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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 2024
Page
14
Dolly Parton, a renowned country singer songwriter, scored her third No 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, achieving a major milestone in her storied career during the chart's mid twentieth century era.
The line notes that IT Will Always Love You would eventually become Parton’s biggest selling hit and the sixth best selling single of all time, a distinction realized only after 18 more years.
Dolly Parton, born January 1946 in Tennessee as the fourth of twelve children, began guitar at seven and performed locally by age ten. She joined Porter Wagoner in 1967, scored first solo country No 1 in 1970, wrote I Will Always Love You as thanks to Wagoner, declined Parker’s publishing demand, and later links to The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and The Bodyguard soundtrack with Whitney Houston.
Costner sought Parton permission to use the song after hearing Linda Ronstadt's 1975 cover. Parton warned that Ronstadt omitted the final verse, and sent the full lyrics to Houston. Houston’s rendition became a global hit, selling over 20 million copies and spending 14 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, earning Parton more than $6 million.
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