[78-L] Another drug death?

[Jeff Sultanof]

I remember well when her first album and single came out. Warner Bros.
published the sheet music for several songs on that album (I believe we did
a matching folio but I can't remember now). I do remember that she was
already being discussed as having 'issues;' all sorts of them were bandied
about. I just remember that her records gave a great shot in the arm to our
sheet sales that year. When a song is popular, it is automatically arranged
for all sorts of ensembles (at least then). And that first album had some
great singing on it.

The other thing I remember was that the song "I Will Always Love You" was a
split copyright (meaning that two different print companies could sell
sheets on it), and the first sheet was rushed into print by the other
company. That company chose to print a very basic form of the song,
probably close to the lead sheet Houston worked from, and we were told it
did not sell very well. Our resident arranger took down everything she
sang, and we couldn't print enough copies to keep the thing in stock; sales
went through the roof. I can envision all sorts of amateur singers trying
to imitate her every note.

I do recognize that this subject is off-topic, but I hope no one minds that
I shared.

Jeff Sultanof

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Jeff Lichtman <jeff at swazoo.com> wrote:

>
> >Just heard about the death of Whitney Houston at. 48. Great
> >pedigree, horrible taste in men, which probably led to lifelong drug
> >abuse. Too bad. A waste of talent.
> >
> >Cary
>
> I'm not inclined to blame her drug addiction on the men in her life.
> Bobby Brown didn't hold her down and force her to take cocaine. It
> seems likely to me that interest in drugs is what attracted them to
> each other in the first place.
>
> This must be terribly hard on her family, and especially on Cissy
> Houston, who is now 78 years old.
>
>
>                        -        Jeff Lichtman
>                                 jeff at swazoo.com
>
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