Dolly Parton still a big hit in Canada

[Shawn]

About 30 years ago Elvis Presley asked a pretty blond country singer if he could record a love song she'd penned. The request for I Will Always Love You stirred Dolly Parton's blood.

"I got so excited," she drawled wide-eyed, recounting the story for a packed house at Casino Rama in Ontario cottage country over the weekend. "I told everybody Elvis was doing it." But Colonel Parker wanted half the publishing rights and Parton, a savvy business woman, wasn't ready to give that up.

She told the story to set up a new song she's written, I Dreamed About Elvis, to memorialize the event. "I was disappointed I never got Elvis to record it . . . but Whitney (Houston) did it and made me a ton of money," laughed the 58-year-old music and film star. "It has been the biggest song of my career."

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[Kooperman]

Elvis Presley and Dolly Parton...now there's a couple of really big ones.... :D

[Shawn]

Indeed. We'll probably see a lot of these stories now that the King has died.

I was pretty shook up the day that Elvis and JFK passed.

[Umma]

I thought she was having her big hits reduced :psychofun:

[Shawn]

:lmao:

[Redneck4sure]

I thought she was having her big hits reduced :psychofun:

I think she's having them reduced from "Oh my god!" to "good Lord, looka yonder".

[Ken]

Hey, you know what I noticed?

Dolly Parton has huge breasts.

obvious, with nothing better to say>

I encourage everyone to use the Capitan obvious tags from now on when discussing Dolly Parton because quite frankly, thats all I ever see about her; the obvious.

[Redneck4sure]

Indeed. We'll probably see a lot of these stories now that the King has died.

When did he die?

[Shawn]

For me, two nights ago during a viewing of Bubba Ho-tep

[deb]

can't say that i'm a dolly parton fan, but she sang "i will always love you," ... and, to me, with the feelings emoted as she sang that song, me liked it better than houston's version ...