The singer's hit song was released in October 1973, and was inspired by a woman who had a crush on her husband, Carl Dean, who died on March 3

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Dolly Parton has explained that her 1973 hit "Jolene" was inspired by her husband Carl Thomas Dean, who has died at age 82.