The Complete History of ‘I Will Always Love You’

One big song, two mythic women

Bernard O'Leary

7 min readDec 1, 2022

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This originally appeared in This Week In The 90s, a weekly email about the UK top 40 as it stood thirty years ago.

This week, we’re looking at November 29,1992, and…

This week’s Number One: ‘I Will Always Love You’ — Whitney Houston

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Hey, I’m a pro content writer. This account is for my extremely unprofessional essays on pop culture and 90s music. You’ll find more on www.thisweekinth90s.com

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