To prefer the original Dolly Parton version of "I will always love you"

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I'm not disputing that Whitney was an amazing talent but every time I hear her version I pine for the delicate melancholy of the Dolly original.

Edam I was thinking the same earlier. Any x factor contestant who has identified themselves as a diva end every sung phrase with an extended warble.

Dolly's version is beautiful. Had all the soul sucked out of it by Whitney Houston IMO.

I like Dollys best but don't hate Whitney s version.

im not even going to read the thread to answer this one OP

I totally agree....YANBU I totally prefer Dolly's version and alllllwaaaaaays have

Dolly. Absolutely. Whitney couldn't half belt it out though.

My own version really sucks tough.

Dolly dolly dolly dolly!
Yanbu, dolly far superior and I get so irritated when it is referred to as whitney's song.
Dolly's music featured quite a bit at our wedding

YANBU. No-one touches Dolly! She is in a class all her own.

dh thinks Dolly actually wrote it, rather than merely being the original singer. Is he right?

Love the Dolly version, always hated the Whitney version.

Dolly has never made a bad song, IMO.

Neither. I detest all versions of that song with every fibre of my being.

dh thinks Dolly actually wrote it, rather than merely being the original singer. Is he right?

yes she did write it.
she has actually made her fortune through unusually prolific songwriting. I read somewhere that she writes upwards of 100 songs a year.

I had no idea. My respect for her has just gone up several dozen notches.

(Stand By Your Man still one of the worst songs of all time, though. Sorry Dolly.)

Stand By Your Man was written & performed by Tammy Wynette, not Dolly

I too Heart DOlly she is amazing she is my guilty pleasure And her version is the best very sweet , Im not into all that warbley singing i wasnt really a WHitney fan anyway,

DOlly is a very sucessful woman and she did it all her own way , writes most of her songs she is just an amazing,

The Dolly version is one of my favourite songs ever, so heartfelt and beautiful, guaranteed to make me blub!

I wasn't a big Whitney fan although her songs remind me of good times and bad when I was young because I'm of that age :) - in fact I downloaded a few yesterday along with millions of other people probably. I really don't like her version of IWALY though, it's so bland and unemotional and screechy compared with the original and I've no idea how it was No 1 for so long - annoys me when people credit her with it as well, having no idea that there even is an original, let alone that it is so much better.

tis odd though as dolly wrote it for her first manager, who discovered her. she got a better record deal and left. much better version.

ps not a mad fan just listened to an interview with her on the radio.

Oh, OK, glad to hear it's not her fault!

I think Dolly wanted to do it on her own and the guy who she did a TV show with wouldnt let her out of her contract or perform her own songs he didnt think a pretty little lady could go it alone , I watched a whole dolly night on tv once followed by a concert Ive read her autibiography too ,

I've never really liked Whitney Houston. I'm sorry she is dead, but truly, most of her songs make me want to rip my ears off. Dolly is MUCH better.

YANBU the Dolly version is the original and by far the best.

Dolly's version is FAR better.

Yanbu. I have posted on this subject more than once. Dolly's version is a beautiful simple love song (makes me cry), it was never meant to be a stonking great power ballad.