placing flowers down
8. Various of flowers
STORYLINE:
Fans paid tribute to country music icon Dolly Parton, after the legendary star died on Tuesday.
Parton, whose soaring vibrato vocals, poignant songwriting and sparkling costumes defined her rise from a log cabin in the Tennessee mountains to the height of stardom and acclaim was 80 years old.
“After bravely facing a brief battle with cancer, Dolly departed her Earthly life today at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center surrounded by loved ones,” her publicist, Marcel Pariseau, said in a statement Tuesday.
Paul Thomas, who was visiting the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, was shocked at hearing the news while he was inside the Dolly Parton exhibit.
Known for her curvy physique, massive blonde wigs and skin-tight outfits that served her self-deprecating wit, she was among the most beloved personalities in music and beyond — the rare celebrity whose appeal transcended generations, geography and politics.
She wrote hundreds of songs, including classics like “Jolene,” “Coat of Many Colors” and “I Will Always Love You,” that totaled more than 100 million worldwide sales and more than 1 billion online streams.
Parton, who plucked bejeweled banjos, guitar and dulcimers with her long fingernails during performances, was a generous philanthropist and successful businesswoman whose projects included a theme park in the Smoky Mountain foothills near her birthplace.
Her career was forever influenced by her upbringing as one of 12 children born into what she called a “dirt poor” Tennessee family.
She started her education nonprofit, Imagination Library, to send free books to children in Tennessee because her father, who quit school to work on the farm, struggled to learn to read.
Parton's first musical performances were in church, where her grandfather was a preacher.
By the mid-1970s, Parton was a Nashville queen.
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(26 Aug 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nashville, Tennessee, USA - 25 August 2026
1. Various of people signing book of condolences for Dolly Parton at the Nashville Country Museum
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Thomas, Dolly Parton fan: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 3++
"After going to her exhibition here, I found out a lot more about what a generous, generous person she was, what a friend of the state of Tennessee, how much she’s actually done here, especially the reading program for kids. Just blown away by that, I had no idea about her being that generous, such a philanthropist. So, after learning that, to find out what a wonderful person that we knew her as, it just enhanced that knowledge when we walked out to find out she had just passed was, almost shocking."
3. Various of people signing book of condolences for Dolly Parton at the Nashville Country Museum
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Amanda Robinson, Dolly Parton fan: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT++
"Right when we walked into her exhibit we heard people on their phones walking out and they said that she just passed away. I personally didn’t even know she was sick so, a shock."
5. Wide of Dolly Parton mural
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lauren Goodner, Dolly Parton fan: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 7-8++
“When I lived New York, Dolly was my connection to home. Right about the time that I was in New York, too is kind of where I want to say Dolly got her second wave and I was just so proud to claim her. When I would be homesick I would just sing at the top of my lungs in my Tennessee Mountain Home and so she's just been home for me.”
7. Wide of Lauren Goodner placing flowers down
8. Various of flowers
STORYLINE:
Fans paid tribute to country music icon Dolly Parton, after the legendary star died on Tuesday.
Parton, whose soaring vibrato vocals, poignant songwriting and sparkling costumes defined her rise from a log cabin in the Tennessee mountains to the height of stardom and acclaim was 80 years old.
“After bravely facing a brief battle with cancer, Dolly departed her Earthly life today at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center surrounded by loved ones,” her publicist, Marcel Pariseau, said in a statement Tuesday.
Paul Thomas, who was visiting the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, was shocked at hearing the news while he was inside the Dolly Parton exhibit.
Known for her curvy physique, massive blonde wigs and skin-tight outfits that served her self-deprecating wit, she was among the most beloved personalities in music and beyond — the rare celebrity whose appeal transcended generations, geography and politics.
She wrote hundreds of songs, including classics like “Jolene,” “Coat of Many Colors” and “I Will Always Love You,” that totaled more than 100 million worldwide sales and more than 1 billion online streams.
Parton, who plucked bejeweled banjos, guitar and dulcimers with her long fingernails during performances, was a generous philanthropist and successful businesswoman whose projects included a theme park in the Smoky Mountain foothills near her birthplace.
Her career was forever influenced by her upbringing as one of 12 children born into what she called a “dirt poor” Tennessee family.
She started her education nonprofit, Imagination Library, to send free books to children in Tennessee because her father, who quit school to work on the farm, struggled to learn to read.
Parton's first musical performances were in church, where her grandfather was a preacher.
By the mid-1970s, Parton was a Nashville queen.
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