*Dionne Warwick and Dolly Parton are set to collaborate on a new gospel song.
“[Parton] sent me a song that she wanted me to record. And I said, ‘Okay, that sounds like a deal,” Warwick said during her recent appearance on “Tamron Hall.”
As Page Six reports, Warwick noted that the country music icon “sent me another song, the one that we’re going to be doing as a duet,” she said.
“[It’s] a gospel song called ‘Peace Like a River’… I am very excited about this. I really am. I’ve done so many duets over the years, but this one’s gonna be very special,” Warwick added.
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As many of you know, Warwick’s cousin, the late-great Whitney Houston, famously sang Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” as part of “The Bodyguard” soundtrack. When Parton appeared on Andy Cohen’s “Watch What Happens Live” in 2020, she dished about the royalties she received from Houston’s rendition of the song.
As TMZ reported, Dolly made about $10 million or so in royalties in the ’90s and she used the funds to invest in an “office complex/strip mall “off the beaten path” of 16th Avenue in Nashville (a famous street near downtown),” the outlet writes, noting that the area is “where mostly Black folks lived.”
During a Q&A segment with fans, Dolly revealed that there was never a plan for her and Whitney to duet on the song because no one ever asked her to perform the track with Houston.
Parton originally turned over her hit record to Patti LaBelle, who nearly recorded a cover of it herself. LaBelle appeared on Cohen’s “WWHL” in 2019 and revealed that Dolly personally asked her to cover the classic, PEOPLE reported.
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 ’90s.
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 earned the 1993 Grammy Award for record of the year and best female pop vocal performance.
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