Dolly Parton Invested Her 'I Will Always Love You' Royalties Into A Black Community Just when we thought we couldn't love her more... 😍👏 DollyParton
For those unfamiliar, Parton has penned more than 5,000 songs over the span of her career. The prolific songwriter first wrote “I Will Always Love You,” in 1973, but it wasn’t until Whitney Houston covered it in 1992 for her filmParton earned a hefty amount of royalties for Houston’s cover.reports that she raked in a whopping $10 million during the ’90s in the song’s heyday, and she still makes royalties off it to this day.
“I bought my big office complex down in Nashville. So I thought, ‘Well, this is a wonderful place to be,’” she explained to Cohen. “I bought a property down in what was the Black area of town, and it was mostly just Black families and people that lived around there. And it was off the beaten path from 16th avenue. And I thought, ‘well I am going to buy this place, the whole strip mall.’ And thought, ‘this is the perfect place for me to be,’ considering it was Whitney.
Despite some rumors that Houston and Parton had some misunderstandings, Dolly has praised Whitney’s version of the karaoke power ballad staple on numerous occasions throughout the years. In November 2020, Parton spoke with Oprah Winfrey onon Apple+ TV and said that she had to pull off the road when she first heard Houston’s rendition of the song because she was so moved by it.
“I was shot so full of adrenaline and energy, I had to pull off, because I was afraid that I would wreck, so I pulled over quick as I could to listen to that whole song. I could not believe how she did that. I mean, how beautiful it was that my little song had turned into that, so that was a major, major thing.”
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