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Coat of Many Colors (song)

1971 single by Dolly Parton

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

"Coat of Many Colors" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Dolly Parton. It was released in September 1971 as the second single and title track from the album Coat of Many Colors.

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“Coat of Many Colors (song)” enters the record as 1971 single by Dolly Parton. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Coat, Many and Colors can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Coat, Many and Colors.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1971.

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This entry incorporates text from “Coat of Many Colors (song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.