Product 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.

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: #76055 in Music
• Released on: 2004-10-04
• Number of discs: 2

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

Customer Reviews

Not Bad at all...
Well I've always loved Mariah, Celine and Leona, but i've never really warmed up to Whitney, i think i love the high screaming nutters! lol.
But yes, this is a great collection of hits from Ms. Houston.
I will always love you being the most impressive, and theres a few gems on here that i'd never heard before like "Its not Right But its okay" , "How Will I Know" and a few more. There are some which i dont like at all such as "count on me" (even though its nice) and im sick of hearing "Run To you"!! But she will go down as a classic.
Even though she is amazing, i do still believe Celine has more power, Mariah has more range and Leona- well we havent seen the best of leona yet... She is better than Christina Aguilera and Aretha Franklin though...
Anyway! I'll stop comparing! Smashing album and She is undeniably a great great vocalist. x

Absolutely Brilliant. The Original & The Best.
Love this album to death, it's a 2 disk collection of all Whitney's hits old and new. The first disk is the ballads, and the second disk is the more up-tempo numbers. Whitney really has sung some amazing songs over the years, she also has the incredible, unforgettable highly credited vocals to match. Generally i like all of Whitney's songs, but the highlights for me were obviously the killer hit 'I will always love you', if Whitney hadn't of covered this song i doubt it would be as famous or as popular as it is today, 'One moment in time' the world's best ballard, sung for the 1988 Olympics, vocals couldn't be more excellent, i hope someone plays that song at my funeral, 'I learned from the best', very good one of Whitney's more modern hits, 'Saving all my love for you' also very good and finally 'Greatest love of all' the anthem that got every wannabe diva in the land singing along to, and still it's stood the test of time. In my opinion, she couldn't of brought out a better greatest hits album, it's certainly one of my favourite Whitney albums, if not my favourite.

What a Shame
Whitney Houston, one of the best-selling female entertainers, is severely wronged by this compilation. Disc one delivers many of her best-known songs such as: "I Will Always Love You", "Greatest Love of All" and "I Have Nothing", but disc two really brings down the quality of the album as a whole. Whoever thought of the idea to put mediocre remixes side by side of some of the best pop music in history? I wonder what Whitney thought when she first heard the album. Well, I heard it, and I was not impressed. The cover is boring, and I wonder why they didn't put a little more effort into this project (for great compilation-covers, check out "Island Life" by one miss. Jones). Let's hope her upcoming "Ultimate Collection" gets it right.

So, before you decide, you really have to ask yourself if you're willing to pay full-price for an album of remixes.