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Dolly Parton has composed over 3,000 songs. In a 2009 interview on CNN's Larry King Live, she said she had written "at least 3,000" songs, having written seriously since the age of seven, and that she writes something every day.
Parton refused because Elvis Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, told her it was standard procedure for songwriters to sign over half their publishing rights to any song Presley recorded. She declined. That decision has been credited with earning her many millions of dollars in royalties over the following decades.
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is a literacy program run through her Dollywood Foundation that mails one free book per month to each enrolled child from birth until they start kindergarten. It serves almost 850,000 children each month across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and the Republic of Ireland. Parton donated her 100 millionth free book to the Library of Congress in February 2018.
Dolly Parton has had 25 singles reach number one on the Billboard country music charts. This is a record for a female artist, tied with Reba McEntire.
Dolly Parton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the 5th of November 2022. She had initially declined the nomination, believing the honor was for people in rock music, but accepted after learning otherwise.
Parton organized a telethon on the 13th of December 2016 that reportedly raised around $9 million. Her "My People Fund" provided $1,000 a month for six months to over 900 affected families, with a final payment of $5,000 per family in the last month, totaling $10,000 per household.