While Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton’s working relationship ended badly, they strongly supported each other during their collaboration. Wagoner insisted that his record label, RCA, take her on when ...

Porter Wagoner said his ideas lifted Dolly Parton to success. After Parton and Wagoner stopped working together, she wondered if he took a little too much credit for the success of her solo career ...

Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner had a huge falling out. They were on better terms two decades later, as one of his albums ...

Wagoner wasn't just a major figure in country music: He also gave Parton her first big break in the industry. In 1967, he offered the then-newcomer a regular spot on his weekly television variety ...

Dolly Parton has worn wigs for much of her career. She almost never shows her natural hair, and began to cry when Porter Wagoner knocked a wig off her head.

To Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton could empathize and feel more than the average Joe, and that is why he thought she had a god-given gift.

Porter Wagoner, the rhinestone-clad Grand Ole Opry star who helped launch the career of Dolly Parton by hiring her as his duet partner, died Sunday. He was 80.

Porter Wagoner; Marty Stuart Two generations of country music shared the stage at Safari Sam's on Sunday as modern traditionalist Marty Stuart and Grand Ole Opry stalwart and Country Music Hall of ...

U.S. country singer Porter Wagoner, lanky Grand Ole Opry star whose flashy Nudie rhinestone suits dazzled fans when he sang with rising new performer Dolly Parton in the '60s, has died.

Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton officially severed their professional relationship in 1974. The previous year, knowing she would be striking out on her own, ...

Porter Wagoner, the rhinestone-clad Grand Ole Opry star who helped launch the career of Dolly Parton by hiring her as his duet partner, died Sunday. He was 80.

In honor of his roots in the Missouri Ozarks, Porter Wagoner is known as the Thin Man from West Plains, but just The Man would be sufficient. Country music simply would not be what it is today if ...