“Whitney Houston Live” smartly lets the singer do all the work - live and unencumbered by studio effects, engineering wizardry and outside influences. There are many ways an iconic artist’s career can be celebrated: a televised tribute concert a repackaged greatest hits album a made-for-TV biopic. Houston brought down the house following her 10-minute performance. Just savor the moments where Houston lingers on various notes for what seems like an eternity only to move on to the song’s next passage with breathtaking ease).
The medley of “I Loves You, Porgy/And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going/I Have Nothing” from the 1994 American Music Awards is easily one of the most powerful musical moments on television in the past 20 years. Her gorgeous, soulful rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” from the 1991 Super Bowl remains the benchmark and should serve as a wake-up call to those singers who are called to deliver the anthem and a teachable moment to those who’ve since faltered in its delivery.
Watch (or listen to) “The Merv Griffin Show” clip and you’re introduced to a wide-eyed ingenue, an 18-year-old Houston on the cusp of success (her debut album is but two years away) but even at this earliest stage in her career, you can’t help but be entranced by the artist.
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Listening and watching each of the selections, it’s easy to recall the powerhouse that was Houston - from a voice that seamlessly traversed seemingly endless octaves to a stage presence that held concertgoers and TV viewers captive from first note to last. The DVD features 14 performances, beginning with her 1983 network TV debut as a teenager on “The Merv Griffin Show” (could she even imagine the superstardom that awaited her?) to her 2009 performance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” where Houston performs the haunting “If I Didn’t Know My Own Strength.” Two years later, the troubled singer would be found dead from accidental drowning complicated by heart disease and drug use, at age 48. While a biopic of Whitney Houston’s last years is in the works on Lifetime (slated for a 2015 air date), you can take a look back at the evolution of her entire music career via “Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances” (Legacy Recordings), a digitally remastered CD or CD/DVD collection of some of her most memorable live performances in concert and on television. “Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances” (Legacy Recordings)
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