Remembering Dolly Parton and Her Time In North Dallas

The world is mourning country music icon Dolly Parton, but Preston Hollow residents may not have known about her time spent in North Dallas.

Parton’s nephew announced the news of her death in a video shared on her social media pages Tuesday.

Bethany Erickson, senior online editor at our sister publication D Magazine and formerly of People Newspapers, wrote last year that Dolly did some recording sessions in 1984 at the late Charley Pride’s recording studio at the corner of Webb Chapel Road and Royal Lane for her Once Upon a Christmas album. Dolly’s sister, Stella, had recorded an album there before Dolly’s time spent there.

Pride, who died in 2020 in Dallas at the age of 86 from complications of COVID-19 and whose sons attended Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas, also collaborated with Parton on the duet “God’s Coloring Book” for Pride’s 2006 gospel album.

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Rachel Snyder, managing editor at People Newspapers, first joined the staff in 2019. She's covered everything from Dallas and University Park municipal government to business. Rachel began her journalism career at the daily newspaper The Express Star in Chickasha, Okla. She went on to work for the daily Duncan Banner in Duncan, Okla. the weekly Sand Springs Leader, and WFAA-TV in Dallas. She’s a fan of puns and community journalism, not necessarily in that order.