How many songs has Dolly written?
As of the mid-80s, she had written and published more than 3,000 songs. As she averages one every few days, I’d guess that by now she has written more than 5,000. Of these, she has recorded and released nearly 350 of those (some three or four times), and about 200 have been recorded by other artists. The only-ever-published list of all of her songs which she has recorded and released is available here. What was Dolly’s first song? She wrote a song about her corn-cob doll, “Little Tiny Tassletop,” around age 3. Since she couldn’t yet read or write, her mother wrote down the words for her. What is Dolly’s favorite of her songs? She jokes that it’s “I Will Always Love You” because of the money Whitney Houston earned her by singing it, but she says with all sincerity that it is her 1971 classic “Coat of Many Colors.” The song tells the true story of a coat her mother sewed for her out of several mismatched scraps of cloth. To help her from being ashamed of the coat, her mother told her the
