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Dolly Parton wrote the song in 1973 and it was released a year later, having been produced by Bob Ferguson. She has told numerous interviewers over the years that she wrote it for her one-time partner and mentor Porter Wagoner, with whom she was having a business splitting at the time. Recorded on June 17, 1973 in RCA's Studio "B" in Nashville, the song was included on Parton's album Jolene, and was released as a follow-up single, after the Country chart-topping success of the title track, in April 1974 (see 1974 in music). The single reached number one on the Billboard Country Singles chart a month later, but had just modest success on the pop charts. The lyrics express a bittersweet and poignant ode to an ex-lover, and are delivered with Parton's twang.

Parton re-recorded the song in 1982 (see 1982 in music) to include it on the soundtrack to the film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Her 1982 version also reached number one on the US Country Chart, marking the first time the same song reached number one on the country charts twice by the same artist. The 1982 version also saw limited crossover pop success, reaching number fifty-three on the Billboard Hot 100 and number seventeen on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Parton had success with the song again in 1995 in a duet with Vince Gill. This time the song peaked at No. 15 in December of that year, making it the third time the song was a hit for Parton, albeit in duet form this time. In 2003, CMT ranked it #16 on their 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music. In 2004, CMT ranked it #1 on their 100 Greatest Country Love Songs.

The most recent release of the song appears on her 2008 album Backwoods Barbie, which features a live version an exclusive bonus track on the iTunes version of the release.

more at link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Always_Love_You

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LibraLiz1973

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22. Gwen Stefani's songs for Tony Kanal & Gavin Rossdale

For Tony:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=welnlg3svTw
Don't Speak

For Tony:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjzzK8tIbOc
Cool

For Gavin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_8WWWiHZNc
Underneath it All

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24. Creeque Alley -- The Mamas And The Papas.

Edited on Fri Sep-26-08 09:05 PM by Iggo

It's about themselves and others from the scene before they got their shit together.

Zal Yanovsky and John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful.
Roger Mcguinn of The Byrds.
Barry McGuire ("Eve of Destruction")

I don't know who "Mitchy" was. Anyone know?

EDIT: Oops...forgot the link. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLC2bf4jfPE

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25. Mingus/Joni Mitchell song about saxophonist Lester Young:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bSuCOcL39U

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

words by Joni Mitchell
music by Charles Mingus

When Charlie speaks of Lester
You know someone great has gone
The sweetest swinging music man
Had a Porkie Pig hat on
A bright star
In a dark age
When the bandstands had a thousand ways
Of refusing a black man admission
Black musician
In those days they put him in an
Underdog position
Cellars and chittlins'

When Lester took him a wife
Arm and arm went black and white
And some saw red
And drove them from their hotel bed
Love is never easy
It's short of the hope we have for happiness
Bright and sweet
Love is never easy street!
Now we are black and white
Embracing out in the lunatic New York night
It's very unlikely we'll be driven out of town
Or be hung in a tree
That's unlikely!

Tonight these crowds
Are happy and loud
Children are up dancing in the streets
In the sticky middle of the night
Summer serenade
Of taxi horns and fun arcades
Where right or wrong
Under neon
Every feeling goes on!
For you and me
The sidewalk is a history book
And a circus
Dangerous clowns
Balancing dreadful and wonderful perceptions
They have been handed
Day by day
Generations on down

We came up from the subway
On the music midnight makes
To Charlie's bass and Lester's saxophone
In taxi horns and brakes
Now Charlie's down in Mexico
With the healers
So the sidewalk leads us with music
To two little dancers
Dancing outside a black bar
There's a sign up on the awning
It says "Pork Pie Hat Bar"
And there's black babies dancing...
Tonight!

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