Dolly Parton has been a fan favorite for so many years, it’s difficult to remember everything that she has done to entertain us. In more recent years, it wasn’t just the music, it was also the release of two movies for TV that have kept us buying tissues as well.

Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors was the first TV movie that she released in December 2015. It went over a part of Dolly Parton’s life when she was a little girl that was very important to her. She had been living in a small cabin with her seven brothers and sisters at the time.

Everybody was excited in Dolly Parton’s family at the time because her mother was pregnant. She said that she was especially attached to her baby brother, but unfortunately, he would pass away.

She said: “A big portion of the movie was based on us losing one of my little brothers. There were so many of us, we were being born right after another, so Mama would always tell one of the older ones, ‘Well, this baby’s gonna be yours,’ because that meant we’d have to take extra time, get up and rock it or whatever. The baby Mama was carrying was gonna be my baby and when I was her age, I was nine, so, we lost that baby and I was so brokenhearted.”

Her mother was sewing a baby blanket out of scraps of fabric for the new baby boy. The fabric was different colors, and it was going to go to her baby brother, whose name was supposed to be Larry.

When Larry died, it was a very sad moment for both Dolly and her mother along with the rest of the family. The mother knew that Dolly needed cheering up, so she made the baby blanket into a coat. It was a coat of many colors.

In order to memorialize what took place and to remember her brother’s passing, she wrote a song and titled it, Angel Hill. That is the name of the area where Larry is buried. She thought that it was good to be included in the TV movie and even included vocals from the little girl who plays Dolly in the movie, Alyvia Alyn Lind.

Alyvia and Dolly were with each other during an appearance on Home & Family. When the host asked them if they would perform Angel Hill together, they decided that they would go through with it.

Stools are brought out for the two individuals but Alyvia was so small that she could barely get up on it. They then looked at each other for a moment and then sang the chorus of the song together, while Dolly sang the verses solo.