And then the lateWhitney Houston gave the tune new lifein 1992’s “The Bodyguard.”
In 2004, the song was ranked No.
However, Parton didn’t write “I Will Always Love You” as a romantic love song.
“It was his show, and I understood all that, but I still wanted to go.
He won’t listen to me.
He’s not listening to reason when I want to go!'
So I went home and I thought, ‘Well, what do you do best?
You write songs.’
So I sat down and I wrote this song.”
He wanted to produce the song, because he felt it was the best one she had ever written.
