1973
Dolly Parton recorded “I Will Always Love You” during sessions at RCA’s Studio B in Nashville. Parton wrote the song for her one-time partner and mentor Porter Wagoner, from whom she was separating professionally after a seven-year partnership. When released in March 1974 the song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Whitney Houston’s version of the song for the 1992 film The Bodyguard holds the record for being the best-selling single by a woman in music history.