{"id":80535,"date":"2025-05-07T00:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T00:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/80535\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T00:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T00:54:12","slug":"elvis-presley-touchingly-sang-a-hit-song-to-priscilla-as-they-left-divorce-court-music-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/80535\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Presley touchingly sang a hit song to Priscilla as they left divorce court | Music | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elvis Presley<\/a> married just once to Priscilla Presley<\/a> from 1967 to 1973, the mother of his only child, Lisa Marie.<\/p>\n

After splitting in 1972, the couple ended up having quite an amicable divorce, which was finalised a year later.<\/p>\n

In fact, the King even sang a hit love song to Priscilla as they left their divorce courtroom.<\/p>\n

It turns out the song Elvis sang to his soon-to-be ex-wife was I Will Always Love You, Dolly Parton<\/a>‘s hit song.<\/p>\n

The lyrics seem quite fitting in their situation of a couple breaking up with a commitment to continuing loving each other.<\/p>\n

They open: \u201cIf I should stay\/I would only be in your way\/And so I’ll go, but I know\/I\u2019ll think of you each step of the way. And I will always love you\/I will always love you.”<\/p>\n

Writing previously in The Big Issue\u2019s Letter To My Younger Self, Dolly herself said: \u201cPriscilla told me later that he sang that song to her when they were coming down the steps of the courthouse after they divorced. That really touched me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Being particularly touched by this moment goes back to when the Country singer turned down Elvis wanting to sing I Will Always Love You years before; a song The King never recorded.<\/p>\n

Dolly shared how Elvis\u2019 manager Colonel Tom Parker had quite the demand for the track.<\/p>\n

Speaking previously on Living and Learning with Reba McEntire, Dolly said: \u201cIt didn\u2019t have anything to do with Elvis. I loved Elvis. It was Colonel Tom Parker, his manager, who was brilliant. You can\u2019t take that way from people. He did all right by him.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the country star was reluctant to give away her own song like that. She said: \u201cBut, I already had a No. 1 song, I Will Always Love You. That was the most important copyright I had in my publishing company. So I was so excited, I told everybody. They had called me that Elvis was recording it, and if I wanted to come to the studio. Elvis wanted to meet me and all that.\u201d<\/p>\n

That evening, before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called her up. Elvis\u2019 manager said to Dolly: \u201cYou know, we don\u2019t record anything with Elvis unless we have the publishing, or at least half the publishing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dolly replied: \u201cWell, that throws a new light on this because I can\u2019t give you half the publishing. I\u2019m gonna leave that to my family. I can\u2019t do that.\u201d So The Colonel told her that Elvis couldn\u2019t cover the track as those were the terms.<\/p>\n

She admitted: \u201cI cried all night. Oh, I just pictured Elvis, like, singing it. And I know that Elvis loved it. And I know it wasn\u2019t him, but it\u2019s true. I said no.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, it turned out to be a good choice as she says she made enough money that she could have bought Graceland from Houston\u2019s cover, which went on to be one of the best-selling singles of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elvis Presley married just once to Priscilla Presley from 1967 to 1973, the mother of his only child,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[18847,39145,39144,34221,39146,77,269,39143,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-80535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-dolly-parton","9":"tag-elvis","10":"tag-elvis-divorce","11":"tag-elvis-presley","12":"tag-elvis-priscilla","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-priscilla-presley","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114463825561732883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}