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WE’RE GONNA MAKE IT

From BLACK & WHITE
Written by David Foster, Mike Cotten, Anita Pointer & June Pointer

In the late seventies and early eighties, the Pointer Sisters were improving their success and crossover appeal album by album that would eventually make them one of the hottest acts in the world of pop music. Their Svengali was renowned and experienced producer Richard Perry who helped them create some very well crafted pop/R&B albums.

YESTERDAY

From TIMELESS THE CLASSICS
Written by John Lennon & Paul McCartney

Michael Bolton reached super-stardom at the end of the eighties, after a long career as an AOR singer/songwriter. In 1992, after the incredible success of “Soul Provider” and “Time, Love & Tenderness,” both multi-platinum hits, Bolton went back into the studio with his long-time partner, Walter Afanasieff, and David Foster to work on a collection of evergreens aptly titled “Timeless – The Classics.”

AND WHEN SHE DANCED

From STEALING HOME
Written by David Foster and Linda Thompson

David Foster wrote some amazing hits for “Urban Cowboy,” “Two Of A Kind,” “Ghostbusters,” “The Karate Kid Part II.”

A LOVE OF YOUR OWN

From HARD CANDY
Written by Ned Doheny & Hamish Stuart

Ned Doheny is a gifted singer/songwriter. In the second half of the seventies he developed a unique sound that mixed the acoustic melodies of Jackson Browne and James Taylor with the black rhythms of labels like Motown and Stax. “Hard Candy,” released in 1976, was his second album and his first collaboration with Steve Cropper.

I’D GIVE ANYTHING

From GROOVE ON
Written by Chris Farren, Jeffrey Steele & Vince Malamed – additional lyrics by L. Thompson

There are two things that huge hits like Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You,” All 4 One’s “I Swear” and “I Can Love You Like That,” plus Gerald Levert’s “I’d Give Anything” have in common: 1) they were all produced and arranged by David Foster and 2) before they became R&B/Pop smashes they were all big Country hits.