anyway, whitney houston owned memory-creating power in gradeschool right up there with mj and princei 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.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
lol I think we did "Greatest Love Of All" in a music class, now that I think of it
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 13 February 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 February 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
Yup, we sung "Greatest Love Of All" at our middle school graduation (June 1986). Also "That's What Friends Are For."
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 13 February 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 February 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
man, "Greatest Love Of All" would have been so much better than what we sang, which was the horrid Love In Any Language
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Monday, 13 February 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
we sang "The Greatest Love of All" at an all-school assembly in sixth grade, when Whitney's version was new.
― Euler, Monday, 13 February 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
We sang it at the Father Daughter dinner, which was an annual fundraiser/ordeal at my all-girls Catholic school.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
same year
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
LL - we had a father daughter DANCE as our annual fundraiser/ordeal at my all-girls Catholic school.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 13 February 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
yeah ours was a dance too. dinner dance.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
omghttp://farm7.staticflickr.com/6120/6344604386_5c7af06713_z.jpg
the greatest love of all is easy to achieve when you are this awkward
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
clemenza that is totally awesome
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
i made that skirt with my grandma because i was totally into the 50s at the time (?!)
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
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."
― da croupier, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - ^^^
Cute.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
glad I'm so old, God have mercy on the rest of you
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, February 13, 2012 10:42 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
enbb i demand to see that pic you speak of!
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, February 13, 2012
oh like the nuns didn't force you guys to gather round the victrola to mime "Easy Living."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
nuns dug Uriah Heep? Wow.
― da croupier, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Lech that pic is awesome!!
― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks! That reminds me that I need to call my parents. Children are our future.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
Kerr - not a chance.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
My 5th grade class lip-synced and danced to "How Will I Know" at our school concert
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 February 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
Damn--da croupier beat me to the Uriah Heep joke.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
nuns pushed "Top of the World" and "Let It Be" on us
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
tried to find the clip from say anything where joe sings 'the greatest love of all' at their graduation. youtube could not help me...
― and the answer is: Opinions differ. (stevie), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
i was wondering when someone was going to mention that!
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Monday, February 13, 2012 11:21 AM (48 minutes ago)
― tl;dr skl;dr (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 13 February 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
office break room filled with lunchers listening to CNN guest clinically describe drowning- and drug-related autopsies.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
i thought everyone had to sing "the greatest love of all" at some point in school.
Yup, in high-school choir.
― jaymc, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
Was "That's What Friends Are For" a consensus elementary school graduation song?
"Don't Worry Be Happy" for me.
― jaymc, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
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..
― Mule, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
Owens is apparently crying by the way
― Mule, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
watch-girls-pay-tribute-to-whitney-houston/
no fucking thanks
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
haha been holding my tongue on snarking about the tunnel vision hilarity of that headline or at least a couple hours
― some dude, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
Morbius that's happening at my job today too
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
This thread = slowly making progression for mournful to awesome
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
For = from
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
Mostly I just recall being bombarded with Whitney singles during elementary school carpools and then singing the songs to myself later when I was alone
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
join us here homie! Whitney Houston singles poll
― some dude, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
Ha ok
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, of course:
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/13/10394035-sony-hikes-whitney-houston-album-prices-online?chromedomain=digitallife
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 February 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link