DEF: Whitney Houston “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)”

Newark, New Jersey-born pop music superstar Whitney Houston hit number one with the first four singles from her second album Whitney, the fourth of which would set a record as her seventh straight song to top the chart. Exactly 30 years ago, the first single from Whitney, “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me),” became the first of the album’s four number one singles, rising to the pinnacle position for a two-week reign. To commemorate that anniversary, “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)” by Whitney Houston is today’s Daily Eighties Flashback.