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How 'I Will Always Love You' almost cost Dolly Parton $3 million

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Dolly Parton was heading home to Brentwood, Tenn., when she turned on the radio and almost crashed her Cadillac. The words coming out of the car speakers were hers, written some two decades before, but she was hearing them delivered by Whitney Houston for the first time. “I had to pull off to the side of the road, because it just got bigger and bigger and better and better,” she wrote in “Dolly Parton: Songteller.” You know the track.
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How ‘I Will Always Love You’ Almost Cost Dolly Parton $3 Million

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The smash, covered by Whitney Houston, is Parton’s biggest hit as a songwriter Dolly Parton was heading home to Brentwood, Tenn., when she turned on the radio and almost crashed her Cadillac. The words coming out of the car speakers were hers, written some two decades before, but she was hearing them delivered by Whitney Houston for the first time.
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The Trailblazing Business Savvy That Built Dolly Inc. Into an Empire

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Dolly Parton during her Midwest tour in 1978. Alamy Dolly Parton was initially thrilled when she heard Elvis Presley was interested in covering her 1974 hit “I Will Always Love You.” “There was nobody that I related to more” than Elvis, she once told Playboy. Then she found out the star wanted half the songwriting profits as a condition of cutting her track, even though he had nothing to do with the composition.
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