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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2013 15:52:03 GMT -5
hidizzyguy has a ban wish. Girl, don't act like you don't encourage me behind the scenes. I know how you do me!!!! lol I would never encourage someone to disrespect Whitney.
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Post by hidizzyguy on Apr 11, 2013 15:55:39 GMT -5
I meant in general. Though, at least now I know you can care less about Kelly Clarkson then, lol.
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 11, 2013 16:35:03 GMT -5
This quote is kind of eerie, it's from '99..
"If I closed my eyes tomorrow, the only thing that would concern me is my daughter growing up right. For me, for my life, I'd be satisfied." - Whitney Houston
Taken from another great interview with Whitney:
Diva Whitney - She prays & sings with her favorite pastor and reflects on life as a star.
By DAVID HINCKLEY Daily News Staff Writer
DETROIT When the Rev. Marvin Winans seeks an amen from the congregation at the Perfecting Church on this particularly hot Sunday morning, he can start in the second row with his old friend Whitney Houston.
A little more than 12 hours earlier, she was leading her own show at the Fox Theater here. Now she's enjoying his.
"Church the Way It Was Meant To Be," Marvin Winans calls his Pentecostal house of worship, and he didn't build Perfecting to 5,000 members by making the service taste like castor oil.
His choir has 75 voices, fronted by nine soloists and a six-piece band whose leader is built like Fats Domino and pounds out red-hot rhythms on the Steinway grand. The Rev. Winans has a different forum than some of his singing siblings, but preaching time is showtime.
"You can go to school until you have so many degrees they call you Fahrenheit," he thunders. "IT DOESN'T MEAN GOD HAS CALLED YOU!!!!"
Whitney Houston raises her hands, joins a chorus of "No, it doesn't," and points an index finger toward the pulpit as if to tell the Rev. Winans that he, he has been called.
Who knows how? You are called and you serve.
"He's my minister," Houston says after the service. "He was the minister at my wedding. I love him and I love his church."
Having Whitney Houston's life, she can't always get to her own church, New Hope Baptist in New Jersey, where her mother, Cissy, is minister of music. In fact, Whitney lost her spot in the choir there.
"My mother said, ‘You can't make rehearsals, you're out of the choir.' But I'll be back."
She says this sitting in Marvin Winans' office, talking with a visitor while the reverend has lunch in the next room with a dozen members of the Houston entourage, including 6-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina.
Houston is still in her pink church suit. It is redundant to say she looks stunning. She sips water and talks politely and directly, with few wasted words.
She is known to drop an occasional expletive into her conversation, probably getting a quiet kick out of tweaking the old America's Sweetheart image. But in the reverend's office, she slips just once. Then apologizes.
"I like the name ‘The Perfecting Church,' " she muses later. "It says we don't come to God perfect. We come as we are, and He helps us from there."
As perfection requires hard work in showbiz as well as life, the 35-year-old Houston is now back to her singing career. She's on a tour that brought her home to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark last night, and will bring her to The Theater at Madison Square Garden on July 14 and 15, in support of her "My Love Is Your Love" CD. Her first studio album in eight years, it has gone double platinum and spawned several hits, including the top-five "It's Not Right, but It's Okay."
That there has been debate over whether double-platinum constitutes slow sales indicates where Houston has set her bar. Her three previous studio albums sold more than 25 million copies. She has had 11 No. 1 singles, and "I Will Always Love You," beside selling 12 million "Bodyguard" soundtracks, was No. 1 for 14 weeks, the second-longest run in modern history.
Houston also made her acting debut in "The Bodyguard," and has since starred in "Waiting to Exhale" and "The Preacher's Wife." Next year, she's doing a movie with Will Smith.
"I always knew I could sing," she says. "But the acting came as a total surprise. The only person who said ‘The Bodyguard' would get that response was [co-star] Kevin Costner."
She has had less pleasant surprises over 15 years in the biz, too, especially since her 1992 marriage to Bobby Brown.
"A lot of things surprised me — that the tabloids would think people are more interested in my life than my music, that all they seem to want to know is what's going on in my bedroom — or any of my rooms.
"I didn't know this would become a pleasure of America, that they would take potshots at me because I had friends who were gay, or who lived a different kind of life."
In her stage patter, Houston brushes off the tabloids, sort of: "Half this mess they just make up. You try to laugh about it."
So does any of it still sting?
"Some things still sting very badly. Look, I'm not married and have some kind of double life with some man, or woman. I couldn't live that way. I am married to one man. I was raised in the church and I careabout morality. I couldn't tell my daughter to do one thing and do another myself.
"I'm a mother, a wife, a daughter. To the world, I'm Whitney Houston. To me, I'm Mrs. Bobby Brown. That's who I am.
"No, we don't fight all the time. No, he doesn't beat me. He's got a temper. If you fluff his feathers, you'll know it. But he's a sweet, gentle man.
"Nobody is good or bad all the time. Everybody has ups and downs and we've had our moments. They pass. It's just that we can't keep them in the house. They hear anything about us, they run with it. But they don't get the whole story. Something causes everything. That's the part people don't hear."
Interestingly, Houston doesn't hide Bobbi Kristina from the world. She comes on stage, she visits Oprah.
"Keep her in a bubble? We couldn't if we wanted to," Houston says, laughing. "Too much energy. She's got my traits and Bobby's, too, except I was kind of timid as a child and with her, it's ‘Everybody in the pool.' "
And does she have her mother's voice?
"She's got my mother's voice," says Houston, daughter of the marvelous pop and gospel singer Cissy Houston. "That's the voice I had when I was 6. So we'll wait and see. If she likes music, I'll encourage her. I'd like her to learn the technical side, too, so if she wants to play or write, she can do it herself."
Right now, she's rearing Bobbi Kristina the way she thinks all parents should: attentively.
"I want to be there. I can't leave and come back when she's 16. I blew off the Jay Leno show because there was an activity at her school. I just felt that was more important."
It's no accident Houston started her tour after school ended, so Bobbi could come along. Her moment on stage confirms the child has no fear and reflects Houston's growing confidence in her own ability to improvise.
When an autograph-seeking fan holds a CD over the lip of the stage at the Fox, a moment that can stop a show, Houston first jokes, "Thanks, I already have one." Then she takes it, placing hand on hip as if to say, "All right, girl, where's the pen?" The crowd laughs, she signs and the music resumes.
It looks easy. It isn't. Like making a record.
"Anyone who thinks ‘all I have to do is sing' has no idea. I don't just come in and they give me a song and I sing it and leave. Those songs are mine. How I sing them is how I feel them."
Her producers will tell her how she sounds. She'll bounce takes off her husband, "because he's totally honest." But in the end, she says, the song must be hers, which is how a singer gets up to where everyone has always felt Whitney Houston's voice could take her — the ranks of Ella, Sarah, Barbra and Judy, artists with a singular imprint.
"That's the goal," says Houston. "A career. At first there's pressure to establish yourself with hits. Today I keep up with current sounds, but there's less pressure. People know me. "I knew when I started I wasn't like anyone else — not my mother, my cousin [Dionne Warwick] or anyone. I walked into this business with faith. I didn't walk into it trying to believe. I did believe. Somehow I knew this is what I would do. I just love to sing."
On stage now, her show has grown to about two hours. Her top ticket has also risen, with the market, to $100-plus. "It's a lot," says Houston, nodding. "That's one reason I'm doing theaters. I don't want the person in the last row not to know what I'm wearing. I don't want them to see the show on monitors."
She still isn't a dancer, but she moves more easily on stage, and she has plenty of hits to feed her fans — who in Detroit sip mixed drinks and dress to kill.
About half the show is the new CD, the rest her past hits. "I have to do ‘How Will I Know' and ‘Saving All My Love' and ‘I Will Always Love You,'" she says. "Those songs brought me here. I'll do them forever."
And is that a burden?
"No, because they all had meaning for me. When I did ‘Saving All My Love,' I was going through a terrible love affair. He was married — and that will never work out for anybody, never, no way, forget about it."
Everyone, of course, will find meanings of their own. One fan at the Fox pleaded, successfully, for the towel with which Whitney mops her face.
"I use a towel, I just throw it in the hamper," says Houston. "But I understand the idea. I have a pair of shoes Ginger Rogers gave me before she passed. I have things from Dorothy Dandridge, from Sammy Davis. They're a connection to people whose work I admire."
Houston's next projects also involve people she admires: Will Smith and Selena. "What Selena did in the English market was brilliant," says Houston. "[Arista Records President] Clive Davis and I are thinking about me doing that in the other direction."
In between, she'll be wife, mother, daughter, singer and the rest, in a lineup that's pretty well set. "I don't make a lot of new friends. People you met after you became successful, you have to check them out so carefully. My friends are people I've known a long time."
She feels the same about the church. "The church can be our salvation," she says. "It has to become the center of our community again." She reflects a moment and adds that it is a community center. It just doesn't get credit.
"That's our lovely press. Don't talk about good things, because if people feel too good, you have less control over them."
Good news doesn't sell, whether it's the Lord or her marriage?
"That's it," she says. "I know the game. I just won't play it."
She says this in an even tone, calm and cold enough to deep-freeze the state of Michigan. But whatever the frustration, don't think she doesn't like her life.
"I was a showbiz kid. I'd go to the studio with my mother. I learned music with her, and I learned from the best. I've had a great time. If I closed my eyes tomorrow, the only thing that would concern me is my daughter growing up right. For me, for my life, I'd be satisfied."
When the conversation is over, Houston throws open the door to the room where her posse is well into lunch. "Now I know," she announces in a loud voice, "that y'all didn't eat my food! I know you saved me some!"
It's nice she's overcoming that shy streak.
In the corner, Bobbi Kristina is sitting with the Rev. Winans, who is playing a small electronic keyboard.
"Listen to this, mommy," she says.
All other ground is sinking sand.
SIDEBAR:
Singer monitors daughter's TV, CDs
DETROIT-- Whitney Houston gets asked to help out a lot of causes, but she says she stays mostly with the ones that help children.
"It's a difficult time to be a child, " she says. "Sometimes it seems like all we're offering in the streets is death."
On stage, she urges parents to be involved in everything children do. With her own daughter, Bobbi Kristina, 6, she says:
"We monitor her. When she watches TV, it's the Learning Channel, Nickelodeon and Disney. She goes to a school where people understand her situation-- no one's going to leave the Enquirer lying around with some story she shouldn't see. She's not interested in listening to Marilyn Manson, but if she were, we wouldn't let her. What kind of demon spawn you find there, I don't know."
There's a role for government, too, says Houston-- "like with gun control. With movies or music, I wouldn't want to just say, 'This one's good and that one's bad.' The key is controlling access. Things will always be out there, but it's like drugs or liquor: You make sure they aren't available to everyone."
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Post by Dreams on Apr 11, 2013 16:43:08 GMT -5
Old video of Whitney singing "You Are Everything" with Paul Shaffer (David Letterman's musical director) She sounds so amazingly beautiful, my God. Why did Paul have to sing any part at all? He sounds like Kermit the frog. This was gorgeous. Her voice sounded so angelic, I didn't want her to stop singing!!
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Post by mikeshere on Apr 11, 2013 20:04:17 GMT -5
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 12, 2013 13:18:31 GMT -5
Jesus, Whitney threw it dowwwwn on her version of Natural Woman
Don't mind Bobby standing there on the sidelines as she sings directly to him.
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Post by mikeshere on Apr 12, 2013 20:35:17 GMT -5
She can sing anything and own it like it was her song.... Beautiful!
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Post by Cory | Alan on Apr 13, 2013 21:14:21 GMT -5
There needs to be a live album. She has so many ICONIC live performances that need to be remastered and placed on one album
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Post by Jay D83 on Apr 14, 2013 10:36:38 GMT -5
There needs to be a live album. She has so many ICONIC live performances that need to be remastered and placed on one album Well according to that douche Clive, he's never even THOUGHT about it.
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 16, 2013 16:00:59 GMT -5
There needs to be a live album. She has so many ICONIC live performances that need to be remastered and placed on one album Well according to that douche Clive, he's never even THOUGHT about it. He better start thinking about it now, he needs to try and not be senile. Speaking of Clive, listen to what he has to say about Whitney during this new interview with Larry King. He talks about Whitney being serious about quitting the cigarette smoking, wanting to make a new album, and that she was definately drug free during the time of the Oprah interview. *sigh*
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 18, 2013 11:14:44 GMT -5
Candice from Americal Idol sang "When You Believe" last night. Mariah looked on the verge of tears, especially when Randy talked about Whitney and the times her and Mariah spent together performing it on stage and promoting it.
Oh Whitney.....you just don't even know how much you positively affected people not only as a singer, but as a person.
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 19, 2013 11:33:05 GMT -5
Kim Burrell's tweet today Kim Burrell þ@KimBurrellLove I miss her more today than ever...hurts. This was my girl.
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Apr 19, 2013 15:54:49 GMT -5
Candice from Americal Idol sang "When You Believe" last night. Mariah looked on the verge of tears, especially when Randy talked about Whitney and the times her and Mariah spent together performing it on stage and promoting it. Oh Whitney.....you just don't even know how much you positively affected people not only as a singer, but as a person. Mariah even said she was holding in the tears. You could hear the emotion when she was talking.
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 22, 2013 0:01:47 GMT -5
This story.....
JEFFERY GRAY, RECTOR PLACE, NEW YORK: The news of Whitney Houston's death saddened me greatly. Not because we lost another very talented person but because of a story that I need to share with your readers.
I grew up in Basking Ridge. My wife and I moved back there in 1988 to raise our two daughters, Lauren and Megan. Our youngest, Megan, fought cancer from the time that she was 18 months. We went all over the country to fight her disease including a bone marrow transplant in 1991. Unfortunately, in the fall of 1994 we had to accept the reality that Megan was not going to be with us much longer and her place was with the Lord.
Her last wish was to meet Whitney Houston. Megan was treated at the Valerie Center at Overlook Hospital. A person that worked there named Judy arranged for my family to attend a Whitney's performance at Radio City Music Hall and we were given backstage passes.
After the show we were told to wait and we began the process of winding our way back stage. We were cleared at numerous doors with massive body guards at each turn. Finally, we reached the dressing room for Whitney.We were greeted by her personal assistant and to be honest I expected to have someone come out and give us an autograph and send us on our way back to NJ. I could not have been more wrong.
Whitney could not have been more kind to Megan. She knelt down and picked up Megan and told her that everything was going to be all right because God loved her. She then told her assistant to take pictures and told me that we will take all the time that we want for our visit. I was astounded by the genuine care, love, and concern she showed for my family.Whitney was a superstar that day, but not because she was on stage, but because she cared about a little girl whose last wish was to meet her.
About a month later we lost Megan. As sad as I feel about my loss of Megan many years ago, I want all to know that we just lost a great lady that made a little girl in the last days of her life feel very special. Goodbye, Whitney and thank you!
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 23, 2013 14:16:58 GMT -5
Rare personal moment of Whitney holding a fan's baby during her "My Love Is Your Love" album signing in New York
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 26, 2013 14:31:00 GMT -5
Imagine having Happy Birthday sung to you like this? MAN!! Amazing. Just amazing.
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Post by HolidayGuy on Apr 29, 2013 7:49:55 GMT -5
Cute video of "You Are Everything"- I'd never seen it. Paul's singing wasn't good at all, but that was part of the charm of those kinds of segments, having an angelic voice like that of Whitney, alongside a regular, non-singing voice like Paul's.
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Post by Tea-why on Apr 29, 2013 8:04:51 GMT -5
Rare personal moment of Whitney holding a fan's baby during her "My Love Is Your Love" album signing in New York Stunning! What a beautiful woman she was.
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Post by Bojangles on Apr 29, 2013 14:40:19 GMT -5
Rare personal moment of Whitney holding a fan's baby during her "My Love Is Your Love" album signing in New York Stunning! What a beautiful woman she was. I know.... I just saw this other personal fan pic from the same album signing event :)
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Post by Bojangles on May 3, 2013 12:19:25 GMT -5
I'm not sure how many general fans here have heard this rare song, but Whitney was featured on her girl group Sunday's song back in 1998. She sang the bridge to it. It's called "Believe In Love" from the Down In The Delta soundtrack.
This is only Whitney's part
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Post by Bojangles on May 7, 2013 12:54:33 GMT -5
Oh my Jesus! Why have I never seen this performance in full? I vaguely remember CNN showing quick clips from this last February while they talked about her, but that whole time was also kind of a blur.
Whitney's tribute to Ella Fitzgerald. Amazing.
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Post by HolidayGuy on May 8, 2013 7:33:06 GMT -5
I give you the ever-rare BDS recurrent-airplay stat for Whitney. :)
For the latest Monday-Sunday period, her top 10 most-played songs were played more than 2,100 times in the USA. This reflects airplay on U.S. terrestrial stations.
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Post by Bojangles on May 8, 2013 14:36:21 GMT -5
I give you the ever-rare BDS recurrent-airplay stat for Whitney. :) For the latest Monday-Sunday period, her top 10 most-played songs were played more than 2,100 times in the USA. This reflects airplay on U.S. terrestrial stations. Thanks. Do you have any recent Billboard stats on her albums?
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Post by HolidayGuy on May 8, 2013 15:19:06 GMT -5
^I don't have that, but I can post what the top five tracks were later on.
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Post by HolidayGuy on May 9, 2013 8:34:00 GMT -5
As promised, Whitney's five most-played tracks at monitored U.S. terrestrial stations for the week of 4/29-5/5 (per BDS): "I Will Always Love You," "I Wanna Dance with Somebody," "How Will I Know," "I Have Nothing" and "You Give Good Love." IWALY was just short of 400 spins for the week, with IWDWS not far behind. WHIK was close to 300, and IHN was in excess of 200. YGL wasn't far from 200.
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Post by Bojangles on May 9, 2013 10:51:20 GMT -5
As promised, Whitney's five most-played tracks at monitored U.S. terrestrial stations for the week of 4/29-5/5 (per BDS): "I Will Always Love You," "I Wanna Dance with Somebody," "How Will I Know," "I Have Nothing" and "You Give Good Love." IWALY was just short of 400 spins for the week, with IWDWS not far behind. WHIK was close to 300, and IHN was in excess of 200. YGL wasn't far from 200. Thanks! All 5 of those songs are the ones I hear the most every week on the radio, with I'm Every Woman and Heartbreak Hotel close behind them.
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Post by pnobelysk on May 9, 2013 17:04:49 GMT -5
I'm surprised greatest love of all isn't there . It was the third highest charting after her death, you'd assume it'd get more radio play
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Post by HolidayGuy on May 10, 2013 9:50:16 GMT -5
GLOA was at No. 10 for the week, with less than 100 spins. :)
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Post by mikeshere on May 10, 2013 10:43:51 GMT -5
Im suprised we dont hear MLIYL more.. Such a great song. They should repackage the Million Dollar Bill song again and throw the Freemasons radio edit to all Top40 stations. Lol I just dont want to stop hearing Whitney on the radio. I pray that whatever Whitneys camp has that they are going to put out, is done with the right support, the right mixers etc. It would be great to get a new Whitney song this Summer. I hope they have a real solid gem up there sleeves. Whitney needs to live on forever.
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Post by Bojangles on May 10, 2013 11:13:28 GMT -5
I really don't hear The Greatest Love Of All that much, I assume it'd get played more on the AC stations. I mainly listen to Rhythmic radio during the day at work and sometimes Urban AC, and that's where I always hear You Give Good Love, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Heartbreak Hotel, I Will Always Love You, and I Have Nothing the most.
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