Dolly Parton: 'I Don't Care Who Records I Will Always Love You'

Whitney Houston made the song Dolly wrote about her professional split from mentor Porter Wagoner her own, and it has also been sung and recorded by Jennifer Hudson, X Factor finalist Rik Waller, and Beyonce, who performed the anthem at a Los Angeles fundraiser on Saturday night among others.   And the tune's writer has no problems with anyone giving her track a new voice. "I'm really proud of that song," Dolly told WENN. "Let them girls keep on singing it. I don't care who claims it! I always said it could be Whitney's song - she could have the credit as long as I get the cash! "That's just one of those songs that's the gift that keeps on giving. It's so simple and so singable and touches people in so many different ways.

  "Some people play it at funerals. Some people say it reminds them when their son went off to college. It can fit anybody. It came from the sincere place in my heart when I left Porter's show years ago. It was touching and it was hard leaving. I just tried to write something I was feeling and I guess with my true emotions it touched a lot of people."  

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