On This Day in 1966, Dolly Parton Recorded Her First-Ever Hit Single—and Then Re-Recorded 52 Years Later for Miranda Lambert

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On This Day in 1966, Dolly Parton Recorded Her First-Ever Hit Single—and Then Re-Recorded 52 Years Later for Miranda LambertOn this day (September 23), Dolly Parton stepped into the Fred Foster Sound Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, and recorded “Dumb Blonde.” It became the future icon’s first charting single, peaking at No. However, she didn’t find chart success until she released her first country single, “Dumb Blonde,” in 1967. Dolly Parton Shows Her Wit with “Dumb Blonde”Curly Putman wrote “Dumb Blonde,” but Dolly Parton lived the song. In the opening verse, she sings, Just because I’m blonde / Don’t think I’m dumb / ‘Cause this dumb blonde ain’t nobody’s fool. “I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb,” Parton once quipped.