How did she do it?

[andy-hughes]

Get through this from beginning to end without weeping?

I can't, and I'm only watching her do it!!

This - Whitney / Maria fans - is how you do emotion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyCVxPEPx5Y

[McMouse]

I was in Henley-on-Thames at the weekend and say here headstone in the grave yard.

[MarkRae]

Here's the original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wmKcBm4Ik&feature=related

[craft1948]

I used to have my hair like that................

[Davethedog]

Crafty Dusty or Jacques?

[Jemisa]

My friends mother passed away a few months ago and as the pall barers brought the coffin in very slowly the Dusty version was playing through the speakers... sooo sad & moving.

jem

[andy-hughes]

Jemisa - I'd have been in pieces!

Anyone who can convey this much love and hurt through a song has got what it takes in my view.

It;s the understated emotion that gets you - a universe away from Whitney foghorning and wobbling her lips fit to take off!

Any X-Factor auditionee who wants to sing a Witless song should be made to listen to, and watch this first.

[craft1948]

lol Dave, Dusty.................we shared the same eye make-up as well.

[andy-hughes]

triggerhappy - popular support does not equate with talent - if that were the case, then The X-Factor would be a better programme than NYPD Blue, and Westlife would be better musicians than Jeff Buckley.

Of course Whitney Houston was popular - and indeed talented - I have always taken strong issue with her technique of confusion volume with emotion, and tonsular trick-cycling with empathy.