The Greatest Love of All

You know, I've, I've taught band, and a lot of parents are like, "My girl cannot play the drums," not knowing that being the only girl, you actually stand out more.

Uh, so my mom, like when I would do talent shows as a youngster, she would play piano for me while I was singing The Greatest Love of All and-

Yeah

... a Fantasia song.

They can't take away my dignity.

Because the greatest love of all was happening to me.

I found the greatest love of all inside of me.

The greatest love of all.

Is easy to achieve.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

I believe the children are our future.

Teach them well and let them lead the way.

Whitney Houston took home her first Video Music Award, winning Best Female Video for her hit, How Will I Know.

She also graced the stage to deliver a live medley performance of How Will I Know and Greatest Love of All.

In 1990, legendary blues guitarist B.B. King was officially honored with the 1917th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Standing before a crowd of 200 fans, King memorably stated, quote, I can't talk very well without Lucille, end quote, referring to his trademark Gibson guitar.

I Wanna Dance With Somebody spent two weeks.

Greatest Love of All spent three weeks.

The alarm show.

How Will I Know spent two weeks.

She was my hero.

Linda wrote 54 hits in all, but her most famous song was The Greatest Love of All.

So Linda wrote that song in 1977 as the title track to the movie The Greatest starring Muhammad Ali.

But it really received its acclaim in March of 1986 when Whitney Houston would release that song to the world.

Ugh.

She died, like, a few weeks before her most recent song she wrote hit number one, a little song called The Greatest Love of All.

She wrote The Greatest Love of All?

Yeah, and she was 37 when she-

What happened? Do we know?

Recognition, yeah.

But that is...

She wrote The Greatest Love of All?

And you notice that that one woman who's sort of the posh drunk girl- Right ...

he, he, he s- he's listening to Whitney Houston, The Greatest Love of All, and he's going on one of those rants where he's- Right ... just basically quoting a critic.

Right.

And she starts laughing at him.

Yeah, I don't think I knew that either.

[laughs]

That the greatest love of all was, you know?

The greatest love-

She was beautiful, brilliant, larger than life, the queen of Motown sound in Philadelphia, and she was my hero.

So Linda wrote 54 hits in all, and her most famous song was The Greatest Love of All.

So she wrote that song in 1977 as the title track to the movie The Greatest, starring Muhammad Ali.

But it really received its acclaim in March of 1986 when that, when Whitney would release that song to the world.