I Will Always Love You

I Will Always Love You is a song written by Dolly Parton, and performed by Whitney Houston. Dolly recorded the song in      1973, and was released on March 18, 1974.

Whitney Houston version
In the spring of 1992, Whitney Houston recorded I Will Always Love You for "The Bodyguard" soundtrack. I Will Always Love You was released on November 6, 1992, and the soundtrack was released on November 17, 1992 on Arista Records. The song was at the top of US Billboard Hot 100, for 14 weeks. The song was at #1 until March 1993. The Bodyguard soundtrack is the best selling soundtrack of all time. I Will Always Love You topped #1 again after her death in February 2012. After Houston recorded the song, the were false rumors that there was a "feud" between her and Dolly Parton.

Music video
The music video for Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" was produced by Rob Newman, re-edited by Clive Davis, and credited to Alan Smithee. After Clive Davis re-edited the video, Nick Brandt removed his name from the credits. The music video was recorded on November 3, 1992 at Lyric Theater in Miami, Florida, and Fallen Leaf Lake, California. It begins with a shot of Houston recording the song in the spring of that year. It then shows Whitney sitting down in the stage in the empty theater, singing the song. After one minute into the song, you can see shots of Kevin Costner as Whitney remembers the moments. The song features a 28 second saxophone solo by Kirk Whalum. After the solo ends, the theater slowly turns into a snowy forest next to a lake. The theater fully changes into a forest at the key change. They used green screens for the slow transformation, but the snowy forest part was actually shot in a forest by Fallen Leaf Lake, California, even though it was just supposed to resemble Whitney just remembering the moment. You can also tell that it was shot in a different location, because just before the key change happens, they start zooming in on Whitney's face, and she has a completely different hairstyle, and her bangs suddenly disappear. Whitney was also 6 months pregnant when the video was shot, hence why she's sitting.