Top singles from the past
27 September 2026
Country shero DOLLY PARTON, who passed away a month ago at
the age of 80, scored one of her countless hits with MY COAT OF
MANY COLORS, the title track of her 8th LP.
It was written by Parton, and released on 27 September 1971,
today 55 years ago and peaked at #4 on the US Country Charts.
The song tells of how Dolly‘s mother stitched together a coat for her daughter out of rags given to the family. As she sewed, she told her child the biblical story of Joseph and his coat of many colors. The excited child, “with patches on my britches and holes in both my shoes”, rushed to school, “just to find the others laughing and making fun of me” for wearing a coat made of rags.
