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  • UNRELIABLE PERFORMANCE!

  • love you Whitney.

  • ¡Jesucristo! esto es Sublime,Seductor,Sensacional.

    Yo me hubiera casado con esta mujer en sus tiempos :P

  • Whitney is better without the jerk of Bobby Brown.

  • why all real stars end up so sadly ...michael amy whitney and more xxx

  • its amazing..she is beautiful..and she knew how to talk..she had swag and street sense..,she knew how to play the game..

  • This is one thing called ART and this is the most amazing and wonderful voice I ever had heard in my life. Whitney Elizabeth Houston is simply the most awesome voice in the world! Maybe will exist some like her but unfortunately not yet!

  • Freaking amazing! This live rendition kills!!

  • This sounds so much better live.

  • 想念這個 whitney houston

  • her voice is like the bible for singers! incredible sound!

  • God Joan Rivers looks like an old hag here! Can we talk???  Whitney was ok. Never thought she was that great. Wouldn't buy her CD or go to see her in concert. Isn't she on drugs now? She should have kept her job as a waitress at the pancake house!

  • @matt1corey U DIDNT HAVE TO SAY ALL THAT JUS SAY SHES OK & MOVE ON IM ALSO WONDERING WHY UR AT HER SITE IF REALLY DIDNT LIKE HER OR HER MUSIC?

  • @matt1corey Whitney is "The Voice" she was regarded as the greatest singer all time. She was never referrered to as "OK." She's the undisputed queen of voice. If you don't like her, why are here?

  • I've never heard a voice like that since my childhood... always imitated never duplicated... look at her : class, syle, beauty, and of course THAT VOICE, THAT VOICE

  • Woooowww I get the chills!!!! I feel it in my whole body en think in my head what it would be like have heard her voice in this perfection condition for real... Damn

  • Wow!! one of the BEST FEMALE SINGERS.

  • i was looking for this video , because l listened this sng for first time when i was 8 now im 34 but i didnt who was the singer i never imagine that was whitney so im glad for listening the song ad understand it it is my favorite song

  • WOW!!! THE BEST SINGER EVER

  • This live version is just soooooo much more fluid, sensual and natural than the recorded version.

    You can really hear her love of gospel and soul in the way she sings. Her voice has power to spare here.

    I just wish she had been allowed to sing more like this on some of her records rather than the overly formal and slightly stilted sound that her albums had. Still thank goodness for youtube where we can hear her NATURAL voice at it pure unspoiled best!

  • @soundseeker63 I tottaly agree with you!

    Whitney should have recorded a lot more of this kind of material that she always did on her live concerts!

    In fact, I always use to say one thing about Whitney: "If you only listen to Whitney's Cds, you will never know Whitney's vocal style and skills!"

    In fact my favourit performance by Whitney, which is uploaded on my channel (Called: Life in a Song / I'am Changing), was Never recorded by her, like many other standards: "Summertime", "Porgy", etc...

  • @soundseeker63 i think in the CD's the song should be recorded formal and in the performances she can sing like this. because a lot if not most of her audience like her way of singing like it is on the records. i guess it makes the songs more classic... idk but i do love the way she sings live for example the way she sings "i got to get ready" because she started singing the line after the time it should have been sung but it makes it more "soulful" i guess.

  • damn thats joan rivers!!! i knew she had ALOT of plastic surgery but GOT DAMN!! lmfao

  • BEST LIVE EVER

  • she was a very hottttt woman

  • Very very nice. Thank you for sharing!

  • wow! Mariah can't sing like this live. Whitney is The Voice.

  • @meegikwang That's bs. Look up Mariah "If It's Over" live. Simply amazing. Not to say that Whitney is any less amazing, but I am saying she's not necessarily more impressive. At least to me.

  • @Windgrace BOTH of them have/had amazing voices; only difference is Whitney didn't have to dress like a two-bit whore to get noticed, unlike Mariah. Good talent doesn't need tits and ass pouring out of a tight dress.

  • @cjs33139 Oh please, Mariah didn't need two-bit whore outfits to get noticed in the first place. Despite Mariah's technical prowess, her range, her ability to write...she was always in Whitney's shadow and her talent was never as appreciated as Whitney's was. Some see her whistle register as a cheap gimmick for actually singing. I really don't care, both of them are amazing. I just prefer Mariah's musicality overall, and consider her repertoire much more engaging to listen to!

  • @Windgrace I can't stand her whistle register. Enough of it!! I am tired of hollering black (and white ones trying to sing gospel) divas trying to shout instead of sing! Xtina is up there too. Can't stand her either. As for the outfits, Mariah lost me a decade ago when she went down that rap trap she calls music. You might like it but I don't and she lost a lot of her early 90s/over 40 fans. As for lyrical ability? "Open up the bacardi, so hot tamale"? Oh please! Thats music?

  • @cjs33139 Skin Colour doesn't change the way your vocal chords work. Skin has Nothing to do with Singing Well.

    There are certain genres, like Gospel, which are mostly sung by Black people, But that has to be essentialy with Historical / Cultural matters. A good white singer can sing gospel Very Well and being Soulfull too!

    Same situation happens, for exemple, in Classical music: inspite of most of the singers being white, a good black singer can sing Classical music very Well too! END.

    Peace!

  • @cjs33139 right on wingrace whitny is ana all ways will be the diva of the voice she has set the bar forlife and mariah is a cheap gimick act and whitney is a legend

  • Why she had to get on drugs? It seems like all the best artist do!

  • She was lighter over time she got darker. I love u always WH!!!! Shes the best

  • @eljones2020 Make up.

  • WHITNEY IS SO SEXY TO ME AND IM A GIRL WHICH IS VERY WEIRD TO ME

  • THE BEST! SHE IS THE BEST!!!

  • i loooooooooooooooooooooooove this WHITNEY!! PLEASE COME BACK!

  • Whitney I looooooooooooooove you...but what on earth do you have on? LOL

  • wow she is beautiful!

  • I believe this girl , at that time, had the best voice ever heard by the human ear!

  • no matter what happens i will always love you whitney

  • It didn´t take a second I falled in love with her, back then.

  • 2:18 - FLAWLESS

  • swwaaagggggggg

  • WILL ALWAYS BE NO.1 ON MY FAV LIST!!

  • ONLY LIVING LIVE SINGER ALWAYS!!!!!! NO ONE NO ARTIST NOVA DAYS CANT MATCH HER SO FCK OFF ALL MAFIA INDUSTRY SINGING PREAKS !!!!!!!!!! COUSE ALWAYS WAS MONEY MORE IMPORTANT FUCK YOU MAFIA !!!!!

    !!

  • at least it wasn't lipped like you give good love :)

  • @shaniceslaysurfav Thanks for comment!

    In fact, Whitney always wants to sing Live, the few exceptions happen on some Tv shows where she simply isn't allowed to sing Live, But even on some of them, Like Top of the Pops, where almost everybody Lipped, she sung her part Live, with all the instruments pré-recorded.

    It's true that she doesn't have this voice anymore, but even knowing it, she is still an Honest Live performer, even when she is sick, She never wants to trick the fans with lip-synch!

  • @shaniceslaysurfav u mean the performance at the tonight show? watch?v=KI3YrAv0C-I

    this was lipped? cant believe it

  • @shellbsd23 NO! that one (of your link) is Live.

    Actually, Whitney always wants to perform live. She only lipped when there was no other way to do it, in specific Tv shows. Even on Top of the Pops, where everybody lipped, Whitney sang Live only with the instrumental parts on playback (I also uploaded that)!

    The performance of You Give Good Love that shaniceslaysurfav is talking about is this one: watch?v=_Y9MWW0XDOM&feature=re­lated

    You Give Good Love was sung Live on the Tonight Show 1985!

  • @soundslikeblue thought so. thanks

  • damn..her vocals in her utter prime!!!! *sway*

  • I knew when I was a child that this women could sing..I just wish I could hear her now to really appreciate her talent live!

  • tell me, Charice, Leona or the Taiwanese boy, or any one who sing Whitney 's songs. Can you sing like that? So don't ever say something that compare them to Whitney. All those things 're just rubbish. No one can ever replace Whitney

  • @belovedballoon ok but charice and leona are good singers as well. They should get praise too. Dont have to be mean to them.

  • @dimestarr91 : sure, we respect singers nowadays who try to cover Whitney's songs with their good voice. But many comments like " they sing better than Whitney" are so stupid because in our hearts, we still know Whitney is the standard.

  • sooo sexy

  • Absolutly 100% love this song

  • sexy!!! and im 18 years young

  • Seriously, this has to be one of the best vocals Whitney has ever done!

  • Whitney was a lyric coloratura soprano here. Leona Lewis is also lyric, but she is not a coloratura like Whitney. Whitney will always be a coloratura soprano, but here she was a lyric, similar too Minnie and Denice Williams. She became a dramatic coloratura in late 90's, but even did she had her days when her voice would become lyric like again if prepped and taking care of her instrument.

  • She just leaves me speechless... What can I say???

  • shame she had to meet bobby brown

  • UNCOMPAREABLE!!!

  • she was so so hot

  • Whitt !!

  • i agree with you japanese guy...........

  • The only person who, at their prime, could rival Whitney's voice would be Barbra Streisand but I'm not hating on Whitney fans just saying.

  • If you EVER EVER find a woman who can sing better than HER, tell me and I'll die right away after giving all I have to you!!!!

  • How old was is?

  • This is actually from JOHNNY CARSON'S TONIGHT SHOW. Joan Rivers was the Guest Hostess for this evening.

  • The most beautiful voices come from CHURCH. Makes you think

  • the queen of love songs,,,this is pure talent,,,

  • whoever posted this, you're wrong. please correct your title and info....this was NOT a joan rivers show. she had her show, sure, but this was before...she was merely filling in as host for Johnny Carson...this was the Tonight Show...Carson's show...Joan was merely filing as she did at the time....and this was only her SECOND EVER performance on the tonight show, first time with Rivers....this was December 1985. thanks for posting it. it's a key time in pop history. wow, such a killer voice!

  • Very Amazing those days Withney...it touching so much!!

  • waoooo !!!!!!

  • 3 deaf poeple tried to listen to this song....amazing performance!

  • This performance is the proof: Whitney, at the beginning of her career, was a liric soprano. After 1995 She become a mezzo...perhaps because of the abuse of high notes?

  • @AlessandroMenardi Yep she was for sure a lyric coloratura soprano here. But became dramatic coloratura in 1995, and now she is a mezzo dramatic coloratura. She never loses her coloratura abilities, since she was trained in opera along with Cissy Houston her mother. But naturally she is a lyric like denice williams, and Minnie. Smoking and abuse caused the damage. Thats why her voice is so sensitive cause its very high pitch and delicate.

  • the best kaaa!!!!

  • Amazing voice!!

  • Great performance!!! Thumbs up if you feel after 3:10 she's winking and looking at Robin, her ex-lover.

  • @TheLanard LOL, was that ever proven true the her and Robin were lovers. I've seen robin before and she does give off that lesbian feel lol

  • @Bahia82 If you go by the book, "Good Girl, Bad Girl", then it's proven. Otherwise, just gay instinct. Robyn is totally lesbian. She's pretty, though. People always wonder about celebs. I say, look at their "friends" and see if they're married, single, with kids, dating. Usually they're not.

  • How can it be...ah mean relly...how could there be...a girl just SO incredibly beautiful...and then...as if that weren't enough by itself...for her to then have that voice inside her as well...what are the chances,of being born astonishingly beautiful ALSO with an astonishingly beautiful and unique voice...it just doesn't happen...but here she IS...living and breathing,giving a breath taking performance!!There will NEVER be 'another Whitney'...and GOOD...coz this one is MORE than enough!!

  • Shame she'll never sound like this again.

  • @macuser5555 But thass not correct...because here she IS...sounding EXACTLY "like this"!!That is what recording equipment was invented for...capturing 'a moment'...so it will never 'die'...captured so that you can relive whatever it might have been,over and over!!Just think...before recording equipment was invented,all we had was the written word,to recall an event or a person!!So...she'll ALWAYS "sound like this"...because here she IS!!It's amazing huh!!?

  • @macuser5555 Whitney will bounce back-you never lose your gift it only gets burried

  • @curtisjones400 You do realize your post doesn't make sense don't you? A gift is something you are granted and privileged to have, it's not entitlement. You abuse the gift/privilege, it's taken away permanently and rightfully so. That gift gave her fame and a financial lifestyle others could only dream of. Some people can't even afford to eat.

  • i love this song

  • Wow look how skinny she is :O How did that massive voice come out of such a tiny person :D AMAZING!!!

  • awesome performance!! Whitney at her best... the hair...  terrible!!!

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  • She is a real diva

  • what a voice!

  • It still amazes me how singers back then were capable of improvising live!! And actually using their own God-given voice. Now it's all about saving time and lip-singing. Whitney at her BEST!!

  • YES YES YES MS. WHITNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • shes amazing alright, but someone note how DIFFERENT Joan Rivers look. LOL.

  • UNREAL 1 more time, who could knock a song out like that nowadays sheeeeez

  • UNREAL talent , wat year is this 85 ?  hurts to see hear whitney now , hurts real bad

  • crack is wake! if she wasn't doing it se would hve more time her beutiful pretty voice

  • Hot Whitney, fan forever...

  • As Callas had said for herself in 1968 while listening to one of her own records in her prime: "Callas will never sing that way again"

  • for the three people who voted dislike on this song or insane, mind u she barely 20 here and she's singing live, what a great voice

  • I love this. I loved Whitney the first time saw her perform. She is a song bird.......thank you for sharing these classics

  • OMG I miss this Whitney soooo much and not just for the singing. Listen to the sophisticated way she speaks and the her elegent carriage as she sits......Those were the days......

  • OMG... so fantastic... awesome Whitney

  • I love how she did 3:19-3:20 she went up from the other one before. How high was that, lord she just knows her octaves and notes.

  • 2:58 Stunning.

  • @Padam91 Perfect coloratura soprano just perfection!

  • pitch perfect!

  • I love sooooo much how she puts her teeth together whilst still singing :')

  • This will always be a "torch song". It's just so waiting for a female vocalist like Whitney to blast it away. And the song has so much meaning as well.

  • she was and still is the best i loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeee this women

  • what a voice

    shes amazing :)

  • footage like this is treasure

  • Best vocal ever <3 <3

  • stunning! is the song transposed to a higher key? i noticed it's really high

  • @ikom35 Whitney is singing Live, as usually (and I made no changes in audio or image parts).

    This was just her natural key in her early years (1982 - 1993), In 1994 nodules appeared in her vocal chords, because the Bodyguard tour was being too heavy, she was smoking, etc., and some songs started to be sung in a lower key, But only after 1996 she became out of her prime (She recorded "The Preachers wife soundtrack still in 1996). Her voice already sounded tired in 1997 "Classic Whitney" concert.

  • @ikom35 Yes. She used to raise the key of this song and "You Give Good Love", when she did it live.

  • @ikom35 yes, it's higher than the original key. I love this performance

  • i just love her voice no one can be compared to her she will always be the best

  • This song came out in 85, Her voice has stolen my heart away.....Just once after

    I heard it on the radio.

    I have loved her since then and won't stop doing so.

    The memories of her live in me so vividly...

    God had sent an angel to us..... and those who were lucky could witness those precious moment.....

    With U-tube, you can easily pick up the drastic change from 93 to 94.....

    Her voice had gradually changed around then......

    Ms. Whitney memories of you will be with us forever.

    Lots of love. Mr.T

  • If anyone talks negative about whitney's voice then you have no intelligence.....U a fool!! a 19 year older with that much Control!!! Awesome LEGENDARY!!!!

  • after i lose..all in my life..that i love..i listen to her...and she still threre all of my years...hope one day i can find her....the one that knows waht is love

  • AMAZING! THE GREATEST SINGER EVER!

  • drugs or not she'll always be amazing to me

  • i sang this for a performance while playing the piano. she's singing in the 3rd to 4th octave. i sang this at the 2nd octave and lower, im male and i adore this song. Whitney will always be one of the greatest epitome of music.

  • @briobrandon911 It\ always try to sing it a 3rd octave but alas I cannot. I am a male.

  • Wow, she was so young here. I remember when her first album came out how astonished I was that that wonderful, big voice was coming out of someone so young and so small.

  • She was so so Beautiful she actually still is she's just older!

  • what a nice voice!!! she seems to be a babygirl :)

  • this is like velvet smooth chocolate

  • In 1985 she performed in the rain at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, VA. I took my high school girlfriend and she sat on a barstool and sang for 90 minutes to about 100 people. She was phenominal, Michelle was beautiful and all was right in the world. Incredible how great she sounded. A truly cherished memory...

  • she looks like leona lewis when she was younger or the other way around

  • @chrin13 She did? lol I don't see the resemblance...

  • God she's good!... It's seems so easy for her to sounds so good... Just natural talent and a god-given instrument... LOVE YOU WHITNEY!!!

  • one of the best songs ever written

  •  thanks god, that whitney existed in my time on earth,because I think dat for the next 1000 years voice like des will not happen again...

  • she still amazing but b4 the drugs and smoking she had a very powerful unique voice we all love, she is still as amazing but if u listen to b4 and after she is more crackly and it almost seems like she's got a sore throat.

  • jones had the same mic that conan got on his desk lol.

  • Wow, whitney was so cuteeeeee

  • Fabulous, love this song.

  • So pure.

  • back when she was good, and not with the fking looser bobby brown !!!! unreal,, sad !

  • I just cry...everytime I press replay. Lol. This is just heaven-sent...Whitney is forever the best.

  • Wow..............AMAZING voice!!! just phenomenal..extraordinary><

    God's masterpiece!!

  • The way she held the last note almost seemed inhuman.

  • Effortless! What a voice! :)

  • God She was So amazing!! this is how I choose to see her , not the washed up hack she is now.

  • OMG it was so beautifull and the voice awesome !!!

  • Tout est dit....

  • stupid host

  • "No, no, no. We're no relation at all". She was so safisticated and elegant back then.

  • She seems nervous here...not quite her usual self 

  • i love whitney

  • I wish she'd have never met bobby brown, although it's not all his fault, it's true what they say that bad companions alwyas bring trouble for your life, the only good thing out of that relationship was her daughter, and that she got her life back on track. all her fans wish her the best from the bottom of our hearts. you go whitney!

  • This is the Whitney I miss soooooooooooooooo much!!!

    1000 out of 100.

    Love it!

  • Why does she look so white here?

  • NO ONE BEAT HIM

  • Whitney ur the BEST singer ever.... LOVE U forever

  • one of the best voices ever

  • Awesome song, GREAT voice... 

  • OMG the best singer ever

  • i love this

  • Two of my favourite people together - Joan Rivers and Whitney Houston!

    yey. Love it, thanks for posting :)

  • Joan Rivers had a show LOL wow

  • Listening to Whitney= pure ecstasy!

  • 3 retards missed the like button

  • Her and Bobby were the real thing.

  • 3 people must be crazy for hitting the dislike button ! i guess they dont know what real talent is! GO WHITNEY :  D

  • Come on! Whitney