Dec. 31:
Stroumboulopoulos Interview Available Online

Overseas Chart Updates
Down Under, The Very Best Of Dolly Parton, Volume 1 inches up one to No. 29 in its 252nd week on the top 40 Australian country albums chart, while The Essential Dolly Parton gains two to No. 35 for a 50th week there, the charts revealed Sunday. Across the planet in the U.K., I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston, with the late singer's cover of Dolly's title track, tumbles 16 to No. 74 pop in its sixth week on the British albums chart. In Ireland, I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston loses two to No. 51 in its sixth week on the top 100 Irish pop albums chart.

Time Warner Dropping Ovation Channel
Check out Larry and Gary Lane, the guys behind the fan documentary Hollywood To Dollywood, on The Hallmark Channel's Marie show with Marie Osmond Jan. 7 to discuss the film. They also appear on an upcoming episode of The Jeff Probst Show on NBC, but the air date has yet to be set. Finally, they have signed contracts for clips from the film to be shown in the upcoming Ovation show Song By Song: Dolly Parton, a six-part series expected to air sometime in February. (Unfortunately, Dolly fans who want to see Song By Song: Dolly Parton will miss out if they're Time Warner Cable customers. The company has announced that effective Jan. 1 it is dropping the arts network, which has also been repeatedly airing a Dolly interview from 1999 on the British South Bank Show. About 7 million homes will lose the channel at the new year, or about 14 percent of the 51 million that currently receive it. Read more from The Los Angeles Times here. Ovation is encouraging customers to sign an online petition to Time Warner available here.)

Dec. 28:
HBO Gives 'Joyful Noise' A Lift
The film's premium cable debut last weekend contributed to a sales push for the soundtrack to Dolly's film Joyful Noise, the Jan. 5 Billboard charts released Thursday showed. The CD rises 11 places to No. 15 in its 50th week on the gospel albums chart and re-enters the 75-position Christian and gospel albums combined chart at No. 71 for a 37th chart week. One track from the film, Dolly's "From Here To The Moon And Back" with Kris Kristofferson and Jeremy Jordan, re-enters the gospel digital songs tally at No. 23 for a 15th week. Kenny Rogers and Dolly's Once Upon A Christmas continues to fall, dropping another 61 to No. 187 on the top 200 pop albums chart in its 21st week, seven to No. 13 country catalog titles in its 83rd week, seven to No. 48 holiday albums in its 52nd week and 19 to No. 49 pop catalog albums in its 16th week. Dolly's "Hard Candy Christmas" falls three to No. 32 in its 17th week on the holiday digital songs chart. Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston, with the late singer's cover of Dolly's title track, loses 11 to No. 99 pop in its sixth week, 10 to No. 85 current pop albums and two to No. 15 R&B/hip hop albums. Her Greatest Hits re-enters the R&B catalog albums chart at No. 22. Overall, Taylor Swift's Red remains at No. 1 country and pop with 276,000 copies sold in its ninth week, while Lady Antebellum's On This Winter's Night gains one to No. 2 country and slips one to No. 11 pop in its ninth week.

Dec. 26:
Miley Does Dolly's 'Jolene'

In Memoriam: Charles Durning
Actor Charles Durning died over the holidays. He was 89. He was best known for playing the governor in Dolly's 1982 film The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, which earned him his first of two nominations for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. A World War II hero, he took up dancing and drama as therapy for extensive leg injuries and stuttering caused by trauma suffered in battle, and the training led to his career, which included a staggering nine Emmy nominations for various television appearances. Read more about his life from On The Red Carpet here and The New York Times here, and watch his big song and dance number from Whorehouse on YouTube here or in the media player below.

Dec. 24:
'Christmas' With Kenny Starts Sales Slip For Year
Once Upon A Christmas, the 1984 holiday collection by Dolly with Kenny Rogers, slipped slightly in its sales last week, SoundScan numbers revealed. Coinciding with its chart slide from No. 102 to No. 126, the set lost 2 percent of its weekly sales to 8,217 copies, bringing its SoundScan total since 1991 to 828,698. The collection has sold about 3 million copies since its original release.

'Dream More' Falls Off Best Seller List
After just two weeks on the 35-position tallies, Dolly's new book Dream More falls off the New York Times Best Seller List for nonfiction hardcover, down from No. 26, and combined nonfiction hardcover and paperback, down from No. 31. The set had peaked at No. 19 and No. 23, respectively, on the two charts. It had also spent one week each on the combined print and e-book nonfiction list at No. 25 and e-book nonfiction at No. 34.

Australian, U.K. Chart Updates Posted
Down Under, The Very Best Of Dolly Parton, Volume 1 loses four to No. 30 in its 251st week on the top 40 Australian country albums chart, while The Essential Dolly Parton holds steady at No. 37 for a 49th week there, the numbers showed Sunday. On the other side of the globe, I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston, featuring her cover of Dolly's title track, regains four to No. 58 pop in its fifth week on the British albums chart.

Dec. 22:
Saunders Talks Dolly Breasts, Tattoos
Jennifer Saunders, the star of the British comedy classic Absolutely Fabulous appeared this week on BBC1's The Graham Norton Show, and the comment she made that got everyone's attention involved Dolly's famous bosom and body art. She recounted: "I was in a restaurant with Roseanne Barr. Dolly was there and talking about tattoos. She winked at us and said 'This will go no further' and then undid her top and there were her tits and she has the most exquisite tattoos - angels and butterflies. They are the most divine, Titian-like drawings. You look like you don't believe me but I kid you not. Although I did wake up in the morning and thought that couldn't have happened. But it did. It was one of the strangest evenings ever." Although she has declined to discuss her body art in recent years, several years ago Dolly did admit she has a butterfly on her chest and an angel on her upper arm, and she has hinted at other ink as well, saying she has gotten several tattoos to cover up scars. While Saunders apparently did not elaborate as to when the alleged encounter occurred, Roseanne Barr in January said on The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson that she had first hand knowledge that Dolly was covered in pastel-colored tattoos "all over her body." Read about Saunders' statements from The Sun here and The Belfast Telegraph here.

More U.K. '9 To 5' Tour Praise
Another British paper says Dolly's 9 To 5: The Musical is smashing in Birmingham, this time The Birmingham Post, which concludes here: "Packed full of laughs, 9 to 5 is fast-paced and feel good . . . it's a Dolly good show!" In addition, The Express And Star offers another interview with the actress playing Judy here.

Lulu's CD With Dolly Coming In January
The Lulu Roman album At Last, which features a duet of "I Will Always Love You" with Dolly, has been slated for physical CD release to retailers on Jan. 15. Get yours from Amazon.com here!. The project was released in downloadable MP3 format (here) back in July, but until now the physical CD has only been available via the producer's website here. Now, it will also be available in stores. Get yours here!

Irish Chart Update
The late Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston, featuring her cover of Dolly's classic title track, shoots up another 12 spots this week to No. 49 in its fifth week on the Irish top 100 pop albums chart, it was announced Friday.

In Memoriam: Larry L. King
Author and playwright Larry L. King died Thursday at the age of 83. He is best known for having turned a true story he wrote for Playboy magazine in 1974 into the Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, which was adapted into a movie starring Dolly. Read more from Hollywood.com here.

Dec. 21:
Dolly Holiday Starting Chart Descent
  It appears with Christmas right around the corner that Kenny Rogers and Dolly's Once Upon A Christmas has reached its annual peak on the charts and now is beginning to drop once again, the Dec. 29 Billboard numbers released Thursday showed. The title loses 24 places to No. 126 on the top 200 pop albums chart in its 20th week, three to No. 6 country catalog titles in its 82nd week, three to No. 41 holiday albums in its 51st week, and five to No. 30 pop catalog albums in its 15th week. Dolly's "Hard Candy Christmas," though, rises one to No. 29 in its 16th week on the holiday digital songs chart. Dolly's Joyful Noise Soundtrack gains five to No. 26 in its 49th week on the gospel albums chart. The late Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston, with her cover of Dolly's title track, drops 22 to No. 88 pop in its fifth week, also losing 22 to No. 75 current pop albums and four to No. 13 R&B/hip hop albums. Overall, Taylor Swift's Red remains at No. 1 country and pop with 208,000 copies sold in its eighth week, while Blake Shelton's Cheers, It's Christmas holds on at No. 2 country and No. 8 pop in its 11th week.

'Dream More' Gets Reviewed
American Songwriter on Thursday offered a review of Dolly's new book, Dream More, which it said is "a perfect stocking stuffer for her fans." Read more here.

How Much Is Dolly Worth? A Lot Says Website
Is Dolly's net worth approaching half a billion dollars? That's what the star wealth website celebritynetworth.com thinks, Terry Morrow of The Knoxville News Sentinel reported in a column here Thursday. He noted that the website estimates that her value has doubled over the past two years from $225 million in 2010 to $450 million today.

'9 To 5' Continues Trek Across U.K.
Dolly's 9 To 5: The Musical continues to get good marks on its British tour. Three different publications raved this week about its engagement in Birmingham, England: The Redditch Standard here, This Is Tampworth here and The Good Review here. In addition, RTE interviewed the actress who plays Judy in the company here.

Forbes: Let Dolly Help Solve Gun Issues
Could Dolly help solve the nation's gun problem? One writer with Forbes magazine thinks so. He suggested this week that a national dialogue on guns and violence should start by getting together a panel of "highly respected, highly diverse Americans on stage and hold a nationally televised conversation to define the problems and discuss potential responses." His suggestions for sitting on the panel: politicians Bill Clinton and Michael Bloomberg, the chair of Mental Health America, the chair of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, the head of the NRA, Gen. Colin Powell and celebrities Jay-Z, Whoopi Goldberg and Dolly, about whom he noted: "if things ever get too serious or intense, the brilliant and witty Dolly Parton will be right there to bring the egos back down to earth." Read the entire piece here.

Dec. 20:
Dolly Participating In Thursday's Online Change Event
Details of what she's doing in it haven't been revealed, but organizers of an online global improvement effort occurring Thursday say Dolly is participating. An announcement this week of the Help Life Change event says it will "feature the work of a number of celebrities around the globe using their talent and influence to create positive change, including Angelina Jolie, Dolly Parton, Julieta Venegas, Russell Simmons, Jane Goodall, Stephen Marley, Andrea Echeverri, and many others." Timed to coincide with the attention being paid to the Mayan calendar date of Dec. 21, the event attempts to encourage people to think that if the world were to radically shift on that day what parts of it would they keep and what parts would they change to create a more humane and peaceful planet. The event will be broadcast online across 3,000 websites from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. Eastern time. Watch at A Big Project.org.

Dec. 19:
'Daily News' Gets Dolly Interview
Yet another brief Dolly interview to promote her new book, Dream More, surfaced Tuesday. This one comes from The New York Daily News and is available online here.

Dec. 17:
'Dream More' Hangs On With Two 'Times' Best Seller Lists
Dolly's new book, Dream More, sticks around for a second week on two of the The New York Times Best-Seller Lists. It falls seven spots to No. 26 hardcover nonfiction and eight places to No. 31 combined hardcover and paperback nonfiction. It falls out of the top 35 best-selling titles for combined print and e-book nonfiction titles, down from No. 25, and e-book nonfiction titles, down from No. 34. In related news, two of her recent telephone interviews with the local press to promote the book resulted in new stories being published over the weekend: one from The Denver Post here and one from The Miami Herald here, the latter of which contains the nugget quote: "If I'm remembered 100 years from now, I hope it will be not for looks but for books. I don't want to be responsible for any boobs in the future! I had to get that off my chest." I also stumbled upon video of an interview with Chattanooga's Channel 9 here from a couple of weeks ago.

Aussie, British Charts Updated
In Australia, The Very Best Of Dolly Parton, Volume 1 rises three to No. 26 in its 250th week on the top 40 country albums chart Down Under, while The Essential Dolly Parton loses two to No. 37 for a 48th week there, it was revealed Sunday. In the U.K., I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston, with her cover of Dolly's title track, dips another five places to No. 62 pop in its fourth week.

New Sales Data For 'Christmas,' 'Joyful' CDs
Came across some more interesting SoundScan numbers over the weekend on Kenny Rogers and Dolly's Once Upon A Christmas from last week's charts and thought I'd pass those along. In addition to its published chart positions in Billboard, which include No. 3 country catalog titles, No. 38 holiday albums and No. 102 pop albums, the CD's nearly 8,500 copies sold in the past week placed it as the No. 16 overall best-selling country music album in the U.S. for the week. Also, when only physical CD sales are reviewed and digital downloads removed, it is the No. 68 best-selling overall album in the nation (of course, as noted above, once downloads are included in the totals, it falls to No. 102). In addition, I found that the soundtrack to Joyful Noise, which has been off the charts for many weeks, is still the No. 99 best-selling soundtrack of the week with 478 copies, bringing its cumulative total sold since release earlier this year to 117,240 as of last week.

Dec. 15:
'Evening,' 'Noise,' Houston On Year-End Billboard Charts
Several Dolly-related products made their mark on the 2012 year-end charts released Friday by Billboard magazine and dated Dec. 31. Her Cracker Barrel DVD/CD set An Evening With . . . Dolly comes in at No. 12 on the list of the biggest music video sellers of the year with about 50,000 copies sold, and it allowed Cracker Barrel to make the list of the top music video labels at No. 7 based on the sales of that one title alone. Her Joyful Noise Soundtrack, with about 110,000 units sold, was the No. 25 selling soundtrack of 2012, No. 7 gospel album, No. 15 Christian album, No. 20 combined Christian and gospel albums and No. 33 independent label album. Three tracks from the project made the year's list of the top-selling gospel digital songs: "Higher Medley" by Dolly, Queen Latifah and cast at No. 20, "Man In The Mirror" by Keke Palmer at No. 21 and "From Here To The Moon And Back" by Dolly with Kris Kristofferson and Jeremy Jordan at No. 22. Finally, with sales spurred by the death of Whitney Houston in February, her titles featuring her cover of Dolly's "I Will Always Love You" also made the cut: the DVD Whitney Houston Greatest Hits was the No. 6 best-selling music video title of the year, the Houston CD Greatest Hits made it at No. 18 pop albums and No. 2 catalog albums, while The Bodyguard Soundtrack came in at No. 7 soundtracks, No. 15 catalog albums and No. 147 pop albums.

Dollywood Removing Adventure Mountain, Imagination Cinema
Say "so long!" to Dollywood's Adventure Mountain and Imagination Cinema, the park has announced. Imagination Cinema is being re-worked for a 2013 season debut as a 500-seat theatre to house a new Dolly's Family show, which Dolly has been mentioning in several interviews to promote her new book. According to her comments, she is writing original music for use in the show and will appear in it via video to help her family members tell the story of her childhood, growing up in the Smokies and the lives of several of her relatives that are no longer with us, such as her parents. The Cinema opened with the park's original adaptation of the film Thunder Road in 1996 when the Dollywood Boulevard section was created. The original 1957 movie, which was based on the real lives of moonshine runners that Dolly's family actually knew, was the first film she had seen as a child. The area was re-named Adventures In Imagination in 2002, and a new motion movie, The Smoky Mountain Wilderness Adventure, featuring Dolly herself, was installed in the cinema. Thunder Road returned in 2008. In recent years, it has featured additional rides for specific festivals, such as Journey To The Center Of The Earth in KidsFest and The Polar Express during Smoky Mountain Christmas, in addition to The Smoky Mountain Wilderness Adventure. More surprising is the demise of a much more recent addition, Adventure Mountain. The $6 million attraction was added at the 2010 grand opening, after being delayed one year due to the economic downturn, and operated for just three seasons. The multi-level attraction features more than 100 separate obstacles such as rope bridges and swinging beams on three different skill level courses. It will be closed for all of the 2013 season for demolition and for construction to begin on the park's 2014 "one-of-a-kind" ride addition, details of which won't be announced until sometime in 2013. The closures were first reported earlier this week by amusement park blog Screamscape here and also appeared later in the week in coverage from The Knoxville News Sentinel here. The final day of operation for both existing attractions should be Dec. 30, the last day the park is open for the 2012 season. Image at left of Dolly at the 2010 opening of Adventure Mountain is © copyright 2010 T. Duane Gordon/Dollymania.net and may not be used or reproduced without prior written permission.

Ohio Paper Chats With Dolly About Book, Career, Life
Yet another Dolly interview to promote her new book, Dream More, was released on Friday. This one comes from The Cleveland Plain Dealer and features several audio clips from the telephone interview. Check it out here!

Irish Chart Update For Houston Compilation
Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston, with the late singer's cover of Dolly's classic title track, regains nine spots this week to No. 61 in its fourth week on the Irish top 100 pop albums chart, it was announced Friday.

Sled Dolly Rode On TV Goes For Auction Again
Thanks to Timothy for alerting me that the sled used in Dolly's 1990 ABC holiday special Home For Christmas is back on the auction block again this year. See it on eBay here. As of press time, one bid had been submitted for $999.99 but it noted that the seller's reserve price had not been met.

Dec. 14:
'Christmas' Continues Chart Run For Holidays
It's still Christmastime for Kenny Rogers and Dolly, as their 1984 holiday collection continues to decorate several charts, the Dec. 22 Billboard numbers showed Thursday. U.S. sales of Once Upon A Christmas ticked up another 8 percent for the week to 8,426 copies sold, bringing its SoundScan sum since 1991 to 820,481. (It has sold about 3 million copies since original release.) Based on sales, the title rises three spots to No. 102 on the top 200 pop albums chart for a 19th week there, holding steady at No. 3 country catalog titles in its 81st week there. It dips four to No. 38 in its 50th week on the holiday albums list and three to No. 25 in its 14th week on the pop catalog albums tally. In addition, Dolly's "Hard Candy Christmas," which was originally a soundtrack cut from The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas but was added to the Kenny Rogers duet album when contractual requirements forced RCA to remove Kenny's solo recordings from re-issues of the project, re-enters the 50-position holiday digital songs chart at No. 30 for a 15th week. Dolly's Joyful Noise Soundtrack loses four to No. 31 in its 48th week on the gospel albums chart. Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston, featuring the late singer's cover of the Dolly-penned title track, drops 13 to No. 66 pop in its fourth week, also losing five to No. 53 current pop albums and one to No. 9 R&B/hip hop albums. Overall, Taylor Swift's Red remains at No. 1 country and regains one to No. 1 pop with 167,000 units sold in its seventh week, while Blake Shelton's Cheers, It's Christmas gains one to No. 2 country and one to No. 8 pop with 68,000 copies moved in its 10th week.

No Globes For Dolly This Year, But Keith And Taylor Get Nods
Dolly was not among the nominees for this year's Golden Globe Awards announced Thursday. While usually considered a sizeable predictor of Oscar gold, Globe categories often have about half of the same nominees as the Academy Award and half who aren't Oscar-nominated, so that really doesn't impact whether or not either of her eligible Joyful Noise songs gets the Academy's nod in a few weeks. The Globe's nominees for Best Song are the two front-runners usually mentioned for the Oscar, Adele's "Skyfall" from the James Bond film of the same name and the new composition for the film adaptation of Les Miserables, "Suddenly," in addition to tunes "For You" by Keith Urban from Act Of Valor, "Not Running Anymore" by Jon Bon Jovi from Stand Up Guys and "Safe & Sound" by Taylor Swift featuring The Civil Wars from The Hunger Games.

A Few More 'Unlikely Angel' Showings To Air
Want to get in just one (or two or three) more viewings of Dolly this holiday season on cable? Well, you're in luck! ABC Family has added a post-Christmas broadcast of Unlikely Angel, Dolly's 1996 Christmas film, for 12 a.m. midnight the morning of Dec. 27. In addition, CMT has added showings at 4:45 p.m. Dec. 23 and 9 p.m. Christmas Eve.

Dec. 12:
Academy: Dolly's 'Moon,' 'Everything' Eligible For Oscars
It's official. Dolly has two songs in the running this year for the Oscars: "From Here to the Moon and Back" and "He's Everything," both from her film Joyful Noise. The tunes were among 75 songs that the Motion Picture Academy announced on Tuesday were eligible for nomination from 2012's films for Best Original Song. Also eligible is a third song from the picture, "I'm Yours," which was written by the project's music producer, Mervyn Warren. Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards will be announced Jan. 10, with the winners revealed Feb. 24. Dolly has been a songwriting nominee twice for "9 To 5" and "Travelin' Thru," although she lost both times. She also performed a third nominated song, "The Day I Fall In Love" with James Ingram. Several critics have opined that "From Here to the Moon and Back" is one of the songs that is likely this year to receive a nod alongside stiff competition such as "Skyfall" from the latest James Bond flick, "Suddenly" from the new adaptation of Les Miserables and tracks from The Hobbit and Brave.Check out the full list from Collider here.

Dolly Chats With NPR's 'Bullseye'
Another great interview to promote Dolly's book Dream More made its way online Tuesday: the weekly podcast of NPR program Bullseye with Jesse Thorn. Listen to it on SoundCloud here or in the media player below. Dolly's 28-minute interview starts at the 42-minute mark.

Dec. 11:
Dolly Continues To Promote 'Dream More'
When you thought the promotions for Dolly's book, Dream More, were gone, you get a two-fer. Metro U.S. interviewed her and got two pieces out of it: an answer for their "Metro Monthly Music Podcast" to what she thinks when others record her songs (and which is her favorite cover) here (she's 22 minutes into the program) and a written story with her talking about the book here.

KC Does 'WWDD' On ACA
Dolly devotee Kristen Chenoweth on Monday night hosted the American Country Awards and brought the house down with her song "What Would Dolly Do," which included a brief skit of her pretending to call Dolly to ask for advice.

WSJ Suggests Learn Kenny & Dolly For Karaoke
How do you make a memorable impression at that holiday party? Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay put out a list of 23 "rules of the office holiday party," and No. 15 is if it's a karaoke party take vocal coach lessons with a co-worker and nail Kenny and Dolly's "Islands In The Stream." He noted here: "It will be a smash hit, you will both become office legends and will probably get promoted the next day."

Dec. 10:
'Dream More' Makes NYT Best-Seller List Top 25
Dolly's new book, Dream More, is her second to make it to The New York Times Best-Seller List of the nation's 35 most popular books of the week, it was revealed Sunday. The tome, which expands on her commencement address to the University of Tennessee Class of 2009 and proceeds from which benefit her Imagination Library literacy charity, lands at No. 19 for best-selling hardcover nonfiction titles and No. 25 for combined print and e-book nonfiction titles for the chart dated Dec. 16. It is No. 34 e-book nonfiction and No. 23 combined paperback and hardcover nonfiction. Dolly's first memoir, 1994's Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business, also made the publication's Best-Seller List and remained on the weekly tally for two months. In related news, another interview to promote the book came out over the weekend. The Boston Globe talked to her about her own reading habits, which for the past year or so have focused mostly on classics like To Kill A Mockingbird and Gone With The Wind. She also revealed she is re-reading several Lee Smith books, loves historical fiction, has read all of James Michener's books and really liked The Shack by William P. Young. Her favorite authors are William Faulkner and John Steinbeck, she added, saying: "I think we should read all the great classics. Growing up in the country I realized I had really never read those great, famous books. I barely made it through high school, and we weren't expected to or told to read the classics." Check out the full Q&A here.

Dolly Film 'Joyful Noise' Heading To HBO
Joyful Noise, Dolly's most recent film, will get its pay cable television debut later this month. The picture, which grossed $31 million at the box office and sold more than 800,000 DVDs earlier this year for a home video gross of about $11 million, will serve as HBO's weekly new movie premiere just before Christmas. Its first airing on the channel is scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 22, followed by a repeat at 11:45 p.m. and then multiple repeats throughout December and January (see the complete list in the Dollymania.net TV listings on the left-hand column of this news page). It makes its HBO2 premiere Dec. 27, HBO Comedy premiere Jan. 2, and HBO Family premiere Jan. 13.

Dolly Drops Off U.K. Charts, Gains Down Under
Dolly's boxed set The Tour Collection this week falls back off the top 20 British country compilation albums chart after re-entering it for two weeks at No. 2 to log a 25th and 26th chart week there since its 2008 release. Also in the U.K., I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston, featuring the late singer's cover of Dolly's title track, loses 11 slots to No. 57 pop in its third week. Down Under, The Very Best Of Dolly Parton, Volume 1 gains four to No. 29 in its 249th week on the top 40 Australian country albums chart while The Essential Dolly Parton re-enters at No. 35 for a 47th week.

Dec. 8:
1977 Frisco Concert CD Gets Wider Release
Craze Productions on Friday placed its CD of Dolly's April 1977 San Francisco concert Live at the Boarding House in wider release, making it available via Amazon.com here. The concert, which took place near the start of her pop crossover, was originally recorded for a radio special and was released commercially by Craze's independent label SRI Records back in 2006 but was available only on CD from the label's own website and as a download from iTunes. Now, physical CDs are also being sold via Amazon. Get yours here! The track list of the project is: