# What? no thread on Dolly's Stairway to Heaven?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-thread-on-dollys-stairway-to-heaven/118454>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 11, 2002, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-thread-on-dollys-stairway-to-heaven/118454 "2002-07-11T17:30:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-thread-on-dollys-stairway-to-heaven/118454/1 "2002-07-11T17:30:21Z")

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Ok, so you have a thread about bad cover songs, I’m sorry, but this deserves, nay _commands_ a thread of it’s own.

I’m not necessarily a fan of c/w, but am also not a Dolly-hater ya know? As I’m driving to work this am, listening to the ‘oldies’ station, I hear the morning guy going on and on about something. Well, he often seems to have a burr up his butt, so this doesn’t really alarm me, yet.

and then he mentions Dolly Parton singing Zepplin’s _Stairway to Heaven_. :eek:  
no, really.  
:eek:

but this station does a lot of ‘joke’ songs and stuff, so although I nearly drive off the side of the road, I comfort myself with the idea that ‘they’re just joking’ - and Snookie and I have played this game (what song/singer combination makes your virtual ears hurt? - like the real recording of Mae West ‘singing’ _Twist & Shout_ or Leonard Nimoy doing \* Proud Mary\* - ‘Big wheel keeps on turn **ing** ’, only making them up, like Sinatra doing _Who let the dogs out_ for example)  
But I digress.

For the truth, the truth my friends was far more horrifying.

For the truth is, Ms. Parton did indeed record for resale and play on the airwaves, her version of _Stairway to Heaven_.

I hear the ice cubes clinking somewhere.

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-thread-on-dollys-stairway-to-heaven/118454/2 "2002-07-11T18:20:26Z")

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Please tell me you’re joking.

Who’s next, Puff Daddy?

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**Author:** ![Fibonacci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Fibonacci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fibonacci)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-thread-on-dollys-stairway-to-heaven/118454/3 "2002-07-11T18:24:28Z")

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[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=124848](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=124848)

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-thread-on-dollys-stairway-to-heaven/118454/4 "2002-07-11T18:42:00Z")

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The thread **Fibonacci** links will also take you to the first thread that was started in response to this … um … _event_.

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**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-no-thread-on-dollys-stairway-to-heaven/118454/5 "2002-07-11T20:17:23Z")

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[Homer voice on] D’oh [/homer voice] :smack: