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Whitney...what's her best cover/interpretation? Whitney had the ability to cover a song and really make it her own...which is your favorite??
"Saving All My Love for You" “Greatest Love of All" "Just the Lonely Talking Again" "For the Love of You" "I Know Him So Well" "All the Man That I Need" “Higher Love” "I Will Always Love You" “I'm Every Woman" "Look into Your Heart" "I Believe in You and Me" “Step by Step" "I Was Made to Love Him" "You Light Up My Life" "A Song for You"
Did I forget any?
She KILLED I'm Every Woman so I'm going with that one. "Keep in mind that I'm an artist...and I'm sensitive about my shit."--E. Badu | |
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Her version of "For The Love Of You" is incredible.I love what she and producer Narada Michael Walden did with that song. | |
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I'm assuming you didn't want to include any of the gospel or Christmas songs.
My favorite is definitely "Greatest Love of All," which is my favorite Whitney song period. It's absolutely flawless in every way. "Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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"Saving All My Love for You" especially the soprano whoop at the end.
I'll include a gospel song - "Joy to the World", which I think she arranged with the Georgia Mass Choir. | |
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Cot damn!
Did this bitch write anything of her own? | |
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Not a lot.
She co-wrote these though: "Queen of the Night" "Count on Me" "Whatchulookinat" "Like I Never Left"
---- But that's about it. ALL of her biggest hits were either originals written by others ("You Give Good Love", "How Will I Know", "I Wanna Dance with Somebody", "Didn't We Almost Have It All", "I'm Your Baby Tonight") or covers ("The Greatest Love of All", "Saving All My Love for You", "All the Man That I Need", "I Will Always Love You"). | |
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Well, she was a hell of an interpreter, I'll give her that!
Anyways, my vote goes for "Saving All My Love" with "I Will Always Love You" in a close second. | |
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In an era where self-made musicians were becoming the norm (think Stevie, Prince, Todd Rundgren, Marvin, Curtis, etc., paved the way), Whitney was kinda like the modern day Ella Fitzgerald in which she hardly wrote anything but was able to interpret songs to make her own. She had a talent with that. | |
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Look Into Your Heart.
All the others are superlative too, but to brutally sing a song better than Aretha Franklin is PARAMOUNT. "You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup...Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." - Bruce Lee
"Water can nourish me, but water can also carry me. Water has magic laws." - JCVD | |
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I liked her cover but I can't pick that over Auntie Ree. | |
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As far as Greatest Love goes, what's the difference from the George Benson version? It's an exact replica. Both even had the same producer. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Benson didn't take the song to the extreme highs that Whitney's did. | |
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Clearly you know that! 
"Saving All My Love For You", gets me EVERY TIME!! LAWD...What a song!! "Love is like peeing in your pants, everyone sees it but only you feel its warmth" | |
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From the instrumental intro to the end.
and the sax "fills", toward the end....
"Love is like peeing in your pants, everyone sees it but only you feel its warmth" | |
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Exactly. | |
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I Believe In You And Me........ my favorite song by her PERIOD!!!!!! Stevie Wonder = EARTH
Prince = WIND Chaka Khan = FIRE Sade = WATER the ELEMENTS of MUSIC | |
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I know this won't be a popular or obvious pick, but...
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www.last.fm/user/brandosoul "Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." -Bob Marley | |
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"Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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I Believe In You and Me Just The Lonely Talking Again Living For The Love Of you | |
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That and these two,,,,
Come to think of it, I think I enjoy her voice mostly from the first album era. It has an innocent and nervous quality about it, it wasn't self-assured like the Bodyguard era, but thats what made it so endearing. [Edited 2/16/12 17:37pm] | |
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I think you're absolutely right on this one.
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Either I'm Every Woman or I Will Always Love Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. The Bodyguard era was so freakin' awesome! | |
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I'd say "Just the Lonely Talking Again." Love that song. A real quiet storm interpretation. Better than a lot of singles. | |
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Diana Ross had a song called "In Your Arms" on the Silk Electric album. It was retitled "Hold Me" and recorded by Whitney and Teddy Pendergrass, and is on her debut.
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I didn't know step by step was a cover, great song!
My favourites are greatest love of all and higher love, she gave it more soul. I wish she and chaka khan did it together too though steve winwood and her did it amazing too live onstage for years. | |
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alphastreet said: I didn't know step by step was a cover, great song! The original is a b-side by Annie Lennox. Whitney's version was retooled; it's not a straight cover. [Edited 2/17/12 2:13am] "Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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Yeah, that's a nice one
I've been playing I Believe In You and Me alot as well.
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