On This Day In 1974 Dolly Parton Was #1 With A HUGE Hit!
Dolly Parton will long go down in history as one of country musics most successful women. She’s received numerous awards and a whopping 25 songs have gone to #1 on the charts!
One of those 25 shot to #1 in 1974 and went on to be recorded by one of the greatest voices of our time, Whitney Houston! The song is “I Will Always Love You.”
It was written as a farewell song to her partner, Porter Wagoner, when Parton decided to pursue a solo career. The cool thing about this song is that while it went #1 in 1974, it also went to #1 in 1982 when she re-recorded it for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Then in 1992, Whitney Houston recorded her version for The Bodyguard soundtrack and it spent another 14 weeks at #1!
Hey, when a song is good, it never NOT good, no matter the decade!
As a bonus, here’s Houston’s version:
