-Oh, my goodness!
Dolly, I'm so thrilled
to have you here.
-Thank you!
I have been looking so forward
to being with you.
-You look like a million dollars
every single time.
-Well, that's about
how much it costs.
-Oh, good.
That's the price tag on it
-Yeah.
-This is such a cool project
Your songs --
You've always been a great
storyteller in your songs.
And now you've adapted eight
of the songs into teleplay
that are going to be on Netflix.
Is this an idea you've had
for a long time,
to make them more narrative?
-Well, I've always loved
to write story songs,
and I always thought I'd lov
to see my songs up on-screen
and so, now,
Netflix fell for it.
-They fell for it, huh?
-They fell for it.
And so, we did eight of them
and if they do good,
we'll continue.
If not, it was
a dream come true.
And they're all different.
And so, of course, you saw
a little bit of Jolene there
-That was Jolene.
-Julianne Hough did Jolene
She did a beautiful job of that.
-And now, Jolene is a song -
The inspiration for Jolene
if I'm correct,
was a bank teller?
-Well, yeah, it was a girl
that worked at the bank --
I'll tell the real story -
when my husband and I
first got married.
And this beautiful girl
was working at the bank.
She had everything I didn't,
like legs and stuff.
You know, she was tall,
beautiful.
And he was just spending
a lot of time down there.
And I thought, "I know we ain'
got that kind of money."
-Yeah.
-Not right now.
So, he said he was down there,
you know, working on --
trying to get along,
'cause he was in asphalt pavin
at that time.
So he was trying to get
a, you know, deal on that,
and I said, "Look, you can tal
to some of these men on that."
-Yeah.
-Or you better get your butt
to the house, or it's goin
to be your ass and your wallet
So finally it was like --
[ Laughter ]
That was the setup for it.
But Jolene, of course,
became famous.
-A giant famous song.
And what would you do toda
if you ran into another Jolene
with your husband?
-Oh, with my husband?
I'd just hide his Viagra.
-Oh, yeah.
[ Laughter ]
Lot easier now. Lot easier now
-It's a lot easier now!
[ Cheers and applause ]
Actually, though,
Jolene was quite the girl.
I learned early on, though
I didn't want to feel jealous,
'cause everybody has
those Jolenes in their lif
and kind of afraid of them
So I just thought,
well, I'm just going to tr
to out-sexy them, you know
and just try to beat them.
So, I'm 73 years old,
and if you can beat that -
-Yeah, exactly.
[ Cheers and applause ]
[ Both laugh ]
-You know what?
I don't know
how to tell you this,
but I think --
I think for most marriages
you're the Jolene,
just so you know.
-Well, I don't know.
But I guess we all feel like
there's somebody better than us.
Your little boy
loves that song, "Jolene."
-So, yeah, you were so kind.
My 3-year-old loves "Jolene.
It's his favorite song.
And we FaceTimed with him
in your dressing room.
-We did!
Do you guys know "Jolene"?
Let's do a chorus of it
for your little boy.
What's his name?
-Yeah, for Ashe, please. Ashe.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-♪♪ Jolene, Jolene,
Jolene, Jolene ♪♪
♪♪ I'm begging of you,
please don't take my man ♪
This is for my gay crowd.
♪♪ Drag queen, drag queen,
drag queen, drag queen ♪♪
[ Laughs ]
♪♪ Please don't take him
just because you can ♪♪
Okay. Thank you!
-Oh, my gosh. Thank you so much.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Now, I cannot believe
that this is a true thing
that if it was either
on the same day
or close to the same day,
you wrote "Jolene"
and "I Will Always Love You.
-You know,
I found an old cassette,
and I didn't
realize that myself.
We were going through
all my archives
and trying to get everything
on hard drives
so I wouldn't lose
all these old tapes I had.
And the same tape I had "Jolene"
and "I Will Always Love You.
That was a major night.
-I mean, that is unbelievable.
You were in the zone that night.
-It could have been --
It could've been, like,
the first week or so,
'cause sometimes, when I write
I go back to the same cassette
-Of course.
-But anyway,
it's very possible
it was the same night,
but it was during
that same period of time.
-That's amazing.
And now, Elvis Presley --
True story -- Elvis Presle
heard that song
and wanted to record it,
which -- and you said no.
It must've been the hardes
thing in the world to do.
-You know, it was,
and I still grieve over that
but it wasn't Elvis.
He loved it,
but Colonel Tom said that I ha
to give away half the publishing
'cause Elvis didn't
record anything
unless he had
half the publishing.
-So that would mean
that for perpetuity,
he would own half of the song.
-Yeah. And, oh, I said,
"I couldn't do it,"
'cause I was leaving that
for my family.
And so I just didn't do it
And he didn't do it.
And so after --
After Whitney recorded it,
I realized that
that was the best choice.
-Yeah, I mean, the fact
that Whitney Houston did it.
-I know. But I did write
a song, though, later
called "I Dreamed About Elvis,
and it's really --
I had an Elvis sound-alike
sing with me on it.
And we did sing
"I Will Always Love You,"
so maybe someday,
I'll put that out.
-Okay, good, good.
So it came full circle.
-And eventually, on the Netflix,
if this goes on,
I'll do a movie about
"I Will Always Love You," too.
-That would be wonderful to see.
