So much power, control, and authority in her voice. She can switch it from chest to head voice so effortlessly. Love her runs and riffs, and melisma at just the right moments. That's what made her so great in my opinion
95KIPPIE That's because she perfected her chest voice. In order for you to grow your head voice your chest must be strong too because 9/10 that's where you'll be coming from when you switch into the head voice. That juss goes to show how strong and solid her chest was because she literally had the best head voice in the business and no one since or before has had a head voice like Whitney.
That's why having an excellent chest voice requires a healthy lifestyle and discipline to maintain it. Forget about smoking and inhaling awful stuff. Anything that jeopardizes breathing will interfere with it. These habits can be a challenge when this type of demand has been placed on you!!!! Being number one ain't easy!!!!
Whitney's voice everyday. Proving you don't have to mix and hit those super high catty notes to sound powerful. Whitney's was all about magnificent resonant chest voice and fairy sounding head voice. She kept all the richness of her voice up to her highest belts and without sounding witch-like like countless singers past E5.
When you’re belting past E5, you need that really twangy sound hence the ‘witch like’ quality, it’s actually a much healthier technique. If you try a push your chest voice up, or have too much (and I mean way too much) of a chest dominant mix, you’ll struggle to hit the high Fs and Gs.
@@theiconicaprojecttheiconic1892 actually you dont need the twangy sound because you’re constricting your vocals with thatt….thats just the common thing for vocalists because they didnt have Cissy as a mom….not really a healthier technique eitherr
"Ain't No Way" was written by Aretha's sister Carolyn Franklin. Whitney's mother Cissy Houston sang background vocals including that high note, on Aretha's original hit record.
"so hard and cold and cruel is a man" Wow, I have never been able to understand what is being said at that part. Whitney is the first singer I've heard sing this where I heard what was being said at that part very clearly.
To compare Whitney and Aretha's version is not equal. Whitney is singing this song live, Aretha's is a studio recorded version, where you get the opportunity to do as many takes as needed. No doubt both were great singers with great range and control.
@@whitneyandmariahremasters8597 I think she is just vocally tired here. She still sound amazing, but if she rested her voice, she would probably be better. I think later on this year, she developed vocal nodules around mid July 1994
I think they had very different points of view in this song. Aretha's was very sexy, very loving. Whitney's was at the end of her rope. Both amazing singers, individuals, with very different lives and interpretations.
I know she is gone but she had better sing that song. Oh my gosh, she sung the notes off the music sheets and sent them into the stratosphere. To sing this song live and sounds just as good or better than the studio recording is a testament to her gift.
In Honor of Whitney and 2 year anniversary of her passing here's a flashback of her singing Aretha Franklin's Ain't No Way live in Philly during The Bodyguard Tour back in 1994.
@@kyleroper5379 thank you for providing detailed info! Artists who excel at singing live have varying renditions…I agree with you, Whitney gave an inspired performance. Gone too soon, a voice for the ages!
Singing this is probably a big factor in her vocal damage... even patti used falsetto on the high part on the bridge... Still think WH has the best versions of this classic though
Chicago has Melvia Chick Rodgers who actually has more views than WH. No doubt Whitney was a true Diva, however, Chi-Town has its own product. Check her out!
No. Singing Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman" is what gave her vocal damage. She never had that kind of height up on the higher end like Aretha, Patti, and Chaka, which is why I'm surprised she decided to record the song in its original key (Mind you, when she sang it live, she did take it down a whole step but wouldn't sing that bridge). When Whitney sings Aretha songs, she tends to take them down as she doesn't quite have the higher belt range like the ones mentioned above. I think she never learned how to mix like them. She had this full, rich chest voice, which is why the middle voice is so big, but she never learned to mix head into but instead pulled chest voice high. Now she definitely used head voice and was judicious about taking chest voice too high when she was younger. She would simply switch to that gorgeous head voice she had but again, she never learned to blend the registers.
Was that her mum backing her up again? She says "mummy I love you" at the end. Wow, it's in the blood 👌 I feel so heartbroken for Ms Cici, losing her legendary daughter & later granddaughter within such short spaces of time.
955pokerface Not completely. Smoking did damage to her lower register vocals, but her voice was still there. Whitney was just tired. Even on her worst day she was better than these chicks nowadays.
I think it was everything. Idk how ppl can pinpoint drugs when there are still so many active musicians that did/do drugs that still sound good. But they didn't have the stress and pressure that Whitney had on her to be ON every single day. And worked damn hard to get to where she was. But regardless, she is still the greatest EVER, IMO of course.
Stupid comment : did she pretend to touch Aretha ! Her performance is beyond words and even in your dreams you couldn’t pay a Ain’t no way tribute as Whitney did !
Whitney here in 1994 was in her vocal prime and even she had alil strain on the bridge of this song..I dont know if the key on the orginal that Aretha sang is in a hard key or what..I seen Patti Labelle even struggle wit that bridge.
Whitney performs this song well, but the original is better in my opinion the best part seems to be unique to Aretha. She didn't take the song from Aretha like she took I Will Always Love You away from Dolly Parton. She does sing the song well. Cynthia Erivo is pretty good too!!!❤❤❤ All black beautiful and talented!!!!
Only Whitney, and Gladys Knight could sing Aretha’s song and give them justice. Maybe even Dionne. She once sung Aretha’s song” Daydreaming” and she sung it pretty good. But nobody sings “Ain’t No Way “ better than Aretha with Cissy Houston in the background.
I'm not a die hard Patti Labelle fan hell i think i only know 2 songs sadly lol but she murder this song in aretha frankilns face and she gave me chills lol.
Ain't no way For me to love you If you won't let me It ain't no way For me to give you all you need If you won't let me Give all of me I know that a woman's duty Is to have and love a man And that's the way it was planned Oh but how can I, how can I, how can I Give you all the things I can If your tying up both of my hands Oh ain't no, ain't no way (ain't no way) It ain't no way no, no, no (ain't no way) Sho' ain't no way (ain't no way) It ain't no way (ain't no way) It ain't no way for me to love you If you won't let me So, stop trying to be Someone your not Hard, cold and cruel is a man Who paid to much for what he's got And if you need me Won't you say, say you do Because if you need me Don't you know I need you Ain't no way
Smoking totally ruined her voice and people who deny it are delusional. i smoked cigarettes for like a month and had zero upper singing register, it was just phlegm and rasp, that's totally what happened to Whitney, it damages your vocal chords, her voice drastically darkened, and her 2002 album was evident of that
@@Cmc995 ya its crazy how she still had all her higher register and smoother head voice to chest voice transition in 96 in 98 her head voice would not come out sometimes
that was alphie Silas Durio, taught b sissy her self, the other 2 singers were patty Howard, and the late Olivia McClurkin,same singers in the south afica video
This was actually not that difficult note for Whitney to hit I think she only got nervous when she had to perform an Aretha Franklin song because she looked up to her a lot and held her in a very high esteem And in comparison - did not think that highly of herself. I have noticed her body language in a lot of her interviews when she speaks of Aretha - could be because of the family dynamic shared with Aretha And that sort of shows when she performs an Aretha song as well She has performed much more difficult songs than this with ease... But it was really just a matter of confidence which she lacked whenever she touched upon an Aretha classic... I wish she actually knew that she was in fact better
I think so. At the end, she said mommy i love you... only you. Its as if she was paying homage to her mom and letting ppl know her mom is the one who song that high soprano note in original recording.
I was expecting a bit more. Her voice blew out on the bridge. Patti Labelle did a better more personalized version of the song. I still love Whitney. God Bless.
jeffrey a she had been smoking a lot and touring way too much. I think later on this year, she had developed vocal nodules and an ulcerated throat because she wasn't resting her voice properly
Well no one sings that bridge in pure chest. Not even Aretha and Patti switches to head voice. No one attacked the notes with that kind of power and chestiness ever. and open throated This notes are close to G5..the last big notes are F5/ F#5 AND They are all sang big!
Patti sounds HORRIBLE and over the top with all her screeching and cat-sounding belting. Her tone sucks. Her vibrato suck, her transitions between registers suck. Whitney was refined and powerful when it needed to be. Patti made a specialty of ruining Aretha's classics.
+Exxon Hodgson the sweet inspirations backed most of Aretha's hits. Cissy led that group and if you listen to the two Aretha songs prior to ain't no way, same concert Whitney is doing a tribute to them and Aretha. Whitney sang back up on Chaka Khan I'm every woman original at 15. if you listen to the 86, 88 concerts, Whitney tells the story. Her mom was a beast too!
So much power, control, and authority in her voice. She can switch it from chest to head voice so effortlessly. Love her runs and riffs, and melisma at just the right moments. That's what made her so great in my opinion
95KIPPIE That's because she perfected her chest voice. In order for you to grow your head voice your chest must be strong too because 9/10 that's where you'll be coming from when you switch into the head voice. That juss goes to show how strong and solid her chest was because she literally had the best head voice in the business and no one since or before has had a head voice like Whitney.
She was and definitely still is still one of my idol's
That's why having an excellent chest voice requires a healthy lifestyle and discipline to maintain it. Forget about smoking and inhaling awful stuff. Anything that jeopardizes breathing will interfere with it. These habits can be a challenge when this type of demand has been placed on you!!!! Being number one ain't easy!!!!
That’s Probably A Lots……Of Peoples Opinion!!!!
What a voice ! What a voice ! And it’s a live. We’ve never heard a voice like that before
2 great LEGENDS! RIParadise Ms. Whitney Houston and the GREAT Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin.
Whitney Whitney sing
I'm so in love with Whitney Houston
Amen!
Whitney's voice everyday. Proving you don't have to mix and hit those super high catty notes to sound powerful. Whitney's was all about magnificent resonant chest voice and fairy sounding head voice. She kept all the richness of her voice up to her highest belts and without sounding witch-like like countless singers past E5.
When you’re belting past E5, you need that really twangy sound hence the ‘witch like’ quality, it’s actually a much healthier technique. If you try a push your chest voice up, or have too much (and I mean way too much) of a chest dominant mix, you’ll struggle to hit the high Fs and Gs.
@@theiconicaprojecttheiconic1892 actually you dont need the twangy sound because you’re constricting your vocals with thatt….thats just the common thing for vocalists because they didnt have Cissy as a mom….not really a healthier technique eitherr
Chest Dominant Queen
@@diorrboyyyy hell... Even lots of singers sound witchy-like start from C5! Whitney maintains her tonal quality up to G5... It's so amazing
@@ranmasaotome2876 exactly😭 like tonal quality is very important, if you start losing that even on midbelts your technique is flawed
"Ain't No Way" was written by Aretha's sister Carolyn Franklin. Whitney's mother Cissy Houston sang background vocals including that high note, on Aretha's original hit record.
3:23 She bounced right back! Amazing!
Yep. She's acquired vocal nodules back in 1993 and a sore throat in 1994.
she is and always will be THE VOICE!!!!
@@kenken5431 Yesssssss the Voice, Whitney
@@jeffreyj3906 man it's like when I hear her she can make me ,crazy, laugh it's amazing how she touch my life
My favorite Aretha song. Love to hear Whitney sing it!
"so hard and cold and cruel is a man"
Wow, I have never been able to understand what is being said at that part. Whitney is the first singer I've heard sing this where I heard what was being said at that part very clearly.
Patty Labelle did a great version of Ain't No Way.
Cissy is now reunited with Whitney and Bobbi in God's world. Rest in Power.
To compare Whitney and Aretha's version is not equal. Whitney is singing this song live, Aretha's is a studio recorded version, where you get the opportunity to do as many takes as needed. No doubt both were great singers with great range and control.
Whitney also is sick here.
@@whitneyandmariahremasters8597 I think she is just vocally tired here. She still sound amazing, but if she rested her voice, she would probably be better. I think later on this year, she developed vocal nodules around mid July 1994
Whitney still did it better
I think they had very different points of view in this song. Aretha's was very sexy, very loving. Whitney's was at the end of her rope. Both amazing singers, individuals, with very different lives and interpretations.
@@Cheffinwithammyyyno she didn’t
I miss Whitney Houston so much. I can't believe it's been only days away from being 10 years since she passed...
I know she is gone but she had better sing that song. Oh my gosh, she sung the notes off the music sheets and sent them into the stratosphere. To sing this song live and sounds just as good or better than the studio recording is a testament to her gift.
We all lost so much than her voice.
In Honor of Whitney and 2 year anniversary of her passing here's a flashback of her singing Aretha Franklin's Ain't No Way live in Philly during The Bodyguard Tour back in 1994.
love this song thanks for posting....
A but tardy but... Appreciate hearing this rendition!
@@queenmab7592Her version is USA Uniondale 1994 is the best she ate the climax and the whole song
@@kyleroper5379 thank you for providing detailed info! Artists who excel at singing live have varying renditions…I agree with you, Whitney gave an inspired performance. Gone too soon, a voice for the ages!
Queen forever
I was looking for Jean Carne singing Aint no way...never knew Whitney sing this song as well xxx RIP
That voice was so unreal! Honestly like it was put there by an alien or a god or something I SWARE 😂
Yes love how Whitney sings fr she how’s power in her voice
That was jaw dropping amazing!
Singing this is probably a big factor in her vocal damage... even patti used falsetto on the high part on the bridge... Still think WH has the best versions of this classic though
Chicago has Melvia Chick Rodgers who actually has more views than WH. No doubt Whitney was a true Diva, however, Chi-Town has its own product. Check her out!
What about the cigs?
Honestly I think that she didn't use the same technique that she normally did. She usually wouldn't just attack the notes like that. Not so forcibly.
+William Rucker that are closed syllables which makes it even harder to do the notes, she should have use headvoice when she hit that "you"
No. Singing Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman" is what gave her vocal damage. She never had that kind of height up on the higher end like Aretha, Patti, and Chaka, which is why I'm surprised she decided to record the song in its original key (Mind you, when she sang it live, she did take it down a whole step but wouldn't sing that bridge). When Whitney sings Aretha songs, she tends to take them down as she doesn't quite have the higher belt range like the ones mentioned above. I think she never learned how to mix like them. She had this full, rich chest voice, which is why the middle voice is so big, but she never learned to mix head into but instead pulled chest voice high. Now she definitely used head voice and was judicious about taking chest voice too high when she was younger. She would simply switch to that gorgeous head voice she had but again, she never learned to blend the registers.
Che voce … che bravura … che meraviglia …. Inimitabile , bravissima , bellissima ❤❤❤🌹
Amazing miss her singing
BRAVA WHITNEY .....PECCATO CHE CI ABBIA LASCIATO COSI' GIOVANE....UNA DELLE PIU' BELLE VOCI DEL MONDO.....
The best to tribute Aretha !!!
Whitney U Change My Life❤
Was that her mum backing her up again? She says "mummy I love you" at the end. Wow, it's in the blood 👌 I feel so heartbroken for Ms Cici, losing her legendary daughter & later granddaughter within such short spaces of time.
Amazing, amazing Whitney Houston, love voice and song.
No one like Whitney - but she worked herself to hard and stressed herself and her voice. But darn who was good and beautiful
henrik echers she smoked that’s what ruined her voice completely
955pokerface Not completely. Smoking did damage to her lower register vocals, but her voice was still there. Whitney was just tired. Even on her worst day she was better than these chicks nowadays.
Yes she did
I think it was everything. Idk how ppl can pinpoint drugs when there are still so many active musicians that did/do drugs that still sound good. But they didn't have the stress and pressure that Whitney had on her to be ON every single day. And worked damn hard to get to where she was. But regardless, she is still the greatest EVER, IMO of course.
My favorite too❤❤
This some real shit ! Men suck ! Loving a man is one of the hardest thing ever done in life! This coming from a man!🙏🏾🙏🏾
As good as my girl can sing, she cant touch the QUEEN OF SOUL on this. Aretha nailed it. I miss them both dearly.
Stupid comment : did she pretend to touch Aretha ! Her performance is beyond words and even in your dreams you couldn’t pay a Ain’t no way tribute as Whitney did !
#aretha and #carol. ❤
wow amazing
she was so GREAT, but finally no one can beat aretha on this song^^
sevyn flow She didn't have to reach Aretha .. Whitney passed Aretha and Aretha knows this 💀
asia jackson EXACTLY!
Sisaundra Lewis on the Voice did it best.
Sweet Jesus!!!!
The Background!!!!!
Love this!!! Omg
Caracaaaaaaa mano 😨😨 ela foi incrível. Descanse em paz
LOVE Whitney Houston por siempre tú tú tú, tú, tú, tú, tú, tú Forever Whitney Houston 💜💜💜💜💜
My girl RIP my friend 🌹🌹🌹
Thats the same crazy note Aretha Franklin hit on her song baby baby baby.
C.M ❤️❤️❤️ always!
So sad to be without her now. Drugs and a bad relationship ruined her.
Wow!!!!!!!!
Phenomenal.,,,,,
She still killed it with being horse 😂
Whitney here in 1994 was in her vocal prime and even she had alil strain on the bridge of this song..I dont know if the key on the orginal that Aretha sang is in a hard key or what..I seen Patti Labelle even struggle wit that bridge.
Whitney performs this song well, but the original is better in my opinion the best part seems to be unique to Aretha. She didn't take the song from Aretha like she took I Will Always Love You away from Dolly Parton. She does sing the song well. Cynthia Erivo is pretty good too!!!❤❤❤ All black beautiful and talented!!!!
Only Whitney, and Gladys Knight could sing Aretha’s song and give them justice. Maybe even Dionne. She once sung Aretha’s song” Daydreaming” and she sung it pretty good. But nobody sings “Ain’t No Way “ better than Aretha with Cissy Houston in the background.
I'm not a die hard Patti Labelle fan hell i think i only know 2 songs sadly lol but she murder this song in aretha frankilns face and she gave me chills lol.
Same
Don’t let Whitney sing your songs. Once she puts dat “Whitney” stamp on it, kiss your song goodbye it’s no longer yours 😂
I Gave U Me!!
❤❤
Can someone tell me what happened at the 3:23 mark? It sounded as if she lost her breathe or something.
Nodules, I believe
Pure fatigue - she pushed a little too hard on the bridge and ran out of steam
Ain't no way
For me to love you
If you won't let me
It ain't no way
For me to give you all you need
If you won't let me
Give all of me
I know that a woman's duty
Is to have and love a man
And that's the way it was planned
Oh but how can I, how can I, how can I
Give you all the things I can
If your tying up both of my hands
Oh ain't no, ain't no way (ain't no way)
It ain't no way no, no, no (ain't no way)
Sho' ain't no way (ain't no way)
It ain't no way (ain't no way)
It ain't no way for me to love you
If you won't let me
So, stop trying to be
Someone your not
Hard, cold and cruel is a man
Who paid to much for what he's got
And if you need me
Won't you say, say you do
Because if you need me
Don't you know I need you
Ain't no way
“How can I”
Whitney sounds good but Jennifer Hudson’s voice sounds more like Aretha but i love the singers
Smoking totally ruined her voice and people who deny it are delusional. i smoked cigarettes for like a month and had zero upper singing register, it was just phlegm and rasp, that's totally what happened to Whitney, it damages your vocal chords, her voice drastically darkened, and her 2002 album was evident of that
Omg me too. Im like wtf with my voice from smoking
I said it during her last tour that it was the cigarettes. Idiots kept saying it was the harder drugs. 🙄
Compare her voice from ‘96 to ‘98 even. it was crazy. Smoking. Cigarettes, weed anything
@@Cmc995 ya its crazy how she still had all her higher register and smoother head voice to chest voice transition in 96 in 98 her head voice would not come out sometimes
Can hear it 3:23 😔
Wnitney never did any wrong. Drugs or not. Her voice!!!!!
Who was doing the Cissy part?
that was alphie Silas Durio, taught b sissy her self, the other 2 singers were patty Howard, and the late Olivia McClurkin,same singers in the south afica video
❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹
U Know Me???
This was actually not that difficult note for Whitney to hit I think she only got nervous when she had to perform an Aretha Franklin song because she looked up to her a lot and held her in a very high esteem
And in comparison - did not think that highly of herself. I have noticed her body language in a lot of her interviews when she speaks of Aretha - could be because of the family dynamic shared with Aretha
And that sort of shows when she performs an Aretha song as well
She has performed much more difficult songs than this with ease...
But it was really just a matter of confidence which she lacked whenever she touched upon an Aretha classic...
I wish she actually knew that she was in fact better
Understand please
some one u NOT!!
I like Whitney's voice better then Aretha's honestly. I like it better then better then Barbara Streisand's too
She ain't got no business being dead
Is it her mom doing the back-up?
I think so. At the end, she said mommy i love you... only you. Its as if she was paying homage to her mom and letting ppl know her mom is the one who song that high soprano note in original recording.
@@bleu1306 Cissy did a lot of background vocals for Aretha so I'm assuming it is Cissy here singing with Whitney
No, not here with Whitney but was back up for Aretha
Yes, I think that's Cissy.
BEING
Anit no way
Not as powerful as Aretha, but it is close, but not close enough.
absolutely
I was expecting a bit more. Her voice blew out on the bridge. Patti Labelle did a better more personalized version of the song. I still love Whitney. God Bless.
jeffrey a she had been smoking a lot and touring way too much. I think later on this year, she had developed vocal nodules and an ulcerated throat because she wasn't resting her voice properly
jeffrey a a The version from the New York show is better, she nails the bridge!
Well no one sings that bridge in pure chest. Not even Aretha and Patti switches to head voice. No one attacked the notes with that kind of power and chestiness ever. and open throated This notes are close to G5..the last big notes are F5/ F#5 AND They are all sang big!
@@olusegunodumosu2024 exactly
Patti sounds HORRIBLE and over the top with all her screeching and cat-sounding belting. Her tone sucks. Her vibrato suck, her transitions between registers suck. Whitney was refined and powerful when it needed to be. Patti made a specialty of ruining Aretha's classics.
STOP
This was awful lmaoooo
We would love to hear your rendition of it if that is the case......😶
You mean you re awful piece of trash
Even in your dreams you could perform like that
This tribute is amazing
whitney was good but in this song she missed the most important part of the song she did not hit the right notes
+Exxon Hodgson This is a great rendition. It's ironic b/c it was her mom who hit those soprano notes on the original.
i think its Chaka Khan ??
+Exxon Hodgson the sweet inspirations backed most of Aretha's hits. Cissy led that group and if you listen to the two Aretha songs prior to ain't no way, same concert Whitney is doing a tribute to them and Aretha. Whitney sang back up on Chaka Khan I'm every woman original at 15. if you listen to the 86, 88 concerts, Whitney tells the story. Her mom was a beast too!
got u
+Duane Parker Cissy was the one hitting those high notes on Aretha's record. Those genes are serious!