*Before Dolly Parton turned over her hit record “I Will Always Love You” to Whitney Houston, Patti LaBelle says she nearly recorded a cover of it herself.
LaBelle appeared on Andy Cohen‘s “Watch What Happens Live” Monday night (Oct. 28) and revealed that Dolly personally asked her to cover the classic, PEOPLE reports.
Houston recorded “I Will Love You” for the soundtrack of 1992’s The Bodyguard, and it turned out to be one of the biggest hits of the 90’s.
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“I said to Dolly, ‘Oh yes, I want to do that song, honey!’ ” LaBelle recalled to Cohen (watch clip above). “But before I could say real yes, it was in the movie and Whitney killed it.”
“I was so happy Whitney got that song and it just went like it did. But Dolly Parton and I had planned. ‘Patti, you’re going to sing that song,’ ” LaBelle added. “Next! That’s how show-business is!”
Parton originally wrote and recorded the song in 1973 as a farewell to her former partner, Porter Wagoner. Her version spent 14 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100; while Houston’s version bagged the 1993 Grammy Award for record of the year and best female pop vocal performance.
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