Posted on 02/12/2012 1:17:06 PM PST by freedommom
Two days before her death, Whitney Houston gave what would be her final performance at a Hollywood nightclub, surrounded by friends and family.
The 48-year-old music legend was at the "Kelly Price & Friends Unplugged: For The Love Of R&B Grammy Party" at Tru Hollywood nightclub on Thursday, February 9. Kelly Price called Houston up on stage and the pair sang a duet of "Yes, Jesus Loves Me" before Houston blew kisses to the crowd and walked off stage.
"I invited a bunch of friends, Whitney Houston among them. ... All of my friends came out. They performed. They performed for free. It was an amazing night. My band was there. It ended up being an all-out jam session," Price told MTV News at a pre-Grammy brunch on Saturday morning. "I wasn't expecting Whitney to take the stage, but she came up. She got on the stage, and while I was talking to her, she grabbed the microphone and started singing. So that's kind of cool."
Houston arrived at the party in a Cadillac Escalade, two hours after it had begun, wearing a snug black cocktail dress.
Her daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, 18, attended the party and walked the red carpet with her mother.
Inside the club, Houston was said to be in good spirits and danced from her spot in the club's VIP area, according to People magazine.
In my grandmother’s case, the family were a very musical church family. Her grandfather and his wife (the choir director) gave vocal lessons from their home, her mother sang in the choir and around the house, all the time. So, “Jesus loves Me” was probably the first song that she learned.
As a matter of fact, my mother told me a story about myself, as a two year old at Bible School (I was there because my mother was teaching). They were going to have me sing a solo at the Bible school program because I knew all the words to Jesus Loves Me and “The BLELE” (B-I-B-L-E) and I used to belt out the words every day at Bible School. I got up on the stage by myself, though, and started to cry.
"Jesus Loves Me" was one of the first hymns that I learned. Most of the words were written by Anna Warner, a New Yorker who wrote a handful of hymns, but William Bradbury, a heavyweight in the hymn-writing world composed the music and also wrote some of the words. Bradbury published it in his famous hymnal The Golden Shower (New York: Bigelow, 1862), which includes another of my favorite hymns, "My Latest Sun is Sinking Fast."
Bradbury had a hand in co-writing or publishing many of the famous hymns of the 1860's, including "He Leadeth Me" (1864), for which he wrote the music, and "Near the Cross" (1869), which appeared in his hymnal Bright Jewels (New York: Bigelow, 1869).
The first song that I learned was Them Bones, a hit from early 1947 for Waring's Pennsylvanians, who took a Delta Rhythm Boys spiritual and gave it the Spike Jones treatment.
48 isn’t all that young for a crackhead.
Sure, the pills were given to the daughter to calm her down on top of the alcohol so it wasn’t her fault she ended up in the hospital TWICE. Sure, just like the photos taken of her snorting coke wasn’t really what it looked like either. It’s amazing how “troubled” these celebs become when they get fame. Drugs, sex, and outrageous disgusting behavior. No thanks. I’ll keep my boring little normal life far far away from the limelight.
There’s a sequence of pictures from her exiting the event and flipping through them quickly you can see what looks very much like her cussing someone.
Hank Williams Jr and Elvis sang gospel songs, too.
I've heard that she was on drugs even before she was famous.
Whoops, that should have been Hank Williams, Sr.
That’ll be a great photo op! I’d love to see your loved one’s faces when you start singing rock-and-roll before you take your last breath!
The way she behaved before she died suggests that she was high and/or drunk. I’m obviously not an M.E.,coroner or Toxicologist but something is not right. Sober people do not behave in a bizarre manner.
It’s really sad. I just hope her daughter stays the hell away from drugs and leads a healthy life.
It just proves that life is fragile,no matter who you are.
If I have a funeral when I pass away I’d like them to play the Doobie Brothers “Drift Away”...that’d be perfect.
Let the dead bury their dead.
Doobie Brothers? I didn’t know they recorded that song,unless it’s a remake.
Yeah, I knew that song too, but not when I was two years old. Jesus Loves Me was probably the first song that I learned, followed by The B-I-B-L-E. . My family was full of Sunday school teachers and choir directors.
I’d want to have some Rufus and Chaka Khan playing.
Too bad I’d be dead...
When I was about 4, she was with some choir members in our living room, and they made a tape recording of Haldor Lillenas's 1922 hymn "Jesus Will Walk With Me." I became curious as to who this Jesus was who was going to walk with my mother. Later, she told me about Jesus and taught me "Jesus Loves Me."
In 1956, I heard my father play a tape recording of a choir singing a catchy tune which stuck in my mind for the next six decades. I never heard it again until 2006, when I obtained one of my mother's Old Fashioned Revival Hour hymnbooks. The sheet music of an old Methodist hymn entitled "Sound the Battle Cry" seemed to match the melody that had been stuck in my head so long. I surfed over to the old Cyber Hymnal site, and sure enough, that was it--I had recalled the melody note for note.
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