1974: Dolly Parton’s ‘I Will Always Love You’ is released

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The song, a goodbye letter to her former singing partner Porter Wagoner, is Parton’s biggest hit ever, topping the charts in both 1974 and 1982. Later, the 1992 cover by Whitney Houston became the best-selling single ever released by a female artist.