i hadn't been with porter wagner all that long. we were trying to think of fun stuff for me to do.f course i love upon row and everybody loved that and got the big idea i don't know would it was port error buck said why don't you do skinner blue. i will. we started the song and had fun doing it. i always remember doing that because i remember porter had a whip in the studio and recording the whip. to get that is of noise and on the record but it was memorable record to make and it became a huge hit. >>reporter: yes, it did. the biggie guess break out song for you went from country artist to artist with universal appeal here we come again 1977. if ♪ ♪ here you come again just when i'm about to get myself together you walk rate in the door just like you have done before and you have my heart wrapped round your little finger ♪ . >>reporter: turned out to be no. 1 in 3 different genre of music. that's pretty rare. even more rare 1970's for artist to cross-over like that. was that intentional or did it just happen and rest is histor history. >> well it was intentional. thank god it happ

mention i will always love you, the song that you originally did when you left that partnership with porter wagnerwill always love you. ♪i will always love you. ♪. >>reporter: that song in addition to the great history you had with it had a life of its own. elvis wanted to record a version of it. i think you sdaided no not if he was going to try to take the song away with you. >> elvis loved the song. his manager avenues brilliant man they don't record anything they have to publish they didn't tell me that until they prepped and inserrated me to the stawd why. and colonel tom tells me that. you can't have it. >>reporter: you told him no. >> i had to. >>reporter: that's great. most people wouldn't be able to say no to elvis. >> that's right. for two days i cry. after whitney came out with it then i realized that i was lucky that i had kept publishing the copy right so the those are decisions that you have to make on spur of the moment and thank god i made the right one. although i still think of elvis sing that go it would have been great. >> her version of that obviously was was a huge, huge turni