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RIP Whitney Houston, 48
« on: February 11, 2012, 05:11:57 PM »
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Re: RIP Whitney Houston, 48?
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2012, 05:20:04 PM »
holy crap! 
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Re: RIP Whitney Houston, 48
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2012, 06:17:22 PM »
Just saw this. No doubt drugs contributed. Sad at only 48.
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Re: RIP Whitney Houston, 48
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2012, 07:07:16 PM »
Damn.  Still can't believe it.  I was always pulling for her to get it together and make a comeback. 

Supposedly she was found at the Beverly Hilton.

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/02/whitney-houston-dead
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Re: RIP Whitney Houston, 48
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2012, 07:18:32 PM »
One of my favorite Whitney moments:

http://youtu.be/VupzPW3Fpwk
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Re: RIP Whitney Houston, 48
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2012, 07:24:11 PM »
Quote from: sundaygal on February 11, 2012, 07:07:16 PM
Damn.  Still can't believe it.  I was always pulling for her to get it together and make a comeback. 

Supposedly she was found at the Beverly Hilton.

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/02/whitney-houston-dead

She might have been in town for the Grammys tomorrow.
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Re: RIP Whitney Houston, 48
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2012, 07:54:43 PM »
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Re: RIP Whitney Houston, 48
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2012, 10:24:59 PM »
Tho' JJ appears to have the night off, KPOO is playing nonstop Whitney.
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Re: RIP Whitney Houston, 48
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2012, 01:30:23 PM »
Weird, I can remember exactly where I was when I first heard her sing The Greatest Love Of All, which I thought was super-over-the-top at the time.   I was living in Brooklyn and was watching some TV show (Grammys?) on our small TV.   I also liked How Will I Know?.  I was never ashamed to sing along with her without changing the words.   :)

The singers on Amer Idol, X Factor, etc, as well as established ones who sing all over the scale while doing the O-Face head-swiveling soul-diva hand-waving Wax On/Wax Off gestures (Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera) all want to be Whitney, but couldn't ever touch her God-given pipes.



 
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Re: RIP Whitney Houston, 48
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2012, 03:59:12 PM »
Relating her death to 10@10, we are due for another visit to 1985 (coming up on 4 weeks since the last one--where has the time gone?), the year Whitney's debut album was released.  Anyone care to wager that she'll be paid homage when that set happens, almost certainly this week?
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Re: RIP Whitney Houston, 48
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2012, 04:07:38 PM »
Quote from: Tinka Cat on February 12, 2012, 01:30:23 PM
The singers on Amer Idol, X Factor, etc, as well as established ones who sing all over the scale while doing the O-Face head-swiveling soul-diva hand-waving Wax On/Wax Off gestures (Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera) all want to be Whitney, but couldn't ever touch her God-given pipes.

Amen to that. It's a shame that her signature style seems to have been co-opted by so many singers today as a means of showing off their vocal prowess, and usually ends up only showing their lack thereof.  RIP Whitney.
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Re: RIP Whitney Houston, 48
« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2012, 02:48:56 PM »
Local producer --  and the namesake for a 10at10 glossary term -- "Narada" Michael Walden talks about Houston.

The Bay Area has a special connection to Whitney Houston. She recorded several of her hits at a studio in San Rafael
with a Grammy award winning producer.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=8542111
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Re: RIP Whitney Houston, 48
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2012, 10:20:01 AM »
Not surprisingly, sales of Whitney’s music jumped in the hours after she died, as more than 100,000 albums and nearly 900,000 individual tracks sold in a little over 24 hours:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2012/02/whitney-houston-death-album-track-sales-radio.html
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Re: RIP Whitney Houston, 48
« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2012, 01:05:15 PM »
2/15 NEW YORK (AP) — Fans worldwide who want to bid Whitney Houston farewell will be able to watch her private funeral on the World Wide Web.  Her publicist, Kristen Foster, announced that The Associated Press will be the pool camera for the Saturday ceremony in Newark, New Jersey, and the AP will stream the service on http://www.livestream.com/aplive
Houston died in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday at the age of 48. Her body was flown back to her native New Jersey on Monday.  Some fans were disappointed when they learned that the funeral was private and no public memorial was planned.  Houston was born in Newark and the service will be at New Hope Baptist Church.
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Re: RIP Whitney Houston, 48
« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2012, 02:33:28 PM »
Quote from: Wayback on February 15, 2012, 01:05:15 PM
2/15 NEW YORK (AP) — Fans worldwide who want to bid Whitney Houston farewell will be able to watch her private funeral on the World Wide Web.  Her publicist, Kristen Foster, announced that The Associated Press will be the pool camera for the Saturday ceremony in Newark, New Jersey, and the AP will stream the service on http://www.livestream.com/aplive
Houston died in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday at the age of 48. Her body was flown back to her native New Jersey on Monday.  Some fans were disappointed when they learned that the funeral was private and no public memorial was planned.  Houston was born in Newark and the service will be at New Hope Baptist Church.

Looks like a number of channels will be carrying the event:

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/whitney-houston-funeral-getting-extensive-cable-coverage_b112740
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