Dolly partonThe late husband, Carl Deanwas a very private personBut his wife of the Superstrella still celebrated him in his music, and sometimes he also belonged.
One of the most famous songs in the country’s icon, “Jolene”, was inspired by an incident in which a bank cashier developed feelings for Dean, who married Parton in 1966.
“He had this terrible passionate about my husband,” parton told NPR in 2008. “And he only loved going to the bank because he paid so much attention. It was a bit like a joke of running between us, when he said,” Hell, you are spending a lot of time on the bank. I don’t think we have this kind of money. So it is really an innocent song everywhere, but it seems a fearsome. “”
Dean, who died in March 2025 At the age of 82, he also inspired several of the numerous love songs of Parton. And while he was out of sight, he was a great fan of his wife’s music. In 2023, he told Associated Press that “My Blue Tears” was “one of the favorite songs of my husband I have ever written.”
The track originally appeared on its 2001 album, SmallBut he recorded a new version with that of Duran Duran Simon the Good for Their rock 2023 album, Rock star. “I thought,” well, I better put one of Carl’s favorites here, “he said.
Continue to move through a breakdown of the songs that Parton wrote about Dean during his marriage:
“Just because I am a woman” (1968)
This famous cut is not a love song, but it is one of Parton’s most important hits, and it was directly inspired by a conversation he had with Dean in his relationship. “My husband does not like it particularly to explain it, but now he is big enough so he really doesn’t give him a big one,” she said Rolling Stone In 2003, “Look, he had had sex before we met, but he had not mentioned and he had not asked. We were married for eight months, happy as we could be, and suddenly he decides to ask -I told him the truth and broke his heart. He couldn’t overcome -I thought about it longer. I thought,” Well, my kindness, what is the great damn? “
Parton later wrote “just because I am a woman”, who begins with the lines, “I can see that you are disappointed / by the way you look at you / and I am sorry that I am not / the woman you thought it would be.”
‘Tomorrow is Forever’ (1970)
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Parton originally recorded this song in 1969 for a 1970 duet album Porter Wagoner entitled Porter Wayne and Dolly Rebecca. She re -registered for her 2016 album, Pure and simpleIt was full of love songs, both old and new.
“When I decided I wanted to write a love album, you know, I have been married 50 years this year to my husband, Carl, I had two songs I had written in our first days, at the beginning of our marriage.” She said Cosmopolitan In 2016. “I had recorded them, I suppose in the late 1960’s, early 70’s … … I remembered these two songs as two of my favorite love songs I had never written, so I only thought,” Well, so many years have passed, many of my fans have never heard these songs. “
‘Say Forever You’re Be Mine’ (1975)
This song originally appeared on his 1975 duet album with Wagoner of the same name and is the second vintage song that returned Pure and simple. “I wrote them the first days of our marriage,” she said Rolling Stone In 2016. “So I only got them out again because I thought they were beautiful.”
“From here to the moon and back” (2012)
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Parton wrote this song for his 2012 movie, Joyfulthat he also starred in Queen Latifah – And he based it on his true romance with Dean. “When I wrote ‘from here to the moon and back’, I needed to write a beautiful love song,” he explained The boot In 2012. “I chose my husband, I love, and I thought,” Well, I will write a pretty song about him. ” Kris KristoffersonSo I thought that to do -really real and really emotional, I would write about my real and true emotions about someone I really love and who have loved for more than half of my life. “”
A duet version with Willie Nelson Later he appeared on Parton 2014 album, Blue smoke.
‘Forever Love’ (2016)
For Pure and simpleParton wrote “Forever Love” in honor of Dean’s golden wedding anniversary. “This is what I considered our wedding song because we remarried on May 30, on our 50th anniversary,” she said Rolling Stone In 2016, “I thought I should have a small wedding song, so it was the same. I tried to write a wedding song and I thought it would be a good wedding song for anyone’s wedding.”
And some covers in his honor
Although his wife is a legend of the country, Dean was also a great rock fan, and his discography includes a few nods to his taste. Their 2002 album, Halos and hornsIt included a cover of the “staircase to the sky” by Led Zeppelin, which was one of Dean’s favorites.
Dolly Parton’s husband, Carl Dean, was last discovered in a rare public departure five years before his death. Parton announced on Monday, March 3, Dean had died at the age of 82. “Carl and I spent many wonderful years together,” wrote Parton, 79, through a statement from Instagram. “Words cannot do justice to (…)
“My husband has such a strange taste in music and loves Led Zeppelin. He has been a head directed from day one and also loves the music of Bluegrass and Banda Gran.” L’Escala al Heaven “was always Carl’s favorite,” he explained in an interview. “It was like” our song “because in the romantic moments or sweet moments, we would only go to the car and, if that came in, Lord, would only make us out of the car doing a full explosion.”
Parton included another version of “Stairway to Heaven” on his rock 2023 album, Rock star. The LP also featured a “Magic Man” cover with heart Ann Wilson That parton entitled “Magic Man (Carl version)”.