Track Listing

1. I'm Your Baby Tonight
2. My Name Is Not Susan
3. All The Man That I Need
4. Lover For Life
5. Anymore
6. Miracle
7. I Belong To You
8. Who Do You Love
9. We Didn't Know - Houston, Whitney & Stevie Wonder
10. After We Make Love
11. I'm Knockin'

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48560 in Music
• Released on: 2002-09-29
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

memorable in bits
There are only a small handful of songs here that are memorable. IM YOUR BABY TONIGHT, MY NAME IS NOT SUSAN, ALL THE MAN THAT I NEED, and MIRACLE. As soon as the third song comes to an end, the album falters a great deal. The ones you'll probably flip back to are ones mentioned above, they are simply the best here. And as good as she and Stevie Wonder are, they go together like peanut butter and anchovies. Perhaps that's a bit harsh, but they just don't sound good together. All and all, duets aren't their thing. However, I would still buy this album just for the few worthwhile songs, just don't expect as good an album as her first two.

Whitney's Third Studio Album
Progressing from the Pop/Dance sounds of the Whitney (1987) album, Whitney Houston returned in 1990 with a fantastic album, I'm Your Baby Tonight, which conveyed her growing maturity as an evidently diverse recording artist and merley supported her confirmed status as perharps, the greatest singer since Aretha Franklin.

The album opens with the title track, I'm Your Baby Tonight, a nifty commercial R&B/Pop track that is uplifting in it's content and from Whitneys rip-roaring vocal power. The volume and power in her voice is astoundingly rocketing and sensationally stunning.

My Name Is Not Susan steers gently into distinctley early 1990's sounding Hip-Hop. Though this track hardly stands the test of time as well as some of the other recordings on here, the track is still overly a winner which is perharps solely due to another power-packed performance from Whitney.

What has always remained her most timeless work is her effortless flair for ballads. The beauty and soul in her voice really shines out on the glorious and breath taking ballad All The Man That I Need. Whitneys vocal delivery is sensual, strong and positivley exhilirating, gripping your attention from the opening bars and not letting it go until the song is fully completed.

Whitney sweeps you off your feet on the sensual and breathtakingly beautiful, Lover For Life which is almost trance-like with her exuberant vocal delivery to the sweetly mellow musical arrangements. It also features a glorious saxophone interlude towards the bridge of the recording which merley adds to that dazzling effect.

The album then swerves and drives back into Hip-Hop with another dated sounding number, Anymore. Whitneys vocal performance is as impeccable as ever but the track is one of the weaker spots on here.

Miracle is another exhilirating ballad that is just totally magnificent. Whitney shifts vocal pitch variously through the recording which merley confirms her wide range of spectacular vocal abilities. Fabulous!

I Belong To You is an exotic, pretty infectious R&B/Pop number where Whitney neatly surfboards along the shrewdly assembled musical arrangements whilst more lacklustre is a playful Hip-Hop number, Who Do You Love, a fairly forgetable slice of early 90's pop. Whats all the more surprising about this let down is the fact that its written and produced by the fantastic soul crooner, Luther Vandross.

She duets with Motown legend, Stevie Wonder on We Didn't Know which is another surpringly lacklustre number. Their performances sound a little disjointed and don't gel together on record as dynamic as they certainly could do. Another ballad, After We Make Love is fairly average and holds some merits but does tend too fall a little on the laborious side with its slushy content but the album closes on a high with the fantastic, I'm Knockin' which encapsulates a striking mixture of Hip-Hop and R&B, containing undertones of Jazz.

All in all, I'm Your Baby Tonight (1990) is very good and an essential album to have by Whitney Houston even though it didn't enjoy the same critical and commercial acclaim as her first pair of albums had.

Another classic from the Diva!!
This is a new direction for Whitney at the time and is certainly more dancey than any of her albums before it. The singles off this album are fantastic and the album tracks are at a parallel standard!!

The only problem is that I'm Your Baby Tonight the song, is not the released version, still good, but not quite the same!! Other than that, the album is flawless!!