The allure of a potential collaboration could not dissuade Parton from surrendering her artistic integrity when it came to a feud of royalties with The King.
PARTON: I’m not sorry that I didn’t—because there was something about him that I held sacred within myself. On many occasions I had a chance to meet him. He wanted to record “I Will Always Love You.” He loved the song and was gonna record it.
I had my own publishin’ company, and as the writer I wouldn’t give Colonel Tom Park the song, because I didn’t want to start doin’ that—you know leavin’ myself open—because then everybody would record it. So Elvis didn’t do it and I’m sorry. I would have loved to have had somethin’ of mine recorded by him. He also liked “Coat of Many Colors,” and he tried for a few years to find a way he could do it and make sense of it and I wouldn’t have given up the publishing rights on that either.
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