Whitney Houston R.I.P.

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

watch-girls-pay-tribute-to-whitney-houston/

no fucking thanks

haha been holding my tongue on snarking about the tunnel vision hilarity of that headline or at least a couple hours

Morbius that's happening at my job today too

This thread = slowly making progression for mournful to awesome

For = from

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

join us here homie! Whitney Houston singles poll

Ha ok

Oh, of course:

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/13/10394035-sony-hikes-whitney-houston-album-prices-online?chromedomain=digitallife

"He's dead? Why didn't you say so!"
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Sales of Whitney Houston albums have soared on both sides of the Atlantic following her death in Los Angeles.

Whitney - The Greatest Hits is at two on the US iTunes chart, while Whitney Houston - The Ultimate Collection is second in the UK iTunes chart.

Some fans reacted angrily on Twitter after The Ultimate Collection's price was temporarily raised on iTunes UK.

The price was increased from £4.99 to £7.99 but has since reverted to its former cost.

Several fans on Twitter described the alleged price hike as "greedy" and "shameful".

iTunes and Sony Music, Houston's record label, declined to comment on the matter.

sealed bodyguard for 150 bucks is about as frenetic as things got on the ebay front.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/REMEMBERING-WHITNEY-HOUSTON-The-Bodyguard-Original-Soundtrack-LP-New-Sealed-/180818106575?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item2a199958cf

nowhere near MJ numbers the weekend of his death, but, you know, that's to be expected.

telling that the bodyguard ost was the one people really wanted. more so than the studio albums. though the first two did okay for a minute there.

its not oop is it?

well its more a case of there being less vinyl copies than the actual studio albums too. i'm sure the cd is still in print. it must be.

Love in Any Language!!! We had to sing that, too.

The Whitney song we sang was "One Moment in Time."