My all-time favorite Whitney song is this, and it wasn't even a single, lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzHOvvTx5dI
Yours?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzHOvvTx5dI
Yours?
However, I may be reading too much into it, but did she have a cold when she was recording it in the studio?
I always think the vocal on that is just a little bit raspy in the choruses....or maybe it's just my copy of the song that's distorted lol?