Whitney Houston - Million Dollar Bill (Frankie Knuckles Directors Cut Signature Dub) 2009

We miss you Nippy! "Million Dollar Bill" is a song performed by American recording artist Whitney Houston, from her seventh studio album I Look to You (2009). It was released as the official worldwide lead and only single (second US single) from the album on August 18, 2009 through Arista Records in the US and August 24, 2009 through RCA Records in the UK. It is also the last single to be released from Houston during her lifetime. The song samples R&B singer Loleatta Holloway's "We're Getting Stronger" from Holloway's 1976 debut LP.

The song was written by Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter Alicia Keys and samples R&B singer Loleatta Holloway's "We're Getting Stronger" from Holloway's 1976 debut LP. Keys had requested to be a part of Houston's album and Houston decided she wanted to work with Keys after hearing her perform at one of Clive Davis' parties. It was produced by hip-hop producer Swizz Beatz with an old school R&B beat. Beatz told MTV News that the process on the song started when he got a call from Clive Davis and record executive Larry Jackson. After he had produced the beat, Keys joined him in the songwriting process and the duo completed the song. Keys told Billboard about the recording session(s), "Whitney is an artist who inspired me from [the time I was] a little girl. Fast-forwarding to now and being able to work with her to help create this song that took off was fun. We had a lot of laughs; it was like being with a long-lost friend."

The song received critical acclaim at the album's three listening parties and was cited as a "big comeback record". The single entered the Hot 100 at #100, becoming her thirty-ninth chart entry on that chart. Houston performed the song live on The X Factor in the UK on Sunday, October 18 the night before the album was released in that territory. This was the final single released by Houston in her lifetime following her death in 2012.

Million Dollar Bill is an uptempo "pop dance groove" with strong disco influences. The song lasts for three minutes and twenty three seconds. Written in they key of B Minor, the song's beat is set in common time and moves at a tempo of 120 beats per minute.[6] Houston's voice spans A3 to the note of B4. The song also features a sample of Loleatta Holloway's 1977 song "We're Getting Stronger (The Longer We Stay Together)". Swizz Beatz explained that the song "is all about the feelings new love can bring".

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[12canesman]

I miss her. Thanks Frankie!!!

[bengeoink]

can't find million dollar dream directors cut prive' dub. any ideas ?

[nice1dave]

RIP WHITNEY... love this song!!!

[thespark3]

WHITNEY (RIP) WE'LL MISS YOU

.. LOVE & BLESSING

[AleGordon23]

rip w

[gdoctor76]

this is great.....

[tigerqueen007]

Awesome!!