Which Whitney album track was a European-only duet single with Cissy Houston?

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Which Whitney album track was a European-only duet single with Cissy Houston? “I Know Him So Well” was the Whitney album track released as a European-market duet single with Cissy Houston. Whitney recorded the song with her mother for her 1987 album, Whitney, and the single appeared in selected European territories in late 1988.

The song originated in Chess, the musical created by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson, and Björn Ulvaeus. The original version was associated with Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson, whose recording became a major United Kingdom hit. Whitney and Cissy’s version brought the same theatrical ballad into a mother-and-daughter vocal setting.

The Houston duet was released in Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain, rather than receiving a broad worldwide campaign. It reached number 46 in Germany and number 16 in the Netherlands. The European CD maxi-single included “Just the Lonely Talking Again” and “You’re Still My Man,” which explains why those titles can appear alongside it in discography listings.

Listeners sometimes confuse this track with a standard Whitney single because Whitney generated several major U.S. hits from the album. However, “I Know Him So Well” was the sixth and final single from Whitney and was chiefly a European release.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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