Cissy Houston - Think It Over / He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother / Tomorrow

[@Luv2gd2btru]

Whitney got her talent from her Mom. That band is fabulous.

[@HopeIanHope]

Amazing, a real band with strings. Unlike today's bollocks.

[@Blatino]

Cissy Houston is truly one of the greatest voices of our time.

[@HopeIanHope]

Put's today's so called singers to shame.

[@valedomago]

This woman is spectacular.... ❤

[@angelawatkins3406]

She was beautiful , as well.

[@charlita25]

The band is amazing 🤩 as well 🎸🎷🎺🥁🎼

[@charlita25]

They are all class acts Cissy, Dionne , and Whitney 🎶🎵🎤🎤🎤

[@The196149]

I hear Whitney all in Mama Cissy’s voice. Her throat was soar here, but if you listen to her original version. She rips this song to pieces. Mama Cissy had a powerful and beautiful voice. Whitney’s voice was a younger replica of her mother’s voice. Now I know where Whitney got that powerhouse voice and singing style from. I’m giving Cissy Houston her flowers while she can still smell them.❤

[@angelawatkins3406]

This photo is mist re k event her slimness and definitely her legs shape. "All Whitney ." All this late gossip about someone else being her mother

[@levirgerose4726]

I hear some Dionne in there!!!

[@bennyadler5882]

You stop everything your doing when you hear this voice and ask yourself, “is this magnificence or what”?

[@stonedmermaid6092]

Okg this my first time listening to Cissy and my god she passed Whitney her voice ! I know cissy was a very proud mother of her daughter

[@TortoiseJames]

When she pull back at 12:20 it's a wrap. That's that good CONTROLLED singing!!! REST ON, CISSY HOUSTON!!!

[@charlita25]

RIP MS. CISSY 🕊️🙏🏾

[@Rodneyjohnson42]

Momma throat was hurting and she was a little hoarse but she still gave a great performance. Take notes!!!

[@keyshawn590]

Lol yessir she was probably tired

[@UncleDuTheWatchman]

Take notes!!!

[@TheLanard]

Where did you hear that?

[@Rodneyjohnson42]

@kirbykipling9515 Yupp I had to stay in the house while everyone else became great 😂😂

[@thatiam7547]

Lets Really Take Notes Then : why her career never went anywhere...she introduced Whitney to Clive , basically saying handed her over to the industry....living her non singing career through Whitney's Life...in the beginning... ( #ALLEGEDLY ) Heard John Houston, was that man back in the days....

[@artnozacoth1110]

Awesome ❤! Wow! Breathtakingly beautiful!

[@simplycarlton5582]

I hear Bits Of Whitney's Sound in Her Mother's Voice

[@charlesjeffery3998]

She was actually sick that night, but she still did it, I'll read it in her autobiography, not the one about Whitney Houston, the one she wrote about her own life, in 1998, but what's so crazy is, people don't realize how much Whitney learned from her mom, and studied her mom, because this is in the 70s during the Disco era, and that's the same type of wig, and look Whitney will use, during her I'm Your Baby Tonight tour

[@Rodneyjohnson42]

Cissy was sanging her ass off baby!!!!

[@charlesjeffery3998]

Watch the "THINK IT OVER" on soul train, she tore it up, and songs like "BE MY BABY", "YESTERDAY","MAKE IT EASY, ON YOURSELF", and of course, the song tell her big success with the Broadway play annie, "THE SUN WILL COME OUT TOMORROW", AND also check out the songs, "ALFIE", by CISSY Houston The Sweet Inspirations," I NEED YOUR SWEET INSPIRATION"

[@richymacmillion]

1:34. That “uh huh” ad lib sounded so identical to her daughter. Cissy definitely taught Whitney some of her ad libs

[@annemariekoelewijn4600]

Cissy was just phenomenal

[@quarmainestephenson8403]

She’s fabulous

[@ChosenRellll1111]

Quarmaine Stephenson how old was she here

[@javieravalentin]

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[@williammarshall9475]

Whitney performed an almost exact rendition of ‘Tomorrow’ at her Arista debut showcase.

[@cyrusjbeast]

not as well as Cissy but yeah she was clearly influenced by her mother's singing style and approach

[@charlita25]

Brilliant vocalist 🎤 🎵🎶

[@mariaregina5947]

Sua voz é indentica ao de sua filha Whitney.🎤🎼🎶

[@Trojan4u]

Dionne a more refined tone and Whitney with those genes was destined to have voice of century.

[@sofianoiti]

Just wow!!!!! What an amazing singer!!!! Her rhythm feel is so accurate...😮 She is a great musician, too! I can understand now why Whitney always said that her mother taught her everything!. Not just the vocal technique but also the music!

[@rickyparrilla2426]

OMG this song is so Damn fierce in a club. OMG I would loose my mind when I would hear this at the Paradise Garage in NYC. Legendary!!!!!

[@annemariekoelewijn4600]

Exactly!

[@charlesjeffery3998]

That was her tour to switzerland, and surrounding cities, she usually would tour in Japan

[@danielalston4958]

Thanks five million times thank you thank you thank you love seeing real footage of Cissy Houston singing the songs I live for thank you she's so talented

[@Anthony-e4o4l]

That's where Whitney got it from !! Think it over!!

[@Aoncinhapretinha87]

C'mon Cissy! Oh yes! Sang!

[@jnshot97]

WOW!

[@amandamonsalve2992]

AMAZING CISSY, I LOVE YOUUUUUUU ♥

[@ghester]

Wow, so glad i found these videos!

[@catalinarose3306]

GREAAAAAT CISSY

[@KenSherman]

Her normal singing voice reminds me of Mavis Staples & higher notes of her daughter "The Voice" aka Whitney Houston.😳 5:40 Is that THE great Donny Hathaway?! 10:00 Is that a 🆕 whistle register that is almost _invisible_ to the ears!?😅 10:23-10:26 Those selections wore her out. I wonder where the uploader got this footage from.🤭 13:05-13:13 (bows as if the song isn't finished then walks back to return for a curtain call) She had 2 go back & get a drink of water. With the extra leftover seconds to sip some tea.🍵 _still ended it on a good note, pun intended_ 😁

[@djAndreMedeiros]

Brilliant!! Thank you for sharing !

[@PhereNicae1]

OH MY GOD! thank you!!!!

[@ronaldoamador7361]

Meu Deus, que dádiva ❤

[@sandrocoutinho]

OMG, this is beyond amazing!!!

[@sipnog3528]

Cece clearly taught Whitney everything about singing. She tuaght her how to handle high or low tones

[@kklustra]

Love it!

[@amandamonsalve2992]

EXCELENTE EEEEEEEEE

[@pearlcabral966]

What a great find! Thank you so much for uploading!

[@JaySmith-wo3di]

You can definitely hear some of whitney's tone, they just have different timbres

[@stonedmermaid6092]

I don’t care what anybody say! This is Whitney’s birth mother

[@charlesdotson4766]

Of course she is Whitney's birth mother! Whitney looks like a combination of her mother and father, John Houston.

[@aniapietruszczak9684]

Yes. I also don't think that they are alike directly, but at second look, they are similar. Whitney has Cissy siluette only Cissy is not that thin. That other lady has a different siluette. Plus the tone of the voice is similar, of course, not the same.

[@zuridiem7170]

Totally agree. You can see it and definitely hear it

[@pmodel1]

Wow people actually still think Cissy wasn't Whitney's mother?

[@HaliB75]

@@aniapietruszczak9684Whitney looked more like a young Dionne.

[@iss_iam809]

wow Whitney looked like her here

[@betsy9435]

Sounds like Mavis Staples

[@HaliB75]

She was older than Mavis.

[@bennyadler5882]

Cissy favors Thelma Houston with that pretty wig.

[@adrictinaye]

At 😊 Cissy hits that rift and run when ending "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother," look at how very close she resembles Whitney. Whoever created that LIE, saying Whitney could ever possibly be some other woman's child, should be ashamed.

[@housewhitney7274]

IS IT ME OR CISSY JUST DOESN'T MOVE ME SOLO WISE 😳😲😆 WELL THANK "GOD" SHE GAVE BIRTH TO WHITNEY 🎤👏👍💯

[@etolerific]

I wonder what Whitney was doing that night… lol

[@coxsonron]

She has a voice better than 90% of singers today. Including Mary J. bilge and Alicia keys, who also have Smokey voices. However her delivery performance wise is lackluster. She could have moved a little or had some dancers. Lol

[@JudahCub1981]

She was gospel singer most of her childhood and into her early adult years. So if you notice, although she is singing pop music she still conducted herself like “a church singer”. A lot of the gospel singers who came out of the Baptist Church or similar denominations, who crossed over to secular music, tended to have a rather reserved stage presence. Most of the wilder soul singers had Pentecostal or Charismatic church backgrounds.

[@loveyu2778]

I never really liked her singing..it just didn't move me..maybe its song choices..

[@MultiMusicking]

She's pitchy as heck. I can understand why she was never as big as her daughter. And true, she had a horrible choice of songs. Still her delivery of them is just a horrible as the songs themselves. Horrible + horrible = HORRIBLE!! Should have just stuck to background singing. Harmonizing is more her Forte.

[@sexylexie]

She always sung the wrong type of songs for her voice. I agree and she too was jealous of her Daughter….It showed in her face and her eyes….

[@pianist12]

@@sexylexie Cissy taught Whitney everything. Whitney is basically the perfected version of her mother. Cissy was definitely proud that her daughter exceeded her! Like a parent would/should..... Jealous? Wrong on all parts.

[@Aoncinhapretinha87]

Lol silly trolls gonna troll

[@skip031890]

@@pianist12 She was jealous. 🙄