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like, "they're okay for chicks. they can play okay for girls." we didn't understand why our gender mattered or why it defined us. people magazine this week says it will take an act of congress to keep this woman from becoming a mega star. whitney houston. ♪ how will i know if he really loves me? ♪ ♪ i say a prayer with every heartbeat ♪ whether she was doing a dance song or she was doing a ballad... ♪ the greatest love of all ♪ ...it kind of stopped you in your tracks because you just couldn't believe that one woman could be blessed with that much, with the looks and the talent. this lady started out as a dancer, went to new york, went to paris, worked with bands, came back as a single, and is she hot. this is madonna! ♪ george: if you saw madonna then, she looked just like the girls who hung out at a club called the fun house.
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executive mr. clive davis. >> go on, you start the show tonight, no talking back. >> and whitney sang two songs that night. one was "home" from the whiz. and the other was "the greatest love of all." now, she didn't know, i had commissioned the song "the greatest love of all" eight years from muhammad ali the movie. and i got them, they wrote "the greatest love of all." i had recorded it. we had a top-ten r&b hit, and then this beautiful 19-year-old girl, okay, gets to the microphone, and as soon as she started singing that song, i was done. ♪ the greatest love the greatest love of all ♪
amount of people who will never take women as a group seriously. >> i mean, it's run by a very chauvinistic, i'd imagine, recording industry. >> yeah. >> we concentrated on the music, you know? we don't really worry about those things. we just keep writing songs. >> i think that there was a little bit of an attitude like, "they're okay for chicks. they can play okay for girls." we didn't understand why our gender mattered or why it defined us. >> "people" magazine this week says it'll take an act of congress to keep this woman from becoming a mega star. whitney houston! >> [lyrics] how will i know if he really loves me. i say a prayer with every heartbeat. >> whether she was doing a dance song or she was doing a ballad -- >> [lyrics] the greatest love of all. >> it kind of stopped you in your tracks because you just couldn't believe that one woman could be blessed with that much, with the looks and the talent.
perform. >> i knew immediately, i was seeing her at a club called sweet waters. her mother was the star of the show. she was a background singer doing two songs in the middle of her mother's act. and she stepped to the microphone, her choice of material, and she sang two songs. one was "home" from the broadway show "the wiz" and the other was "the greatest love of all," a song i had commissioned for the wife of mohammad ali. i had the original record with george benison. >> this is 1983, and you still remember this specifically? >> absolutely. i mean, of course, you do. it's a lifetime memory. >> and what did you think? >> i was amazed that she had found more meaning in that song than i believed that michael maser and linda creede when they wrote it. that this was a unique vocalist
song or she was doing a ballad ♪ the greatest love of all ♪ >> it kind of stopped you in your tracks, because you couldn't believe one woman could be blessed with that much, with the looks and the talent. >> this lady started out as a dancer, went to new york, went to paris, worked with bands, came back as a single. and is she hot. this is madonna. ♪ >> if you saw madonna then, she looked just like the girls who hung out at the club called the funhouse. all the girls there had the mesh thing and they had the boots. and it was kind of a mix of new wave punk with this other dance sensibility. ♪ holiday ♪ ♪ celebrate ♪ >> i think madonna was able to use that core dance music and use the style of the streets that were going on and evolve that into a pop career. >> we are a couple of weeks into