The man who discovered Dolly Parton: The bizarre story of Cas Walker
Table of Content Autographs from people credited in 1954 Cas Walker Farm and Home Hour What is Dolly Parton home address in Nashville? How 10-year-old Dolly made it on television before her family even owned one After success in business and entertainment, Walker ventures into politics Burying Cas Company Visitors just looked for his car (generally a Nash Rambler that he’d take the back seat out of so he could haul his coon dogs around), and went on in and hollered for him. A mile or so down the road we passed the intersection of Edgewood where you turn off to go to the WBIR TV station. We’d just sat through a surprisingly brain-numbing service that wasn’t even livened up by the presence of the Rev. J. Bazzel and Mrs. Mull (at least that’s what I like to say since I recall so little of it). East Tennessee Baby Boomers were raised on thumpin’ good watermelons and bad Cas Walker jokes. We mocked his gravelly voice – “Say, Neighbors” – and we repeated stories about him putting formaldeh...