Dionne & Dolly could be the right stage identify for a country-soul duo made up of Dionne Warwick and Dolly Parton — a model of which isn’t too far off sooner or later. Throughout a latest look on the Tamron Corridor Present, Warwick revealed that she and Parton have recorded a gospel duet titled “Peace Like a River,” set for launch later this month.
“She despatched me a music that she needed me to report and I mentioned, ‘OK, that feels like a deal,’” Warwick recalled of the collaboration’s origins. “She’s such a sweetheart, I do know her. She despatched me one other music — the one which we’re going to be doing as a duet — it’s a gospel music referred to as ‘Peace Like a River.’ She wrote it and I’m very enthusiastic about this.”
The 82-year-old singer added: “I’ve completed so many duets over time, however this one’s going to be actually particular.” Earlier within the dialog, throughout which she was joined by her son Damon Elliott, Warwick celebrated the ability of music. “Music is pleasure,” she mentioned. “And when you possibly can put a smile on individuals’s faces — and I’ve been instructed what number of smiles I’ve placed on individuals’s faces — to be that a part of individuals’s lives, it’s unimaginable. It’s overwhelming generally.”
The way in which Warwick sees it, her connection to the 76-year-old nation icon was preordained. In 1992, her cousin Whitney Houston recorded a spotlight-claiming rendition of Parton’s 1974 ballad “I Will All the time Love You” for the movie The Bodyguard.
Bringing in 2023 as co-host of the NBC particular Miley’s New Yr’s Eve Social gathering, Parton carried out one other surprising duet along with her goddaughter Miley Cyrus. Simply earlier than midnight, she seamlessly transitioned from the singer’s 2013 hit “Wrecking Ball” into her personal “I Will All the time Love You.”
When she stopped by the Kelly Clarkson Present in December, Parton recalled the primary time she heard Houston’s stellar rendition of the music. “Once they had been doing The Bodyguard film, that they had chosen one other music for the theme music and somebody got here out with that very music proper once they had been about to place the film out,” she mentioned, remembering the telephone name she obtained asking if “I Will All the time Love You” might be used as an alternative. She fortunately obliged, however didn’t hear anything about whether or not they moved ahead with the concept.
“I used to be driving my automotive from downtown to the place my workplace was, on sixteenth Avenue [in Nashville], again to my home over in Brentwood, and I used to be simply driving alongside and I had the radio on,” Parton recalled. “And I simply heard this, ‘If I ought to keep.’ It’s a kind of issues, like a canine listening to a whistle. And that’s the primary time. They hadn’t despatched it to me, they did nothing. I heard it on the radio.”
Parton added: “When it went into ‘And I…’, it’s like I simply freaked out. I needed to pull over to the aspect as a result of I actually thought I used to be gonna wreck.”