Whitney Houston\u2019s I Will Always Love You is a timeless classic. It is recognized as one of the most beautiful love ballads of all time, fourteen weeks as number one on the Billboard Hot 100 List. While everyone knows the song, and most people know the movie that popularized it, very few people know that it is a cover. I Will Always Love You was a song written by Dolly Parton and released almost 20 years before Whitney Houston covered it for her film, The Body Guard. Dolly Parton\u2019s version of the song is different. Her song is almost two minutes shorter, and it\u2019s a country song, it is just barely slower and it is lighter on the instruments. Whitney Houston\u2019s cover is over four minutes long, and there is more soul and R&B, and it adds amazing instruments, like the saxophone (who\u2019s solo literally gives me shivers). It is remarkable feat, what Whitney Houston accomplished, cover songs usually pale in comparison to their originals. Whitney Houston\u2019s version of I Will Always Love you, however, is objectively better than Dolly Parton\u2019s version. Houston has a stronger voice and a wider vocal range and the message of the benefits from being told through the genres of soul and R&B. Houston\u2019s version is not just a cover, but a total reimagining, something \u201cTake Me On: The Art of the Cover Song,\u201d recognizes as a way to make \u201ca great cover song.\u201d Whitney Houston\u2019s I Will Always Love You, is arguably the music industry\u2019s best cover song, proven by the fact that most people do not realize that it is a cover song.<\/p>\n