Conversations With Whitney Houston And Clive Davis

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[Conversations With Whitney Houston And Clive Davis]

[Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012)]

[Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012)] Source: LYBIO.net
There has never been a time when music wasn’t in my home. I started singing gospel music at a very young age that’s all I recall the feeling in my soul that’s all I wanted to sing. So I think about 8, I decided ya, this is what I really wanna do.

[Clive Davis (April 4, 1932)]
The first time I heard Whitney sing was at a club called Sweet Water, she did back up singing but you can see she was a beautiful young girl but then she stepped out; and did two solo numbers, one of which was the song: Greatest Love Of All. It was sung with such fervor with such natural vocal gifts; with such passion that I was stunned. And I knew really right then and there that this was a very special talent.

[Whitney Houston] Source: LYBIO.net
I was a singer, who wanted to sing and who wanted to bring ah singing into the industry, it was after the Disco Era, you know what I’m saying where clubs were opening, people were dancing and everything but the singing was kind of like missing from the industry I would – I would say.

[Whitney Houston - All At Once] Source: LYBIO.net
All at once,
I finally took a moment and I’m realizing that
You’re not coming back
And it finally hit me all at once
All at once

[Clive Davis]
Whitney was a natural – she was a natural resource. She had a soaring range, she had power, she had lyrical expressiveness. Ah it was a pure natural gift. I knew that I had connected with her. And I have been fortunate that very soon after I had formed Arista. Merv Griffin had a national TV show and I brought on Whitney.

[Clive Davis] Source: LYBIO.net
But if the mantle is to pass to someone who is 19, who is elegant, who is sensuous, who is innocent, who has an incredible range talent, but guts and soul at the same time, it will be Whitney Houston, in my opinion and her poise doesn’t hurt but its her natural charm, I mean, you either got it or you don’t have it. She’s got it.

[Mervyn Edward "Merv" Griffin, Jr. (July 6, 1925 – August 12, 2007)]
She’s got it. Wait till you hear her, here’s Whitney Houston.

[Whitney Houston - Home - Houston's Premiere TV Performance From The Merv Griffin Show On June 23, 1983]

And I’ve learned
That we must look inside our hearts
To find a world full of love
Like yours
Like mine

Like home…

[Clive Davis]
And then began the odyssey and then began the adventure and then began the challenge of where do you get that material for this first debut album that I felt that it was gonna be so special. I decided that I would have a showcase for Whitney of the best writers. The challenge was finding the right material and making sure that in its arrangement and that in its production which is always the challenge that you come up with not only strong, strong, strong material but also the right arrangement and production. So these are not demos for other artists who come along and cover her. That they’d be hits for Whitney Houston.

[Whitney Houston]
The musicians on the album were the best musicians in the industry the orchestration was fantastic for me it was – are people ready to hear a good singer a good voice, someone who could sing standard, someone who can sing ballads. Someone who can sing dance songs. Someone who is able to do that and that was me, and I was kind of worried about being accepted.

[Clive Davis] Source: LYBIO.net
I felt we had a great album but until it’s out there, there is always that moment of doubt, there is always that moment of anxiety.

[Whitney Houston - You Give Good Love]
That you give good love to me baby
So good, take this heart mine into your hands
You give good love to me

[Clive Davis]
You Give Good Love, turned out to be the first single was written by a young female named LaLa and it was produced by Kashif. And made a good record of You Give Good Love.

[Clive Davis]
It was You Give Good Love that the urban stations had the greatest initial respect for so gradualy it started to break and it crossed over and it became a big hit record across the formats so to speak. And that made it easier for us then to come with Saving All Our Love For You as the second single.

[Whitney Houston - You Give Good Love]
So I’m saving all my love for you
Yes I’m saving all my love
Yes I’m saving all my love for you

[Whitney Houston]
Clive and I went through a number of songs but the one song we were sure about that we knew we were gonna do and we knew it was gonna be a great standard song that will last through a life time of songs was the Greatest Love Of All. We knew that song was gonna be the song.

[Whitney Houston - Greatest Love of All]
I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier

[Clive Davis] Source: LYBIO.net
I think I was most gratified cause I had apprehension, would the magic of the first song that I ever saw her sing: The Greatest Love Of All, come out as a record. Would it stir me? As the live performance did? Could that magic be harness in the bottle? And I remember hearing it and feeling those proverbial tingles down your spine.

[Whitney Houston - Greatest Love of All]
I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone’s shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I live as I believe
No matter what they take from me

[Whitney Houston]
I just remember recording this song and doing like 60 tracks to it and I just knew that we had the song but Michael Masser wanted to hear it over and over and over again and I think he was enjoying me sing it more than – knowing that we were just making a record, you know, so I – I called Clive on the phone and I said I can’t sing this song another time, I have to stop now but it became a standard in my career that people love to hear all the time.

[Whitney Houston - Greatest Love of All]
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all

[Clive Davis]
I really was just picking hit songs – to me – what I thought were a hit songs. I knew that once we had the ballads and once we had the first single You Give Good Love, that would need something up-tempo. When I listened to How Will I Know. This really gives up the up-tempo that we need for the album.

[Whitney Houston - How Will I Know]
How will I know if he really loves me
I say a prayer with every heart beat
I fall in love whenever we meet
I’m asking you what you know about these things
How will I know if he’s thinking of me

[Clive Davis]
This album was very unique and it harrolded a talent that will be with us all over the world for many, many years to come. It was unique as well in that it did not have one classic, it has so many. You say: Saving All My Love For You, when you say the Greatest Love of all, when you say: How will I know, you immediately feel the tempo, you can feel the music, you can feel the so called hooks; that part of great pop music that America has given the world and the fact that this album had so many of those cuts, ah – really made it the landmark album that it is.

[Whitney Houston] Source: LYBIO.net
When it came out. I – I – I didn’t expect it to be as popular. I didn’t know it would be one of the best debut selling album of all time and none of that you could of told me and I would of said: Ya Ya, ya right, whatever, you know. But, I was very pleased and I think I was overwhelmed that I was accepted and that it became what it became and I am very thankful to this day to everyone, thank you, for that.

[Whitney Houston - How Will I Know]
I try to phone but I’m too shy (can’t speak)
Falling in love is all bitter sweet

Conversations With Whitney Houston And Clive Davis. You can feel the so called hooks; that part of great pop music that America has given the world and the fact that this album had so many of those cuts, ah – really made it the landmark album that it is.Complete Full Transcript, Dialogue, Remarks, Saying, Quotes, Words And Text.