You Give Good Love

Infobox Single
Name = You Give Good Love


Artist = Whitney Houston
from Album = Whitney Houston
Released = April 1985
Format = —
[ Recorded = ]
Genre = R&B/Pop
Length = 4:37
Label = Arista
Writer = LaLa
Producer = Kashif
Last single = "Someone for Me"
(1985)
This single = "You Give Good Love"
(1985)
Next single = "Saving All My Love for You"
(1985)"You Give Good Love" is a song by American pop/R&B singer Whitney Houston from her self-titled debut album. It was the first major hit from the album, peaking at number three on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 chart in 1985 (see 1985 in music).

Writing and recording

Arista Records signed Houston to a recording contract in 1983. Over the next two years, songs and producers were gathered for Houston's debut album. Songwriter and producer Kashif was among those whom Arista Records president Clive Davis wanted to work on the album. When LaLa, a songwriter for Kashif's publishing company, sent Kashif a copy of "You Give Good Love", originally offered to Roberta Flack, Kashif thought it would be a perfect fit for Houston and told Davis he would be interested in recording with Houston.

Chart performance

"You Give Good Love" peaked at # 3 on the U.S. Hot 100 the week of July 27, 1985. It hit #1 on the Billboard R&B chart, and reached the Top Five of the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.

The album Whitney Houston hit #1 on the Top 200 Album chart, eventually selling thirteen million copies worldwide at its time of release, which was then a record for a debut album by a female singer. The three singles following the release of "You Give Good Love" all went to #1 on the charts in the U.S., building on the momentum of the success of the song.

The video for "You Give Good Love" featured an off-duty cameraman entering a club that's being refurbished. Houston is on the stage rehearsing for a performance. Taken aback by her impressive singing, the man begins filming Houston as she performs.

References

* "Whitney Houston" article in Ashyia Henderson "Contemporary Black Biography", Volume 28, Gale Group 2001 reproduced on "Biography Resource Center" Thomson Gale 2005
* "Whitney Houston" article in "Contemporary Newsmakers 1986", Gale Research 1987 published on "Biography Resource Center" Thomson Gale 2005
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:o3rx20vc05oa Allmusic.com article on "You Give Good Love"]
* [http://www.whitney-houston.com/musician/discography/singles/ Whitney Houston singles discography and chart placings]

Footnotes

*fnb|1 Chart positions from Allmusic.com [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5y09kept7q7m~T31] and from Whitney-Houston.com [http://www.whitney-houston.com/musician/discography/singles/] .
*fnb|2 Chart positions from Allmusic.com and sales figures from "Contemporary Black Biography".
*fnb|3 "Washington Post" June 28 1985 cited in Contemporary Newsmakers 1986".