What did Dolly Parton say during her 2017 appearance on The View — are there transcripts or video clips available?
Executive summary
Dolly Parton appeared as a guest on The View in 2017, an episode that is cataloged in television listings but for which no full transcript or official video clip was provided in the reporting supplied here [1]. Subsequent media coverage about Dolly and The View centers more on hosts’ commentary—particularly Joy Behar’s later recollections about making Parton “admit she was a feminist”—than on a verbatim record of what Parton said during that 2017 segment [2] [3].
1. What the sources concretely show about a 2017 appearance
Television databases list a 2017 episode of The View that includes Dolly Parton among the guests, confirming she appeared on the program that year but providing only program metadata (episode title, runtime and participating hosts) rather than a rundown or transcript of her remarks [1]. Internet Movie Database entries (IMDB) routinely document guest listings and air dates, and the record for 2017 indicates Parton’s presence on the show [1].
2. What journalists and commentators have repeated about The View + Parton
Later reporting and commentary about Dolly and The View has focused less on verbatim quotes from 2017 and more on host reactions and anecdotes: for example, Pennsylvania’s PennLive and entertainment outlets cite Joy Behar recalling she once “made Dolly Parton admit she was a feminist” on The View, a claim invoked in coverage about differing takes on Parton’s work when Beyoncé reimagined “Jolene” [2] [3]. Those accounts relay hosts’ perspectives about Parton and her songs rather than providing primary-source quotes directly attributable to Parton from that 2017 appearance [2] [3].
3. What primary-source material is available in these search results
The documents provided include full transcripts or excerpts of other interviews and features with Dolly—most notably a Radiolab transcript and a TED podcast transcript—that contain extended, attributable remarks from Parton on songwriting, feminism and career reflections, but neither of those is the 2017 The View segment [4] [5]. The Radiolab transcript includes anecdotal and reflective material attributed to Parton about songs and early life [4], and the TED transcript records Parton speaking about music and work [5], which demonstrates that fuller primary-source transcripts of Dolly’s spoken interviews do exist in other outlets even if the specific The View episode text is not in this collection.
4. Are video clips or full transcripts of the 2017 show available in the sources provided?
No supplied source contains a full transcript or embedded video clip of the 2017 The View episode; the IMDB listing confirms the episode exists but does not host audio/video or a detailed transcript [1]. Media coverage excerpts cite host commentary about Dolly but do not reproduce a verbatim account of what she said on that specific 2017 broadcast [2] [3]. Thus, based on these documents, there is no direct primary-source transcript or clip of Parton’s 2017 remarks available here.
5. How to interpret the existing coverage and possible agendas
The emphasis in the available reporting on hosts’ takes (notably Joy Behar’s critiques and anecdotes) suggests contemporary stories use The View as a foil to discuss cultural readings of Parton—feminist iconography, reinterpretations like Beyoncé’s “Jolene,” and host personalities—rather than to archive the guest’s verbatim contributions [2] [3]. That editorial choice can amplify talk-show framing and host agendas while leaving the guest’s original words out of the record; the supplied Radiolab and TED transcripts show how alternative outlets preserve Parton’s own voice more comprehensively [4] [5].
6. Bottom line for researchers and fact-checkers
The 2017 The View episode with Dolly Parton exists in television episode listings [1], and contemporary articles reference host commentary about Parton’s positions [2] [3], but within the set of documents provided there is no direct transcript or video clip of what Dolly said on The View in 2017 [1] [2] [3]. For a verbatim record, researchers should seek The View archives, network video platforms, TV transcription services or broadcast databases not represented in these sources; meanwhile, Radiolab and TED transcripts in the record here offer alternative primary-source interviews where Parton’s words are documented [4] [5].