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Dolly Parton

I Will Always Love You

1974 · via Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton wrote “I Will Always Love You” and put out the earliest release of it on file, in 1974. Also recorded by Sarah Washington (released 1993), Whitney Houston (released 1992) and Kenny Rogers (released 1983), among 302 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. It is on the album Jolene (1974).

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Dolly put this song out herself in 1974, and Kenny Rogers had his version out in 1983, back when everybody still thought of it as hers. Play his first, then go back to the writer and hear where it started.

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Credited writer: Dolly Parton.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1974.

On the album Jolene (1974).

Other recordings on file · first release year

302 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Dolly Parton wrote "I Will Always Love You." Years before Whitney Houston released hers, which of these singers also put out a version?Kenny Rogers
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