"I Will Always Love You" is a song written and originally recorded in 1973 by American singer-songwriter Dolly Parton. The song was a commercial success for Parton, twice reaching the top spot of Billboard Hot Country Songs: first in June 1974, then again in October 1982, with a re-recording for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas soundtrack. Whitney Houston recorded a soul-ballad arrangement of the song for the 1992 film The Bodyguard. Houston's single spent 14 weeks at the number-one spot of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, setting a new record at the time, becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time, and the best-selling single by a woman. In 2020, "I Will Always Love You" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry and, in 2021, it was listed at number 94 on the updated list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Did you know? Kevin Costner suggested using the song "I Will Always Love You" for the movie, based on Linda Ronstadt's 1975 version from her album Prisoner in Disguise. Producer David Foster and Houston re-arranged the song as a soul ballad. When Dolly Parton heard that Houston was using Ronstadt's recording as a template, she called Foster to give him the final verse, which was missing from the Ronstadt recording, as she felt it was important to the song.
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