Luke Combs Unveils A Vintage Dolly Parton Collectable For His Wife
Luke Combs unveiled a special gift for his wife Nicole, and she shared the video clip on her Insta stories. In the video, Luke pulls a packing blanket off a…
Luke Combs unveiled a special gift for his wife Nicole, and she shared the video clip on her Insta stories. In the video, Luke pulls a packing blanket off a 1979 original vintage Dolly Parton pinball machine. Nicole wrote "Absolutely iconic" with four heart smiley emojis over the clip.
The Dolly Parton Pinball Machine was released in November of 1979 as part of the promotion around Dolly's Great Balls Of Fire album. According to the Internet Pinball Machine Database, they only produced 7,350 units.
The database also reports that Parton had some trouble with the design. That led to the machine being produced a year later than originally planned. They wrote, "We had understood from a Bally employee at a past Expo seminar that this game license had been a difficult one because singer Dolly Parton kept changing her mind about how she should be portrayed on the backglass due to her crossover status at the time from country to pop."
They continued, "The Early Production cabinet side art in this listing depicts a bouffant-haired Dolly playing a guitar while the rest of the production run cabinets omit this image, making us wonder if the singer had rejected this depiction. Indeed, the flyer shows the singer standing next to the machine with a hairstyle more in line with her backglass portrayal than with the bouffant style that was removed from the cabinet."
Parton owns at least three of the original pinball machines, and two of them can be found at the Dollywood Theme Park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. (This journalist personally owns a Dolly Parton pinball machine that my husband and I found at a pawn shop in the early 1990s in New Orleans.) The Dolly Parton pinball machine sells for around $2000 online.
Dolly Parton made headlines recently when she respectfully bowed out of her nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. While she said she didn't want to take votes away from anyone else in the running for the 2022 Induction class, she was not removed from the ballot, which had already gone out to the voters.
No, her name isn't one of the first you think of when you think of Rock and Roll, but the country icon has covered many pop and rock songs in her storied career, making many of them her own while giving each of them a country feel.
We take a look and rank the best pop/rock covers Parton has recorded and included on her many albums over the last five decades.
21. "Blowin' in the Wind" (2005) - Those Were The Days
Photo Blue Eye20. "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)" (1984) - The Great Pretender
Photo RCA19. "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" (1984) - The Great Pretender
Photo RCA18. "Peace Train" (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (1996)
Photo Sugar HIll17. "After the Gold Rush" (with Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris) (1999) - Trio II
Photo RCA16. "Shine" (2001) - Little Sparrow
Photo Sugar Hill15. "Release Me" (1982) - Heartbreak Express
Photo RCA14. "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" (1976) - New Harvest, First Gathering
Photo RCA13. "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" (1993) - Slow Dancing With The Moon
Photo RCA12. "The House of the Rising Sun" (1980) - 9 to 5 And Odds Jobs
Photo RCA11. "Great Balls of Fire" (1979) - Great Balls of Fire
Photo RCA10. "Walking on Sunshine" (1996) - Treasures
Phto Sugar Hill9. "If" (2002) - Halos & Horns
Photo Sugar HIll8. "Imagine" (2005) - Those Were The Days
Photo Sugar Hill7. "Lay Your Hands on Me" (2014) - Blue Smoke
Photo Dolly Records6. "Crimson and Clover" (2005) - Those Were The Days
Photo Sugar Hill5. "Drives Me Crazy" (2008) - Backwoods Barbie
Photo Dolly Records4. "Stairway to Heaven" (2002) - Halos & Horns
Photo Sugarhill3. "Time for Me to Fly" (1989) - White Limozeen
Photo RCA2. "The Twelfth of Never" (with Keith Urban) (2005) - Those Were The Days
Photo Sugarhill1. " Help!" (1979) - Great Balls of Fire
Photo RCA
