In 1992, Whitney Houston recorded her version of the song for her film, the Bodyguard. The song appeared on Parton's album "Jolene" in 1974, earning a number one spot on country music charts, and it earned a top spot again in 1982 when she rerecorded the version for the soundtrack “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” according to the Washington Post. 'It's always #HotGirlSummer': Dolly Parton dresses up as a Playboy bunny for husband's birthdayĭollywood exclusive: Dolly Parton bringing new HeartSong Lodge to Pigeon Forge in 2023 He's not listening to reason when I want to go!' So I went home and I thought, 'Well, what do you do best? You write songs.' So I sat down and I wrote this song." "So, finally, I thought, 'How am I gonna make him understand how much I appreciate everything, but that I have to go? He won't listen to me. So we were going around and around with that," Parton told the Tennessean. It was his show, and I understood all that, but I still wanted to go. "Five years passed, and I was still in the show. She told Wagoner that she would only stay on the show for five years. The song "I Will Always Love You" was written by Parton at a time when she was trying to leave Porter Wagoner's show that she started working with him on in 1967. “It was a whole strip mall, and I thought this is the perfect place for me to be, considering it was Whitney, so I just thought, ‘This is great, I’m just going to be down here with her people, who are my people as well,’” Parton said. Parton adds that she loves the fact that she spent money on the complex.
"I bought a property in what was the Black area of town and it was mostly just Black families and people that lived around there and it was just off the beaten path from 16th Avenue," Parton tells Cohen after he tossed her a question on what was the best thing she bought or invested in using those royalties. In an appearance on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen” on Thursday, Parton revealed to host Andy Cohen that the money she earned in royalties from gaining songwriting credits for Houston was invested in a property in a historically Black neighborhood in Nashville.
Watch Video: Dolly Parton received her first round of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccineĭolly Parton has added another item to her long list of philanthropic acts: investing royalties from Whitney Houston's rendition of "I Will Always Love You" to a local Black community in Nashville.