Half a century after Dolly Parton’s publication of I Will Always Love You, a Northern Ireland representative is pushing Parliament to send her well wishes.
Jim Shannon of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has introduced an early-day motion (EDM) to commemorate the track’s 50th anniversary.
The motion acknowledges the meaning of the song “to so many,” including Mr. Shannon’s wife. It has thus far garnered 32 supporters.
EDMs are used to memorialize the opinions of individual legislators or to bring attention to particular events or campaigns.
Relatively few are ever argued, but Mr. Shannon and his co-signatories demonstrate that they are always considering Dolly Parton.
The Member of Parliament for Strangford wished the Tennessee-born singer “continued success as she entertains and inspires so many via her music.”
Olivia Blake, Cat Smith, and Nadia Whittome of Labour, Tim Farron of the Liberal Democrats, and Kirsten Oswald of the SNP are the other six sponsors of the measure.
In 1973, Parton wrote and released I Will Always Love You as a farewell to her business partner and mentor Porter Wagoner.
It appeared on her thirteenth solo album Jolene.
The song performed by Whitney Houston for the 1992 film The Bodyguard was purchased by more than 20 million people worldwide.
It holds the Guinness World Record for the best-selling single by a female artist in the United States. It won Record of the Year at the 1994 Grammy Awards and was the best-selling record by a female artist in the United States.
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