Thursday, December 26, 2024

Whitney Houston Ironically Titled Unreleased Single: “Never Give Up”

The title of Whitney Houston’s new and final single is “Never Give Up.” It’s an unreleased track from “I Will Always Love You,” a greatest hits package just about to drop from RCA. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63G-5FfwfzQ. Jermaine Dupri and Brian Cox produced the track, which was co-written by them with Johnta Austin. It shows off Whitney’s extraordinary vocal power at her height, long before everything fell apart. “I Will Always Love You” has 18 tracks, all hits, from “You Give Good Love” to “I Look to You.” Interestingly, it excludes all the tracks from Whitney’s 2002 album “Just Whitney” — made apart from Clive Davis, and almost completely ignores her last album, I Look to You, including the Alicia Keys song, “Million Dollar Bill.”

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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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