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The 1989 Soul Train Music Awards jeering
[edit]Whitney Houston was nominated for Best R&B/Urban Contemporary Single, Female for "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" at the 3rd Soul Train Music Awards, held on April 12, 1989. When presenters Heather Locklear and James Ingram called out Houston's name and the song as the nominee for the category, Houston was booed openly by some people in the audience. Concerning that matter, she told Ebony magazine of May 1991, that it might have been because she had won too many awards―2 Grammys, 2 Emmies and 11 American Music Awards―in her short career at the time, adding "They[some people in the audience] had just gotten sick of me and just didn't want me to win another award. No, it does not make you feel good. I don't like it and I don't appreciate it, but I just kind of write it off as ignorance."[1] Houston also mentioned about of her racial identity. In an interview with Katie Couric on Dateline NBC in December 1996, she talked about her feeling at the moment as follows:
It's not a good feeling. It is horrible, and it's kind of funny. You go, "Are they booing me?" And they say, "Yeah." You go, "Oh, how nice." You have to sit there and be, like, cordial and be smiling like everything is ok, and you're feeling like, "Oh my God. They're not booing me, are they?"
Houston also answered sarcastically Couric's question that the reason why people have booed her at the time was because they didn't think she was black enough or something, that "Sometimes it gets down to that, you know? You're not black enough for them. I don't know. You're not R&B enough. You're very pop. The white audience has taken you away from them."
Live performances
[edit]Houston first performed "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" at Montreux Golden Rose Rock Festival on May 15, 1987. The performance was broadcast later in the US, as well as on various European TV channels.[2] Houston sang the song at The 15th American Music Awards, held on January 25, 1988.[3] She lip-synced to the album version of the song on the UK BBC1 TV show Wogan, which was hosted by Terry Wogan in 1988. "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" was one of the Houston's set list during Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Celebration concert, televised live worldwide via BBC, at Wembley Stadium in London on June 11, 1988. In the US, the edit version of the concert was broadcast later on Fox TV network.[4][5]
Aside from the several live televised performances, the song was included on the set-lists on Houston's four tours, usually serving as part of a love song medley alongwith her other ballad hits. During her Moment of Truth World Tour (1987-88), the performance of the song was a little different to the album version. She started the song to usual tempo and was completed the song in an extended coda vamp, used her chest voice and falsetto appropriately. On her Feels So Right Japan Tour in 1990 and I'm Your Baby Tonight World Tour in 1991, Houston performed the song as the final part of a love song medley with "All at Once," "Didn't We Almost Have It All" and "A House Is Not a Home." She sang the additional lyrics such as "take me in your arms" and "say that you love me" extemporaneously at the end of the song. During I'm Your Baby Tonight World Tour, Houston performed the love song medley with the song at Welcome Home Heroes with Whitney Houston concert, dedicated to the US troops, their families in honor of those returning from the Gulf War, which was broadcast live via HBO on March 31, 1991.[6] Similarly, during The Bodyguard World Tour (1993-94), "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" was used as the fourth part of a love song medley, added "Nobody Loves Like You Do" and "All the Man That I Need" to the previous tours'. In 1998, on Houston's 10-dates European Tour, she also delivered a performance of the song as the final part of a love song medley.
Cover versions
[edit]"Where Do Broken Hearts Go" has been covered by punk rock group Me First and the Gimme Gimmes on their 2003 album, Take a Break.[7] Joe McElderry, the winner for the sixth series of the ITV show The X Factor in 2009, covered the song on a divas-themed week on October 17, 2009.[8] The song has also been covered several times by Tracy Miller, a Broadway theatrical actress-singer, who performed the song at the "Frank Wildhorn & Friends" concerts in September 2005.[9][10] The tenth season of American Idol contestant, Pia Toscano performed the song on the Top 12 competition of the show, aired on March 17, 2011.[11]
Track listing and formats
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[edit]Los Angeles Times: The Gospel According to Whitney
Boston Globe Archive: Mom, apple pie and Whitney Houston in concert for troops
Reference
[edit]- ^ "Whitney Houston: Talks About The Men In Her Life - And The Rumors, Lies And Insults That Are the High Price of Fame". Ebony. 46 (7). Johnson Publishing Company: 112. May 1991. ISSN 0012-9011. Retrieved April 10, 2011.
- ^ Bill Kelley (August 21, 1987). "'Montreux Festival' A Rerun Alternative". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Tribune Company. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
- ^ "Whitney Houston's Historic AMA Wins and Performances". realrnbradio.com. November 21, 2010. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
- ^ Steve Morse (June 9, 1988). "Big Tribute To Mandela To Fill Wembley Arena". Chicago Tribune. Tribune Company. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
- ^ "Fox to Telecast 6-Hour 'Freedomfest' for Mandela". Los Angeles Times. June 2, 1988. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
- ^ "Whitney Houston welcomes Home US Troops in Live HBO TV Special on Easter". Jet. 79 (24). Johnson Publishing Company: 37. April 1, 1991. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
- ^ "Take a Break by Me First and The Gimme Gimmes". Amazon. July 1, 2003. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
- ^ "The X Factor: it's divas week!". What's on TV. IPC Media. October 17, 2009. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
- ^ Pati Buehler (October 10, 2005). "Frank Wildhorn and Friends - In Concert". pennsylvania.broadwayworld.com. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
- ^ "Frank Wildhorn's project >> performances". frankwildhorn.com. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
- ^ Thad Ogburn (March 17, 2011). "Who were best, worst of the 'Idol' singers?". The Charlotte Observer. The McClatchy Company. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
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