"I wrote the song, took it back in the next day, and I said, 'Porter, sit down. After telling Wagoner she wanted to leave The Porter Wagoner Show countless times and Wagoner ignoring those wishes, Parton decided to do what she does best: write a song. Long before Whitney Houston broke countless records with her rendition of "I Will Always Love You," Parton wrote and released the song as a letter to Porter Wagoner. "Put It Off Until Tomorrow," Bill Phillips 19, takes a look back at 10 songs you may not have known Dolly Parton wrote. In celebration of the Country Music Hall of Famer's 76th birthday on Jan. Parton's songs have taken on new life thanks to artists across countless genres. She penned songs that have been recorded by Emmylou Harris and Skeeter Davis, and even gave Whitney Houston one of the biggest songs of her career.
That's not to say women haven't been a part of Parton's canon.
I didn't have a lot of space to write songs for women so I purposefully tried to write songs that men could record. Especially ones who weren't writing their own songs, like Loretta Lynn was. "And it's a good thing I do because back then, there weren't that many women in the country-music business to write songs for.
"I love to write songs for men," Parton says in her 2020 book, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics. and Kenny Rogers have famously recorded and released tracks written by the 10-time GRAMMY winner. While 450 of those songs have been recorded, Parton hasn't always been the artist to sing them: Merle Haggard, Hank Williams Jr. Dolly Parton estimates that she has written close to 3,000 songs throughout her illustrious seven-decade career.
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