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kolmetz | 13:19 Wed 25th Aug 2004 | Music
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who wrote and sang this song first dolly parton or whittney huston.
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Dolly Parton
yep dolly parton wrote it about some guy she was seeing or was married to....I saw her talk about it on a channel four programme.
Dolly Parton wrote, recorded and sung the original - it was written about her ex-husband aparently!!
Dolly wrote and sang a heart-breaking original version. her good friend Linda Ronstadt recorded an even more soul-wrenching version, with pain seeping out of the speakers as she sings. Whitney Houston, who confuses emotion with volume, technique with feeling, and sings about loss as though it's a case of the mumps has also recorded a version, which outsold the others by millions. There's just no accounting for taste, or indeed the absence of it.
I thought she wrote it as a tribute to fellow country singer Porter Wagoner.
I think jenstar is correct - Dolly has been married to her husband Carl for thirty years, although he is a shy man and stays firmly out of the spotlight. Porter Wagoner's TV show gave Dolly her break into stardom, and the couple enjoyed a very close working and personal relatiionship, although they maintain it was platonic. When a career split occured, bad bood between them was exacerbated by Wagoner taking legal action for alleged unfulfilled contractual obligations, but Dolly has maintained a close affection for her early mentor, resulting in this famous song.
dolly parton, of course.

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