What struck me is that over the course of two, three decades and even so more or less cultural 'zones' the song was copied so exactly: no instruments were necessarily added, no choires or samples were mixed in. Is I Will Always Love You the Johnny B. Goode of the eighties?
Like how Soft Cell transformed 'Tainted Love' from Gloria Jones original on Motown recs to this glitz '80's softcore thing. (And then Marilyn Manson with the self proclaimed "metal thug" video of which i'm quite a fan)
(The final image is a bit of an anticlimax)
