Showing posts with label Greatest Love of All. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greatest Love of All. Show all posts

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Whitney-Never To Walk In Anyone’s Shadows

 

By: Gail Nobles



There is a powerful message contained within Whitney Houston‘s greatest love of all. She speaks to us about courage and self-affirmation, reminding us that we each hold a light within us. 

 When she says, "I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone’s shadows," she calls upon us to embrace our own identities and pursue our own dreams. It is a clarion call to rise up, to break free from the expectations of others, and to recognize the gifts that lie within our own hearts. We must not allow the weight of doubt or the fear of failure to eclipse our journey.

Friday, September 13, 2024

The Whitney Anthem

 

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I consider “The Greatest Love of All” the Whitney Anthem. Whenever I think of her, I think of that song first. Whitney was singing a wonderful song. Even the Lord heard her message. Whitney was waking up the world with a great message. Her song spoke to me, and in order to sing it, I first had to love my own voice.





Friday, September 6, 2024

George and Whitney Could Have Sang Together

 

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It would have been awesome if George and Whitney could have sang The Greatest Love of All together. I can hear it right now. 



George Benson ‘Greatest Love of All’

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 When I first heard Whitney Houston sing Greatest Love of All, I had a hard time learning how to sing some parts. I had forgotten that I heard George Benson sing Greatest Love of All on the Muhammad Ali movie. I wish I had remembered his version trying to learn her version. 

Whitney had talent because she made a song sound as if it was totally new and different keeping the same tune. I thought The Greatest Love of All was a brand new song. But George’s version was good too. It’s just a beautiful song. I love both versions.




Tuesday, May 12, 2020

The Children Are The Future

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Good evening Whitney Houston fans and anyone else that may be listening. Something pointed out to me that the song "Greatest Love of All" was a very good song. I had heard it before from George Benson back in 1977, but when Whitney Houston sang it in the 80's, I didn't recognize the song because I heard George and his version of it maybe once or twice. By then, I had forgotten about it. 


Whitney's first line singing the song was, I believe the children are our future. People, you've got to believe in your children. There was a woman in the Bible name Sherah who built 3 cities. You'll find that in 1 Chronicles chapter 7 verse 24. In our world today, people look at the gender a lot, but whether you are male or female, God will use you. the Bible lets us know who we are. Children grew up in the Bible and became great. They were not just born to be born. The children are the future. Don't put them down. Encourage them. Whitney Houston singing The Greatest Love of All is something we ought to remember and keep in mind. You know Whitney became great herself, and she probably had other abilities that she didn't know she had. People ask you how did you do so and so. Just know that things come from God.

 I'm Gail Nobles, and this is my story Whitney Within.


Sunday, March 15, 2020

Whitney - The First Lady of Song


Whitney Houston's debut album titled Whitney Houston is the first album by a female artist and new artist to yield three No. 1 singles - "Saving All My Love for You", "How Will I Know", and "Greatest Love of All". Whitney Houston's album was released in 1985. It topped the Billboard 200 for 14 weeks in 1986.

On that album, "The Greatest Love of All" is the first song to hit my mind when I think of Whitney, but not the only song. The song was composed by Michael Masser and Linda Creed wrote the lyrics. To me, it's a very special and spiritual song. Whitney Houston is called the First Lady of song, and she is also called the voice......


Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Thinking of Whitney Houston and the Greatest Love of All

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Today, I’m thinking of Whitney Houston. I often think about her song, “The Greatest Love of All”. I understand the words to that song every day more and more. Whenever I would try to sing The Greatest Love of All, I tried to sing it with a good singing voice. Now, I feel the words in my heart and can sing it a little better.... Thinking of Whitney and the Greatest Love of All

Monday, February 18, 2013

Whitney & Celine

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Celine: I can't sing it like you Whitney. But if I may, in celebration of everything that you did for me, and for so many other artists, by setting the bar so high, I'd like to sing one of my truly favorite Whitney songs. A song that says as much about you as it does about all of us.


 

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Whitney Houston Was Seeking Our Real Role Model

Whitney sung: Everybody's searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to
I never found any one who fulfilled my needs
A lonely place to be
And so I learned to depend on me.

It is said that when Whitney Houston died, she wanted to see Jesus. People, Jesus is our real role model. People make mistakes, but Christ is perfect. People can let you down, and we can let ourselves down. We are nothing but flesh and blood. Christ is more. Let Jesus Christ be your role model and look up to him. If you do that, you will be headed in the right direction. Christ is the son, and he can lead you to his father which is God. Where is God? God is in heaven.

What is all this talk about the price of fame? Who invented it? When you have fame in God, there is no evil price. Men have a way with words. Fear nothing but God and follow him. You will reap the good that you do. Stay away from Satan and the things that he has to offer. If we don't, then yes, there is a price we have to pay, and it can be a terrible one. If you love God, you can love yourself. You can have some good long years on this earth. The greatest love of all is God. Let him be your everything.

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Aretha's Tribute to Whitney

From YouTube
Aretha sings, "The Greatest Love of All" in memory of Whitney Houston. Although I've heard Whitney's way of singing it so many times, I have to stop to listen to Aretha sing it too. Aretha sung it her way and soulful. Still, I can't forget the way Whitney sung it. All that practicing that Whitney did singing Aretha's songs brought out the best in Whitney.


Thursday, June 14, 2012

A Fan Shares Her Thoughts about Whitney Houston

From CBS News
A fan says: Old School Whitney, The Greatest Love of All, the verse where she said, I decided long ago 
Never to walk in anyone's shadow
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity....

And even right now as the nation is mourning her loss,
regardless of we all have a past. And no one can judge except for God. And regardless of what she's going through, I want people to remember her music. Her legacy. And no one can ever take that away from her. She will always be dignified as one of the true legends of music. (From CBS News).

Watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgIwIITrHGc

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Whitney Houston - A Word from Heaven

From the very beginning when Whitney was pronounced dead, the voice of the Lord spiritually spoke to me and told me not to worry about Whitney's death. I knew it was the Lord because he spoke to me as if he was in charge of everything.

There were other times I could hear a voice speaking to me after that. An angel spoke to me and told me that some things Whitney did not know, and that she made some mistakes. When you have a personal relationship with God, heaven speaks to you about all of the things you want to know.

As I watched Whitney Houston's video, The Greatest Love of All, I heard a voice speaking spiritually saying, "Whitney sung a beautiful song and Whitney was a beautiful woman." At the time I heard that, I was thinking of how Whitney changed a whole lot in looks compared to back then. As I sat watching the video, I listened for the meaning of the song. To me, the greatest love of all is God himself. He is inside of us. That is what made Whitney the greatest and made her beautiful even though she still had faults. The spirit of the Lord told me to forgive Whitney. 

You know, heaven do not see things the way the human eye see things. A funeral probably isn't really a funeral to them when a person's soul has made it to heaven. They don't see death up there in heaven the way we see it down here on earth. God knows everything and they (angels, prophets, and saints) knew Whitney. When you get to know God, it's hard to tell whether a person is truly dead or alive because he's all about life. He doesn't speak of Whitney being dead to me like people on earth would. We watched Whitney Houston, and we watched her funeral, but heaven looked too. God sees everything.

Some people think it's all about Satan when a person has died from drugs and has sung rock and roll. God told me to let him be the judge. Whitney sung in a strange land (Hollywood), and some people think Whitney has died and went to hell. The reason I call Hollywood a strange land is because it is far from church. When Whitney sung the Gospel in Hollywood, God saw. You can carry God everywhere you go, but you can not just bring anything into the church any kind of way. When Whitney Houston sung Gospel in Hollywood, it was probably the best church some people had in Hollywood. Whitney may have helped some people to change for the better.

Sometimes I still feel real sad about Whitney Houston. I told God that I wish that he would let her come back and do more for him. He spoke to me and said that it could happen. God told me that I would have to have faith. I told the Lord that I just feel like Whitney was not finish doing what she was suppose to do. The Lord told me that there are a lot of things that I do not see. I'm pretty sure that is so.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Whitney Houston Greatest Love of All

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When Whitney came along with Greatest Love of All, I had some problems singing it. I was a teenager then. Whitney had a different vocal range than I had. I would sing up to a certain point and stop and listen to her. My mom would ask, "Why do you stop? You never sing the song all the way through?"

I would say, "Whitney's too strong. She's too high for me right there, and I get tired. That is a long song. Whitney is long winded, and I get out of breath." When Whitney would get to..."I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow", I would stop to listen. I thought to myself, "The song is new. I have to learn it that's all." I would play back Whitney's song and wondered how I was going to sing that particular line that she was singing so high and loud with an attitude.

My mother would say, "Gail, you have to find your own voice, but you sound kind of like Whitney. You sound a lot like her when you first start."

When I would play Whitney's song, I would turn the volume down to sing over her voice to find mine. I didn't like it, and I felt an audience wouldn't like it either. Still, I was hearing Whitney's voice and the way she sung it. That would be the voice the audience would want to hear. Back in those days, if you sung a song, you had to sound like the person that sung that song. That's when I started writing my own songs.