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After having worked together for more than seven years, Dolly Parton announces that she is ending her long-standing partnership with Porter Wagoner. Her song I Will Always Love You will be inspired by the ending of their relationship.
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Dolly Parton : I was trying to get away on my own because I had promised to stay with Porter's show for five years. I had been there for seven. And we fought a lot. We were very much alike. We were both stubborn.
We both believed that we knew what was best for us. Well, he believed he knew what was best for me, too, and I believed that I knew more what was best for me at that time," the Tennessee native adds. "So, needless to say, there was a lot of grief and heartache there, and he just wasn't listening to my reasoning for my going.
Of course, ‘I Will Always Love You’ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.
It's saying, 'Just because I'm going don't mean I won't love you. I appreciate you, and I hope you do great, and I appreciate everything you've done, but I'm out of here. That's basically what I was saying. And I took it in the next morning. I said, 'Sit down, Porter. I've written this song, and I want you to hear it.' So I did sing it. And he was crying. He said, 'That's the prettiest song I ever heard. And you can go, providing I get to produce that record.' And he did, and the rest is history.
(Source : http://www.cmt.com/news/1657965/dolly-parton-shares-inspiration-of-i-will-always-love-you/)
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We both believed that we knew what was best for us. Well, he believed he knew what was best for me, too, and I believed that I knew more what was best for me at that time," the Tennessee native adds. "So, needless to say, there was a lot of grief and heartache there, and he just wasn't listening to my reasoning for my going.
Of course, ‘I Will Always Love You’ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.
It's saying, 'Just because I'm going don't mean I won't love you. I appreciate you, and I hope you do great, and I appreciate everything you've done, but I'm out of here. That's basically what I was saying. And I took it in the next morning. I said, 'Sit down, Porter. I've written this song, and I want you to hear it.' So I did sing it. And he was crying. He said, 'That's the prettiest song I ever heard. And you can go, providing I get to produce that record.' And he did, and the rest is history.
(Source : http://www.cmt.com/news/1657965/dolly-parton-shares-inspiration-of-i-will-always-love-you/)