I Believe in You and Me

Infobox Single
Name = I Believe in You and Me
Artist = The Four Tops
from Album = One More Mountain
Released = 1983
Recorded = 1982
Genre = R&B/soul
Label = Casablanca
Writer = Sandy Linzer
David Wolfert
Last single = "Tonight I'm Gonna Love You All Over"
(1982)
This single = "I Believe in You and Me"
(1983)
Next single = "I Just Can't Walk Away"
(1983)

"I Believe in You and Me" is a 1982 song written by Sandy Linzer and David Wolfert and first recorded by legendary R&B vocal group The Four Tops and released as a single in 1983. It is also a 1996 hit single by Legendary American singer Whitney Houston, and was the first single from the soundtrack to the film "The Preacher's Wife."

ong information

Written by Sandy Linzer and David Wolfert, "I Believe in You and Me" was originally recorded by The Four Tops in 1982 and their original version of the song reached the top forty of Billboard's Hot Soul Singles chart peaking at number forty in early 1983. Fourteen years later, Whitney Houston's cover of the song peaked at number four on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, and number nine on the United World Chart. Houston performed "I Believe in You and Me" as the musical guest on a Christmas-themed episode of Saturday Night Live in December 1996, with host Rosie O'Donnell.

On May 15th, 2007, American Idol contestant Melinda Doolittle sang this song in her first Top 3 performances.

The Four Tops performed an emotional version of the song on their 50th anniversary special, which aired on PBS which featured Aretha Franklin and the wheelchair-bound Levi Stubbs who came out for the song to raucous cheers and applause from the audience and was overcome by emotion over the applause he received.

Infobox Single
Name = I Believe in You and Me
Artist = Whitney Houston
from Album =
Released = December 9, 1996
Recorded = 1996
Genre = R&B
Length = 4:00
Label = Arista
Writer = Sandy Linzer
David Wolfert
Producer = Mervyn Warren
Whitney Houston
Last single = "Why Does It Hurt So Bad"
(1996)
This single = "I Believe in You and Me"
(1996)
Next single = "Step by Step"
(1997)

Track listing

# "I Believe in You and Me" - (Album Version) 3:51
# "I Believe in You and Me" - (Film Version) 4:00
# "Somebody Bigger Than You And I" (With Bobby Brown, Faith Evans, Johnny Gill, Monica & Ralph Tresvant) 4:41
# "The Lord Is My Shepherd" (performed by Cissy Houston) 4:23
# "Who Would Imagine A King" (The Nativity Choir From "The Preacher's Wife") 2:48