Bidyograpiya Ni Whitney Houston

• The video features Houston rehearsing for a performance on stage and an off-duty cameraman entering a club that's being refurbished. Taken aback by her impressive singing, the man begins filming Houston as she performs.

• The video was released in some European countries. It features Houston singing the song on a stage.

• Arista released a promotional music video exclusive to Germany.

• Houston takes the role of a woman who's saving all of her love for a married man whose family clearly takes precedence over the cupcake he's seeing on the side.
• The video won Favorite Soul/R&B Video award at the 13th American Music Awards, held on January 27, 1986.

• The video is set against a strikingly designed, vividly colored setting of video screens and partitions. Houston, accented by a tight and sleeveless gray dress made of metal mesh and a bow hair band, is seen interacting with animated dancers, in black outfits and wearing French-style makeup. The video also has a scene of splattering of paint and it's dripping down the screen.
• Houston family friend and label-mate, Aretha Franklin, makes a cameo as a footage from her "Freeway of Love" video.
• Houston won Best Female Video award for the video at the 3rd MTV Video Music Awards on September 5, 1986.

• In the video, she is a successful singer about to perform in front of an audience at the theater. She reminisces about the time when she was a child performing in a talent competition at the very same theater. The video features Houston's mother Cissy Houston playing herself and then 10-Tuig-old girl Keara Janine as a young Whitney.
• The video was filmed at Harlem's Apollo Theater in New York City in spring of 1986.
• Houston earned Favorite Soul/R&B Video award for the video at the 14th American Music Awards, held on January 26, 1987.

(Version 1)

• In the intro of this video, Houston just finishes a performance onstage. She walks backstage, and the scene is intercut with more vivid, colorful images of her. Dressed in a body-hugging purple dress, towering curly wig and colorful dangly earrings, Houston focuses on singing directly into the camera while a series of dancers showed off their moves with flashing fluorescent backdrops in wide-shot cutaways as she changed through a series of going-to-the-club outfits.
• Grant, in an interview with the BBC News in February 2012, noted that because Whitney could not dance in any way whatsoever, the solution was to surround the singer with top talent, and keep her own dance moves to a minimum in the video, which was choreographed by Arlene Phillips.
• Houston was nominated for Best Music Video for the video at the 1988 Soul Train Music Awards.

(Version 2)

• Only includes studio scenes, added some extra shots that was not shown in version 1.

• A live performance of the song in Saratoga Springs, New York in September 1987 among her Moment of Truth World Tour dates.
• The video premiered at the 4th MTV Video Music Awards and then it was used as a promotional clip for the song, which had already peaked at number one the Billboard Hot 100 chart without the official music video.

• The video was filmed at Lehigh University's Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on October 21, 1987. The night's large audience, admitted by free tickets given away at area record stores the previous days, and three-tier stage were set up to simulate a concert. Also, a five-man band accompanied Houston during the taping. Houston had 17 days of rehearsal at Stabler that summer to prepare for the night's filming.
• The first half of the video features scenes of a rehearsal for the filming and the second Houston's staged performance for the song.

• The video, one of only a few videos among Houston's, has a storyline that a couple reunite after a short separation. Houston who plays herself as a singing star, receives a package containing a bunch of white roses and a goodbye card from her boyfriend in her dressing room. Then she reminisces about good memories with him, being switched in black and white.

• A live performance from the Special Olympics opening ceremonies at the Notre Dame Stadium in Notre Dame, Indiana, held on August 2, 1987 and broadcast on ABC the following day.

• There are two versions, but Houston doesn't appear on both videos. The first half of the version one shows children dreaming of becoming an Olympic medalist with scenes of their running, balancing on a beam, swimming and playing baseball. The latter contains various players in sports games. The version one accompanies to a three-minute-edited-song from the original album version. The version two features only footages from the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul: the Olympic torch and various athletes who won medals at the Olympics.

(LA & Babyface Mix)

• Houston travels in time and space through mirrors, which were served as media of her time travel. During the trip, she pays tribute to three different legends in film and music industries: Marlene Dietrich who was famous for her masculine wardrobe, The Supremes who was one of notable artists during Motown's glory days, and Audrey Hepburn in the movie Funny Face. Adam Shankman who subsequently established a partnership with Temple, choreographed the video for Houston.
• Two Tuigs before directing this video, Julien Temple had ridiculed Houston's commercial endorsement for Diet Coke in the "This Note's for You" video by Neil Young.

(Yvonne Turner Remix Edit)

• The video consists mainly of a house and stage set scenes, later switched by big grid-windows. The clip features Houston donning a curly hairstyle, and wearing a black turtleneck with her initials "WH" embroidered on it (house scenes) and a tight, off-the-shoulder blue-black dress made of velvet (stage scenes).

• A live performance at the Super Bowl XXV in Tampa, Florida on January 27, 1991. Arista released the performance as a video single on February 8, 1991 and it earned 2× Platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America on April 11, 1991.

• A black-and-white video features Houston singing the song with sitting on a steppladder styled chair or leaning against the wall at a small amphitheater. The singing parts are interspersed with black-and-white pictures showing people in a variety of circumstances.

• In the clip containing several elements inspired by the Alfred Hitchcock movie, Vertigo, Houston plays a double role as herself and a photographer's client named Susan. Like in the movie, the video features a man who has an obsessive love for a glamorous blonde and later tries to make a brown-haired girl played by the same actress look like the blonde.
• Mike Tyson makes a cameo.

(L.A. Reid & Babyface Remix featuring Monie Love)

• A rapper Monie Love's scenes were added to version one, accompanying the L.A. Reid & Babyface Remix of the song.

(Waddell 7" Mix)

• Among her I'm Your Baby Tonight World Tour dates, the May 11, 1991 Oakland Coliseum performance of the song, broadcast on The Simple Truth: A Concert for Kurdish Refugees, is interspersed with a series of scenes from Houston's previous music videos.

• A video montage, being made with scenes from the "My Name Is Not Susan" video and some extra footages during filming of the "Susan".

• The video begins with the performance of the song Houston gives at the end of the film The Bodyguard. The video then cuts to Houston in a dark blue suit sitting in an empty theater with the spotlight shining on her, singing of her love. The video is intercut with scenes from The Bodyguard and gives the viewer the experience of reliving the moments with the singer.
• At the time of releasing the video, the director's name was known only as Alan Smithee, the nom de camera that directors use when they don't want their names associated with projects, making his MTV debut for directing the video. But it was found later that the video had been really directed by Nick Brandt.
• The clip won Favorite New Music Video award at the 19th People's Choice Awards, held on March 17, 1993.

• The video features a very pregnant Houston performing the song, while scenes from The Bodyguard are intercut into the clip. Also, features cameo appearances by Cissy Houston, as well as by Chaka Khan who recorded the song originally, the song's composer Valerie Simpson, and then label-mates TLC.

• The video shows alternately Houston singing with the Cleopatra-inspired beaded head-piece and performing the song during a dinner party scene from The Bodyguard. The clip is interspersed with the Oscar ceremony scenes, the climax of the movie.

• Features scenes from The Bodyguard film showing briefly how a music star Rachel Marron (Houston) and her bodyguard Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner) fall in love, which are intercut with close-ups of Houston singing the lyrics and scenes of her running on clouds.

• In the video, Houston's performance, her metallic costume and the film sets are all inspired by scenes from Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film Metropolis, in particular, Maria's transformation scene and a seductive dance scene by the false Maria. While playing the clips from Lang's movie on multi-screen in the back, Houston performs on a nightclub stage, dressed in the costume influenced by Brigitte Helm's from Lang's movie.

• The video focuses mainly on close-ups of Houston, like she originally intended the video to be direct and concentrate on her face and on the lyrics. The close-ups are intercut with scenes from the movie, Waiting to Exhale.

(with CeCe Winans)

• A simulated concert video, directed by Isham who is a renowned live concert film director. The first half of the video, filmed in black-and-white, features Houston and Winans rehearsing the song at a small theater. With being switched into colored pictures, the latter cuts to two singers performing the song before an audience. The video is intercut with footage from Waiting to Exhale.

Troy Miller

• A live performance at the 1996 MTV Movie Awards in Burbank, California on June 8, 1996.

• Houston sings the song, leaning against a tree or being surrounded by an orchestra in an outdoor forest setting where the trees are all in Christmas lighting. The video, shot in Fishkill, New York, is intercut with clips from the film, The Preacher's Wife.
• Entertainment Tonight debuted the video on December 11, 1996, and the following day its entire video was premiered on MTV, VH1 and BET.

• The video shows mainly Houston wearing a brown raincoat and dancing to the song on a center stage while other dancers join her as the song develops. Houston's footages are intercut with scenes of a youth center, being restored by youngsters after a fire.

(with Mariah Carey)

• The video consists of a large screen painted to resemble one of the backdrops from the film The Prince of Egypt; part of it rises to reveal Houston who steps forward and sings the 1st verse and chorus. This maneuver is repeated for Carey who sings the 2nd verse and chorus, during which Houston and Carey walk towards each other and join hands. Above the audience, unseen until the climax of the bridge and giving cheers to both singers to emulate a concert-like-setting, are three giant video screens showing scenes from the animated film. Occasionally interspersed throughout are quick, black-and-white clips of both singers backstage.
• The video was filmed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music performing arts center and premiered worldwide on MTV during Mariah TV segment on November 16, 1998.

(with Mariah Carey)

• Only released on NBC's special, When You Believe: Music Inspired by the Prince of Egypt, broadcast on December 13, 1998.
• The video features only both females singing together on a stage that simulates a large stone altar in the middle of a church without an audience, choir or images.

(featuring Faith Evans and Kelly Price) + Hex Hector Radio Mix version

• Throughout the video, Houston is seen in full diva mode, wearing a giant white fur coat, ruby red gown and a signature choker. At the end of the video she throws the all-white fur coat into the ocean.
• Houston filmed the video in various parts of Miami; a nearby airport hangar, the National hotel and Miami Beach on January 5–6, 1999.
• The video was nominated for Best R&B Video at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards, held on September 9, 1999.

+ Thunderpuss Mix version + Rodney Jerkins Smooth Mix version

• Features Houston wearing a sleek strapless leather gown and singing around a glass dining table against the all-black background with lights flashing occasionally. A large group of women from different races sing the chorus behind her. The dance footages by female dancers in army uniforms are interspersed throughout the first half of the video.

+ Jonathan Peters' Radio Mix version

• Houston's haircut and fashion in the video are strongly reminiscent of then Lauryn Hill: a short and fairly tight afro, and a denim jacket. On a street party scene, Houston is seen performing on the stage with Wyclef Jean who is the song's co-composer and co-producer, just behind her on the deck.
• The video received its worldwide exclusive first play on MTV UK on May 17, 1999.

+ HQ₂ Uptempo Mix version

• The video was filmed at the Cologne Sports Arena in Cologne, Germany, on October 7, 1999. The process of filming the video was taped and broadcast on MTV's Making the Video on November 2, 1999 (season 1, episode 17).
• During the episode, Kevin Bray said that "the concept of the video is that a female singer (Houston) is performing the song first time live on television with the studio audience, and her ex-lover who isn't in the audience has no idea what the song's about for at first, however, he finally finds out that the song's actually about him."

• An edited version from her medley performance of "Get It Back" and the song at 1999 MTV Europe Music Awards in Dublin, Ireland on November 11, 1999.

(with Enrique Iglesias)

• Entertainment Tonight aired the world premier of the video on June 22, 2000.

(with George Michael)

• The video features Houston and Michael in a nightclub. At first, two singers sing in different places of the club, however, eventually meet on the dance floora and dance together with the crowd around them.
• MTV Germany had the world premiere of the video on June 9, 2000.

• The video features Houston singing the song at a rooftop cocktail party. Bobby Brown makes a cameo.

• A video considered as Houston's answer to the media for getting too deep into her personal life. The video shows a white set with an overhead camera, following Houston's every move, and mirrors on its walls. Other set has a backdrop with old-fashioned cameras and children dressed as 1950s reporters and photographers, holding cameras in their hands.
• Faith Evans makes a cameo appearance in the beginning of the video.
• The video was contained in the Just Whitney Special Limited Edition including a bonus DVD.

• A video mantage for the megamix, contains portions of "I Wanna Dance with Somebody", "So Emotional", "I'm Your Baby Tonight", "I'm Every Woman", and "It's Not Right But It's Okay".
• The video was included on a bonus DVD in the special limited edition of the Just Whitney album.

• The plot revolves around Houston and her girls having a day for the ladies, highlighted by time at the spa. They end their evening by hitting the club, and who should be there but Mr. Biggs himself, Ron Isley.
• The video was shot on October 18 and 19 in Atlanta.

• The video opens with music industry insiders waiting for Houston to appear, staring at their watches. As Houston starts singing, the panel is bewildered, holding up lyrics from "Over the Rainbow". This scene parodies her high-profile firing by Burt Bacharach from the 2000 Academy Awards ceremony for not singing "Rainbow" during rehearsals for the show. But she continues to sing "On My Own" as the insiders leave there in frustration due to Houston not following their prescribed formula. The video then cuts to Houston performing with a gospel choir in front of her adoring fans, giving their cheers through.
• Bobby Brown makes a cameo at the beginning of the video.
• Houston shot the video at Overtown's historic Lyric Theater, one of the oldest African American owned theaters in the South. (A caption at the end of the video gives such information.) It premiered on BET's 106 & Park on April 11, 2003.
• The video was released as a DVD single featuring the "One of Those Days" video by Arista on May 20, 2003 and certified Gold for shipments of 25,000 units by the RIAA on September 22, 2003.

• The video features Houston in front of a plain beige and gray backdrop with different angles of her. She is sitting on a concrete pillar with a spotlight focused on her. Toward the end of the video, a shower of flowers are shown falling all around her. Houston is wearing a white dress in mood of the beige and grey background.
• It premiered on September 10, 2009 on Houston's official website.
• Houston won Outstanding Music Video for the video at the 41st NAACP Image Awards, held on February 26, 2010.

• The video begins with Houston entering a dry cleaners and making her way through a kitchen wearing a fur coat. On exiting the kitchen, the music begins, and she walks into a club with then removing her coat and sings on a small stage, dressed in a metallic dress and knee high boots. At the end of the video, it has Houston walking away with dollar bills blowing around. This would be the last music video to be released in Houston's lifetime before dying in 2012.

(with Jordin Sparks)

• Sparks hosts a party at her place with fellow cast members of the film Sparkle in attendance. Footage from the film, mainly focusing on Houston, is spliced in throughout the clip. At the end of the video, Sparks wears a T-shirt with Houston's image: the I'm Your Baby Tonight album cover. The video is capped off with a message that reads "In loving memory of Whitney Houston".

• The video was posted on Houston's official Vevo channel on November 6, 2012, to promote her compilation album "I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston"

(among the Stop the Madness)

• The first anti-drug music video which features then first lady Nancy Reagan in special sequences filmed at the White House and a host of celebraties, as well as Houston singing solo and as part of a chorus in the recording studio along with other vocalists. It was created by the Entertainment Industries Council for a Drug-Free Society in an attempt get America's children to say "no" to drugs. The video premiered on NBC's Friday Night Videos on January 17, 1986.

(among the King Dream Chorus and Holiday Crew)

• The video was shot at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta where most of the participated assembled for filming of the video, as well as in New York and Los Angeles. Houston's scenes in the video were filmed in a separate place.

(with BeBe & CeCe Winans)

• Houston makes a cameo, appearing to sing along with BeBe and CeCe on stage, where they perform together close to the end of the video.

(with Aretha Franklin)

• A video montage of Houston's scenes from her "So Emotional" video and Franklin's from the "Freeway of Love" video.

(with Angie and Debbie Winans)

• The video featured Houston singing background vocals.

(with Bobby Brown)

• Houston makes guest appearance on the Bobby Brown's video. It begins with Houston's brief rendition of "Nobody Does It Better" and then shows her legs entering the white room where Brown sits on a chair. In the video, she plays Mr. Brown's therapist, speaking "So, Mr. Brown, tell me about this feeling inside" in the beginning. The dance scenes of the video portraying his dream or mental state have Brown dancing with a bunch of skeletons and female dancers. On the white room scenes, the camera almost doesn't show Houston's face definitely, only her legs, eyes or lips. But, eventually, the video ends showing Houston, leaving the room with saying "So, I'll be seeing you tomorrow, Mr. Brown."
• The video was delivered to national and local video outlets September 28, 1997.

• The video for the song performed by Irv Gotti featuring Ja Rule, Ashanti, Vita and Charli Baltimore, Houston and Bobby Brown have a five-second cameo, shown drinking champagne on the beach. The video premiered on BET's 106 & Park on May 20, 2002.

• For the video for the song performed by Luther Vandross, Houston submitted two pictures of her own: one was a photo which Luther scooped Houston up in his arms and the other was one of her wedding photos along with her father, the late John Houston.