I Will Always Love You

The REST of the Story:

A generation thinks of it as a Whitney Houston song, because of its use in the motion picture "The Body Guard." They'd never heard of the song that went to number one on the Country Music charts twice for singer/songwriter, Dolly Parton.
Dolly wrote the song as a "good-bye" to Porter Wagoner as she set out for a solo career and eventually surpassed her former protege. Dolly and her management "pitched" the song to Elvis and really wanted him to record the song, but it never happened because an agreement couldn't be made with regard to publishing rights.
The song is the familiar standard progression of early rock and roll called the "relative minor." In the key of C, it would be C A-minor F G, in D, D, B-minor G A and in G, G E-minor C D. and every song from "Who Put the Bomp" to "Why Must I Be a Teenager in Love" has used the formula. The slight difference is that it is slowed down.
The ironic twist here, is that now the song is known to be the song of the niece of one of Elvis' back up singers and members of the Sweet Inspirations, Telma Houston.
The world may never know what it would have sounded like had Elvis recorded it. And for MY money, the world was cheated!
So occasionally, I do the song using Dolly's arrangement at karaoke in an "Elvis" style.