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- From: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
- Subject: I Will Always (Sell Records)....
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:19:45 GMT
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- Reply-To: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
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- hid009@cent1.lancs.ac.uk (James Masterton) writes:
- >No. 1: 4th WEEK. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You. The single
- >that apparantly will not stop selling. Last Saturday it became only the
- >second single in the last 6 years to sell over 1 million copies. So far
- >it has sold 4.5 million around the world, is No.1 in 9 countries and in
- >the US is the second biggest selling single ever. Ironically when first
- >released bookmakers only gave it a 33-1 outside chance of being No.1 for
- >Christmas. Latest offer now is odds of 10-1 on that it will beat Bryan
- >Adams' record of 16 consecutive weeks at the top. With sales on an
- >upward spiral at the moment it would be folly to rule that out at present.
- >Who said the 7" single was dead?
-
- And in another bid to totally renounce me credentials as a non-dweeb,
- let me just say that I completely *loathe* this particular variety of
- tune, having only barely been able to raise myself to listen to the
- application of the soaring gospel voice to the treacly love ballad
- back in the days when Lady Soul herself drifted into those waters. Now,
- having said that, Ms. Houston's voice is, in my opinion, absolutely
- transfixing, navigating the shoals of the whispery/whiny/hiccupping lil'
- bits of choke-up to this positively gorgeous and effortless full-throated
- roar with more ease than a human should manage - all in a couple of
- minutes. While the day is coming when I may come to hate this piece of
- work due to my overexposure to it, let me here say that I did love it
- once, and not without cause (to misquote Antony). NOTE: the only Whitney
- Houston in my collection is her appearance on Material's "One Down,"
- so don't accuse me of mere slobbering fandom. This is a performance which
- for me fulfills the same niche and Ms. Fernandez' aria from "La Wally"
- in the film Diva - it makes a believer of one, if only briefly. Yikes.
-
- 'tis the season to be confessional....
- --
- The law moves quickly in the rain/and chokes the world with memorials./The
- courts accept the lowest superstition/into evidence. And we embrace quickly in
- the rain,/conceiving a hale infant with hands to wrinkle/the bedsheets toward
- it, wave by trough by wave./Gregory Taylor/Heurikon /Madison, WI/608-828-3385
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