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Podcast: Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia
Episode: I'm Your Whitney Tonight Edition
Description: Eight years after her passing—and 35 years after the release of her debut album—Whitney Houston is about to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Predictably, some rock fans have carped that Houston doesn’t belong in the Hall. But they are not the only ones who, historically, have complained about Houston’s bona fides. In the ’80s, at the apex of her success, black fans complained that Houston was courting white pop fans too eagerly, and forgetting her roots in gospel and R&B.On the charts, by contrast, Whitney Houston’s achievements...