Sunday, 1/8/12

by musicclipoftheday

Let’s head back to Newark, to the church we visited last Sunday, this time to hear one of Dionne’s cousins, back when she was a young girl.

Whitney Houston, New Hope Baptist Church, Newark, New Jersey, 1970s

*****

what takes your breath away

It’s not the way she pulls out all the stops—lots of singers do that.

It’s how she pulls back (2:00-2:35, 3:00-3:20, etc.).

Whitney Houston, with mother Cissy Houston (Ann Drinkard Moss’s sister, Dionne Warwick’s aunt) nearby, “A Quiet Place,” TV broadcast

(Second clip originally posted 7/25/10.)