WHITNEY HOUSTON: PART 1 (with Emily Lordi)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 143 minutes
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Summary
Author of the forthcoming book Holding Lightning: The Life, Loves, and Art of Whitney Houston Emily Lordi returns to Pop Pantheon to kick off our special four-part on a pop star known as “The Voice” – perhaps the single greatest singer to ever grace the charts— Whitney Houston. Louie and Emily dig into Whitney’s origins in New Jersey, her musical family and first taste of the industry as a teenage model and session singer. Then they discuss her providential link-up with record man Clive Davis, her 1985 self-titled debut album, and first string of blockbuster singles. Next they unpack 1987’s Whitney, her infamous appearance at the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards, and finally, her musical pivot towards R&B on 1990’s I’m Your Baby Tonight.
Join us next week, in which we’ll discuss Whitney's 1991 Super Bowl National Anthem, The Bodyguard, and her run of smash movies and soundtracks.
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| 1:11.0 | All right, y'all, the title gave it away. |
| 1:13.5 | When we put out requests asking what y'all want to hear, one of the biggest artist Aisides |
| 1:18.4 | that has always come up perennially is, of course, the voice herself, Whitney Houston. |
| 1:24.1 | And finally, we have arrived at that series. |
| 1:26.6 | I'm going to lay out a little bit about |
| 1:27.8 | how this series is going to unfurl. This series will happen in four parts. Today's episode, |
| 1:33.7 | episode one, will focus on Whitney's Early Life and her first run of albums, 1985's Whitney |
| 1:39.2 | Houston, 1987's Whitney and 1990s. I'm Your Baby Tonight. The second episode will focus primarily on Whitney's soundtrack run from 1992's The Bodyguard through |
| 1:50.2 | The Preacher's Wife. |
| 1:51.5 | And the final episode will cover Whitney's late 90s blockbuster, My Love is Your Love, |
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