“Elvis is going to record my song.
Parton went quiet before responding, “Well, now it’s already been a hit.
I wrote it and I’ve already published it.
And this is the stuff I’m leaving for my family when I’m dead and gone …
I can’t give up half the publishing.”
That was the end of what might have been.
Parton cried all night.
I know [Elvis would] kill it.
He would have killed it,” Parton later mused toCMT.
The next chapter of the story starts when Hollywood heartthrob Kevin Costner was writing and starring inThe Body Guard.
That song fell through.
Costner and his team scrambled to find another one.
I didn’t hear anything more."
You know the rest of the story.
Costner’s composer, David Foster, tweaked it into a pop ballad.
Houston broke everybody’s heart’s singing it (viaABC News).
Parton racked in the dough.
“I really feel like that song belongs to all of us … Good thing, we guess, that Parton turned down Presley.
