Track Listing

1. You Give Good Love
2. Saving All My Love For You
3. Greatest Love Of All
4. All At Once
5. If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful - Houston, Whitney & Jermaine Jackson
6. Didn't We Almost Have It All - Houston, Whitney & Jermaine Jackson
7. Where Do Broken Hearts Go
8. One Moment At A Time
9. All The Man That I Need
10. I Will Always Love You
11. I Have Nothing
12. Exhale (Shoop Shoop)
13. I Believe In You And Me
14. Heartbreak Hotel - Houston, Whitney & Faith Evans/Kelly Price
15. My Love Is Your Love
16. I Learned From The Best
17. Fine
18. Same Script Different Cast - Houston, Whitney & Deborah Cox
19. Could I Have This Kiss Forever - Houston, Whitney & Enrique Iglesias
20. How Will I Know
21. Greatest Love Of All
22. So Emotional
23. I'm Your Baby Tonight
24. Love Will Save The Day
25. I Will Always Love You
26. I'm Every Woman
27. Queen Of The Night
28. Step By Step
29. It's Not Right But It's Okay
30. My Love Is Your Love
31. I Learned From The Best
32. You'll Never Stand Alone
33. Same Script Different Cast
34. If I Told You That - Houston, Whitney & George Michael
35. Could I Have This Kiss Forever
36. Star Spangled Banner

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47497 in Music
• Released on: 2004-10-04
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
For an artist who only released four proper albums in a 15-year career, it's astounding to recall how many hits Whitney Houston was able to achieve. The two CDs on Greatest Hits track Houston's rise from mid-1980s hit machine balladeer to standard-setting diva. Disc 1, CoolDown, runs chronologically through Houston's down-tempo love songs, from "Saving All My Love For You" and "I Will Always Love You" to the cleverly conceived new duet with Deborah Cox, "Same Script, Different Cast". She's also showcased as the remixee of choice for DJs on the second disc, Throw Down, which serves as the antidote to the lovesick first disc. Calling in marquee mix masters, Houston's old-shoe tunes get a new millennium polish. "My Love Is Your Love", reinterpreted by Jonathan Peters, captures the versatility of Houston's songs by making the downbeats danceable without going totally Euro-cheese. In contrast, Junior Vasquez's remix of 1985's "How Will I Know" pokes fun at the song's 1980s fluffiness by layering in bells, lasers effects, and echoes on top of Whitney's enthusiastic vocals. --Heidi Sherman

CD Description
It should come as no surprise that a woman who counts Dionne Warwick as a cousin, Aretha Franklin as a family friend, and whose mother was a legendary session and gospel singer, became a phenomenally successful R&B act. Perhaps more surprising is that it took 17 years after first signing with Arista for Whitney Houston to produce her first greatest hits album.
These hits are neatly compartmentalised into a "Cool Down" and a "Throw Down" disc, the former featuring ballads such as "Saving All My Love for You", while the latter showcases remixes of Whitney's uptempo singles such as "How Will I Know". Four new songs, three of which are duets, are also included. At the time of release, her golden voice had led to 16 Number 1 hits (that's two more than Madonna), an Emmy, Grammys and several notable collaborations. A stocking-filler for years to come, we'll wager.

Customer Reviews

The Voice of an Era and Her Greatest Hits
Generally speaking, these sort of compilations are a pretty bland and boring affair. Throwing together some hit singles and putting them out for Christmas is hardly a taxing or difficult task for either record label or artist. Luckily, this collection has at least had some thought put it into it and is a very enjoyable journey through the finest moments of an iconic vocalists career. As you'd expect, there's a whole host of pop ballads here - there what first brought Whitney to the attention of the world. There's a whole disc of them in fact. In truth, many of these worldwide smash hits sound dated by now. But, some don't and have stood the test of time very well. "Saving All My Love For You" is one of the best here, along with "Didn't We Almost Have It All" and "All The Man That I Need".

On the flipside on Disc 2, the album steps up a notch with some of the up-tempo and urban flavoured singles that were also big for Houston. The 80's-Tastic "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" and "So Emotional" have, suprisingly, managed to maintain some of thier charm and are still excellent pop records. In fact, they sound better than the slightly messy George Michael duet "If I Told You That". Another nice aspect of this Greatest Hits collection is the inclusion of some remixes. "Queen of the Night", "It's Not Right But It's Okay" and "I'm Your Baby Tonight" have all been brilliantly transformed here and they are very worthy additions to the album. Overall, this is one of the best Greatest Hits album realeased in a while. It's got everything going for it, and with it being such good value now it would be a shame for anyone who's enjoyed Houston's music over the years to pass up the oppurtunity to own her best.

Greatest Hits
Great Track i think the best tracks are i will always love you i wanna dance with somebody i'm every woman it's not right but it's okay 10/10 must buy!

Great Value for a Greatest Hits album
This album is split into two CDs: CD one, the one containing the slow and powerful ballads, and CD two, which by and large, has more up-tempo and more positive rhythms. My favourite is Disc Two. Here there are Whitney's best songs: Queen of the Night, How Will I Know?, and of course "I Wanna Dance With Somebody", in my opinion the best song on the album.

CD one, however, is lacking in many of Whitney's best hits. While it has it's moments (I Have Nothing, The Greatest Love of All), the slow ballads soon blend into one another, and I couldn't distinguish between very many.

On the whole though, a great album well worth the cheap price at Amazon.