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- I'm Every Woman. Whitney Houston - I'm Every Woman (Official Video) Whitney's version of 'I’m Every Woman' is a cover of the original disco song by Chaka Khan, released in 1978.
- My Love is Your Love. Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love (Official Video) This is a beautiful and soulful ballad that expresses the depth and strength of Whitney's love for someone.
- When You Believe (with Mariah Carey) Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey - When You Believe (Official HD Video) 'When You Believe' is an inspiring song that celebrates the power of faith and hope.
- Run to You. Whitney Houston - Run To You (Official HD Video) This romantic ballad was released as the fourth single from The Bodyguard. The song was written by Jud Friedman and Allan Rich, and produced by David Foster.
- You Give Good Love
- Step by Step
- Look Into Your Heart
- Run to You
- Million Dollar Bill
- Count on Me
- I Didn’T Know My Own Strength
- Same Script, Different Cast
- One of Those Days
- Saving All My Love For You
Released when cutting-edge R&B took a turn for the electronic and futuristic, Whitney Houston’s eponymous debut LP pitched her directly into the middle of the road. But hers was MOR of a very classy stripe, as evidenced by You Give Good Love. Moreover, her voice was potent enough to add emotion and grit to the slick surroundings.
An old Annie Lennox B-side transformed into something magical by way of a house-influenced beat, the slowly building synth chatter of its arrangement and an infusion of gospel into the chorus. Houston sounds imperious throughout, delivering the pep-talk lyrics about fearless self-improvement with utter conviction.
“I love you,” she says to Look Into Your Heart’s author Curtis Mayfield as it gets underway. Certainly, she picked a great deep cut to cover for his tribute album, originally sung by Aretha Franklin for the soundtrack to 1976’s Sparkle (Houston later produced and starred in a remake). These are big shoes to fill, but Houston does it with aplomb.
It says something about the sheer pile-up of immense ballads on The Bodyguard’s soundtrack album that Run to You was relegated to the lowly position of fourth single. If it’s not quite up to the standard of I Will Always Love You or as involving as I Have Nothing, it’s still simultaneously vulnerable and CinemaScope-epic.
By the time of her final album, I Look to You, Houston’s lifestyle had audibly affected her voice; the subsequent tour was very far from her best. There was a sense of rallying round to Alicia Keys’s insistence on writing and producing its big hit Million Dollar Bill, but the disco-infused, Loleatta Holloway-sampling results were authentically fant...
On the one hand, Count on Me’s paean to enduring friendship tends a little to the schmaltzy and sentimental, but – as often happened in Houston’s career – her voice, and, in this case, the evident real-life chemistry between her and her duet partner, CeCe Winans, lifts the material to a different plane.
A final grandstanding ballad, courtesy of Dianne Warren, its lyrics obviously addressing Houston’s troubled marriage and drug problems. There’s something genuinely moving about hearing her deliver them in a huskier, lower voice than the one that made her famous, adding a patina of hard-won experience.
It takes a certain kind of chutzpah to sample a classical piece as famous as Beethoven’s Für Elise, but chutzpah is not something this duet is lacking in. The lyrics – complete with spoken-word intro – feature Houston testily confronting her love rival (Canadian singer Deborah Cox) and it piles on the dramatic key changes as it races towards its cl...
The first single from Just Whitney was the woeful Whatchulookinat, less a song than a damage-limitation exercise. But, if her life was spiralling and the quality control on her albums accordingly faulty, Houston could still occasionally turn it out: Isley Brothers-sampling second single One of Those Days is a wildly underrated R&B gem.
It now seems amazing that this wasn’t the first choice of single from Houston’s debut. Mum Cissy wasn’t keen on her daughter singing from the point of view of a man’s mistress, but what’s notable is the lack of raunch here; it’s a song about wistful sadness – realism battling with expectation you know is going to be deflated.
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List of songs recorded by Whitney Houston. American recording artist Whitney Houston, nicknamed “ The Voice ”, recorded songs for her seven studio albums and her two soundtrack albums, as well as contributing songs to two other soundtracks ( Waiting to Exhale and Sparkle ).
SongArtist (s)Writer (s)Album"After We Make Love"Whitney HoustonGerry Goffin Michael Masser"Ain't No Way" (live)Whitney Houston and Mary J. Blige"All at Once" †Whitney HoustonJeffrey Osborne Michael MasserWhitney HoustonDean Pitchford Michael Gore- 205
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Whitney Houston 100 Songs. A new music service with official albums, singles, videos, remixes, live performances and more for Android, iOS and desktop. It's all here.
- “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)” (Whitney 1987) Clive Davis knew that this joy-bomb could be something special, but he didn’t want it to be just a jaunty toe-tapper like, say, Olivia Newton-John’s 1982 hit “Make a Move On Me.”
- “I Have Nothing” (The Bodyguard soundtrack, 1992) The power. The passion. The soaring notes. “I Have Nothing” fantastically showcases Whitney’s dazzling talent.
- “It’s Not Right But It’s Okay” (My Love Is Your Love, 1998) When it comes to infidelity in pop songs, the typical spurned lover does one of three things: never recovers, goes running back to the cheater or plots revenge.
- “I Will Always Love You” (The Bodyguard soundtrack, 1992) There’s no overstating the commercial impact of this song, which spent a then-record 14 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and is still the best-selling single ever by a female artist, but its true legacy is its cultural and emotional resonance.
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American singer Whitney Houston, known as "The Voice", released 57 singles as a leading artist and 4 as a featured artist. Houston is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with over 220 million records sold worldwide.
