"You're The Only One." Dolly Parlon's hit single from her new LP, Great Balls Of Fire, has been getting her flak lately. If Carl Dean, her husband of 13 years, is—as Parton claims—the love object of the song, then why is she living it up in a plush penthouse on New York's Fifth Avenue with her manager, Sandi Gallin, while Dean stays down on the farm in Nashville? Has Parton traded in her country roots for the big city and her husband for her manager? "Horse

relish," she says. "I love Carl. He knows this new apartment is part of my business. Carl has his own business, asphalt pavin', and we respect each other's work." Meanwhile, Gallin cffers his own explanation: "We wanted a comfortable place for people in the music business to come, a place that didn't feel like an office." It doesn't; there's not a typewriter or desk insight. The windows in the opulent all-white living room oiler a panoramic view of Central Park, There are two bedrooms. In Gallin's, the bed serves as his desk;

he perches there and makes deals on four phones. Parton's room down the hall has a quieter, flowery feel, a good place to work out a new song. Parton admits she doesn't get to spend much time in the 200-acre, 23-room estate she and Dean own in Nashville. Slill, she explains, "when the time comes. I'll have all kinds of time to spend there, and it will be paid for. Carl and I are makin' hay now, while the sun shines,"Parton, 33, says that she

knew Dean was the only man for her since she met him at Nashville's Wishy Washy Laundromat the day after she arrived from her home town of Sevierville, Tenn. The fourth of 12 children, her parents were dirt farmers in the Smokies. And Dean opened a whole new world lor her. "We are just so happy," she says, summing up her marriage to the quiet, publicilv-shy Dean. She explains his absences from her concerts by saying, "He's like a nervous father watching his child perform. But he saw right away that i had control of what I was doing."

Since she was 5, Parton's aim in life has been stardom. " I knew that was a way I wouldn't have to spend my life being poor." she says. Her plan: "Never go unnoticed." She topped her naturally blonde hair with a large wig to balance her buoyant bosom and piled on the rhinesiones. At first, the razzle-dazzle often disguised the simple artistry of her songs ("Coat Of Many Colors." " Jolene"). She's still wary of ditching the disguise and is never seen in public without the wigs and finery. She dons them even for quick trips to the local market. "Folks expect Dolly Parton to look like Dolly Parton," she reasons. "It

would be like seeing Mother Goose lookin'like MamaCass." But she's working on some changes. "I can overcome this appearance." she insists. "Eventually, when more people see I'm sincere with my talent, the gimmick part won't be near as extreme." Parton sees her Gallin-orchestrated crossover from country to pop as crucial. Last year's gold single, "Here You Come Again," proved her potential for captivating mass audiences. She's aware that her forays into pop and disco have disjointed the noses of the country purists, but her goal is "total

musical freedom in all fields." But now, Parton's music is not her only ambition. She's planning a movie with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin about secretaries, titled Nine To Five; a book of children's stories, and a novel she's been "fiddlin"' with since she was 7. "My music is not all there is," she says. And if it takes being in the big city to prove it. that's not so bad. "Look at those skyscrapers," she comments on the view from her office-apartment. "They're like Tennessee mountains with lights on 'em."