On this day October 30, 1971

Dolly Parton released “Coat of Many Colors” as a single which peaked at #4 on the Country charts. Parton explained in her 1994 memoir, she composed the song in 1969, while traveling with Porter Wagoner on a tour bus but because she had no paper, as the song came to her, she wrote it on the back of a dry cleaning receipt from one of Wagoner’s suits; when the song became a hit, Wagoner had the receipt framed.