I Will Always Love You
1992 · From The Bodyguard (soundtrack)
Parton wrote it to leave Porter Wagoner; Houston opened a cappella and held the Hot 100 for fourteen weeks.
★ 8.1
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Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
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I Wanna Dance with Somebody
1987 · From Whitney
Walden thought the demo too country, funked it up, and Houston cut it while shaking off a bronchial infection.
★ 7.5
How Will I Know
1985 · From Whitney Houston
A demo Janet Jackson's camp turned down, which Houston rode to number one over her cousin Dionne Warwick.
★ 6.2
I Have Nothing
1992 · From The Bodyguard (soundtrack)
Cut at Encore Studios in 1991, a year before the film, Houston riding a modulation most singers would refuse.
★ 5.5
Greatest Love Of All
1984 · From Whitney Houston
Linda Creed wrote the words while ill with cancer, and died weeks before Houston's version reached number one.
★ 5.2
I'm Your Baby Tonight
1990 · From I'm Your Baby Tonight
A new jack swing pivot from L.A. Reid and Babyface, and by Reid's account the vocal took one take.
★ 5.2
Saving All My Love For You
1985 · From Whitney Houston
Goffin and Masser's song, first recorded by Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr.; Tom Scott's saxophone, Houston's first number one.
★ 5.1
Run to You (Whitney Houston)
1992 · From The Bodyguard (soundtrack)
Written first as a breakup ballad until director Mick Jackson asked for a love song, keeping only the title.
★ 3.5
Exhale (Shoop Shoop)
1995 · From Waiting to Exhale (soundtrack)
Babyface hummed a placeholder where the words should go, kept it, and watched the record debut at number one.
★ 3.0