Dolly!

Dolly!
Genre	Variety show
Starring	Dolly Parton Ralph Emery Richard Dennison
Opening theme	"Love Is Like a Butterfly" performed by Dolly Parton
Ending theme	"I Will Always Love You" performed by Dolly Parton
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	26
Production
Executive producer(s)	Bill Graham
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Show Biz, Inc.
Release
Original network	First-run syndication
First shown in	1976

Dolly! is an American variety show starring Dolly Parton that aired in first-run syndication during the 1976-77 season.

In the mid-1970s, Parton was approached by Bill Graham, president of Show Biz, Inc., the same company that produced The Porter Wagoner Show (on which Parton had costarred for seven years), and soon afterward the syndicated variety show Dolly was born.

The show boasted a budget of $85,000 per episode, an impressive sum at the time for a syndicated series. (It was, in fact the most expensive show to be produced out of Nashville to that point.) A variety of Nashville and Hollywood stars were scheduled to appear, including Karen Black, Tom T. Hall, Emmylou Harris, The Hues Corporation, Captain Kangaroo, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., Ronnie Milsap, Anne Murray, Kenny Rogers, Linda Ronstadt, KC & The Sunshine Band, and Anson Williams. According to her 1978 biography, Dolly by Alanna Nash, Parton spoke to Bob Dylan and he initially agreed to do the show, but eventually bowed out due to his discomfort with the television medium at the time.

Despite the work that went into the show and the diverse collection of guests, Parton was said to have been less than pleased with the end product, as she found herself singing standards like "My Funny Valentine" (which she felt didn't suit her voice or musical style), and interacting with guests with whom she had little in common. She told Nash during a 1977 interview for the biography Dolly

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