A stage musical theater opened within 1978 and the film was freed within 1982. Each versions feature songs by Carol Hall; the picture show version too featured 2 songs by its star, Dolly Parton, including "I Will Always Love You", which reached #1 on the country music charts, and would become recorded as a cover version by Whitney Houston the decade later, becoming a vast mainstream hit. A flick version likewise starred Burt Reynolds. A original Broadway cast starred Carlin Glynn and Henderson Forsythe. the story is all about a brothel in Texas in the late 1970s. It has operated for to the higher degree the century however a crusading tv newsman calls for it to exist as close up, leading to its death.