Part of the reason Wagoner hired Parton was for her image, and he wanted to make sure she kept up appearances. He was “totally protective — both of her and of her image,” said Nashville agent Dolores ...

Dolly Parton joined Porter Wagoner’s show in 1967, bringing her the widespread attention her career needed. She was grateful for the opportunity, but her partnership with Wagoner began to weigh on her ...

Dolly Parton has opened up about her complicated relationship with her early mentor, country star Porter Wagoner. The music icon was just 21 when she joined Wagoner’s variety television series The ...

Dolly Parton feels that her early mentor Porter Wagoner considered her a threat. The country music legend landed a regular slot on the entertainer's TV series The Porter Wagoner Show in 1976 at the ...

It should come as no surprise that Dolly Parton has a net worth of over $650 million. Even when looking outside her music career, she was an actress, author, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. But at ...

NASHVILLE — Porter Wagoner was known for a string of country hits in the 1960s, perennial appearances at the Grand Ole Opry in his trademark rhinestone suits, and for launching the career of Dolly ...

Porter Wagoner, a country singer who mixed rhinestone suits, a towering pompadour and cornball jokes with direct, simple songs over a career best known for his partnership with Dolly Parton, died ...

Porter Wayne Wagoner was an American country music singer known for his flashy Nudie and Manuel suits and blond pompadour. In 1967, he introduced singer Dolly Parton on his television show, and they ...

Porter Wagoner, the blond pompadoured, rhinestone-encrusted personification of Nashville tradition, host of the longest-running country-music variety show in TV history and mentor to Dolly Parton, ...

Porter “Mr. Grand Ole Opry” Wagoner certainly couldn’t be considered a one-hit wonder by any stretch of the imagination, but he certainly helped inspire some. For one 1960s artist, that inspiration ...

At a charity roast for Wagoner in 1995, she explained the breakup this way: "We split over creative differences. I was creative, and Porter was different." He said in a 1982 Associated Press interview ...