Fred Foster signs Dolly and Bill Owens to Combine Music and Monument Records. Dolly has first charting single, "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby."

Dolly records Kitty Wells' hits on, "Hits Made Famous by Country Queens" including "It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels."

Dolly Parton and her Uncle Bill Owens are signed to Tree Publishing, Buddy Killen lands Dolly recording deal with Mercury Records in 1962.

Introduced by Johnny Cash, at age 13, Dolly Parton's first Grand Ole Opry performance with Uncle Bill Owens in 1959 receives 3 encores.

In 1959 "Puppy Love," written by Parton/Owens, was released on Goldband Records by Dolly Parton at age 13, becoming her first single.