Dolly Parton’s bubbly personality has helped win her over to the public, but it once put her career at risk. Parton loves to talk so much that she once continued to speak when she should have been on vocal rest. As a result, she had to take some time away from her music career.
Dolly Parton worsened a vocal injury because she liked to talk so much In the 1970s, Parton had been putting on concerts night after night . She had to sing loudly to come through on old sound systems and, before long, she could feel the strain on her vocal chords. Her doctor told her to cancel all her performances between late June and October.
“It’s mostly a case of overwork,” her manager Don Warden said, per the book Dolly by Alanna Nash. “It’s nothing serious, but as I understand it, if she continued her schedule like it was planned, it could become serious.” When Parton finally got back on the road, her doctor told her she could sing, but she should avoid speaking.
She struggled to follow this directive. “When she had gone back on the road, she was told, ‘It’s not so bad to sing, but don’t talk,’” agent Dolores Smiley said. “Well, Dolly is a talker.
She’ll talk to the wall, you know. She is most friendly and would meet anybody or do anybody’s interview. But instead of doing what they told her, going out and keeping her mouth shut after doing her shows, she did just the opposite, because she didn’t want her public to think she was not what they thought she was.
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