Despite being unable to read sheet music, Parton played several instruments including the banjo, harp, piano and saxophone.<\/p>\n
She had her first number one hit – and first Grammy nomination – with the song Joshua in 1971 and finally left The Porter Wagoner Show in 1974 to concentrate on her solo career.<\/p>\n
To say goodbye to him, she wrote I Will Always Love You, a song that many think is about two lovers parting ways.<\/p>\n
“That’s the prettiest song I ever heard,” Wagoner cried when he first heard it, her website says.<\/p>\n
The same year, Elvis Presley was set to record a cover of the song, but Parton pulled the deal when his manager demanded half of the songwriting rights.<\/p>\n
She cried all night at the difficult decision, and Priscilla Presley later told her that Elvis sang the song to her during their divorce.<\/p>\n
In 1992, Whitney Houston transformed it into a now-iconic power ballad. <\/p>\n
Parton said she was driving when she first heard the cover and had to pull over: \u201cWhen I heard her go from the a cappella into the music part, I honestly thought I was going to have a heart attack, it was one of the most overwhelming things.\u201d<\/p>\n
Houston’s cover of Parton’s \u201csad little country song\u201d was one of the proudest moments of her life, she said.<\/p>\n
Parton re-recorded the song for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, a 1982 film in which she starred and was nominated for a Golden Globe for best actress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite being unable to read sheet music, Parton played several instruments including the banjo, harp, piano and saxophone.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-749612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}