who sang the song coat of many colors
Dolly Parton
title: Coat of Many Colors (song) text: Coat of Many Colors (song) "Coat of Many Colors" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Dolly Parton, which has been described on a number of occasions as her favorite song she has written. It was released in October 1971 as the second single and title track from the album "Coat of Many Colors". She composed the song in 1969, while traveling with Porter Wagoner on a tour bus. (She explained in her 1994 memoir, "My Life and Other Unfinished Business", because she could find no paper, as the song came to her, she wrote it title: Coat of Many Colors text: Coat of Many Colors Coat of Many Colors is the ninth solo studio album by Dolly Parton. It was released on October 4, 1971, by RCA Victor. The title song, which Parton has described as her favourite of all the songs she's ever written, deals with the poverty of her childhood. It reached #4 on the U.S. country singles charts. The album was nominated for Album of the Year by the Country Music Association in 1972. Over the years, Parton would re-record a number of the songs from the album. She redid "Traveling Man" (not to be confused with the title: Coat of Many Colors (song) text: on the back of a dry cleaning receipt from one of Wagoner's suits; when the song became a hit, Wagoner had the receipt framed.) She recorded the song in April 1971, making it the title song for her" Coat of Many Colors" album. The song reached #4 on the U.S. country singles charts. The song tells of how Parton'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 title: Coat of Many Colors (song) text: her Chasing Rainbows Museum at Dollywood. (Wagoner also donated the framed dry cleaning receipt on which Parton composed the song to the museum, where it now hangs.) Shania Twain recorded a cover version of the song on the 2003 Parton tribute album "", with accompaniment by Alison Krauss and Union Station. This version peaked at #57 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart based only on unsolicited airplay. Other cover versions include a 1976 recording by Emmylou Harris on her Reprise Records debut, "Pieces of the Sky", and a recording by Eva Cassidy released on the 2008 posthumous title: Coat of Many Colors (song) text: collection, "Somewhere". Scottish comedian Billy Connolly recorded a version in 1975 on his album "Get Right Intae Him" (Unicorn Artists). This was a serious version unlike his comical song "D.I.V.O.R.C.E." which parodied "D-I-V-O-R-C-E", made popular by Tammy Wynette and also covered by Parton. Melinda Schneider and Beccy Cole covered the song on their album "Great Women of Country" (2014). In 2005, "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" ranked "Coat of Many Colors" number 10 on its list of 100 Songs of the South. A 1996 children's picture book of the song, with illustrations by Judith Sutton, was published by Harpercollins Children's Books. In