Dolly Parton Secretly Married Carl Dean After Her Label Asked Her to Wait — Inside Their Nearly 60-Year Love Story
In 1964, Dolly Parton arrived in Nashville determined to build a career as a songwriter and singer. On her first day in town, she met Carl Dean outside the Wishy Washy Laundromat. Two years later, as her recording career was beginning to take shape, people at Monument Records asked her to postpone marriage for a […]