Songoftheday 8/2/17 - I used to cry myself to sleep at night but that was all before he came, I thought love had to hurt to turn out right but now he's here It's not the same...

"All The Man That I Need" - Whitney Houston
from the album I'm Your Baby Tonight (1990)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 15

Today's song of the day is from Whitney Houston, who started out the 1990's returning to smooth soul music with her #1 pop/R&B smash "I'm Your Baby Tonight" written by Babyface and L.A. Reid. The second single from the album of that name was the bombastic love ballad "All The Man That I Need". Written by the team of Dean Pitchford and Michael Gore (who wrote Irene Cara's "Fame" together) for red hot disco singer Linda Clifford, who released the song in 1982 with no notice on pop or R&B radio. That same year, Sister Sledge reached the R&B chart with a version of the song. Eight years later, Houston would give the song the audience it deserved, with a vocal performance that was flawless, with soft-pop production from Narada Michael Walden (who helmed her #1 "How Will I Know")...

"All The Man That I Need" became the second #1 pop hit from I'm Your Baby Tonight in February of 1991. The song also topped Billboard's R&B (one week) and Adult Contemporary (four weeks) radio charts. Internationally, the single went to #1 in Canada for a week, and reached the top-40 in the Netherlands (#11), the UK (#13), Belgium (#14), Ireland (#16), Finland (#17), Austria (#21), France (#28), Switzerland (#28), New Zealand (#36), and Germany (#37). The record was nominated for a Grammy for Female Pop Vocal, losing out to Bonnie Raitt's "Something To Talk About".

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Here's Linda Clifford's original recording of "All The Man That I Need"...