Huckleberries Online

Mon., Oct. 29, 2007

County Western Singer Porter Wagoner, 80, R.I.P.

Stephen Chernin/AP Photo

In a file photo country music legend Porter Wagoner performs July 24 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Wagoner, the rhinestone-clad Grand Ole Opry star who helped launch the career of Dolly Parton by hiring her as his duet partner died Sunday. He was 80.

Posted Oct. 29, 2007, 12:45 p.m.

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