Whitney Houston R.I.P.

I haven't posted anything on this thread, because I wasn't much of a fan. I played "How Will I Know" for student-entry music this morning, though, and that was nice--it's the one song of hers I always liked--and then in my own class I played the Super Bowl performance off YouTube. It's the kind of thing I normally wouldn't care for (I was at teachers college at the time, and had pretty much tuned out the first Iraq War altogether), but this morning, it did feel historic. Not as historic or as audacious as Hendrix, maybe not even as good as Marvin Gaye's rendition, but in the ballpark.

wait, "student entry music" -- like entry to your classroom or over the speakers in the whole school?

The only songs my son's school seems to own are "Dynamite" (Cruz, not Lattisaw) and "Who Let the Dogs Out."

your son's school OTM

I put my hands up in the (who? who, who?)

The graduation theme for my class at an all-boy Catholic school: "Promise of a New Day."

ha

a serious wtf moment. That's where everything went wrong.

we had to listen to the radio over the loudspeakers between classes and i remember when it went from top 40 to "alternative" in 1991 or 1992 (not entirely sure when it happened, tbh) and they played "it's the end of the world as we know it" for 24 hours straight. that day was SO WEIRD.

my point above was that if you can choose the music they listen to between classes, that is a lot of memory-creating power!

anyway, whitney houston owned memory-creating power in gradeschool right up there with mj and prince
i thought everyone had to sing "the greatest love of all" at some point in school. i remember being pretty mortified by having to sing it, at least.

lol I think we did "Greatest Love Of All" in a music class, now that I think of it

Same here. Houston was already so massive in late spring '86 that our teachers could corral the girls into singing an off-key "Greatest Love of All."

It was up to the rest of us to sing "Hands Across America" as a last performance.

Yup, we sung "Greatest Love Of All" at our middle school graduation (June 1986). Also "That's What Friends Are For."

Four kids volunteered to sing "That's What Friends Are for." This small (white) guy named Nick wore Ray-Bans and swayed side to side like Stevie.

man, "Greatest Love Of All" would have been so much better than what we sang, which was the horrid Love In Any Language

we sang "The Greatest Love of All" at an all-school assembly in sixth grade, when Whitney's version was new.

We sang it at the Father Daughter dinner, which was an annual fundraiser/ordeal at my all-girls Catholic school.

same year

LL - we had a father daughter DANCE as our annual fundraiser/ordeal at my all-girls Catholic school.

yeah ours was a dance too. dinner dance.

it was AN ORDEAL

Oh yeah it was. Comical moments too though. I remember having to explain to my dad what moshing was and why a bunch of girls were jumping around and slamming into one another.

omg
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6120/6344604386_5c7af06713_z.jpg

the greatest love of all is easy to achieve when you are this awkward

wait, "student entry music" -- like entry to your classroom or over the speakers in the whole school?

Over the P.A. system for the whole school. I'm in charge, and I'm a tyrant.

AHHHH amazing!! I have one pic of my dad and I at one (sadly not here right now) where I am wearing a one piece floral jumpsuit (!!!) and have hair mid-way down my back. It was not a good look.

clemenza that is totally awesome

i made that skirt with my grandma because i was totally into the 50s at the time (?!)

For some reason I can't recall, we had to go to the gym when my 5th grade class finished a DARE ("to keep kids off drugs") program, and watch a slide montage of photos of us sitting through the DARE program set to 1.5-2.5 runs through "The Greatest Love Of All."

x-post - ^^^

Cute.

glad I'm so old, God have mercy on the rest of you

Yup, we sung "Greatest Love Of All" at our middle school graduation (June 1986). Also "That's What Friends Are For."

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Oh Jesus, I just remembered that nearly everyone at my senior prom (there were only prob about 70 ppl there) got in a circle and sang That's What Friends Are For as the last song of the night. It was pretty horrifying.

enbb i demand to see that pic you speak of!

glad I'm so old, God have mercy on the rest of you

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oh like the nuns didn't force you guys to gather round the victrola to mime "Easy Living."

nuns dug Uriah Heep? Wow.

Lech that pic is awesome!!

Thanks! That reminds me that I need to call my parents. Children are our future.

Kerr - not a chance.

My 5th grade class lip-synced and danced to "How Will I Know" at our school concert

Damn--da croupier beat me to the Uriah Heep joke.

nuns pushed "Top of the World" and "Let It Be" on us

Was "That's What Friends Are For" a consensus elementary school graduation song? Is it still. My grade 8 class did it too, but that was 1993, at which point I figured even then that the song was pretty musty.

tried to find the clip from say anything where joe sings 'the greatest love of all' at their graduation. youtube could not help me...

i was wondering when someone was going to mention that!

Lech that pic is awesome!!

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office break room filled with lunchers listening to CNN guest clinically describe drowning- and drug-related autopsies.

i thought everyone had to sing "the greatest love of all" at some point in school.

Yup, in high-school choir.

Also, one of my favorite Whitney moments was when three girls did a choregraphed routine to "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" at our 4th-grade class talent show.

Was "That's What Friends Are For" a consensus elementary school graduation song?

"Don't Worry Be Happy" for me.

Indie-dom enters the tribute game:

http://pitchfork.com/news/45407-watch-girls-pay-tribute-to-whitney-houston/

No big suprise that Girls are fans though, and I don't think I mean that in bad way..

Owens is apparently crying by the way