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The Greatest Love Of All " is a song written by Michael Creed,who wrote the lyrics. It was originally recorded in 1977 by George Benson, who made the song a substantial hit, peaking at number two on the US Hot Soul singles chart that year, the first R&B chart top_ten hit for Arista Records. The song was written and recorded to be the main theme of the 1977 film The Greatest, a biopic of the boxer Mohammed Ali, and is performed during the opening credits

Benson's original recording was released in 1977 in the United States 🇺🇲 , Japan 🇯🇵 , Australia 🇦🇺, Italy 🇮🇹 , Brazil 🇧🇷 , Netherlands 🇳🇱, the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 and Thailand 🇹🇭, on an extended play. He officially recorded the song 🎵 four times, in addition to the studio single, Benson also recorded three live versions, the last time in a duet witg Luciano Pavarotti in 2001. Since 1977, a great number of artists have recorded this song, including Shirley Bassey, Oleta Adams, Alexandra Burke, Deborah Cox, Ferrante & Teicher and Kevin Rowland.

Eight Years after Benson's original recording, the song became even more well known for a version by Whitney Houston, whose 1985 cover (with the slightly amended title "Greatest Love Of All ") eventually topped the charts, peaking at number one in United States 🇺🇸, Australia 🇦🇺, Canada 🇨🇦 and on the US R&B chart in early 1986.

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