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Norm Borlaug and Dolly Parton: Two peas in a pod - Iowa Capital Dispatch

Norm Borlaug and Dolly Parton: Two peas in a pod August 2, 2021 12:47 pm Dolly Parton attends a press conference before a performance celebrating her 50-year anniversary with the Grand Ole Opry at The Grand Ole Opry on Oct. 12, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Terry Wyatt/Getty Images) It is hard to imagine Norman Borlaug ever joining in singing “Jolene” or “9 to 5.” I can’t picture him harmonizing in a heart-tugging rendition of “I Will Always Love You.” This is not a knock against this kid from Cresco, Iowa. He excelled in other ways   like saving upwards of one billion people from starvation through the revolutionary plant-breeding work he did in the decades after World War II. Borlaug developed new, high-yield, disease-resistant varieties of wheat, maize and rice that are still feeding people around the globe today.

Dolly Parton used profits from Whitney Houston s I Will Always Love You to buy office in Black neighborhood

Parton is known for having written and recorded the song in the 1970s, but it found massive popularity in 1992 when Whitney Houston covered the tune for her film The Bodyguard. Her version of I Will Always Love You became one of Houston’s biggest hits and undoubtedly earned Parton a pretty penny in royalties. During a recent episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Parton was asked what she did with all the money she earned from the song, revealing she used them to purchase an office in a predominantly Black community. It was mostly just Black families and people that lived around there, she recalled. It was a whole strip mall. And I thought, This is the perfect place for me to be, considering it was Whitney.

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