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Post by herb on Apr 25, 2012 12:06:21 GMT -5
My favorite one is "How Will I Know", too. "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" is the my least favorite in this episode. However, this song is extremely tough to pull it off. I do not recall any rendition of "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" is as good as Whitney's original version. Whitney's version is an anthem. Whitney also received the best pop female vocal in Grammy for her performance on this song.
Brittany is so cute... and she danced so well.... I am ok with it. :)
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Post by So Pure on Apr 25, 2012 12:06:24 GMT -5
I remember Rodney Jerkins talking about how he had to elevate his track just to match Whitney's voice. That kind of says it all.
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Post by herb on Apr 25, 2012 12:41:53 GMT -5
"So Pure", you are talking about "It's Not Right, But it is OK", right?
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Post by So Pure on Apr 25, 2012 12:52:26 GMT -5
"So Pure", you are talking about "It's Not Right, But it is OK", right? Yeah, from the 'My Love is Your Love' EPK. It's also on the Greatest Hits DVD.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2012 20:51:43 GMT -5
I don't think the Glee covers were very good at all. For me, it just reinstates something I've always felt about Whitney's music. A lot of her great songs are not exactly amazing songs in and of themselves. It's her vocal performance that makes them so enchanting. That's why I always found it incredible how she could cover completely forgettable and forgotten songs like "Saving All My Love For You," "All The Man That I Need," and "I Believe In You And Me" and turn them into major hits. There are very few people who have covered Whitney Houston songs and done them justice.
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Post by Jack on Apr 26, 2012 9:04:17 GMT -5
Love the Sparkle poster:
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 26, 2012 10:30:04 GMT -5
I don't think the Glee covers were very good at all. For me, it just reinstates something I've always felt about Whitney's music. A lot of her great songs are not exactly amazing songs in and of themselves. It's her vocal performance that makes them so enchanting. That's why I always found it incredible how she could cover completely forgettable and forgotten songs like "Saving All My Love For You," "All The Man That I Need," and "I Believe In You And Me" and turn them into major hits. There are very few people who have covered Whitney Houston songs and done them justice. I agree. But that's why I never expect much at all when other's try to cover her songs, I knew Glee's versions would be cheesy and not that great, but at least they showed her some love. They probably introduced her music to more of the younger generation as well. :)
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 26, 2012 10:31:53 GMT -5
Whitney looks beautiful on the poster :'( I miss her. I hope she did some photoshoots for it a few months back..
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Post by esoteric76 on Apr 26, 2012 14:17:33 GMT -5
I assume the Whitney album is out of print. I keep hearing rumors that Whitney is getting the 25th Anniversary treatment, but it is mind-boggling why there has been no official announcement.
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Post by So Pure on Apr 26, 2012 15:14:42 GMT -5
I assume the Whitney album is out of print. I keep hearing rumors that Whitney is getting the 25th Anniversary treatment, but it is mind-boggling why there has been no official announcement. I hope so!!! They did an amazing job with the "WH" 25th Anniversary Edition.
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 26, 2012 17:54:03 GMT -5
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 26, 2012 18:19:19 GMT -5
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Post by So Pure on Apr 26, 2012 19:36:21 GMT -5
^^^
That's Vibe Magazine...not sure if it was Exhale of Preacher's Wife era?!
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 26, 2012 23:47:53 GMT -5
Exhale era :)
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 26, 2012 23:48:42 GMT -5
Jermaine Dupri þ @mr_Dupri
In the studio working on this Incredible Whitney record#yallknowwhatthisiz
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Post by Active Aggressive on Apr 27, 2012 8:20:33 GMT -5
Ewwwwwwwwww. Keep that Gremlin away from Whitney's legacy, please.
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Post by herb on Apr 27, 2012 9:07:14 GMT -5
Whitney looks stunning in that picture.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2012 9:32:53 GMT -5
Jermaine Dupri þ @mr_Dupri In the studio working on this Incredible Whitney record#yallknowwhatthisiz ??? I wonder what they could possibly be working on. I get the feeling Whitney didn't leave much behind in terms of unreleased recordings.
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Post by So Pure on Apr 27, 2012 9:49:47 GMT -5
Jermaine Dupri þ @mr_Dupri In the studio working on this Incredible Whitney record#yallknowwhatthisiz ??? I wonder what they could possibly be working on. I get the feeling Whitney didn't leave much behind in terms of unreleased recordings. No, I remember she was working with Jermaine post "Just Whitney", pre "I Look To You". 2007ish. Bojangles can probably confirm.
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 27, 2012 10:36:54 GMT -5
I wonder what they could possibly be working on. I get the feeling Whitney didn't leave much behind in terms of unreleased recordings. No, I remember she was working with Jermaine post "Just Whitney", pre "I Look To You". 2007ish. Bojangles can probably confirm. yep, she was. That's what reports said anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2012 11:12:33 GMT -5
I wonder if they are working on a posthumous album then. I always like to hear unreleased music the artist left behind, but I usually do not like full albums of posthumous material. Michael Jackson's was horrible.
I know there was a lot of talk of Whitney recording a new album shortly after Just Whitney. She told Wendy Williams she was getting ready to do a new album, and she did an interview with Clive Davis in 2004 where they were talking about getting ready for a new album. Then we didn't get a new album until 2009. I feel like I'm one of the few people who really LOVED Whitney doing more Urban material in the late 90s and early 00s. I'd love to hear some more recordings from that time period.
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 27, 2012 11:26:09 GMT -5
Well if they are planning to release the unreleased material I hope they wait until next year. Let us have Sparkle and its music this year first, then go from there..
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Post by So Pure on Apr 27, 2012 14:42:28 GMT -5
I want to say she also worked with Rodney Jerkins and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis on 'Just Whitney'...so those tracks might be in the "vault" as well.
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 27, 2012 15:46:21 GMT -5
Cissy Houston is going to write a book about Whitney.
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 27, 2012 16:33:58 GMT -5
Cissy Houston Plans a Book on Her Daughter, Whitney, a k a ‘Nippy’
By JULIE BOSMAN
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Cissy Houston, the gospel singer and mother of Whitney Houston, met with publishers in New York this week to shop a book about her daughter, several people who were in the meetings said.
Affectionately calling her daughter “Nippy,” her childhood nickname, and appearing emotionally and physically drained, Ms. Houston met with publishers in a suite at the St. Regis Hotel, said the people, who declined to be identified because the negotiations were still going on.
Ms. Houston, 78, described the book in meetings as the real and definitive story of her daughter, the pop legend who died on Feb. 11 in Beverly Hills at the age of 48.
“It’s going to be the bad, it’s going to be the good,” she told one publisher.
How much Ms. Houston is prepared to disclose — and how candid she will be about her daughter’s troubled marriage and long pattern of drug use — could determine the amount of money a publisher would be willing to spend on the book. Bidding could easily go into seven figures, said the people who attended the meetings.
Two publishers said Ms. Houston appeared reluctant to address her daughter’s death and her drug habit.
The Los Angeles County coroner said last month that Whitney Houston died of accidental drowning in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton hotel; cocaine use and heart disease also played a role in her death, the coroner said.
Talking about the book proposal to publishers, Ms. Houston seemed eager to set straight what she called “lies” about her daughter that have circulated in public discussion about her. “She said, ‘There are so many lies out there and I want to dispel all of those lies,’” one publishing executive said.
Ms. Houston was represented by Steve Fisher, a literary agent in Los Angeles, who is pursuing a deal for world rights to the book, publishers said. Mr. Fisher did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
Cissy Houston has already written a memoir, which was published in 1998, titled “How Sweet the Sound,” that told of her upbringing in a deeply religious family and her career in gospel. As a young singer, she helped form the Sweet Inspirations, a group that frequently sang backup vocals for Elvis Presley; she later won Grammys for her gospel albums.
She will use a ghostwriter for this book, though no writer has been named yet.
Her book would not be the first about Whitney Houston to emerge since her death. Worthy Publishing, a small Christian publisher in Nashville, said last week it had signed the gospel singer BeBe Winans, whose memoir would tell the story of his longtime friendship with Whitney Houston.
The book, to be called “The Whitney I Knew,” will capture “Winans’s personal stories and anecdotes that reveal Houston’s warmth, generosity, and humor,” the publisher said in a statement. It is expected to be released in July.
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Post by The Black Bird on Apr 28, 2012 18:04:22 GMT -5
Perfection!
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Post by divasummer on Apr 30, 2012 9:10:20 GMT -5
I believe Whitney recorded tracks with Ne Yo for the ILTY cd.
I've always Loved that performance of ATMTIN from her concert in Japan on the IYBT Tour.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2012 9:17:52 GMT -5
I wonder if she recorded anything else with Rodney Jerkins for My Love Is Your Love or the Greatest Hits. I know he presented more songs to her, but I don't know if she actually recorded them.
I hope if they release posthumous material, we get the songs as she recorded them, and not completely revamped with "modern" production. That's what I hated about Michael Jackson's posthumous album.
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 30, 2012 11:47:19 GMT -5
These are some of rumored songs she recorded..
ASCAP Works performed by:
WHITNEY HOUSTON 1. 100% WOMAN (Work ID: 450752473) 4. BEST U EVER HAD (Work ID: 320843610) 10. DIDN'T I (Work ID: 341309239) 33. IN YOUR ARMS – Possibly Hold me (Work ID: 390391389) 34. IT AIN'T RIGHT (Work ID: 391621851) 45. OPEN YOUR EYES (Work ID: 451420534) 57. UNDEFEATED (Work ID: 510825137)
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 30, 2012 17:42:19 GMT -5
FYI, Bobby is going to talk about Whitney on the Today Show this Wednesday and Thursday, if anyone cares.
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