Which is your favorite? Let us know in the comment section below. It’s been one of the biggest songs ever.”Īs much as we’d love to pick a favorite, we just can’t. I love you My love for you isn’t something that can be measured. My world would be a much darker place without you. I feel so blessed every day to have someone like you in my life. During the night, you’re my guiding star. “'I appreciate you and I hope you do great and I appreciate everything you’ve done, but I’m out of here.’”Īfter Houston’s success with her version, Parton said, "The effect that it had on the whole world was amazing. During the day, you’re the light of my life. “It’s saying, ‘Just because I’m going don’t mean I won’t love you,'” she told CMT. Parton later said the song represented her desire to convey to Wagoner that she cared about him and appreciated him, but that it was time to leave. She went on to record her next album, which featured “I Will Always Love You.” It became a multiple-time No. And you can go, providing I get to produce that record.’ And he did, and the rest is history,” Parton said. He said, ’That’s the prettiest song I ever heard. She went to Wagoner the next day and sang the song for him. So she went home and, “out of a very emotional place,” wrote the song “I Will Always Love You.” "I thought, 'Well, why don’t you do what you do best? Why don’t you just write this song?’” “There was a lot of grief and heartache there, and he just wasn’t listening to my reasoning for my going,” Parton told CMT in a 2011 interview. When Parton decided to go, she and Wagoner butted heads over whether it was the right decision. For five years, she starred alongside him on his TV show, “The Porter Wagoner Show,” and with great success. Parton was in a working relationship with singer Porter Wagoner until 1973. What most people probably aren’t aware of, is what the song was actually written about. Plenty of people know the song by Whitney Houston (play it below), who recorded a version for the movie “The Bodyguard.”įor those who aren’t familiar, the song was first written and recorded in 1974 by Dolly Parton, who is known for the popular “Jolene,” among handfuls of other hits over the years. Arguably one of the most famous of love songs, “I Will Always Love You” doesn’t have the back story you might have imagined it did.
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