{"id":930,"date":"2026-09-10T10:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T14:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/?p=930"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:40:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T14:40:02","slug":"our-podcast-pays-tribute-to-the-late-greats-dolly-parton-and-tim-curry-discussing-their-roles-as-fictional-singers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"Our podcast pays tribute to the late greats Dolly Parton and Tim Curry; discussing their roles as fictional singers."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/final.png\" rel=\"lightbox[930]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/final-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/final-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/final-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/final-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/final-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/final-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/final.png 1849w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>We lost two beloved icons on the same day: Dolly Parton and Tim Curry. We look at Dolly&#8217;s legacy and how she lived her life the way our heroes should live. We look at her fictional musician roles in <em>9 to 5<\/em>, <em>Rhinestone<\/em>, <em>A Smoky Mountain Christmas<\/em>, <em>Unlikely Angel<\/em>, <em>Wild Texas Wind<\/em>, and <em>Blue Valley Songbird<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We discuss Tim Curry, the gifted actor who wowed us with his charisma and rock star flair. We talk about his earlier roles in <em>Armchair Theatre<\/em> (1973), <em>Rock Follies<\/em> (1977), <em>City Sugar<\/em> (1978), <em>Times Square<\/em> (1980), <em>Blue Money<\/em> (1984), and guest appearances on <em>The Tracey Ullman Show<\/em> (1989) and <em>Wiseguy<\/em> (1989).<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/1KasgH9Osavo46322lfIuX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify<\/a><\/li>\n<li>On <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/in-remembrance-of-dolly-parton-and-tim-curry\/id1738865725?i=1000788231298\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/rocklopedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Everything Else<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We lost two beloved icons on the same day: Dolly Parton and Tim Curry. We look at Dolly&#8217;s legacy and how she lived her life the way our heroes should live. We look at her fictional musician roles in 9 to 5, Rhinestone, A Smoky Mountain Christmas, Unlikely Angel, Wild Texas Wind, and Blue Valley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paCRfe-f0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}