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Topic History of: Whitney RIP - a personal tribute
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JK2006	After 67 years it's consoling to realise that executives generally are no more useless now than they were then! It's always been just a handful of inspired people that run all industries (and countries)... the majority don't have a clue. My only sadness is that there aren't more inspired executives in music - the only two young ones we used to champion at the Tipsheet were Richard Russell and Simon Cowell. Who can we encourage today?
Blue Boy	Thanks for the insight. She had the looks, a great voice and a bankable back story so it's amazing that such experienced record men would pass.
JK2006	I was consultant to Dick Asher at CBS at the time; my friend and lawyer Paul Marshall told me about Whitney; I set up an audition for her with Al Teller and Micky Eichner and that was the result. Clive, however, got it immediately.
Blue Boy	Shame Popbitch didn't credit you as the person who organised the CBS Records audition for Whitney. If they did it I'm sure it would have surprised and impressed a lot of people. Was this Whitney's first record company audition? Can you tell us the story of your involvement with discovering Whitney and getting her the audition.
JK2006	I remember her astonishing Star Spangled Banner (I was at that Superbowl) and featuring it in The Brits 1991 when Sinead didn't bother to turn up to collect her winning Best Female Award - it provoked hysterical industry reaction as they (rightly) saw it as a comment from me on Sinead's bad manners. But my main reason for showing it was because it was so terrific.