b'FEATHUERYEU HPOFRWO IN WT ROTE.How one of the lucky few original songs to appear on The Bodyguard soundtrack was inspired by a real break-up.Words_Aaron SlaterInJud: In those days I workedsongs, and Im an emotional the late 80s, Whitney Houston rose toin a studio at Peer Music inperson. So it was a happy international prominence asthe Hollywood HillsAllancoincidence, if you want to an exceptional vocal talentlived close byand virtuallycall it that, that they were and was already on her wayevery day of the week welooking for a Whitney song to becoming one of the best- would show up and workwhen I was rawit worked selling music artists of all- all day long. Everyone hadvery well.time. But by 1992, the soulheard that Whitney Houston diva from New Jersey madewas doing her first movie,Jud: Allan put in this lyric her screen acting debutwhich was going to be aidea and then I sat down starring alongside Kevinhuge deal, but we wereand started playing stuff, Costner in the romantichearing conflicting reportssinging and showing him thriller, The Bodyguard, andabout how much musicideas. We actually wrote two took her career to dizzyingwas going to be in it. Bypieces of music and then new heights. The filmsthe time we got involved,went home; I wasnt sure if Original Soundtrack Albumall the songwriters in theeither one of them was any won numerous awards,world had been receivinggood. Then we came back topped charts the worldbreakdowns saying theythe next day and thought one over and broke recordsitneeded four songs. Theyof themthe version that remains the best-sellingdidnt know, but it turnedended up sending to Whitney soundtrack album of all was like, Holy shit, this time, selling over 42 millionis actually really good. copies worldwide. Holy shit, this isThe lyric happened pretty actually quickly, probably a day The LP spawned a numberreally good. or two, then we recorded of massive hit singles,a bare-bones version. I including the cover ofplayed it as we were writing Dolly Partons I Will Alwaysout that virtually all of thoseit, and I liked the feel so Love You, but the fourthwould be inside songs,much that I kept the out-of-single would be the originalmainly covers. There endedtime version and layered stuff song, Run To You. Despiteup being just one outsideon topwe did it as piano, only achieving relativelysong written by songwritersvocal and some stringsmoderate chart success, itwho had nothing to do with became one of Houstonsthe project, directly. When most recognised songs, andwe got a breakdown from our HOW I WROTE was nominated for a 1993publishers we thought, Well, Academy Award for Bestthis is worth a shot. Its going Original Song. to get killed by the critics, but its going to be huge.WHITNEY HOUSTONS The songwriting duo of JudAllan: I had a verse andReleased: 21 June 1993Friedman and Allan Rich hadArtist: Whitney Houstonpreviously scored a No 1a chorus, and gave it toLabel: Aristawith I Dont Have The HeartJud, who wrote the mostSongwriter(s): Friedman, RichRUN TO YOU for James Ingram, but thatbeautiful music and helpedProducer: David Fosterdidnt mean the pair were ame with the lyric. I did writeUK chart position: 15shoo-in for The Bodyguardit specifically for Whitney,US chart position: 31soundtrack. As we discover,but it coincided with a 10-it was a miracle Run To Youyear break-up in my life. Jud BY JUD FRIEDMAN & ALLAN RICH got selected at all and I like to move and touchFirst published in Songwriting Magazine, people, thats the goal for ourSeptember 2018. Reproduced with permission.36 SEJPUTLEYM 2 2019 HEYHMEUYSMIC COM 37 37B0E1R9U.SCIOCM.'