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This was written by Dolly as a farewell to her long time singing partner Porter Wagoner as she decided to pursue a solo career, despite his wishes to continue as a duo. She didn't want him to be sad or mad as he had helped her a lot on her way. She wanted to follow her dreams and the break up was nothing to do with her love for him and what he did for her. Such a beautiful song.
She wrote this in dedication to Cole Porter who sort of discovered her when she broke their arrangement. She was on the Coke Porter show. It was mostly professional but with some personal
She left the Porter Wagner show after 5 years, she kept telling him she wanted to go solo, he didn't "hear her" so she wrote him this song. So, he let her leave, then sued her. But later in life when he was destitute, and had to sell the rights to all of his songs, she bought them back and gave them to him, and at his death bead Dolly was there.
I did not know this. Dolly Parton for leader of the world - her heart is bigger than her other "assets" and it's okay, Black Pegasus, that you referred to her breasts, because she joked about them all the time. She knew they were an attraction. I can just see her smacking some ol' boys' heads together and setting the world right in a hot minute.
Porter had his own show. He had her as a guest & kept her on. She made the show & drew in the money & he knew it! But she wanted to do so many other things! That's why he was mad! He said if he could have that song, she could go. lol But she wrote that to Porter Wagner. I guess to soften the blow! lol She did love him like family, but it was time for her to expand! Or as R.E.O. Speedwagon would say, "Time for me to Fly!!
@@kathyr2792Absolutely, 100%. The first few times, it wasn't bad and I could even enjoy it and get into it, but after constant radio play, Whitney's version just didn't stand the test of time, and her vocal performance doesn't say that she will always love someone. It says, "HEY!! LOOK AT ME!! ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME?!" She took an otherwise beautiful song, phrase, and sentiment and tried to place all the emphasis on the first word. Volume doesn't equal, nor convey, emotional sincerity.
@@starlaryer4165 I do appreciate your opinion. I agree that Whitney did an amazing job with it. Never said otherwise. I just feel Dolly’s version is better.
This song was not written for a romantic relationship, it was written for loss of a professional relationship. Porter Wagner was a partner, a mentor, and a great supporter of Dolly's career. She had decided to pursue a solo career and wanted to end her partnership with Porter on a good place, and to let him know that she would always love him. Dolly's husband has always supported her career, but never wanted to be in the spotlight, she always respected and supported that too.
Porter sued her for a million dollars For breach of contract. In court she said Porter you write my checks you know I don’t have a million dollars Her husband and in-laws mortgaged Their business to pay him In later years Porter was in debt and she bought his songs years later he wanted to buy them back She told him you can’t buy them. I’ll give them to you
It would be great if you shared some information about the song (you would have to search Mr. Goggle) after you do your review. You wouldn't sound so ignorant (just meaning that you don't know). You really do get some things wrong. And it kinda makes me cringe. But I do like your reviews and enjoy watching them. It is fun to see your appreciation for songs that are new to you! 14:59
The "kids" part is just a little condescending.🤏 But it is not romantic break up, that we ever heard abouy. I love me some Dolly but back then those kind of things weren't spoken about. Love me some Dolly.
What in the world are you talking about. She had decided to embark on a solo career, leaving her mentor, the person that had believed in her and given her "her break" in Country Music and it was very talked about back when it happened.
Dolly Parton invested her royalties from Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" into Black community projects in Nashville. A woman of pure class.
Isn’t that the craziest thing ?! That’s some In Spired writing ! I remember seeing her tell a story about how they were together on a tape or in a book , I want to know what else was there ?!
Dolly actually wrote this song in 1973 for her one-time business partner and mentor Porter Wagoner, who she was separating from professionally after a seven-year singing partnership. Btw, Elvis wanted to record this song and Dolly was very flattered about this until Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker demanded that, as "standard procedure", Dolly had to sign over half of the publishing rights to any song Elvis recorded. Dolly refused and Elvis did not record the song. Dolly was so upset that she "cried all night."
True but she was smart enough to know that signing over publishing rights is a bad deal for any artist, she's an incredibly intelligent business woman. And years later when Whitney sang it, Dolly said she "absolutely loved her version, and laughing all the way to the bank too!"
7@@jamesbutler174She said she invested her 10 million from Whitney doing the song into a strip mall in the black community. This helped bring more investments to the area outside of Nashville that had been neglected.
@@jamesbutler174 It's not a bad deal when you sign over part of the publishing rights if Elvis Presley records your song because it is guaranteed to sell millions and make you millions. Dolly did it out of principle.
That wasn’t Dolly’s version in the bar but a cover from another artist John Doe John Doe. Yes that is the name associated with that particular cover. John Doe (born John Nommensen Duchac on February 25, 1954 in Decatur, Illinois) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, poet,[1] guitarist and bass player. Doe co-founded the much-praised L.A. punk band X, of which he is still an active member
No they never played Dolly's hit record. They must have had someone record a lame version of the song to be played in the honkytonk scene. That showed a certain contempt for country music.
Dolly turned 78 in January and she has been married to Carl Dean since 1966 -- 58 years. Dolly wrote this song and another one in one evening and presented it to her boss, Porter Wagoner as she was leaving his show. She has written thousands of songs and is queen of country. She is an entrepreneur, an actor, director, producer, song-writer and singer. She grew up dirt poor with 6 brothers and 5 sisters. She is very charitable in the area she grew up in the Tennessee mountains. When asked what she thought about Whitney's cover of the song, she said that song put money in the bank for me. When Whitney covered it, I bought the bank!
She was also asked how she felt about people saying that it's Whitney's song, and she said "I don't care whose song they think it is, as long as I get the check"!!! LOL Gotta love Dolly---she don't mince words!!!
Dolly wrote Jolene that same night. Elvis tried to buy this song but she would not sell the rights. A great woman that has blessed this world for a very long time.
She's not just a great singer but a great person with an awesome sense of humour. She wasn't in love with Porter Waggoner, she was breaking off her contract with him so she could be independent against his wishes, but letting him know there was no hard feelings.
You guys really need to stop being bitter and assuming the worst, those were different times! Parton wrote “I Will Always Love You” as a farewell to her long-time mentor and collaborator, Porter Wagoner. The split came when she decided to pursue a solo career and separate from him in a professional capacity
Dolly has written over 5,000 songs. 700+ of them have charted - Including 198 solo singles, 49 featured artist singles, 6 promotional singles, and 70+ music videos.
The song “Jolene” is about a hot bank teller that Dolly was afraid would steal her husband. I can only imagine how smokin that teller must’ve been for Dolly to be threatened.
Could be. However, a man can have the most desired woman in the world as a wife but if she is always gone on tours and working, another woman who is right in front of him and showing interest could be just attractive and still get his attention. I have no doubt both had affairs but with an understanding that at the end of the day, they are there for each other. If I'm wrong, Carl has to be an angel to put up with being the man in the shadows of a woman like Dolly. Between music and movies, she had to have been gone a lot.
@@mortimerbrewster3671 Is well known that her husband asked for her to keep him out of the spotlight. He wasn't "the man in the shadows" because of her.
@@rkb5472 No where in my comment did I say he was in the shadows because of her. I'm well aware of it being his choice but that does not negate my point.
Dolly Parton was a legitimate child prodigy. By the age of ten she was playing her guitar and singing on radio and television in East Tennessee. She first appeared at the Grand Ole Opry at age 13. After high school she moved to Nashville and initially found success writing songs for others. As she began recording her own songs, she was invited to join a popular country entertainer named Porter Wagoner on his television show and tours. Over the next six or seven years, they had many successful duets on the country music charts. By 1974, at age 28, Dolly wanted to focus on her solo career, and she left her partnership with Wagoner. “I Will Always Love You” is not about a broken romance, but is Dolly's tribute to Wagoner for the significant role he had played in her early career.
I am a birthmother, and as I put my newborn in the arms of his adoptive parents, I sang this song, in Dolly's style, to my son. To this day, 23 rs later, I cannot hear this without getting teary-eyed and weepy
7:12 Don that’s exactly what it was. She was under Porter Wagner’s thumb and she was never going to be Dolly Parton as long as she worked for Porter Wagner that’s exactly what happened. She was never with him though he was her boss.
Her husband is Carl Dean and stays out of the spotlight. Despite her chemistry with Kenny Rogers, she and Carl have a very strong and long-lasting marriage.
Dolly is just sitting there and hitting those notes with ZERO effort. Thats the craziest thing, imagine if she stood up and actually put her back into it
Dolly had a #1 with it. 10 years later it was on the soundtrack of a movie starring Dolly & Burt Reynolds and it was #1 again. Dolly said she went to the bank on this song and when Whitney had her international hit with it, Dolly joked, "I bought the bank". The "dude" was her mentor Porter Wagoner. She was leaving him to go out on her own.
Dolly wrote and sang this for a friend/business partner/coworker. Whitney sang for a lover. Two different audiences and no real comparison since they have different meanings. Also, as the original creator/performer it’s her song not her version.
She is an amazing person. For every child in the US under the age of 5, she will send them one book every month. She started Dollywood just to bring jobs for people living in the rural area she came from. She gave a million dollars during the pandemic for the development of the vaccines. She has done so much for decades. No one can ever say she has not given back. She started out extremely poor in a family of 12 kids living in a cabin in the Tennessee mountains.
I never cared for Whitney's version, it seemed she was shouting "I will always love you" when she sang, and I grew up listening to Dolly's version, and it seemed so heartfelt and genuine, and if someone shouted those 5 words to me the way Whitney does would probably scare me more than anything.
This was not about the end of a romantic relationship. It was her good bye to mentor Porter Wagner who’s tv show she performed on as a regular and was under contract with. It was about her spreading her wings and flying away and his difficulty with accepting that. This was her peace offering.
If I'm not mistaken, Porter had a very hard time with it.. But in the end, when he was in financial difficulties, she bought back his music rights to his songs and gave them back to him.. Someone else who knows more will hopefully clarify if I got it wrong.. but she's always a freindcto the end.
Its not what you thought.. its a well known story about porter Wagoner who's show she was on.. and after 5 years, she wanted to leave, and he didn't want to let her. She was married and still is married, song has nothing to do with a romantic relationship.
Don, don't delete your life. Archive them online, a usb or in a box in real life. Someday you will look at them and not be sad and happy you have them to remember the time. I'm old, I just went through THOUSANDS of photos doing 'Swedish Death Cleaning" this week and I was so happy to be reminded of things I thought I never wanted to think about again because decades later I could appreciate the lessons and good times.
And , the worst part is this part , and it gets so much better , if you pay attention and let it . Sometimes , divorce is a blessing and it leads to new things. ❤
Dolly actually created that typewriter backbeat while they were filming the movie just walking around in between takes by rubbing her fake acrylic nails together. This woman is all around genius.
It was her friend (Porter Wagner) that had a tv show and helped her start her career, but he would not let her go. She needed to leave and he wouldn't let her go and sued her for leaving but she still considered him a friend and his family like her family and took care of them later in life because she was grateful to him. She truly has a beautiful soul and such talent! Dolly obviously went on to have an amazing career and is still writing and singing and touring sometimes but her husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2019 so she is taking a break to care for him.
Ms. Dolly said the first time she heard Whitney's rendition of her song it blew her away. She loved Whitney's version. Ms. Dolly has written more than a hundred songs not only recorded by herself but some of the biggest stars in music today. She built Dolly Wood in Sevierville, Tn, has given away millions on causes she believes in. I could go for hours on the ways Ms. Dolly has given back to the world and has remained humble kind and grateful for the life she has. She also has a great sense of humor.
You could've also Googled who she wrote the song about. It was written to Porter Waggoner who she was under contract to professionally. She was ready to fly and go solo. This was her goodbye to him. It fractured their relationship but they eventually made amends.
This "Dear John" song written and sung by Dolly Parton is Beautiful. This particular "Dear John" song was written and sung to Porter Wagner who passed away years ago. You cannot force anybody to love you, and also there are different kinds, different types of love. Please play ""Me and Little Andy ' which was also written and sung by Dolly Parton if you would. I would really appreciate it very, very much and I sincy thank you both for listening with the heart and mot just with your ears Have a Blessed Day. Adios.
Funny the man she wrote it for was not a lover but a dear friend. Porter Wagner and her toured together and she went solo. She gave him money and help him when he got older and did right by him. She met her husband the first day she got to Nashville and they were together for decades. He owned his own business and still worked and supported her doing what she wanted to do.
Don was actually pretry spot on with his interpretation, it was not written for a romantic relationship but a professional one , she wrote it for porter wagner who she was part of a duo with and wanted to go solo and he didn't want her to
She wrote this and " Jolene " on the same day. And yes, it was written for her singing duo partner Porter Wagner. She wanted to break out on her own and he wasn't too cool about it. She was letting him know that she needed to take her career in a different direction, but that didn't change her friendship with him.
Dolly is a legend: a smart businesswoman and a genuinely good person. She does a lot for poor and marginalized communities. She’s done some great covers of rock songs and an album of new material. She has a duet with Rob Halford of Judas Priest that’s amazing!
This video is from The Porter Wagoner Show where she was "the girl singer." The song is written to Porter, host of the show, who was angry that she was leaving to go solo.
He wasn't "puttin' it down". She signed a 5 year contract to be on Porter Wagoner's tv show. After 5 years of being the "token girl singer" she wanted to branch out and go solo. He didn't like that, and wanted her to renew her contract, as the show's ratings were high. She got tired of talking to him about it, went home and wrote the song, and sang it to him the next day. At that point, he understood. He said she could go with his Blessing under 1 condition...that he could produce the song. Later, he was sued, lost his music catalogue, and was broke. During the same time, Dolly was making money. She managed to buy his music catalogue and gifted it back to him, mending any lingering hard feelings he harbored for her leaving his show at its peak. They remained friends until his death.
Country music singer-songwriter Dolly Parton wrote the song in 1973 for her one-time partner and mentor Porter Wagoner, from whom she was separating professionally after a seven-year partnership. She recorded it in RCA Studio B in Nashville on June 12, 1973.
When Dolly debuted this song, it was on the Porter Waggoner Show. The song was written for Porter Waggoner, her mentor that she was leaving to pursue a solo career. This version is not the debut. In the debut, she is literally singing it to the person she wrote it for.
Dolly wrote this song as a farewell to her business partner and mentor Porter Wagoner, expressing to him her decision to pursue a solo career, He was very upset about her wanting to leave his show and she wanted him to know she didn’t want any hard feelings and how much she cared and appreciated their friendship.
She was on The Porter Wagoner Show as a young girl and they parted ways and she blew up....this song is supposed to be about him. He was famous for those sparkly western jackets...just a history lesson lol.
Dolly's got a ton of hits to mine. Coat of Many Colors is a good one. Dolly gifted Whitney with this when she heard it. She said Whitney's is better just like Nine Inch Nails did with Hurt
And of course, the legendary Dolly song, "Jolene". Famously covered by many including "The White Stripes", and now Beyoncé as a centerpiece to her "Cowboy Carter" album. Beyoncé's take on the song is quite different from Dolly's original. 🙂
This was her song to Porter Wagoner, telling him she was leaving his show. She had tried to leave a couple of times before and he always made offers that kept her. She knew by this time that she had a strong chance as a solo artist and she was leaving for good. She was not inn love with porter, but she loved him and owed him a lot and made sure there were no hard feeling between them. Carl Dean and Dolly were from the same area in Tennessee and met at a laundromat in Nashville her first day there. She was raised in dire poverty (listen to her song "Coat of Many Colors") In a cabin near Sevierville, Tennessee. She was one of 11 children raised in a one room cabin by strict religious parents. back in those days, it was mostly poor Scot-Irish mountain people living there. You had to go over the mountain to see Cherokee and in some places of the Appalachians you might find a very poor black family. My people having come from there, I know it was a hard life. Probably not a mans book, but if you can, read the book Christy. it is very enlightening as to how the white people lived in those days. We were beyond pitiful. She felt comfortable with Carl Dean, he was like her people.
Christy is my favorite novel of all time. I used to teach in those NC mountains - all grades. The book is much better than the TV version. Now to go read it again!
If you watch "The Bodyguard" (Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston), when they are in the country bar and dancing together, Dolly's version is being played in the background on the jukebox.
The first time Dolly heard the Whitney Houston version was on her car radio. She had to park the car and get out so she could jump up and down and shout - she liked Whitney's version that much (of course the fact that it made her a ton of money could have something to do with it).
Unpopular opinion; Dollys version is my favorite. I first heard it in one of my favorite movies Best Little Wh*rehouse in Texas. The studio version is magical
Porter helped Dolly and is a great singer too. She sang this song to Porter Wagner and her wanting to pursue a solo career, not to her husband Carl. Dolly has always been a lady of virtue!
Lol BP your are a player through and through….. that baby girl and your misses will change your perspective. Dolly’s love was to Porter Wagner who hired her for his show. He taught her many things but didn’t want her to spread her wings professionally. This was her way to say Thank you, you hugely impacted my life and I will always love you because of it. Dolly is hard working, very business savvy and extremely generous.
I've tried singing this song, but I always choke up with tears at the Bittersweet memories and it's not always about the people that have come and gone in my life but the beloved pets I've said goodbye to at the end of their lives. Darn it... now my mind is going through every family member and pet that has gone home before me. I love them all.
Big thumbs up for Dolly! I've always liked her songs. Whitney did great with this one. Surprised me when I began hearing how many people didn't know Dolly wrote this. Both lovely ladies blessed with amazing talent.
Dudes their are more ways to love than romantic love!!! This was about a deep friendship. Porter Waggoner gave her the big break that her career was waiting for. She struggled with leaving, but didn’t want to just be the girl singer in Porter Waggoner’s band. She didn’t know how to tell him…and him think she was ungrateful…soooooo, SHE WROTE the song. Gettest thou minds out the GUTTER!!!!!
Guys, people like to compare Whitney and Dolly singing this song. Don't bother. Both are great. Whitney was the powerful version; Dolly's is the soft version. BTW you should check out how many songs Dolly has written. It's in the hundreds. I grew up with Dolly but never knew how great she was.
Dolly Parton's royalties from Whitney were used to refurbished a strip mall store center in Nashville that other investors refused to help do. There by opening up businesses in a depressed area as well as providing jobs for local residents as well. Dolly said when they told her the amount she'd be receiving she said " where do I sign... I have other songs if you want to use them.." she a cut up but wanted to help that community.
Dolly had the best comment at the ACM rewards shortly after Whitney recorded the song. "When I recorded I Will Always Love You I put some money in the bank. When Whitney recorded it I bought the bank." And then we found out many years later she actually took the money earned from Whitney's recording to invest in a business center in a predominantly black area of Nashville to help the people there.
If im correct, she wrote this for her main manager, the guy who hosted that tv show even after he sold her out and screwed her over. She wrote this for him, thanking him for putting her on to begin with and basically discovering her even though he ended up trying to distroy her, her star rose up and she outgrew him. She wrote this to say goodbye and tha k you in the classiest way possible. Dollie is qween❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉😊
Dolly is amazing in so many ways. One thing I learned about this song is that Elvis wanted to record it, but he always wanted the rights to a song first. He asked her and she thought about it and decided she was a song writer first, then a performer. It meant too much to her and she told him no. Dolly told Elvis no. Phenomenal!
I think we need about 60 more people to mention that she wrote this song as a farewell to Porter Wagoner. People might miss that info if it's only every other comment. 😅 This song is a great example of how performance/interpretation can take the same lyrics and melody in two very different directions. Whitney's cover is a power ballad. It's primarily an expression of her own emotions, which are mega-scale (ain't no mountain high enough). Dolly's rendition is intimate. Less about the mighty high-low of her own emotions than about conveying the message to that one person, as if he's sitting right in front of her as she sings. So cool how great singers co-create something unique.
This song she had written years before in 1973 then used in the 80s movie Dolly Parton starred in with Burt Reynolds called Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and she sang it to Burt Reynolds character in the movie. She has looooooooots of hit songs from the 60s to now mostly considered a country singer the most recent album she did she decided to do a rock album and redid some rock songs with rock artists, check that album out it rocks, songs like We Will Rock You and Stairway to Heaven are just two of the songs on her new rock album
The song was used in that movie, but she wrote the song in 1973 when she was wanting to leave the Porter Wagoner Show where her contract was up and it was a song to Porter to say it is time I need to go. She had a number one hit with it in 1973, and again it hit number 1 when it was released as a part of BLWIT again in 1982.
"It's not a romantic song, it's about Porter Wagoner." Y'all, forget that you read that piece of trivia and just use your ears. I don't care what circumstances originally inspired her to write the song, the end product is CLEARLY a love song.
