I wasn’t a hardcore Whitney Houston fan but certainly appreciated her vocal talent. And I’ll be eternally grateful for the memory of a cousin’s daughter, first member of the next generation in our family, dancing excitedly before she could even talk anytime her mom put on “I’m Every Woman”.
Yet I thought Houston squandered her gift to an extent on such pop fluff as “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” — which I say as a great admirer of well-executed pop fluff (including songs in that vein like Shannon’s “Let the Music Play” and Deniece Williams’ “Let’s Hear It for the Boy”) — rather than sticking with the romantic and inspirational ballads that better showed off her range or taking a turn into Etta James or Sarah Vaughan territory.
However, I recently caught a link to Houston’s isolated vocal tracks for “How Will I Know” that makes the song, and Houston’s work on it, heaps more impressive to me. Although it’s not an intentional a cappella rendition, merely part of the finished product we’re all familiar with and so obviously incomplete, it’s quite stunning and a mighty testament to her abilities. I recommended headphones if you have them.
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