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Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner: ...It's Awfully Hard To Just Let Them People Go By In The World And Not Say Something About It.

Gene Guerrero, The Great Speckled Bird, 17 May 1971

PORTER WAGONER and Dolly Parton are country music superstars. Porter's been on the Grand Ole Opry for years and as much as anyone else has been responsible for the continuance and growth of good "hard" country music, turning out hit after hit over the years. Dolly, in her mid-twenties, has skyrocketed to the top in the last few years with hits like 'Something Fishy', 'Just Because I'm a Woman', and 'Joshua'. In 1967 Dolly joined the Porter Wagoner Show and together she and Porter have developed perhaps the best duet in country music today.

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