Dolly Parton Dead at 80: Flags Come Down

Hour 1 (8.25) Dolly Parton died Tuesday in Nashville at 80, and by 6 p.m. the American flag was coming down nationwide for a week. Twenty-five No. 1 country hits. Nobody ever did it like her.

6:05 — Her reps confirmed to PEOPLE that Parton died Tuesday after a brief battle with cancer; the type was not disclosed. President Trump ordered the American flag lowered across the country for one week, beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

6:20 — The numbers behind the Queen of Country: 25 No. 1 hits on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart — a female record, per Guinness — plus 55 top 10s and 113 total entries on that chart. Then the crossovers: "9 to 5" and "Islands in the Stream" with Kenny Rogers.

6:35 — A brutally poor childhood she never once complained about, and the song that proves what she did with it. "Me and Little Andy," 1977: Dolly wrote it and sang it in a child's voice as Sandy, a girl "not more than six or seven" who knocks on a stranger's door in a storm holding her puppy. It was the B-side of "Here You Come Again." It still wrecks people.

6:50 — She lived by a motto: the more you give, the more blessings come back. Why this one is hitting people so much harder than they expected.

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