[78-L] Another drug death?

[Royal Pemberton]

I agree....there are people I've heard who could have sung what WH did but
with much better taste (based on what I have heard from her 1979-1982 BBC
series, the adult Lena Zavaroni, when she was in good health, would have
been one of them).  Dee Dee Warwick was WH with restraint, and you could
clearly hear the familial similarities between the two.

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com>wrote:

> I am not a fan of WH, either. I calls it vocal acrobatics.
> Technique for technique's sake leaves me cold.
> Malcolm
>
> *******
>
> On 2/12/2012 5:42 AM, Cary Ginell wrote:
> > I always preferred Dolly Parton's sweeter version of the song (which she
> wrote) to Houston's overblown histrionics.
> >
> > Cary Ginell
> >
> > On Feb 12, 2012, at 7:36 AM, "Jeff Sultanof"<jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
>  wrote:
> >
> >> 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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