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[1990-1994 Best Songs]
Billboard Top 100 - 1991, #42
In the early 1990s, Whitney Houston was the reigning queen of Pop music. She had hits all over the charts. Sadly, most of them were not good.
Luckily, I'm Your Baby Tonight is very good. Whitney shows off her full vocal range without going overboard. The lyric starts with almost a whisper - low and throaty. Next comes an excellent bridge with little couplets of phrases (you-gotta-you-gotta way that you makin' me feel-I-can-feel-I-can do anything...) that accelerates into a powerful hook (Lay all my cards out tonight!).
It's sad: she really could have been our generation's Aretha Franklin.
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