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[@gustamanavo]

I wish she'd left us an American songbook/jazz album recorded during her prime 😭😭😭

[@itsnoahonfire]

Yes I agree. 1993-1995 would have been a perfect time vocally to do a standards album. She was milking The Bodyguard for all it was worth during those years though.

[@SingTJVegan]

Agreed

[@jaypremium9605]

Mariah sure overused her voice thank god.

[@Sttephy30]

@@jaypremium9605 Huh? What does Mariah have to do w/ this video?

[@bluecosmo.]

I know youre so right ugh that'd have been amazing!!!! Luckily tho, Whit was no joke at live performances, so you can find some real gems deep on the nets to hear her sing some classics

[@gmeshell7]

voice of the century!

[@johnnypalermo1806]

Gonna be honest was never a fan of this song UNTIL I heard Whitney's rendition OH MY GOD. What a gifted spirit she was ❤️

[@schoolgyrl6]

Me 2 😌

[@mistermann7779]

Only one person, out of 50 plus who recorded "Alfie" made it an actual hit record: Dionne Warwick.

[@longbranch11207]

Either was I , I love Whitney’s version

[@longbranch11207]

Well i only like Whitney’s take

[@SimplyCiCi894]

I think I understand what you mean. I just learned of this song b/c of Cynthia Erivo giving tribute to Dionne Warrick. After listening to them and then Whitney, I believe the difference is emotion. It's as if Whitney is acting by way if singing.

[@reziegerpownall300]

She's beautiful like a Model🎉

[@MsBossyBaddnezz]

Never imagined a world without her 🥹🥹🥲🥰🤗

[@johnkaslov2066]

I'm in awe !!! One of my favorite songs ! She Tore That up !!! Amazing ! ❤❤❤😊😊😊

[@GG-eq3lq]

Her aunt's rendition is probably the best version. Dionne Warwick has such a light, but deep delivery of this song...so lovely

[@braxxon]

Her Cousin, Not Aunt

[@danielalston4958]

Her first cousin

[@ciarrajohnson3849]

I’m here from Cynthia singing this for Dionne. No idea Whitney did this. She’s Dionne’s baby…♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@jeibal02]

Whitney’s is the best

[@walterwright8242]

Never ending class, talent, and poise. She is the best...past, present, and future.

[@islandbirdw]

She made flipping octaves look easy 🤷🏼‍♀️God rest her soul.

[@luxuryfoodblanket834]

Ain’t even singing the right words and sound like a damn Angel😂❤️❤️❤️✨✨✨😇

[@thomasrehag1747]

Yes, but only at the beginning.

[@saffronyoutubeshorts]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 i thought the same

[@markpeter4304]

Dionne Warwick 's live 1973 of Alfie by far to me the best ever...

[@marciadepaulasouza4541]

Yes Dione singing Alfie is better❤😅

[@JT_TheCreator]

Am I the only one watching this because of Cynthia Erivo’s interview at CultureCon with Scott Evans? 💚💚💚

[@marilinwisbey7403]

Never knew whitney recorded.❤ one ofnmy favourites.x

[@djk1mya]

Just beautiful rendition... Classic performance and delivery... Soul stirring

[@Fishbite9]

I will never understand why such a stunningly beautiful woman with such a stunning, powerful, gift of voice destroyed it all.

[@kctaylorsings]

Whitney Houston is still the vocal goat💜

[@Faebaeeee]

i miss and love you whitney. my favorite singer forever. i love you so much. ❤

[@DonRashad]

I always loved her singing jazz standards. 🥺🥺❤️

[@djk1mya]

On repeat.. my God!!!

[@thomasrehag1747]

Yes.... 😍♥️💖

[@itsnoahonfire]

She was wearing the hell out of that dress. She had Marc Bauer make it in about 6 different colors. The last time she wore one publicly was in 2004 on her Soul Divas Tour with Natalie Cole & Dionne Warrick.

[@TheVocalityOfSingers]

Please listen to her rendition in 1994 at Radio City Hall. That was the BEST vocally! She hit the supported F5 and sustained G#5 head voice.

[@thomasrehag1747]

AGREE 😍♥️👍

[@jgreen71991]

Just love whitney so.much she gives u.nothing but the chills and goosebumps it just whitney voice it gives u sadness and joy and her opera is just amazing she is miss

[@adafoblair6143]

1st let me say. I have the upmost respect for Dionne. Love all of her work. Except this piece. I didn’t understand it. No like it until Whitney redone it.

[@derricksingleton4736]

I love Whitney but Dionne in her younger days...'Alfie' belongs to her.

[@deshaunx776]

I don’t think Whitney would disagree. But who would have been a better person to pay tribute to Dionne than her very own superstar cousin?

[@zhanariffin1170]

What a voice

[@PeoplePlacesRocknRoll]

Stunning.

[@landmarkcm]

Thanks for posting just this song. I had seen it in the full concert & of course LOVE it!!!!!! :)

[@joshuabellamy6355]

I love Alfie ❤

[@guild79s]

Dear God, you knew you were in trouble when she sang your number one song. Make it so bad, she steals your fans with that crispy voice. Dang...

[@charlesjeffery3998]

I love nobody can sing the song like Whitney houston, especially live during The Bodyguard tour at radio City Hall, and the Philadelphia concert, and also on Whitney Houstons classical third HBO TV special, concert

[@timothyypearson]

The real vocal bible

[@irvinbohac8460]

This dress is actually for sale on auction! 7500K I believe

[@bestwhitney]

0:47 see how she directed the piano player🤩

[@mariehendrick7173]

MY GOOD GOD ......I SO WISH MY BABY WHITNEY HAD RELEASED HER VERSION OF THIS SONG...!!!!!!!!!!! XXXXXXXXX

[@timothyypearson]

I love Whitney and indeed she sanged the heck outta it and I love dion warricks original version to

[@samsmith1875]

This is the version Cynthia Erivo took inspiration from.

[@mariehendrick7173]

Her aunts version is of course the classic....However I think this Is better so many layers to It....And come on.... Its Whitney XXXXX

[@daleb1279]

Not her aunt, Whitney and Dionne are first cousins, their mothers were sisters.

[@Heyjay454]

Did Cynthia Erivo pattern her performance after this?

[@marcusanthony8237]

Yes

[@csh]

@Heyjay454 Cynthia used this arrangement.

[@maskdanger]

Dionne Warcick Whitney Houston and Joss Stone best rendition

[@jhadebredenkamp97]

You forgot Chaka Kahn and Cynthia Erivo

[@marilinwisbey7403]

Omg , ❤

[@ciarrajohnson3849]

Whitney sang this for Dionne, too❓❓😟😟#OMG #WhitneyWouldaLovedCynthia’sVersion

[@jomocreed2653]

Whitney is over singing this song

[@chanjiewan6823]

just like I will always love you. Whitney made this sound like a completely different song and i love that. You can feel many different emotions and she has you glued. i prefer her interpretation of all she has ever sung.

[@maryannarep]

Goosebumps. Poor Whitney. Why did she have to die???

[@thomasrehag1747]

Dionnes jazz version is great but smooth. But Whitney conjures up a poem of run - and vibrato falsetto variations. Expressive, constantly increasing and, as the crowning glory, this Alfie staccato and great head voice run, her very own signature. All in all, an unpretentious master class, almost soul jazz. 💖💖❤️❤️

[@JeanetteTaghap]

Lol. Don't be too fanatic. Dionne still owns this song. Untouchable!

[@thomasrehag1747]

​@@JeanetteTaghap Crazy... The fanatics are always the other, right? 😎😎😉😉

[@charlesjeffery3998]

Poor thing she was so upset over the passing of Tupac that day, that she just couldn't think of the lyrics, to her favorite song, this is her all-time favorite song, she could never make a choice between this song by Dionne, yesterday by her mother, & Ain't No Way by Aretha, but somehow this one always won, along with ain't no way when it came to performing them, but she loves Alfie a little more than she did ain't no way, I truly do believe, is such a beautiful song, no one really takes the time to put the lyrics together to understand them, what is basically saying, is people that do good things for people, do they only do them, when other people are watching it, birthday like it's your job like a nurse or a doctor or something, does it end when you go home, & no one's watching, like you can't be good to people all the time🤷‍♂️, or just because you had a hard life growing up, it's perfectly normal, and you have the right, to Rob, kill and steal from people 🤷‍♂️, or its ok to, go out & get drunk, then cheat, and beat up on ur wife on Saturday, as long as you go to church on Sunday, to preach or go to Mass, and confession 🤷‍♂️, This song has such a strong message, and even stronger meaning to it, is just having a conversation with someone, asking questions, basically on how to make the world a better place, and so when they get to the first where she says,🎶 As sure as I believe, there's a heaven above, I know there's something, something that even non-believers, can believe in, like I believe in love Alfie, without true love you just exist, until you find the love you missed, you're nothing🎶 very very very very very very powerful

[@ronaldhiggins2832]

Sorry DIONNE OWNS Alfie. Then Whitney!

[@markpeter4304]

Thank you!!!. Dionne Warrick live 1973. we realize how difficult Dionne's songs are.

[@mistermann7779]

Even Cilla Black and Cher did a better rendition than Whitney. But Dionne: the only one to score a hit record!

[@markpeter4304]

@@mistermann7779 really mister Mann? We could argue about Cilla Black , but Chers version better than Whitney ? CHers version is the worst rendition of Alfie ever and it was recorded over 25 times...really?

[@mistermann7779]

@@markpeter4304 there are two live television performances of Cher doing Alfie. The first one is where she delivered a stellar performance. Also, it was Cher's version that was released for the movie in the United States, Cilla Black in the United Kingdom, and Sonny Rollins in Australia. Those are the original versions. Dionne said herself that she was the 33rd person to record Alfie at that time.

[@markpeter4304]

@@mistermann7779 I saw both . Singing in baritone with the horrendous arrangement by Sonny. If not mistaken Burt Bacharach was aghast by their cover of his beloved Alfie.

[@danielemasoli8268]

Brava e bella/

[@klionsmith5672]

That soprano

[@klionsmith5672]

2:14 to 2:20 best coloratura soprano

[@klionsmith5672]

2:14 to 2:20 best coloratura soprano

[@nicim3730]

Whitney was doing the most. I didnt care for this performance at all. I like how intimate it was with Dionne's interpretation. It was also appararent that Dionne has read the musical score when crafting her vocals perfectly with the music.

[@DemetricesEdwards]

1:28

[@ralstonhaley3161]

She messed up the lyrics in parts of the song.

[@ayrramadan8819]

😢

[@aaronhendricks7760]

Big time!

[@thomasrehag1747]

Again and again and again...... 🤫🤫💖💖

[@SnoopCatts]

Whitney OWNS #Alfie then Dionne :)

[@JeanetteTaghap]

Ngek! She oversang and overkilled the song! Sigh!

[@lsaturn01]

I can chose if this version or the one in she did in 1994 Philadelphia was better! I didn’t like her version 1997 Classic Whitney she was doing to much

[@TheVocalityOfSingers]

Radio City Hall 1994 was the best vocally

[@sergiocarneiro3703]

ainda dizem por aí que não somos nada nessa vida!!! w.h. que o diga!

[@thenewyorkmimes5753]

This is one song that always got lost in translation with Whitney. While she's my favorite singer, her melisma and embellishments distract from rather than enhance the melodic line of Dionne's classic.

[@josephcarbetta3795]

I hear what both of you are saying but Burt Bacharach always made Dionne sing it exactly the way he arranged it. Some of his material can be very mundane, and sadly hasn’t aged all that well. Whitney’s interpretative genius makes me appreciate his lyrical genius in a way I hadn’t before. I don’t think they got along super well, hence why the Oscars 2000 Over The Rainbow fiasco. Some say it’s bc she was at rehearsal stoned with Bobby…I think she found Bacharach very controlling as a collaborator!

[@josephcarbetta3795]

@lsaturn01 yes I heard him say that too! In contrast with Celine, who was like the Dionne to his Burt, since she’d do it precisely how he wanted her to do it. Whitney’s melisma probs made composers sweat bullets, without her level of control it could lead to over singing and can ruin an arrangement (sorry Patti LaBelle 😬) but I’d be shocked if he wasn’t utterly moved by her performance of Alfie at the DC HBO concert of 1997.

[@thabigcohuna]

@lsaturn01 I actually went back to listen to Dionne’s and it just wasn’t something I would ever want to really listen to again as with many Dionne songs from back then. When I hear her sing no one in the world then hear the Anita Baker version it’s night and day

[@thabigcohuna]

@@josephcarbetta3795 you’re right about Patti she is a perfect example of over singing and ruining a song. I feel Whitney approaches every song the way Patti does but she has that amazing gift of restraint and control. I do wish she had produced her own music

[@mistermann7779]

@@josephcarbetta3795 Bacharach and David never "made" Dionne sing any way. She heard the song, and sung them. That's why they said Dionne "interprets" their music.

[@nehemiahgatlin7620]

I love Dionne but Whitney outdid her on this one

[@michaelwarren1998]

Wish she gave a less stucco delivery of this classic, and actually learned the lyrics. She probably could have been the only one besides Dionne to have a hit recording of Alfie.

[@lolo17th]

I just found another version she did in 2004 literally a few minutes ago..im curious to get your opinion..though the audio is horrific i prefer it to her earlier versions.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGeaeIGNqc-Ympo

[@NSUVid]

@@lolo17th f#ck this persons opinion, she knows the damn lyrics and can sing however the hell she wants. She's an artist and sounds great!

[@lordvoldemort5725]

She knew the lyrics, what are you talking about…?

[@timmy841212]

Why you gotta be a hater. 😂

[@mistermann7779]

@@NSUVid neither you or Whitney knew the lyrics, obviously. She was supposed to sing this for the Oscars, Burt Bacharach fired her for that very reason, and got Dionne to do it, properly.

[@paulmckenzie6039]

I don’t like this laboured cover.Obviously Dionne Warwick nailed it,but nobody sung this glorious song quite like the original artist,Cilla Black.

[@camillem9823]

dID ANYONE NOTICE THAT BESIDES HER LESS THAN GOOD PERFORMANCE SHE DIDN'T KNOW THE LYRICS? WOW! oops CAPS on. Sorry

[@TheHollywoodList]

Her Cousin sang this song all her life, WHITNEY knew the lyrics, she did her own spin on it!

[@marydougans8211]

She completely ruins the lyric. Sorry not sorry. Flawless voice as ever. Terrible phrasing.

[@thomasrehag1747]

Well, I didn't notice it that much..... 😎😃🤫

[@marydougans8211]

@@thomasrehag1747 A song like this requires careful attention to the lyric. Whitney isn't interested in what the song "is all about." She messes up the words at the beginning, because they're not important to her. She's showing off. Listen to Cher's version. She does it just right.

[@thomasrehag1747]

​@@marydougans8211Thank you very much for the information. It's high time I studied the lyrics. Is she showing off? God knows, in any case, she has me wrapped around her finger again, this talented tamer. Does she also make this mistake in her performance Live At Radio City Music Hall March 9, 1994?

[@thomasrehag1747]

@@marydougans8211 I listened to Cher. The lyrics are perfect but they sound too smooth and fast to me. That's where my poet soul goes with Whitney. Okay, no offense, just a matter of taste.

[@denisemills5957]

Sorry but she spoiled the song.

[@nichlao8637]

She messed up this classic song.

[@davidbosquette2940]

I'm not for this version. It's too much, too many runs which take from the story.

[@ΑντωνηςΜανωλαγκας]

Such a waste of an incredible talent

[@djk1mya]

Ur evil

[@klionsmith5672]

That soprano