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One Moment in Time
"One Moment in Time" is a sentimental ballad by American singer Whitney Houston, written by Albert Hammond and John Bettis, and produced by Narada Michael Walden as a promotional song for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. It was released by Arista Records on August 27, 1988 as the first single from the compilation album 1988 Summer Olympics Album: One Moment in Time, produced in conjunction with NBC Sports' coverage of the games.
The song was a critical and commercial success, topping the Eurochart Hot 100 and the individual European countries Germany and the United Kingdom while reaching the top ten in several other countries, including the United States where it peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped its Adult Contemporary singles chart. The song won Houston the Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1989.
The song was later included on the second disc of her first greatest hits Whitney: The Greatest Hits; it is also on The Ultimate Collection and on the second disc of I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston.
It has been considered by media outlets as one of the greatest Olympic anthem songs ever recorded, with some such as Billboard citing it as the standard for all Olympics anthems to be measured by.
Veteran songwriters Albert Hammond and John Bettis were tasked by executives for NBC to write a song for coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Hammond explained that the melody of the song was inspired by Elvis Presley, with the composer imagining it as being sung by Presley "in lavish style" at the Olympics' opening ceremony.
Hammond later explained that after talking about composing the song over the phone that lyricist Bettis came up with the lyrics "within an hour". After Bettis gave Hammond the chorus that he took to his piano and sang it with the melody he composed for the song, which amazed Bettis.
After finishing the song, it was decided that Whitney Houston, then in the middle of a nine-date historic concert residency at London's Wembley Arena during her Moment of Truth World Tour that May, would record the song with production of the song being given to Houston collaborator Narada Michael Walden.
Walden recalled to Newsweek on arranging and producing the track, stating he took inspiration from the "high-pocket trumpets" used in the Beatles' 1967 song "Penny Lane", further explaining "I pulled forth little things I thought would push people and wake them up."
One Moment in Time
"One Moment in Time" is a sentimental ballad by American singer Whitney Houston, written by Albert Hammond and John Bettis, and produced by Narada Michael Walden as a promotional song for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. It was released by Arista Records on August 27, 1988 as the first single from the compilation album 1988 Summer Olympics Album: One Moment in Time, produced in conjunction with NBC Sports' coverage of the games.
The song was a critical and commercial success, topping the Eurochart Hot 100 and the individual European countries Germany and the United Kingdom while reaching the top ten in several other countries, including the United States where it peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped its Adult Contemporary singles chart. The song won Houston the Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1989.
The song was later included on the second disc of her first greatest hits Whitney: The Greatest Hits; it is also on The Ultimate Collection and on the second disc of I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston.
It has been considered by media outlets as one of the greatest Olympic anthem songs ever recorded, with some such as Billboard citing it as the standard for all Olympics anthems to be measured by.
Veteran songwriters Albert Hammond and John Bettis were tasked by executives for NBC to write a song for coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Hammond explained that the melody of the song was inspired by Elvis Presley, with the composer imagining it as being sung by Presley "in lavish style" at the Olympics' opening ceremony.
Hammond later explained that after talking about composing the song over the phone that lyricist Bettis came up with the lyrics "within an hour". After Bettis gave Hammond the chorus that he took to his piano and sang it with the melody he composed for the song, which amazed Bettis.
After finishing the song, it was decided that Whitney Houston, then in the middle of a nine-date historic concert residency at London's Wembley Arena during her Moment of Truth World Tour that May, would record the song with production of the song being given to Houston collaborator Narada Michael Walden.
Walden recalled to Newsweek on arranging and producing the track, stating he took inspiration from the "high-pocket trumpets" used in the Beatles' 1967 song "Penny Lane", further explaining "I pulled forth little things I thought would push people and wake them up."