Dolly Parton got her big break in show business when she started working with Porter Wagoner. He had a television show, granting her exposure and a platform for her music. While their working ...

Dolly Parton joined Porter Wagoner’s show in 1967, bringing her the widespread attention her career needed. She was grateful for the opportunity, but her partnership with Wagoner began to weigh on her ...

The mentor-mentee relationship has always been historically significant, from the student-teacher bond to entertainment, sports, and any other professional field. The connection is also the essence of ...

Dolly Parton always knew she wanted to forge her own path in the music industry, and that's why she parted ways with one of her first managers. The legendary country singer has opened up on how she ...

Porter Wagoner, a country singer who mixed rhinestone suits, a towering pompadour and cornball jokes with direct, simple songs over a career best known for his partnership with Dolly Parton, died ...

At a charity roast for Wagoner in 1995, she explained the breakup this way: "We split over creative differences. I was creative, and Porter was different." He said in a 1982 Associated Press interview ...

Porter Wagoner, the blond pompadoured, rhinestone-encrusted personification of Nashville tradition, host of the longest-running country-music variety show in TV history and mentor to Dolly Parton, ...

Porter “Mr. Grand Ole Opry” Wagoner certainly couldn’t be considered a one-hit wonder by any stretch of the imagination, but he certainly helped inspire some. For one 1960s artist, that inspiration ...

Like many older performers, his star had faded in recent years. But his death from lung cancer Sunday, at 80, came only after a remarkable late-career revival that won him a new generation of fans.