Elvis Presley and Whitney Houston had been two of America’s largest singers ever. But do you know the unimaginable hyperlinks between the 2 late stars?

Back in 1963, Whitney’s mom Cissy Houston grew to become a part of a backing singer group known as The Sweet Inspirations who carried out across the USA with some big headliners like Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley at his Las Vegas residencies, which started in 1969.

Cissy, who stated The King wasn’t prejudiced, cracked jokes and was so handsome, recalled: “Elvis loved gospel music. He was raised on it. And he really did know what he was talking about.

“He was singing Gospel all the time – almost anything he did had that flavour. You can’t get away from what your roots are.”

It wasn’t lengthy then earlier than Whitney met Elvis himself that very same yr when she was just a bit woman.

Whitney, who died in 2012 at 48, informed Access Hollywood: “I simply bear in mind at one level being [backstage]…and he simply walked into the room along with his mink on and his glasses on.

“He says one thing and also you don’t say something, you simply look. It was simply a kind of moments I received’t neglect as a child…you simply sat again and simply checked out him. Amazing to take a look at, simply superb. Just to be in his presence was superior.”

Little did Whitney know that years later her largest hit can be a music written by Dolly Parton, that the Country singer wouldn’t let Elvis sing.

Back in 1974, Dolly had a giant hit with I Will Always Love You and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than The King’s supervisor Colonel Tom Parker got here asking for his shopper to cowl it. Yet she refused to surrender half the publishing and ended crying all evening over the scenario.

Nevertheless, maintaining the rights massively paid off for Dolly when Whitney recorded a canopy for The Bodyguard film in 1992.

Houston’s model of I Will Always Love You spent a record-breaking 14 weeks at No 1 within the US Billboard charts and is the best-selling single by a feminine artist and the sixth largest single of all time with over 20 million gross sales. In reality, the duvet simply beats Elvis’ It’s Now or Never into seventh place.