Songoftheday 5/26/14 - a few stolen moments is all that we share, you've got your family and they need you there...

Whitney Houston - "Saving All My Love For You"
from the album Whitney Houston (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 15

Today's Song of the Day is from Whitney Houston, who in 1985 was a fresh-faced up and coming newbie on the music scene whose classy soft R&B debut album had introduced her to pop and soul radio with "You Give Good Love". For the second American single from the album, Whitney released the slinky "Saving All My Love For You", which hid a tale of infidelity underneath its cocktail party-ready sheen. The song, written by former Carole King collaborator Gerry Goffin and Michael Masser, was originally recorded by 2/5ths of the Fifth Dimension, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. in 1978....

Whitney's youth and vitality certainly gave more power to the theme of the song, and her range was custom-fit for the record...

"Saving All My Love For You" became Whitney's first #1 pop hit in October of 1985, while also claiming the top spot on both the R&B and Adult Contemporary radio charts in Billboard magazine. Internationally, the record also went to #1 in Britain, as well as top-10 in Canada, France, and Switzerland. It would be the first of eventually seven consecutive #1 pop hits in the U.S. for Houston...

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Here's Whitney performing the song live on Letterman just as she was starting out in 1985...