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Hey, there's no reason to stoop to name calling...
8)
I have not seen "the Preacher's Wife" yet -- my kids rarely let me out at
night -- but surely will when it arrives on cable TV. I'm all for Miss
Whitney exploring her gospel roots, as previously noted. I've attended
dozens of gospel performances, usually in churches -- the original,
genuine houserockin' music!
Getting back to your original post, .0, I did buy and listen to the Cissy
Houston CD on the House of Blues label. Very fine. I noticed it was
mentioned on several critic's best-of-blues/gospel-1996 lists. - Jay
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Here's the track list of "The Preacher's Wife".
1. I Beleive In You And Me
2. Step By Step
3. Joy*
4. Hold On, Help Is On The Way*
5. I Go To The Rock*
6. I Love The Lord*
7. Somebody Bigger Than You And I#
9. You Were Loved
10. My Heart I Calling
11. I Beleive In You And Me(single version)
12. Step By Step(remix)
13. Who Would Imagine A King
14. He's All Over Me**
15. The Lord Is My Shepherd##
16. Joy To The World*
* performed with the Georgia Mass Choir
# featuring Bobby Brown, Faith Evans, Johnny Gill, Monica and Ralph Tresvant
** performed with Shirley Caesar and the Georgia Mass Choir
## performed by Cissy Houston With the Hezekiah Walker Choir
The album begins with pops numbers and is soon succeeded with gospel
numbers with the Georgia Mass Choir. Again went back to some pops and
builds toward the climax with some more gospels with assistance of her
mother, Cissy, and Shirley Caesar.
The most interesting number for me was "He's All Over Me" performed with
Shirley Caesar. Whitney has broad range of voice and ability to control
it, which Caesar might not have. But Caesar prevails Whitney with her
gospel feeling or some ad libs which seems to come from her long career
as a gospel singer, which I'm not familiar with.
Yes, Whitney could sing gospels well with the choir like "Hold On, Help
Is On The Way" but most suitable and successful song to her in this
album was "Step By Step" written by Annie Lennox in my opinion.
Whitney might need more abundant chops, disappointments in love, and
seven to eight children to bear to get gospel feeling. :-)
- Kazunori
P.S. I changed the title of thic topic from "Cissy Houston" to
"Cissy/Whitney Houston".
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