Dolly Parton said working with Porter Wagoner was a positive and negative experience for her. Parton joined Wagoner’s show in 1967. In their years together, ...

Dolly Parton said her earnings went up when she stopped working with Porter Wagoner. Parton moved on from her collaboration with Wagoner in 1974. She said money played a role in her decision.

Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner’s final album almost didn’t receive a public release. In 1975, Parton and Wagoner released their twelfth studio album, Say Forever You’ll Be Mine.

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, 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, 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 ...

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