In a remarkable interview with the British �Sun�, Dolly Parton claims that she stopped Elvis from recording �I Will Always Love You�, because she didn�t want to give away the song. This is an excerpt from the interview:

�That was one of the more heart-breaking things. It wasn�t Elvis personally. He was excited he was gonna do the song. He loved the song and I loved the song but Colonel Tom (Parker, his manager) didn�t tell me that Elvis had already worked the song up and I had told everybody he was doing it. Then, on the last day of the session, Colonel Tom lays that one on me, that we take half the publishing rights if we record it. I said: �Well, that�s just tough� � and, man, it was a heart-breaker. It was one of the hardest decisions I ever made but that was my song, it was already out, it was already published and I thought, �I can�t give this away. I was gonna leave this to my brothers and sisters.� Even though people said, �Yeah, yeah, but they had Elvis to do it, they could have made ten times more money than you could have had,� something told me I couldn�t do it. Then after Whitney (Houston), it was like, oh wow, I was certainly justified. �

Source: The Sun 

Posted:  15th. December 2007