New Whitney Houston Compilation To Collect Bodyguard-Era Rarities
LatestThe soundtrack to the 1992 movie The Bodyguard was about as ubiquitous as oxygen itself in the early ’90s. The soundtrack stayed on the Billboard 200 albums chart for over two and a half years (141 weeks) and spawned five Whitney Houston singles, three of them Top 5 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including what would become her signature song, “I Will Always Love You.”
An important anniversary is imminent and Whitney Houston is dead, which means there’s more Bodyguard coming at us. On November 17, 25 years after the release of the original soundtrack to the day, Legacy Recordings (in cooperation with The Estate of Whitney E. Houston) will release Whitney Houston – I Wish You Love: More From The Bodyguard, which will collect alternate and live versions of Houston’s six Bodyguard songs.
Though an a capella version of “Jesus Loves Me” has never been heard by the public before, there are no previously unreleased songs on the compilation, per se—Houston, famously, did not leave behind much of a catalog of unreleased material (unlike, say, Prince). Her posthumous releases are bound to be made of nice-enough ephemera for diehards, like this one appears to be, but we can’t expect them exactly to exist within the realm of essential listening.
Full track list is below:
1. I Will Always Love You (Alternate Mix)
Spoken word intro as Rachel Marron dedicated to Frank Farmer
The iconic recorded performance of “I Will Always Love You” captured on the first take
2. I Have Nothing (Film Version)
As featured in the scene with Rachel Marron performing “I Have Nothing”