2026-08-26T12:23:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：马克·奥斯本
许多乡村歌手在成名后都分享过偶遇多莉·帕顿的回忆，但很少有人是在多莱坞主题公园工作期间结识这位传奇人物的。
乡村歌手卡莉·皮尔斯在年仅16岁时，作为多莱坞乡村十字路口演出的一员结识了帕顿。
“我记得当时就只是盯着她看，因为我不敢相信她是真实存在的，”皮尔斯周三在《哥伦比亚广播公司晨间新闻》节目中说道。
“她在现实生活中和所有人想象中的样子一模一样，”她补充道。
帕顿的团队在一份声明中表示，这位职业生涯跨越六十年、斩获10座格莱美奖、拥有数百万粉丝的传奇人物，周二在田纳西州纳什维尔的一家医院病逝，此前她与癌症进行了短暂的抗争，享年80岁。
皮尔斯上周三参与了一场致敬帕顿的特别演出，为其颁发美国乡村音乐协会诗人奖。帕顿为该演出录制了一段视频致辞，感谢美国乡村音乐协会授予她这项荣誉，她说：“创作歌曲一直是我作为创作者身份中最重要的部分。”
“我从未想过一个没有她的世界会是什么样，”皮尔斯周三说道。“这对我来说太不真实了。我非常难过。就在上周我们还在乡村音乐协会荣誉奖上致敬了她。我为她演唱了《9 to 5》，她还通过视频全程参与了作为美国乡村音乐协会偶像的这场演出。所以这一切都太不可思议了。”
卡莉·皮尔斯于2026年8月19日出席在田纳西州纳什维尔顶峰剧院举办的乡村音乐协会荣誉奖。特里·怀亚特/盖蒂图片社 为美国乡村音乐协会拍摄
帕顿同时也是一位极具影响力的企业家，尽管在男性主导的金融界她常常被低估。她拥有自己所有音乐的出版版权，这为她带来了数百万美元的收入。事实上，惠特尼·休斯顿那首风靡全球的《我将永远爱你》就仅为帕顿带来了数千万美元的版权收益。
乡村歌手劳伦·阿拉纳在《哥伦比亚广播公司晨间新闻》中表示，她有幸多次向帕顿请教其商业帝国的经营之道。
“我问她给我的最佳建议是什么，她说：‘永远不要把事业放在第一位。先把上帝放在第一位，然后是家庭，最后才是事业。’她还说，‘这对我来说真的很管用’，”阿拉纳说道。“我记得当时我对她的职业生涯充满了敬畏。这对我来说真的是一次意义深远的经历。”
帕顿另一项成功之举则是当时鲜为人知的收购田纳西州西部一处当地主题公园。帕顿在20世纪80年代收购了位于田纳西州皮格福奇的这座公园，后来将其打造成了极为成功的多莱坞主题公园，皮尔斯后来也在此工作过。
“我觉得真正鼓舞人心的是，你想想她已经80岁了，几十年来她一直在不断突破自我，”皮尔斯在《哥伦比亚广播公司晨间新闻》中说道。“看看她现在还在推进的各项事业——一部音乐剧、纳什维尔的新酒店、田纳西州的旅行加油站。我的意思是，这位女士从未停下脚步。哪怕已经80岁了。你会不禁感慨，‘永远保持前进、永远不认为自己已经‘功成名就’，这其中确实有值得我们学习的地方。’”
Carly Pearce recalls meeting Dolly Parton at 16: “I couldn’t believe she was real”
2026-08-26T12:23:00-0400 / CBS News
By Mark Osborne
Many country singers have shared their remembrances of meeting Dolly Parton after they became stars. But few were actually working at Dollywood when they met the legend.
Country star Carly Pearce met Parton when she was just 16 and performing as part of Dollywood’s Country Crossroads show.
“I remember just staring at her because I couldn’t believe she was real,” Pearce told “CBS Mornings” on Wednesday.
“She’s exactly what everybody wants her to be in real life,” she added.
Parton, whose groundbreaking career spanned six decades, 10 Grammy Awards and millions of fans, died at a Nashville, Tennessee, hospital on Tuesday after a brief battle with cancer, her team said in a statement. She was 80 years old.
Pearce had been part of a special show honoring Parton for her songwriting with the ACM Poet’s Award last Wednesday. Parton recorded a video message for the show, thanking the Academy of Country Music for the award, saying, “Songwriting has always been the most important part of who I am creatively.”
“I never thought of a world where she wouldn’t be here,” Pearce said Wednesday. “It just feels not real to me. I was so saddened. We had just honored her at the ACM Honors this past week. I sang ‘9 to 5’ for her, and she had a little video and was a whole part of our show as the ACM icon. So it was just a really crazy thing.”
Carly Pearce attends the ACM Honors at The Pinnacle on Aug. 19, 2026, in Nashville, Tennessee. Terry Wyatt/Getty Images for ACM
Parton was also wildly successful as a businesswoman, even though she was often underestimated in a financial world led by men. She owned the publishing rights to all of her music, which generated millions of dollars. In fact, Whitney Houston’s massively popular recording of “I Will Always Love You” benefited Parton to the tune of many millions alone.
Country singer Lauren Alaina told “CBS Mornings” she was lucky enough to pick Parton’s brain about her business empire several times.
“I asked her her best advice for me, and she said, ‘Never put the career first. Put God first, then your family, then the career.’ And she said, ‘It’s really worked for me,’” Alaina said. “I remember being so in awe of her career. And it really was such an impactful thing for me.”
Another success for Parton turned out to be the unheralded purchase of a local theme park in western Tennessee. Parton’s purchase in the 1980s of the park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, turned into the highly successful Dollywood where Pearce would later work.
“What I find to be really inspiring is, you think about that she was 80, and for decades she continued to raise the bar,” Pearce told “CBS Mornings.” “Look at everything she’s got going on right now — a musical, a new hotel in Nashville, her travel gas station in Tennessee. I mean, the woman never stopped. At 80. And you just go, ‘There is something to be said for always pushing and never thinking that you’ve quote-unquote made it.’”
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