Artist: Whitney Houston Release Date: 1985 Format: CD Record Label: Arista Records (USA) Genre: Pop UPC: 078221821223 Sub-Genre: Mainstream Track listing 1. You Give Good Love 2. Thinking About You 3. Someone For Me 4. Saving All My Love For You 5. Nobody Loves Me Like You Do 6. How Will I Know 7. All at Once 8. Take Good Care of My Heart 9. Greatest Love of All 10. Hold Me Details Playing time: 47 min. Contributing artists: Cissy Houston, Kashif, Kenny G, Marcus Miller, Narada Michael Walden, Paul Jackson, Jr., Roy Ayers Distributor: BMG (distributor) Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Stereo SPAR Code: AAD Album notes Personnel includes: Whitney Houston, Cissy Houston (vocals); Michael Gibbs (conductor); Shambbu Neil Vineberg (acoustic guitar); Paul Pesco, Ira Siegel, Dan Huff, Corrado Rustici, Paul Jackson, Jr. (guitar); Kenny G, Vincent Henry (saxophone); Jerry Hey, Marc Russo, Wayne Wallace (horns); Robbie Buchanan (Fender Rhodes piano); Preston Glass (keyboards, string synthesizer, percussion, programming); Kashif, Ralph Schukett, Walter "Baby Love" Afanasieff (keyboards, synthesizer); Randy Jackson (synthesizer, bass); Jack Waldman, Fred Zarr (synthesizer); Roy Ayers (vibraphone); Marcus Miller, Nathan East (bass); Narada Michael Walden, Paul Leim (drums); Greg "Gigi" Gonaway (electronic drums, tambourine); Bashiri Johnson (percussion). Producers include: Narada Michael Walden; Jellybean, Kashif, Michael Masser. Engineers include: Darroll Gustamachio, Michael DeLugg, Dean Burt. Although she has now been eclipsed by younger urban R B female stars, Houston will stand as the first to bring this type of clean soul music to the world. In the USA alone, this record stayed in the charts for four years, sold fifteen million copies and spent fourteen weeks on top of the charts. It would be churlish to offer any criticism when most of the world would disagree. The immaculate production is by Jermaine Jackson, bank manager is Clive Davis and even the bathing suit on the back cover gets a credit. It is however, with all its slickness, an indispensable soul album Portions of this page Copyright 1948 - 2008 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.