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Dolly Parton Discusses 'I Will Always Love You'
submitted by: Lisa D.
source: CNN Larry King Live Transcript Excerpts
Date: July 3, 2003
KING: Yes, and your biggest song ever. Did you know that Whitney Houston was going to use ["I Will Always Love You"] for "The Bodyguard?"
PARTON: No. Actually, I had heard a rumor that the song she had planned to use had been used by someone else, and they had to pull that song, and that someone else had recommended my song. And I thought, oh, that would be great. And it was months, and I hadn't heard anymore about it, hadn't even thought that much about it.
And one day I was riding along in the car and had just turned the radio on, and I heard her start that Acapella, like "If I should stay." And it took me like a few seconds, and I thought, what is that? That's so familiar. And then when she went into, you know, like the "I will always love you," I just about had a heart attack and died. I just about wrecked. It was a great feeling, though. What a great record she did on that.
...KING: And you like it when others record your songs, and if they make it a hit rather than you that's OK?
PARTON: Yes, it's great!
KING: Because you're first a writer.
PARTON: Yes, I'm first a writer, and they make me more money. It's just like when Whitney did "I Will Always Love You," lord, I mean, that thing generated so much music. And somebody -- there was a tabloid story saying that Whitney and I were in a big feud, she said it was her song and I said it was mine. None of that was ever true. I was so flattered, so honored and so lucky that she did it, because the song didn't sound like that when I had it. You know, it's kind of like you should have heard it when I had it by myself. But she did great, and everybody has their own interpretation of a song.
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