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 pressured Dolly Parton into doing things his way. When Parton got to work on her solo career in the 1970s, she brought Wagoner on as a producer.

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

Porter Wagoner was on the same label as Dolly Parton. Here's why he thought they were cheating her out of success.

{mosimage}It may seem odd that country singer Porter Wagoner, who has built a career on graphic examinations of matters of temperance, social morality and spiritual rectitude, dispenses his ...

Porter Wagoner, who was born 89 years ago today, solidified his place in television history about as strongly as he did in the country music history books. From 1960 to 1981, ...

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.

Porter Wagoner, the blond pompadoured, rhinestone-wearing personification of Nashville tradition, host of the longest-running country music variety show in TV history and mentor to Dolly Parton ...

Porter Wagoner was born Aug. 12, 1927, in West Plains, Mo. He grew up helping out on the family farm, but when he wasn’t busy with farm chores he would spend hours standing on the trunk of a ...

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 night. He was 80. Wagoner, who had survived an ab… ...

Porter Wagoner was born Aug. 12, 1927, in West Plains, Mo. He grew up helping out on the family farm, but when he wasn’t busy with farm chores he would spend hours standing on the trunk of a ...