I Believe in You and Me
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| “I Believe in You and Me” | |||||
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| Single by The Four Tops from the album One More Mountain |
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| Released | 1983 | ||||
| Recorded | 1982 | ||||
| Genre | R&B/soul | ||||
| Label | Casablanca | ||||
| Writer(s) | Sandy Linzer David Wolfert |
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"I Believe in You and Me" is a 1982 song written by Sandy Linzer and David Wolfert and first recorded by legendary R&B vocal group The Four Tops and released as a single in 1983. It is also a 1996 song by American singer Whitney Houston, and was the first single from the soundtrack to the film The Preacher's Wife.
[edit] Song information
Written by Sandy Linzer and David Wolfert, "I Believe in You and Me" was originally recorded by The Four Tops in 1982 and their original version of the song reached the top forty of Billboard's Hot Soul Singles chart peaking at number forty in early 1983. Fourteen years later, Whitney Houston's cover of the song peaked at number four on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, and number nine on the United World Chart. Houston performed "I Believe in You and Me" as the musical guest on a Christmas-themed episode of Saturday Night Live in December 1996, with host Rosie O'Donnell.
On May 15th, 2007, American Idol contestant Melinda Doolittle sang this song in her first Top 3 performances.
The Four Tops performed an emotional version of the song on their 50th anniversary special, which aired on PBS which featured Aretha Franklin and the wheelchair-bound Levi Stubbs who came out for the song to raucous cheers and applause from the audience and was overcome by emotion over the applause he received.
| “I Believe in You and Me” | |||||
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| Single by Whitney Houston from the album The Preacher's Wife: Original Soundtrack Album |
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| Released | December 9, 1996 | ||||
| Recorded | 1996 | ||||
| Genre | R&B | ||||
| Length | 4:00 | ||||
| Label | Arista | ||||
| Writer(s) | Sandy Linzer David Wolfert |
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| Producer | Mervyn Warren Whitney Houston |
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[edit] Track listing
- "I Believe in You and Me" - (Album Version) 3:51
- "I Believe in You and Me" - (Film Version) 4:00
- "Somebody Bigger Than You And I" (With Bobby Brown, Faith Evans, Johnny Gill, Monica & Ralph Tresvant) 4:41
- "The Lord Is My Shepherd" (performed by Cissy Houston) 4:23
- "Who Would Imagine A King" (The Nativity Choir From "The Preacher's Wife") 2:48
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