I Will Always Love You
| "I Will Always Love You" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Side A of the original 1974 U.S. single | ||||
| Single by Dolly Parton | ||||
| from the album Jolene | ||||
| B-side | "Lonely Comin' Down" | |||
| Released | March 11, 1974 | |||
| Recorded | June 12, 1973 | |||
| Studio | RCA Studio B, Nashville | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 2:54 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Dolly Parton | |||
| Producer(s) | Bob Ferguson | |||
| Dolly Parton singles chronology | ||||
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| "I Will Always Love You" on YouTube | ||||
"I Will Always Love You" is a song written and originally recorded in 1973 by American singer-songwriter Dolly Parton. Written as a farewell to her business partner and mentor Porter Wagoner, expressing Parton's decision to pursue a solo career,[1] the country single was released in 1974. The song was a commercial success for Parton, twice reaching the top spot of the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart: 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 Pop-ballad arrangement of the song for the 1992 film The Bodyguard. Houston's version peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for a then-record-breaking 14 weeks.[2] The single was certified diamond by the RIAA, making Houston's first diamond single, the third female artist who had both a diamond single and a diamond album,[3] and becoming the best-selling single by a woman in the U.S.[4][5][6][7] The song was an enormous success worldwide, going number one in 34 official singles charts. With over 24 million copies sold worldwide, it became the best-selling single of all time by a female solo artist.[8][9] It was also the world's best-selling single of 1992.[10] Houston won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female[11] in 1994 for "I Will Always Love You".[12] Houston also won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year for The Bodyguard - Original Soundtrack Album.[11]
The song has been recorded by many other artists including Linda Ronstadt,[13] John Doe,[14] Amber Riley, Kenny Rogers,[15] LeAnn Rimes,[16] Christina Grimmie,[17] and Sarah Washington, whose dance version reached number 12 on the UK Singles Chart. "I Will Always Love You" has been recognized by BMI for over ten million broadcast performances.[18]
- ^ "Dolly Parton remembers writing 'I Will Always Love You'". The Tennessean. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
- ^ DeKnock, Jan (January 15, 1993). "Whitney Houston Hits 4th 'Triple'". Chicago Tribune. Tribune Company. Retrieved March 17, 2011.
- ^ "Whitney Houston Joins Taylor Swift And Mariah Carey In An Extremely Rare Musical Feat". Forbes. January 12, 2022. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
- ^ "RIAA certification for "I Will Always Love You" single". The Recording Industry Association of America. January 12, 1993. Archived from the original on July 25, 2013. Retrieved July 5, 2010.
- ^ "RIAA Certs Show Power of 'Titanic'". Billboard. April 11, 1998. p. 10. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ Trust, Gary (August 28, 2009). "Battle of the Divas, Round 3". Billboard. Retrieved September 25, 2010.
- ^ "Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' Is Certified Diamond by RIAA". Billboard. January 13, 2022. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
- ^ "'I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU': WHITNEY HOUSTON REACHES A NEW MUSICAL MILESTONE". Black Enterprise. August 23, 2024. Retrieved September 27, 2024.
- ^ ""I Will Always Love You", anche dopo cinquant'anni". Il Post. March 14, 2024. Retrieved July 24, 2024.
- ^ "Official Top 40 best-selling songs of 1992". Official Charts. May 28, 2021. Retrieved June 11, 2023.
- ^ a b "Whitney Houston". grammy.com. Retrieved January 5, 2024.
- ^ "Rock On The Net: Grammy Awards: Record of the Year". www.rockonthenet.com.
- ^ "Linda Ronstadt – I Will Always Love You". www.pastemagazine.com. September 1, 2015. Archived from the original on October 10, 2019. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ^ "12 Things You Didn't Know About 'I Will Always Love You'". Yahoo. February 14, 2012. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ^ "I Will Always Love You by Kenny Rogers". SecondHandSongs.
- ^ "14-Year-Old LeAnn Rimes Blows Crowd Away With Rare 'I Will Always Love You'". Country Rebel. October 19, 2017. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ^ "Christina Grimmie's Beautifully Haunting Performance Of 'I Will Always Love You'". Country Rebel - Unapologetically Country. October 6, 2016. Retrieved June 9, 2025.
- ^ "BMI Presents Dolly Parton With 7 "Million-Air" Certificates". August 13, 2020. Retrieved March 6, 2023.