Whats up, Dolly! Kelly Clarkson had nation music royalty on The Kelly Clarkson Present Thursday morning (Dec. 1), with Dolly Parton stopping by to assist sing a duet of her 1981 smash “9 to five” and reminisce on the primary time she ever heard Whitney Houston‘s iconic cowl of “I Will All the time Love You.”
Clarkson kicked off the “9 to five” efficiency by singing its first few traces as a solo, earlier than shocking her viewers with the Rock & Roll Corridor of Famer, who strutted on stage in her trademark blonde updo and sky-high heels. The 2 exchanged smiles and harmonies backwards and forwards as members of the group clapped excitedly to the well-known beat.
The 2 vocalists had teased their duet a day prior in a sneak peak video, and some months earlier than that, they teamed as much as report a studio model of the observe for the documentary Nonetheless Working 9 to five.
Following their efficiency, the pair sat down on The Kelly Clarkson Present sofa to speak, at which level the “Stronger” singer requested Dolly to recall the primary time she’d heard Whitney Houston’s notorious cowl of her 1974 basic “I Will All the time Love You.” Houston had recorded the observe to function the theme for Mick Jackson’s 1992 movie The Bodyguard, during which the “I Wanna Dance With Someone” musician additionally starred.
“After they had been doing the Bodyguard film, they’d chosen one other track for the theme track,” Dolly defined. “Somebody got here out with that very track proper once they had been about to place the film out.”
In a rush to seek out one other nice theme track to interchange the scrapped authentic, Dolly says the movie’s producers requested permission to make use of “I Will All the time Love You.” “They known as me to see if they may use it and I mentioned sure,” she continued. “And I didn’t hear anything about it. I didn’t know if they’d performed it.”
The “Jolene” singer went on to inform a shocked Clarkson that this had been the final she’d heard concerning the track’s use — till a lot later, when she heard the opening bars to her personal track taking part in on the automotive radio. But it surely wasn’t her voice singing. It was The Voice.
“I used to be simply driving alongside, and I had the radio on,” Dolly recalled. “It’s a kind of issues, it was like a canine listening to a whistle. ‘What’s that?’ That’s the primary time — they hadn’t despatched it to me or nothing. When it went into, ‘And I …,’ I simply freaked out.”
“I needed to pull over to the facet, as a result of I actually thought I used to be going to wreck,” she added. “It was probably the most overwhelming feeling, and you understand how nice that was.”
Watch Dolly Parton and Kelly Clarkson sing “9 to five” and talk about Whitney Houston beneath:
