# Past Tunes

> The songs that defined America in the 1970s and 1980s


## Posts

- [The Night Clive Davis Heard the Future](https://pasttunes.com/whitney-houston-clive-davis-discovery/): Imagine a small New York nightclub in 1983. The room is dark. The stage is small.
- [Whitney (1987): The Second Album That Sealed It](https://pasttunes.com/whitney-houston-1987-album/): Think back to the summer of 1987. The windows are down. The radio is up.
- [Raised in the Church: Whitney Houston's Gospel Roots](https://pasttunes.com/whitney-houston-gospel-roots/): Close your eyes and imagine a Sunday morning in Newark, New Jersey, in the early 1970s. The church is full. The organ is playing.
- [Whitney Houston (1985): The Debut That Announced a Voice](https://pasttunes.com/whitney-houston-debut-album/): Picture a record store in 1985.
- [Seven in a Row: Whitney Houston's Impossible Run](https://pasttunes.com/whitney-houston-seven-number-ones/): Do you remember the sound of a radio countdown on a Saturday morning in the late 1980s?
- [Hotel California: The Song Everyone Misunderstands](https://pasttunes.com/hotel-california-eagles-story/): There is a hotel on the cover of the Eagles' album Hotel California, and it is a real place — just not the place most listeners imagine.
- [How Michael Jackson Invented the Modern Music Video](https://pasttunes.com/michael-jackson-music-video-revolution/): Before Michael Jackson, a music video was a simple thing. A singer stood in front of a camera, sang the song, and the camera recorded it.
- [The Partnership: Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones](https://pasttunes.com/michael-jackson-quincy-jones/): Every great artist has a moment when the right partner walks into the room.
- [Thriller: The Album That Ate the World](https://pasttunes.com/thriller-michael-jackson-album/): There are albums that sell well, albums that define a year, and then there is Thriller.
- [Billie Jean: The Night the Moonwalk Stopped America](https://pasttunes.com/billie-jean-michael-jackson-story/): If you were watching television on a spring night in 1983, you probably remember exactly where you were.
- [From Gary to the World: The Jackson 5 Years](https://pasttunes.com/michael-jackson-jackson-5-years/): Long before the moonwalk, before Thriller, before the white glove and the red jacket, there was a small house in Gary, Indiana, and five brothers who sang like they had been doing it all their lives.

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