“I Will Always Love You” (even if my husband hates it).
It’s better than Dolly’s - much different so it’s easy to judge. Not only better vocally, but PLENTY of emotion to it and without the hillbilly hick ululations.
No disrespect to Dolly. I love her, but she’s been beaten.
Yes, the thing about I Will Always Love You is that it was from the movie Bodyguard. Kevin Costner is her bodyguard & in one scene they are in this hole in the wall place & hear the original song by Dolly. Then she does her own version of the song later in the movie. And the lyrics go with her situation w/Kevin Costner in the movie, just as the lyrics had meaning for Dolly’s situation way back when she first sang them. Dolly’s such a sweetheart, I imagine she saw it as the tribute it was.
My first memories of Whitney were as a model in Seventeen magazine, then all her songs were part of the soundtrack of my life in the 80s.
I just watched her last interview from the link on Drudge & she said she knew she had many saints praying for her. Whatever her problems, she appeared to me to be a believer in Jesus.
Wow, you’re crazy. I’m not even a huge Dolly fan, but the original is about as full as emotion as you can get - it was about Dolly’s breakup with her husband/manager, and it was poignant and almost halting. Compared to Whitney, god rest her soul, who took it as an exercise in vocal range showboating and over-performing to extremes.
But, to each their own.