Saving All My Love for You
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Saving All My Love for You is a song by Michael Masser and Gerry Goffin . It was made famous in 1985 by Whitney Houston . The soul / R&B- heavy ballad is about an affair between a married man.
history
The song was released in 1978 as a duet by Marilyn McCoo feat. Billy Davis, Jr. first published, but was only moderately successful.
The cover version of Saving All My Love for You - sung by Whitney Houston and also produced by Michael Masser - was released worldwide on August 3, 1985. It became a number one hit in the United States , Great Britain , Ireland, and Australia . In addition to its huge success on the Billboard Hot 100 , the song also topped the AC and R&B charts. Houston received her first Grammy for the song at the 1986 Grammy Awards (in the category: "Best Female Vocal Performance").
The 1985 version of the song is a total of 3:48 minutes and was released as the third single from the album Whitney Houston recorded at Sigma Sound Studios . The B-side contains a duet by her and Jermaine Jackson with Nobody Loves Me Like You ; it is a cover version of the song by Anne Murray feat. Dave Loggins from 1984.
The song was quickly picked up by jazz musicians and is now part of the Real Book .
In the Wife Swap episode from The Simpsons , some contestants sang the song on a karaoke reality show when the Simpsons were visiting Fox Studios.
Music video (Whitney Houston)
Stuart Orme directed the music video. It was shot in London. In the plot, Houston offers the song in a recording studio .
Cover versions
- 1986: Lester Bowie
- 1990: Hank Crawford
- 1996: RIAS Big Band feat. Horst Jankowski
- 1996: Arturo Sandoval
- 2003: Judith Lefeber
- 2003: James Last
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
- ↑ Record details on 45cat.com
- ↑ Saving All My Love for You on last.fm, accessed on May 13, 2015.