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I'm
Your Baby Tonight
Whitney Houston |
At the age of 27, Whitney Houston has the world at her feet,
and a string of supremely impressive statistics to her name.
This third album follows in the steps of a first LP which made
its mark as the best-selling solo debut album of all time, and
a second which saw her become the first female artist to debut
at Number 1 in the US album chart. Add to that a catalogue of
worldwide hit singles like Where Do Broken Hearts Go, I Wanna
Dance With Somebody and Didn't We Almost Have It All (and a
record-breaking string of seven consecutive Number 1 hit singles
in the States), and you begin to appreciate the sheer popularity
of this gospel-trained cousin of Dionne Warwick. Listen to more
than a few bars of this album's opening hit-single title track
and you swiftly begin to appreciate the absolute and utter professionalism
which has been at the heart of Whitney Houston's success. Her
seemingly effortless range and phrasing turn an up-beat bubbler
of a tune from in-demand writer/producers LA Reid and Baby Face
into instantly seductive, high-class pop soul of the first order.
This ability is the key to Whitney Houston's talent, and if
a duet with Stevie Wonder on the LP's best track We Didn't Know
(written and produced by Wonder) reveals the limits of her ability
as a real soul singer in its accepted, expressive sense, there
is no doubting that this album confirms her right to sit atop
her own particular pile.
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