Parton explained her strong connection with late-night hosts, saying, "Sometimes you never know who you're going to connect ...

Here's what Dolly Parton has said over 60 years about her notoriously elusive husband Carl Dean, who died at 82.

No one chronicles love quite like Dolly Parton. From the melancholy farewell ... said in a 1977 appearance on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson." "Anyway, we met at the Wishy Washy and in ...

It's now been almost three weeks since Dolly Parton announced ... according to an interview Parton gave on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in the '70s. During her Dollywood appearance ...

But Dolly was evidently so eager to move ... and me being from the country — you talk to everybody," Parton told Johnny Carson on an old "Tonight Show" clip. That chance encounter would turn ...

Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband of nearly 60 years ... Parton said during a 1977 appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. “Anyway, we met at the Wishy Washy and in all honesty ...

SUMMERS: Dolly Parton has announced that her husband ... Parton described the moment in 1977 on NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson." (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING ...

Words can't do justice': Dolly Parton's husband ... with me," Parton said in a 1977 appearance on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson." "Anyway, we met at the Wishy Washy and in all honesty ...