pic of the day - I will always love you

I'd like to offer a shout out to my dear friend Tina on this one! Before there was Whitney Houston and the movie Bodyguard, there was a 5 foot tall, well endowed blond beauty from East Tennessee, with big wig hair as big as her personality and she sang one of my favorite songs of all time. Dolly Parton! I've heard all the rumors about what a fake she is and how foul mouthed she is. I even heard once, from a very reliable source mind you, that she was never seen in public without her spike heels that made her tall and her 4-5 pairs of panty hose (worn all at one time) that made her calves look good. Rumors and quirks aside, I LOVE DOLLY PARTON!!! How can you not? Any woman who can have one of her girls fall out of her dress as she goes out on stage and then say that's what happens when you try to stuff 10 pounds of potatoes in a 5 pound bag is my kind of girl!!! What an attitude! And what a voice! When I was little, Dolly had her own TV show. I can't remember for certain, but I think it came on after Hee Haw on Saturday nights. Yes, I loved Hee Haw too...and the Barbara Mandrell show. What has happened to TV anyway? None of that good stuff is on these days. I digress. My absolute favorite thing about the Dolly show was her entrance. It may have been one show for all I know, but I know that it stuck in my mind forever as totally cool!!!! You could hear her singing the start of "I will always love you" before you ever saw her. Then....are you ready...then she was lowered onto the stage from a swing. Like the swing in my own backyard! In my memory, she had on this glorious frilly sparkly pink dress and her wig was huge! And she came on stage from the air in a backyard swing singing "And I....will always love you...ooo oooo ooo". Her background to the stage was always this monsterous butterfly and to this day, I believe the butterfuly remains sort of her signature. Crazy I know, butI see butterflies and I think of Dolly. How many people can say that???? It's what makes me me!