The Dolly Show No. 105
The Dolly Show No. 105
The Dolly Show #105 with special guest Anne Murray.
The Dolly Show No. 105
Opening of The Dolly Show #105 with special guest Anne Murray. To the strains of Dolly's record "Love Is Like A Butterfly" we fade up on a plastic prop butterfly lit with pulsating pastel blue and violet lights. Camera pulls out to reveal the butterfly as part of a giant sparkly sign that reads simply "Dolly." As the sign rises into the rafters, the lights come up on the set and Dolly Parton is lowered from the ceiling on a swing as a voice-over announces her. To canned applause, Dolly steps off the red velvet swing and sings "Let Me Be There." Dolly introduces Anne Murray, who appears in the velvet swing, and then inexplicably disappears, only to reappear in Dolly's spot to sing a chorus of "Let Me Be There." Dolly asks Anne what happened and she says "It's the magic of television, don't question it."
The Dolly Show No. 105
Open on nighttime shot of Andrew Jackson's horse-drawn carriage from 1828. Man in soldier uniform opens carriage door to reveal Dolly inside in outfit from same time period, saying "I'll be you don't have a set of wheels like this." She tells story of Old Hickory's departure from The Hermitage, then still in uniform, sings "The Battle Of New Orleans" on location at The Hermitage, intercut with staged shots of soldiers going through maneuvers on Hermitage lawn. At end of bit soldiers fire muskets towards camera.
The Dolly Show No. 105
Pull out on previous scene to reveal it playing on chroma-key screen behind where Dolly is sitting. She raises a rifle and mimes firing it; sfx of gunshot, then ricochet, then shot of Anne Murray looking alarmed and saying "This is a really rough joint!" Murray sits atop upright honky-tonk piano and sings "Blue Finger Lou," featuring the immortal line "my woogie wants to boogie with you."
The Dolly Show No. 105
Dolly and Anne compare notes about their large families (Dolly's one of twelve), then Dolly's brother Randy joins them. They joke about Randy having to wear his sisters' hand-me-downs, and that when Women's Lib hit Tennessee, Randy was the first one to burn his bra. Randy retorts: "You might've known whose it was, we had to call in the fire department to put it out." Then Randy sings "Tennessee Born." At 01:16:06 someone can be seen walking through the back of the set. Shot of audience applause is the same as from show #104.
The Dolly Show No. 105
Dolly shows off "what big sister can do," singing "All I Can Do," helped on vocals by Randy and Anne.
The Dolly Show No. 105
Dolly, Anne and Randy sing Dobie Gray's hit "Drift Away." The look Dolly gives Randy when she sings the line "I hate to lose" seems to have special meaning. Weird awkward moments as there appears to be a minor conflict about whether to sing a certain line as "rock and roll" or "country song," and poor Anne Murray seems befuddled by the whole thing.
The Dolly Show No. 105
Anne Murray sings "Golden Oldie" from her "Keeping In Touch" LP. By the end of the song, Murray has returned to Dolly's velvet swing.
The Dolly Show No. 105
Dolly sneaks up behind Anne Murray and asks her about her disappearing trick from earlier in the show, and Anne ascribes it to "an old Canadian trick" of disappearing whenever Dolly touches her nose. Anne tells her not to touch it so of course Dolly does and Anne vanishes. Dolly wraps the show by singing the standard show closer "I Will Always Love You" as end credits roll.